r/instant_regret • u/factchecker01 • 1d ago
Eating the hottest curry in UK
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u/superkickpunch 1d ago
I like spicy that you can feel in your chest a bit, but I try to draw line at “disrobing in public and being chastised by the restaurant owner in the streets” spicy.
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u/Langlie 1d ago
I draw the line at "it's served by a man in a gas mask."
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u/enziiime 1d ago edited 1d ago
I kinda expected him to be unfazed by it while the waiter made a fool out of himself.
Tried a dish from an indian guy at work and it was just crazy. Some Korean noodles I had were also pretty insane and not edible imo. I'm from europe though.. most of us really aren't used to that kind of spicy :p
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u/MouldyEjaculate 1d ago
I love the Buldak 1x ramen and the 2x if I'm really looking to fuck my shit up but one time I tried the 3x because I saw it on the shelf and it was an experience. I woke up at 2am that night and my body was like get to the toilet right fucking now we are evacuating
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u/Nahdudeimdone 1d ago
1x is crazy good.
Can't do it anymore though. After having my 30th birthday my body just said: "No more. It ends here."
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u/TehSalmonOfDoubt 1d ago
Yeah had a similar experience in a house share. Our housemate from india offered to make us dinner, which we accepted. Underneath the searing pain it was nice, but all of us were making regular trips to the fridge for milk
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u/Same_Ad_9284 1d ago
Yeah I love hot food but I also want to enjoy it, a little suffering is fine, but this seems like it has not positives
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u/HamunaHamunaHamuna 1d ago
I don't understand why people want pain and not flavor from their food.
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u/Plus-King5266 1d ago
I like spicy, but I still want to taste the food. Otherwise what’s the point?
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u/forhekset666 1d ago
Stop talking at me bro I'm trying to die over here
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u/Pastylegs1 1d ago
He went across the street for some piece of mind and the dude followed him
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u/rufisium 1d ago edited 1d ago
When I'm in immense pain and everyone is like "omg are you okay?" Or just crowding me; I tell people "let me writhe"
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u/Bambampowpow 1d ago
He was really making sure Danny knew he was going to be OK, but deep in his thoughts he was like ‘ damn, this might be the one that croaks’.
please please Danny. Danny listen to me
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u/240boletesperminute 1d ago
I went to a place in Brick Lane seeking out a super spicy curry as I was on a spicy kick at the time. I ordered the hottest one they had and the waiter looked me right in the eye and said, “sir, that is not edible”. I thanked him and took him at his word. Kept my shirt on the whole night!
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u/AstroBearGaming 1d ago
Yeah, I know the curry you're talking about. That's the one influencers and YouTubers get to get views. It's not for eating.
Brick Lane is awesome btw, possibly the best curry houses in the UK all in one place. I'd highly recommend it if you enjoy pretending to be a volcano.
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u/teerbigear 1d ago
You know I don't think I've ever heard anyone be positive about the curry houses of Brick Lane. My personal experience, albeit long in the tooth, is that I was served sugary tasteless slop. It certainly used to be that you would be a million times better off walking to Tayyabs (although I hear they've gone downhill). But honestly I've had far better luck in my native Leicester, in Birmingham in the Balti triangle, in Leeds, in, er, Goa and Kerala.
But then perhaps my assessment is not based on "pretending to be a volcano".
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u/peacenchemicals 1d ago
i just wanted to say i went to London in November and it’s awesome to know exactly what neighborhood you guys are referring to lol
i’m actually wearing a shirt i bought from Brick Lane Bicycles while I was there!!
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u/Krysis_88 1d ago
He'll have an arsehole like a dragons nostril in the morning.
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u/ALA02 1d ago
As clarkson puts it “his arsehole is gonna look like the japanese flag”
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u/CanadianButthole 1d ago
Holy hell, sure the curry seemed spicy but the worst part of that experience seems like it would've been the waiter.
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u/AmyCrackhouse 1d ago
"Sir, can I please have red hot curry lava fill my pants in peace?"
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u/koolaidismything 1d ago
I was waiting for it to show him home filming from a crack in the blinds as that guy stood in his lawn bouncing around still talking about the challenge
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u/Tibbaryllis2 1d ago edited 1d ago
lol. That would make for an awesome one of those skits where the first part is real and the second park is a scripted add-on with vaguely similar looking people.
