The Food Thread - comments and recommendations

[Paulbot]

Forget about not-KFC, Smiths and KFC have teamed up to created Zinger-flavoured chips. I will try these.

These aren't bad. It's a little like a BBQ-flavoured chip, but with a spicy kick.

[griffin]

On tonight's episode of Ainsley Harriot's Street Food series on SBS, he was in Taiwan, trying out all sorts of weird and fascinating foods... and some things I wouldn't call food.

But he visited a restaurant that has me wanting to try out if I ever get the chance.... it's called "The Modern Toilet Restaurant", and it is toilet themed.

Before you say, ewww that's disgusting... yes, it is. But so funny when you look at photos.

The seats are decorated toilets (which I would think have never been used), while many of the bowls used to serve the food in, are shaped like mini toilets, urinals and bathtubs.
The main meals look to get served in a mini toilet, with a creepy looking brown bowl cover next to it that looks a little too poo-like.

The place is so bizarre that it is a tourist attraction.
When Ainsley got his main meal brought to him, he couldn't stop laughing at how disturbing it looked. The steaming curry in the mini toilet could have been a before or after image.

Reading a small wiki page, this is not a one-off restaurant... it's a chain of 12 in two countries so far, with plans for more in two more countries.

[BigTransformerTrev]

I DON'T recommend trying a dash of all 15 in one go! This is what happens :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3mphbK-OEk

[shockNwave]

I DON'T recommend trying a dash of all 15 in one go! This is what happens :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3mphbK-OEk

This reminds me of when a friend and I went to a Pizza Hut and asked for a pizza with their hottest jalapenos, hottest chilli sauce and hot jalapeno seeds. We later went and watched Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and the stomach ache was so excruciating, that when the characters would beat each other up, the pain was intense. When there were no fight sequences, the pain would ease. A very twisted and painful virtual reality experience.

[Megatran]

This reminds me of when a friend and I went to a Pizza Hut and asked for a pizza with their hottest jalapenos, hottest chilli sauce and hot jalapeno seeds. We later went and watched Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and the stomach ache was so excruciating, that when the characters would beat each other up, the pain was intense. When there were no fight sequences, the pain would ease. A very twisted and painful virtual reality experience.

Capones pizza & pasta joint. Try the Mafias Revenge pizza. Now that hot.

[shockNwave]

Close to Sth. Yarra Station is a pizza restaurant called Versachi's, where they have a pizza called Volcano and it's their second hottest pizza. Their hottest is called V-burn and next time I order it I'll ask them to exclude the dollops of sour cream so I can feel maximum heat.

[BigTransformerTrev]

The story of me trying to eat ‘Australia’s Hottest Burger!’

Before I start the recount, here is a description of the burger:

The "TNT Burger" is the hottest 100% Australian made burger in the world ! We use sauces made by "The Chilli Factory" including the lastest "Scorpion Strike" which is made with the hottest chilli in the world - the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T,,we also use the famous "Turbo Supercharge" as well as "Devils Delirium" in our patty among with other special flavours ! The patty is 330gm infused with the above sauces,the bun is 200gm,the burger is topped with fresh chillis, 2 rashers of bacon,tomato,lettuce,onion& cheese and of course The Chilli Factory's award winning sauces! Many have tried with no luck and a sore ring im sure ! Only 14 people have successfully munched it down ! Those who have succeeded get their name on the "Wall of Flame" and receive a Chilli Factory stubbie holder and lanyard ! Now with the new hottest chilli in the world ("Trinidad Scorpion Butch T ) the burger will be at its hottest

Thursday
11.00am: Ring up and book the burger challenge the requisite 24-hours in advance. Informed that the burger will cost $15 because of the imported chili’s and they will not start cooking until I show up.

Friday
11.15am: Take 5 of my teenage boy students down to the venue so they can watch me eat it. Figure that I’m used to eating hot sauce pretty often and if it’s too hot I’ll just wolf it down fast. Got my drinks figured out too.

11.20am: They start to make the burger. I see how big the patty is and realize I won’t be wolfing this down fast – it’s very big! The boys and I are watching the chef at work with growing trepidation. We see the imported chili’s taken out, chopped up and put on (there’s a lot of them - I find out later from the chef that they are in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the hottest in the world!). See a lot of the sauces being poured on with ratings adorning the bottles like 12/10 hotness!

