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My mouth...
I will have to take it from the other reviews this is authentic Szechuan culinary experience. I believe that I counted at least six different kinds of peppers in the various dishes that we ate. I am not sure why they put tilapia in the soup dish because you really couldn't taste it. That is is not exactly accurate but there were at least three kinds of peppers in this lemon grass-based soup or stew, not including the hot oil that created the cauldron of fire that was emanating from my from my mouth. In fact my wife was ready to take me to the hospital as the tears were running down my cheeks. I grow hot peppers at my house and enjoy heat, but my warning to my fellow caucasians is to be very careful of what you order in this restaurant. We ordered five dishes in which none of which exceeded one star for heat. By the way, I couldn't answer my wife of whether I wanted to go to the hospital because I really couldn't talk.
My mouth, my mouth...
I am pretty sure that the combined Scofield count of what I ate this evening was clearly in the millions. There was one small brownish crushed pepper in the above dish that I was not able to identify. That pepper alone created a circus in my mouth - no, more like a cirque de Soleil event. It was with this additional pepper that I prayed there was some ice cream on the menu, but there was none. At one point I really could not talk to anybody at the table, because every taste bud on my tongue was stimulated (think fried, burnt, singed.
24 hours later
My rectum
My rectum
That's right, the experience continues. I think that same little black pepper may be the culprit. However it could've been the jalapeƱos or the Thai chilies. Maybe it was the hot chili oil that they used to cook several of the dishes with. My wife is very concerned, apparently, when I scream in the bathroom. It scares her. I don't care if it scares her, because I am in pain.
You learn a lot about various cultures by the food that they eat. I will return to this restaurant the future. But lemongrass this got the best of me, but not next time. And by the way, if you have a cold but lemongrass dish was mouthless. There was mucus in cavities of my sinuses but I never knew existed. This simple - may be the cure for the common cold.
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