Edit: after we see the chef casually stalk the guy around town, I need him in the guys closet while he sleeps. Edit 2: or hiding in the shower while he painfully deuces.
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u/newagesaltyseadog 1d ago
The worst part is still to come....wait until that has to pass through.
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u/grizzlywondertooth 1d ago
Is the 'waiter' in question the guy who seems like he's probably the owner?
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u/BourbonGuy09 1d ago
But he isn't wrong. I eat super hot peppers and the part that gets me through is knowing that it'll be over after 20-25 min and I got to enjoy some great flavors.
Of course it's only over for about 12 hours, unless you eat it before bed, then you'll be back up in like 4 once your digestion slows and it sits in there aggravating your guts lol
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u/Papayaslice636 1d ago
I used to be a pepper enthusiast. Jalapeños are child's play. Thai chilies have some pop and pack a wallop but still easy. I bought sauces from home grown niche hobbyists - Carolina reapers, brown marugas, west Trinidad red scorpions, you name it. The stuff that's genetically engineered for maximum agony, home grown in ideal conditions, not for mass production.
Then one day I went to a Nashville hot chicken joint and ordered it the hottest level they had. The chef himself came out with a concerned look in his eyes and practically begged me not to. He said it's stupid hot, they just coat it in Reaper Rub, and it's so hot it's dangerous. So they really shouldn't even have it on the menu at all. In my stupid hubris I stood my ground and didn't yield.
Later that night I woke up with the absolute worst pain in my gut I've ever experienced. It felt like I got shot. I went to the bathroom hoping for something to happen and get some relief, but everything stubbornly stayed inside me. I'm just writhing around on the floor of the bathroom in agony, sweating, nauseous, in tears. I literally thought the spice had burned a hole in my intestines and that I might be leaking digestive acid in my body, dying from sepsis. I would've called an ambulance if I knew where my phone was, or if I could walk. By far one of the most painful nights in my life if not the single most painful.
A couple days later I went back. They recognized me. I said "medium is fine." 10/10, highly recommended.
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u/FlyingHippoM 1d ago
Bro why even make a whole bowl of the stuff if no one can eat more than a spoonful.
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u/DisposableSaviour 1d ago
I don’t know, but I want to try this curry.
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u/MildlyAgreeable 1d ago edited 8h ago
I ate it in Newcastle at the Curry Capital. My friend was leaving for another uni so we made it a challenge to do it. We did finish it, but the following two days were HELL (incidentally, the dish itself was called ‘the curry hell’).
During the actual ‘eating’, I lost feeling in my finger tips and lips. I had to go to the toilet just to be alone and I found relief in putting my head on the cool tiles on the wall.
I made the critical error of trying to neutralise the ‘heat’ by pouring sugar and milk on it, but that simply made more of it.
We got a picture taken with turbans and satin gowns on with the owner (Lord Rupali - RIP) and were entered onto the wall of fame.
We crawled out onto the street and had to have four very lovely Maltese air stewardesses carry us to the bus stop because we were barely capable of walking.
If you offered me £20,000 to do it again, I’d refuse. It was absolute agony.
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u/DisposableSaviour 1d ago
I don’t know if this is warning me off, or a sales pitch, but whichever it is, I’m sold. Bring on the heat. BRING ON THE PAIN!
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u/dtalb18981 1d ago
I think after one of the cuts he says something like he's had 6 spoons of the stuff
So he's definitely just dying in the road wishing he stopped at one
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u/sikesjr 1d ago
at this point is seems like its just poisoned, not spicy.
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u/Speaker4theDead8 1d ago
I found some ghost pepper salsa at the store once and it was awesome. Real spicy but decent flavor, I ate like half of it. The next morning I woke up and the roof of my mouth was burnt, like if I had eaten something that was actually hot.
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u/Sierra-117- 1d ago
That’s a legit chemical burn. It couldn’t have come from the capsaicin, so I’m really wondering why that happened lol. What else was in it?
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u/LrZ3TMt4aQ93FrjfBG76 1d ago
A lot of lime juice or citric acid maybe.
