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| - I met up with one of my good friends after work last night for some good food before heading to the library to finish our final papers. We walk in and I'm already impressed by the unique décor. It looks like a school cafeteria, but for cooler kids. We're seated immediately and I look down to see the chili scale on the easy-on-the-eye paper menu. Having grown up eating spicy Korean food, and taking into consideration most restaurants really mean mild when they say extra spicy, I thought I could take on the 10 chillis. So that's what I initially ordered, until our waitress gave me the "Ummm are you SURE?" look, which totally chickened me out because she was Korean as well. So I decided to tone it down a bit, and go for the 5 chillis. My friend still seemed pretty worried for me.
When the food came out (which was super fast considering it was really busy), the duo sitting next to us looked over at my dish before I even noticed and exclaimed "Pretty!! Rice shaped like a pyramid!" and then when one of them heard what I ordered he said "I can't WAIT to see you try and eat that".
"HOLY SMOKES!!" was my reaction after my dinner at Salad King. "Omggg my brain is on fire! Do they have milk? These guys aren't kidding!" were just some of the words I uttered while bulldozing through my meal. My friend got the Thai Fried Rice and I had the Panang Curry...................... with 5 chillis. Needless to say, the dish punished me pretty bad, I had a stomach ache after. But did I wake up craving it the next morning? HECK YEAH!
I think the duo next to us got a real kick out of seeing me suffer through the meal. Again, our waitress was great because she kept coming over to fill my glass and ask me if I was okay haha. The food was pretty good but when something is that spicy, you don't really taste much after the first 2 bites. I decided I wanted to be a soldier and I finished everything, even had spoonfuls of the curry itself. I didn't even want to think while I was eating it because it was so spicy. But all in all, it was a lot of fun eating it and I was very full! By the time we got to the library I was k.o-ed and fell asleep for an hour hehe.
WARNING: These guys are SERIOUS about their spicy-scale! Don't even attempt anything over 3 chillis if you haven't been trained to handle heat!! I think I could get used to the 5-chillis, but the 20 chilis would most likely have me landing in the hospital. No joke. Dear Salad King, in terms of spicy level, hands down, "respect".
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