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Q: Have you ever heard someone ask for a dish to be more spicy?
I've heard people ask for "light spice" and "no spice", but never "more spicy".
This is kind of different from the US, where restaurants will just ask you how many stars of spice you want. Why does China always start at max spicy?
Yes I have. From what I know, students from Sichuan and Hunan tend to have heavy taste, and they ask for "more spice" (多加点儿辣/多放点儿辣)
No spice, no revolution! ------Mao Zedong.
Mao's hometown is in Hunan,
But yeah maybe Chinese restaurants are not very considerate....
I had a Scottish fella initiate an unspoken 'spice-masters of the universe' competition with me when we went out for hot-pot one night. He wasn't satisfied until the soup was blood red and the paint on the ceiling above our table was starting to peel. Really not my thing at all, he won hands down.
No, but when I was at Mcdonalds' the other day the lady kept saying La, Boo La and I kept saying Boo La. And she must have asked me like 10 more times or so. Afterwards she got the lady that was working next to her and again I kept saying Boo La not spicy. So after all that I finally got my non spicy chicken sandwich. Not sure if she wanted me to say La La La spicy spicy spicy like she wanted me to make it spicier or something.
seen a woman from Hunan add half a jar of hot sauce to a noodle dish, I tried the same sauce on the tip of a chopstick and it almost made me cry, she didn't care for the bland Guangdong style cuisine
I once gave a student/friend of mine from Hunan a bottle of Tabasco. Before I had time to explain that it was a spice to be added to food, he took a swig- and then another.
