"amandaF" > wrote in message
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> On Aug 22, 5:44 pm, "Paul M. Cook" > wrote:
>> "amandaF" > wrote in message
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>> >http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3-rjjMof7jg
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>> That is a lot of pepper! I sure wish I could eat the really hot food
>> like
>> that again but not anymore.
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>> Paul
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> At a thai restaurant, I ordered Laab and said make it thai hot. It
> was really good but so hot. So, the next time, I tried one level below
> thai hot, especially with the friend I was with and it wasn't tasty. I
> asked the to take it back and make it thai hot and they did and it was
> so much tastier. Even my friend said so.He said that there's something
> in there that's not the chilli that is in thai hot only. I think it is
> fish paste which w/o the hotness would probbaly be too strong and so
> they only put with thai hot.

Oh I know of what mean. Its just that as I have gotten older my gut just
cannot handle the heat of those peppers. I miss it dearly though. I used
to eat hot Thai food like the locals did. I miss those days.

Paul