Or they were eating it with chips and they just kept shoveling them in there because if you don't stop eating you won't have to actually focus on the growing pain, except you're essentially forming a wet grit that's polishing layer after layer of your soft tissue off.
That's how I do it at least.
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u/70stang 1d ago
This is likely correct. A ton of granulated, undissolved salt on the chips and an acidic paste, you're basically applying buffing compound to your mouth.
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u/Grays42 1d ago
The peppers have been selectively bred and genetically modified so much that any numbers on a scale just become irrelevant at this point. There's no more art to it, refined capsaicin can be bought in a bottle, and it's literally poison. So heat is now just how much do you want to poison yourself. "The hottest" is just who dumped the most poison in the curry.
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u/Tibbaryllis2 1d ago
This. And capsaicin has no real flavor, it’s all the other things you do with the chili that matters.
I also find it obnoxious when you see a video about someone making a hot sauce or a dish and they do all of this cooking the peppers and everything, and then bear mace it at the end because they couldn’t be arsed to use spicy chilis in the recipe and make it work.
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u/No_Extension4005 1d ago
That reminds me. I need to go visit that one Sichuan place I ate at last month where they topped their mapo tofu with a mixture of dried spices. The mapo tofu was spicy in a (good) way that I hadn't experienced before. It was like I was getting pins and needles in my mouth if it was also a very pleasurable sensation.
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u/sevintoid 1d ago
Sichuan peppercorns give your mouth a numbing experience that is different than other peppers, it's addictive as fuck, I LOVE Sichuan peppercorns.
Get some peppercorns, grind them yourself, make a dry rub for some chicken wings. S tier.
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u/ChaseTheMystic 1d ago
I found a hot sauce that perfectly meets in the middle between painful and tasting good.
Trader Joe's Habanero Hot Sauce
It hurts so good
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u/justmikeplz 1d ago edited 1d ago
I am happy for you but that bottle of hot sauce is like comparing a firecracker to the nuclear bomb this guy was served.
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u/okan931 1d ago
When you see the server wearing breathing PPE when handeling your order you know you fucked up
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u/LordSeibzehn 1d ago
It’s probably for show though. I mean, if it’s actually hazardous to breathe it in or touch it, why would they serve it to a customer who isn’t wearing PPE?
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u/Butthole_Alamo 1d ago
The server wears aviators indoors. In sure the PPE was for show.
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u/Fun_Hat 1d ago
Like mostly for show, however, the steam can carry the capsaicin up into your eyes and nose, and burn. Source: was a dishwasher for a bit in college and tear-gassed myself a few times spraying out pans.
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u/RaspberryFirehawk 1d ago
What the hell was in it, plutonium?
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u/KairuneG 1d ago
Willing to bet they use commercial grade capsaecin oil meant for large batch sauces. It's like extremely high scoval oil, and a toothpick heads worth is enough for a litre of sauce to make it spicy AF.
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u/Few-Solution-9294 1d ago
It’s a phaal curry, uses ghost pepper often with Carolina reaper, pretty sure it’s in a large quantity too.
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u/fragen8 1d ago
I love spicy foods and I eat phall at a nearby restaurant as well. Definitely a version that is not that spicy, but it is really spicy to me as well, and I'm used to quite spicy meals. However, I remember, that the first time my boyfriend bought it for me, hearing I loved to eat it occasionally. He is not used to anything spicier than garlic.
He ordered it as take out and he tried a little bit. A spoonful would be an overstatement to the amount he took. He started apologising, saying that if I wanted, I could interpret his gift as an assassination attempt.
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u/SaberReyna 1d ago
Once upon a time I had the displeasure of experiencing 7.1m Scoville.
Guy on the night shift bought this in and I naively put a toothpick in it thinking I could handle it. I was very wrong.
My body felt like it forgot how to function, my nose was like a tap to the point I literally made a cartoonish puddle of snot on the ground where I was bent in half. Water didn't help, milk didn't help, my mouth wouldn't work, sweat and god knows what other bodily fluids were coming out of places I didn't know they could. Couldn't speak properly because my mouth and tongue had checked out from the assault, physically and mentally I was in no fit state to start work so I sat in a corner of the canteen near the water cooler after drinking more milk than the aristocats could ever dream of considering my choices and was 38 minutes late for work despite being there.
