Hot chili and Thais: Torturing? Yes. A pleasant torturing!

Chili is very popular as Thai food ingredients. Hot taste is more popular in hot countries! Why? I guess it is to overcome the hot your body feels.



Thais in the southern and north-eastern enjoy chili taste in higher degree than those in other parts of Thailand. The northern Thais enjoy the taste in less degree. Due to the colder weather? Maybe.








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The chili fruit is something of strange. You don't like it, or hate it at first experience. When you are exposed to it again, you would feel that it tortures you! Surprisingly, one day you become kind of to like it; some other days later, it gets its way to touch your tongue and hurt your feeling again, but you seem to feel less of its torturing effect! Finally, for most people you enjoy spicy taste. This seems to be true to whoever you are, regardless of wherever you are raised! Some become craving for higher degree of hot taste. Few finally loves fiery taste of Thai foods. All and every single of Thai children do hate spicy taste! When they become a grown up, they craves for spicy, hot or fiery taste just like many or most of Thai grown-ups who did hate chili taste. Absolutely weird in deed.

Many Westerners, Japanese, Middle East learn to like chili taste in different length of time. I would say it is more than a few weeks for Westerners to learn to enjoy it if with every day exposure.


There are varieties of capsicum (chili) cultivated throughout of Thailand soil. This flavoring ingredient is found in many Thai recipes. Some in fresh or dried form of the fruit, some appear in the form you cannot tell it apart, and they are in different degree of hot taste level. Size and color does not always indicate the degree.



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If you are Westerners living in your countries, and have already enjoyed spicy Thai taste, you may not yet have tried the real Thailand spicy degree of it. Thai foods in Western countries have quite lower degree of hot taste.

The pungent fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum, used especially as a flavoring in cooking.

If you don't want to torture yourself much, and you want to try only spicy food, don't say you want it "not hot" just say you want only 1 chili! If not, NOT HOT could become quite hot.

If you are in Thailand, it is a good memorable experience to torture yourself a bit!
If you want to try a fiery taste, it does torture both your moth and your anus!



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Hope you can realize somehow why most of the Thais enjoy this pleasant torturing!

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