thoughts on Indian food

[metawidget]

In a brief conversation with denkizero and dzuunmod, we came up with the idea that Indian food (at least at our local place, Dosti's) is served spicier if you ask for, say, a lamb madras than a chicken madras. Something along the lines of "if you order lamb, you're not a typical North American who can't handle their spices."

I was wondering if anyone else had noticed this.

Comments

[blueheron.livejournal.com]

I always get vegetarian, and spice, in dishes that are supposed to be spicy, have never been a problem, especially if I ask for it spicy.

Same with when I get Thai.

But then, vegetarian is also not standard North American fare...

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, me and Pete always have to actually ask for spicy when we order indian or thai. which, vegetarian or not, you shouldn't have to *ask* for it :P

[tygrbabe.livejournal.com]

oops, i wasn't logged in that was from me :)

[blueheron.livejournal.com]

:) Well, I responded to the Anonymous post (in case you were wating for an e-mail!).

[blueheron.livejournal.com]

Well, considering that we don't have any south Indian restaurants in Montreal (last time that I checked), I don't actually expect it to be spicy, at least not all of the dishes.

But yeah, with Thai, it should go without saying!

But then, they do have to try to apeal to a wider audience. I remember when I went to a Thai restaurant with a co-worker of mine, and we were asked to rate how spicy we wanted the food on a scale of 1 to 10. He took 1, I took 10. Mine was deliciously eye watering, nose running, face flushing hot. So was his (for him! I had a taste to make sure they didn't mess up, and it was quite mild).