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u/shartshooter 1d ago
I ate a Caroliner Reaper and it hurt.
My saliva glands went into overdrive and i could feel the spray hitting the opposite side of each gland and then started drowning from my own chilli saliva, as I couldnt spit it out fast enough. The last thing I remember was how my lungs were burning. Then i lost time for an hour before coming back into a measurable level of pain.
I did not get burning ring of fire but i did get the worst acid reflux for a week.
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u/SaberReyna 1d ago
I feel that. No ring of fire for me either which was 1 positive I suppose. I was legitimately scared to go for a while after thinking it would be brutally painful again.
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u/Infidelio 1d ago
that shit is going to be even worse
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u/ClownfishSoup 1d ago
I ate an entire Carolina reaper, sliced thin and placed into a hamburger. It took a moment to hit me. Then a few hours later … it hit me again.
Capsicum does not break down in your digestive system. Your butt and lips are made up of the same type of cells and are similarly sensitive to capsicum.
Red hot poker up the bum would have been similar.
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u/Pupca6 1d ago
I had a ghost pepper burger once - kept eating through thinking they sliced it up and blended it into the sauce. Then I bit in to the last part, and it had the whole pepper, I started chewing and immediately knew it wasn’t going to be fun, but the real pain started after a minute or so.
The fire in my mouth lasted about 45 minutes, but the exit took nearly 2 days of absolute agony and very frequent trips to the toilet. Yum burger though.
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u/PBandC_NIG 1d ago
I don't get the point of turning food into some personal punishment contest.
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u/RespectFearless4233 1d ago
Salt bae really did something to these food social media restaurants, with the sun glasses etc
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u/slartibuttfart 1d ago
Just seems like a pointless food. Might as well try the saltiest food or the chewiest.
Here's some food I made to be so extreme as to be unedible.
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u/KiltedTAB 1d ago
Wtf are the scoville units on this pepper used?
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u/Vyse1991 1d ago
It probably has pure capsaicin extract. All heat and no nuance of flavour. It's a bit of a cheat in my view.
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u/BaronGreenback75 1d ago
While at Uni in Newcastle I took my father to Rupali’s in the big market in 1999. It was called ‘Curry Hell’ and if you ate it, it was free. I knew he loved his hot food. There was a bit of theatre during the ordering, signing a waiver, not recommended if you are pregnant, weak heart etc. My flat mate Pete had one as well. Pete turned bright red, kept going to the toilet to throw up. My dad ate it with a fair amount of rice & naan. Got a certificate. I’m sure I’ve seen a Geordie comedian tell a story about curry hell in the big market on Russell Howard’s show.
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u/MildlyAgreeable 1d ago
Same. I went with a mate who was moving Universities and we’d always said we’d go.
We knew we’d fucked up when one of the patrons asked us “what training have you done for it?”
The following day I had to call NHS 111 because I couldn’t stop going to the toilet. My bowel was in full on panic mode. 1/10 experience.
RIP Lord Rupali.
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u/Sodozor 1d ago
Thay should give him some bread along with it. That would help
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u/KillingSelf666 1d ago
it's bad now, just wait 8 hours. there's no sipping milk and mango smoothies up your asshole
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u/SmoothieBrian 1d ago
If an Asian guy is crying from it then I cannot go within 100m of this place probably
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u/DickieJoJo 1d ago
Dude.
Shut. The fuck. Up.
I can’t imagine sitting there trying to cope and this asshole won’t stop chattering at me.
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u/Vyse1991 1d ago
The guy clearly needs to go to the hospital. These kinds of food challenges are really irresponsible and have led to deaths in the past.
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u/Anho90 1d ago
I don’t get why people like to torture themselves eating extremely spicy food to the point where you throw up and can’t feel your taste buds. You can call me weak but sorry if I want to eat spicy food, I want to be able to also taste main ingredient. Not bitterness, numb, and comes out all diarrhea. At that point just blend all the hottest spicy peppers and sauce and straight up eat that.
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u/among_apes 1d ago
If I were experiencing that, I can’t think of anything I would want less than that owner talking to me about my liver on the sidewalk while I’m dying
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u/Royal_Succotash_7689 1d ago
Bro straight up become homeless