11.25am: The chefs wife comes out, informs me of the contest rules. There can be no drinking during the challenge (uh-oh!), I have to sit at this table in the middle of the place by myself so no one else gets any of the hot sauces on them by accident. I need to wear special gloves when eating it (holy crap! Now I’m getting worried!). They provide napkins and say only use one at a time to wipe my mouth (apparently my lips and skin will be burning) then discard so I don’t spread the juices and make it worse. They provide one of my students a cooled tea towel and say he will need to mop my forehead fairly often. They also say to keep the sauces/juices away from my eyes as I could end up in hospital if I get any in there.

11.30am: I sit down, somewhat nervous now and don the gloves. The students set themselves up at a respectful distance to watch and some film with their phones. The burger comes out (it is damn big!). I’m told I have two hours to eat it, most people that have managed it (only 14 out of the few hundred that have tried) take about an hour.

11.31am: I take my first bite. It’s hot, damn hot, but nothing I can’t handle. I decide to try and get it down fast so I start really hoeing in. Boys are laughing and encouraging me.

11.35am: Mouth and throat now on fire! Really want a drink. Starting to slow with my eating.

11.40am: Lips and skin around them now burning. Using napkins after each bite. Have broken out in the sweats – armpits saturated and forehead needing to be frequently mopped. Boys laughter has turned to unsure giggles.

11.45am: Starting to feel nauseous, eating slow. Needing a break after each bite with eyes closed and slow breathing. Chef comes out and tells boys not to make any noise and people often need peace at this part of the process.

11.50am: Taking a full minute break between each bite. Two-thirds of burger gone. Mouth and throat no longer on fire as they have gone none. Nausea has become quite intense. Really sweating hard.

11.55am: Students now silent except for one telling me he thinks I should stop. Chefs wife comes to check on me, tells me if I start to have chest pains I should stop.

12.00pm: Nausea now very intense. Feeling a very odd tingling sensation down both arms I have never felt before. Hands shaking, eyes closed, breathing heavily.

12.05pm: Having to chew each tiny mouthful about 50 times before I can swallow it. Throat numb and swollen. Even eating a tiny piece of onion makes me feel like I am going to vomit. Dead silence in the venue, everyone watching intently, no one cheering me on anymore, just a lot of worried faces.

12.10pm: Stomach now not only nauseous feeling definite pains. Tingling in my arms now very intense. Strong headache coming on. Skin ever redder than usual. I take a bite of the patty about the size of a mint. Realize that if I swallow it I will definitely vomit. Look at my plate, there is about a fifth of the burger to go. I realize that I’m going to lose the challenge – I just can’t do it! Take the piece of meat out of my mouth, put it on the table and admit defeat with a hung head.

12.11pm: Students all breathe a sigh of relief, I realize just how intense the atmosphere had gotten. Chefs wife brings me some fresh watermelon and a drink which I take gratefully. Chef comes out, we shake hands and I compliment him on his victory. We chat for about 5 minutes, turns out that the first time he tried the challenge he couldn’t do it either. I vow to come back next year and take another crack at it. I don’t get my name on the wall or the other prizes but he gives me a lanyard for getting so close. Chefs wife warns me that I should seriously kiss no one for the next 5 hours because the heat transfers and it could cause them pain.

12.15pm: Drive students back to school, I find a cool quiet bit of carpet in front of the air conditioner in the classroom and lie down. One of the students goes and gets me some pain killers from the First Aid cabinet. I count down the clock until the school day ends, trying not to vomit. Go home and spend the rest of the day with severe stomach pains coming and going. Drinking milk seems to help.

Saturday
3.10am: Wake up with stomach hurting and something definetly going wrong downstairs. Go to the toilet. What I can only assume is a form of viscous fire erupts from the lower part of me. Spend the next half hour on the toilet in intense pain and my bum feeling just as much on fire as my mouth had done 15 hours earlier.

3.40: Take pain killers and alka-seltzers and go back to bed, vowing not to go back next year and try again.

[Golden Phoenix]

Sounds like you really gave it a serious crack. You are one crazy mo-fo.
I wouldn't go near that burger. I can't handle heat at all.

[Trent]

While highly amusing, you know that you can do serious, permanent damage from eating too much chilli? A worked with a guy years ago who gave himself stomach ulcers that severely limited what he could henceforth eat, forever.

[Jaxius._]

Oriental 2 minute noodles with some tabasco sauce and worstishire sauce