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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 03:23:50 JST Adrianna Tan

   Now that I spend most of my work days in Monterey, where the food is good, but shall we say mild, I find myself making up for lost time on the weekends.

   El Yucatecho XXXL hot sauce in.. POTATO SALAD! Everything! When I get home :)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 03:24:07 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Not quite at the hot sauce in my pocket stage, but soon

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 03:30:07 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Eating here feels like the inversion of how I’ve eaten most of my life.

     Back in Singapore / Malaysia / Thailand, everything was spicy by default and you had to go out of your way to eat un-spicy foods and cuisines

     Here, I have to add spicy to almost everything

     Still haven’t adjusted. Some days if I go for more than 3 days without a capsaicin hit to my brain that is strong enough to notice, I get very very sad

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 03:33:24 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Possibly also why I default to eating Mexican food when I eat out here. Most Mexican cuisines taste close to what I like to eat. I still have to add a ton of hot sauce. Thankfully I live very close to the two Thai places in SF that do ‘thai spicy’ by default (unlike everywhere else) so I don’t even have to ask. Or I order in Thai to really bump it up.

     Eating not spicy food as a person who prefers spicy food is just as painful as eating spicy food for someone who doesn’t like it

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 03:41:14 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Phil Stevens :tinoflag:

     @phil_stevens great idea

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     Phil Stevens :tinoflag: (phil_stevens@mastodon.nz)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 03:41:15 JST Phil Stevens :tinoflag:

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     @skinnylatte Once upon a time, I used to travel with a film container of dried chiltepins.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 03:54:00 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • cpm

     @cpm I’m not ashamed! My dad rocks a bottle of fish sauce and extra chilies. And when he goes for seafood he also brings his own tongs and crackers.

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     cpm (cpm@spore.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 03:54:01 JST cpm

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     @skinnylatte
     for many years,when I carried a backpack laptop bag, I kept one of those small plastic jars of huy fong's tuong ot toi in a side pocket

     also a small plastic jar of matouk's calypso sauce

     but it's awkward and somewhat shameful to bring your own condiments, if not outright wrong.

     so i quit doing it

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     Jake (affekt@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 04:05:54 JST Jake

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     @skinnylatte almost every time I ask for the spice level to be authentic or as intended for the dish at a Thai place the staff looks at my paleness and just make it kind of spicy. I get it though, they probably have a lot of food sent back because the average customer doesn't want very spicy food.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 04:16:03 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @afewbugs @cpm somehow I’ve never taken to huy Fong’s products especially the sriracha and sambal oelek. All of it to Too Sour, not hot.

     I have to buy the products from Indonesia or Thailand or Mexico haha

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     Jules (afewbugs@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 04:16:05 JST Jules

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     • cpm

     @cpm @skinnylatte also for the avoidance of confusion the sign on the wall says "No LGB without the T", but just being able to see the first part gives the wrong impression!

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     Jules (afewbugs@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 04:16:07 JST Jules

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     • cpm

     @cpm @skinnylatte team Pocket Sriracha all the way

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 04:30:59 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Hagfish fancier v4.02

     @pagrus I’d qualify it by saying that’s for cuisines that are supposed to be spicy. dishes that are toned down are just very annoying and I’d rather not eat them

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     Hagfish fancier v4.02 (pagrus@tears.intherain.club)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 04:31:01 JST Hagfish fancier v4.02

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     @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io spicy take

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     Hagfish fancier v4.02 (pagrus@tears.intherain.club)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 04:44:21 JST Hagfish fancier v4.02

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     @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io I get it, spicy by default is normal here too, even if it's just throwing crushed red pepper in to things. the one exception might be the flamin hot mountain dew I tried, I don't think the world is ready

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 04:44:21 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Hagfish fancier v4.02

     @pagrus supper and breakfast in Malaysia is spicy by default

     I need that

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 04:46:50 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Amandine (She/Her)
     • Hagfish fancier v4.02

     @eco_amandine @pagrus legit!

     feels equivalent to making a donut with no sugar. Or flour.

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     Amandine (She/Her) (eco_amandine@mastodon.cr)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 04:46:51 JST Amandine (She/Her)

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     • Hagfish fancier v4.02

     @skinnylatte @pagrus there's a Thai place I like close to my home. They have one or two curries on their menu and refuse to change their spiciness "because it changes the flavor too much". Your take made me think of them 🙂

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 04:53:15 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Jake

     @Affekt someone got sued in San Jose for damaging a customer’s vocal cords or something. After she insisted on Thai spicy

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     Mike McCabe (mikemccabe@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 04:53:54 JST Mike McCabe

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     @skinnylatte please reveal sf ‘thai spicy’ places!

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 04:53:54 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Mike McCabe

     @mikemccabe Zen Yai and Sai Jai Thai

     I absolutely dislike Ler Ros coz I find the food super toned down and it makes me extra mad coz I know they can make proper food (they used to own another spot that was great..)

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     Jake (affekt@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 05:08:52 JST Jake

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     @skinnylatte ugg, people can be such jackasses. Making other people responsible for their poor choices. Like, take a small taste? But I guess if they're insisting on high spice level they assumed they could tolerate it.

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     Hagfish fancier v4.02 (pagrus@tears.intherain.club)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 05:17:57 JST Hagfish fancier v4.02

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     • Amandine (She/Her)

     @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io @eco_amandine@mastodon.cr there is this impulse that some people have to modify menu items no matter what, often even before trying something for the first time. we use to get them at my shop, I'm like if you think you need to tweak something before you even try it, why are you even here?
     
     anyway I am 100% behind restaurants that are like no, this is how it comes, take it or leave it

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 05:17:57 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Hagfish fancier v4.02

     @pagrus @eco_amandine the entire premise of /r/ididnthaveeggs

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 05:25:54 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Claire, The Ultimate Worrier

     @waitworry easy, we eat chillies for fun

     I’ve been doing that since I was 3 or 4

     Food was just food, not ‘spicy food’ and there was not toned down version for kids or ‘introducing kids to spicy food’

     Literally just ‘open your mouth and eat a Birds Eye chilli for fun and games’

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     Claire, The Ultimate Worrier (waitworry@sakurajima.moe)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 05:25:55 JST Claire, The Ultimate Worrier

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     @skinnylatte I like my food to be fairly spicy and for awhile I was working to up my spice tolerance but I've never been able to get even close to tolerating Thai spicy

     how cultures that like spice manage to reach the point where that is just average food that average people eat is extremely impressive to me

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 05:26:27 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Claire, The Ultimate Worrier

     @waitworry of course there are people with no spice tolerance too but those people are regarded with some curiosity

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 05:29:18 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Claire, The Ultimate Worrier

     @waitworry might have changed now but that’s how my wife and I grew up

     Might also depend on one’s cultural background. Many Chinese families may not really eat super spicy but mine did. I was surprised to meet Cantonese people who lived their entire lives in Malaysia but never ate anything slightly spicy. It was totally different to my food upbringing where everyone loved chilli and we made our own special chilli sauces

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     Claire, The Ultimate Worrier (waitworry@sakurajima.moe)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 05:29:19 JST Claire, The Ultimate Worrier

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     @skinnylatte that's what I've always particularly wondered about is the children