Would You Eat This Spicy Dish?

January 21, 2008

When I found out that today is Hot and Spicy Day, I knew it was time to ask you what you thought of this dish. When I was in Shanghai, we stopped to have this delicious dish featuring fried chicken, two giant prawns and — as you can obviously tell — a massive load of red peppers. It was one of the most delicious things I've ever eaten and I dream about eating it again.

So tell me, does this dish look good to you, or do the number of red peppers frighten you?

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44 Comments

morganfay 5 years 12 weeks

Would depend on exactly how spicy those peppers were. They do come in degrees of spiciness. But hey, I'm willing to try, at least. Even if that'd mean becoming very familiar with a bucket of water afterwards.

s2149136 5 years 16 weeks

I've had a dish with flash fried snake beans and kan koong (water spinach, I think) in soya sauce which was absolutely smothered in these little fried chillis. We tried to eat around the chillis, but every now and then you grab a bite of one. Nearly blew my head off. Still, it was one of my favourite meals and one I wake up craving every so often (-: The salty and spicy combo with very fresh veg can't be beaten.

s2149136 5 years 16 weeks

abryant850 5 years 16 weeks

If you live in San Francisco, you can find this dish at Spices II on 6th and Clement in teh Richmond district- It is called Shrimp with Explosive Chili Pepper!

TeeTee036 5 years 16 weeks

Love spicy food, but this would be way too much for me!

insanitypepper 5 years 16 weeks

If it didn't have prawns in it, I'd be all over that!

caramelqtee75 5 years 16 weeks

Wooo that looks good!! Pass me a plate and some Tums.

NurseDeAnna 5 years 16 weeks

My tongue burns just looking at the pic!

amybdk 5 years 16 weeks

two words: ACID ... REFLUX

purpleisafruit 5 years 17 weeks

Love spicy food!

almostloli 5 years 17 weeks

i love chillies, sambals, and spicy foods!!!!!!!! yay

i am awesomeness 5 years 17 weeks

Ick... I can't handle spicy food. I try, I really do, but I just can't handle it.

heineken67 5 years 17 weeks

I'm not good with spicy food, but I'm trying to teach myself to like it better.

wackdoodle 5 years 17 weeks

If it was just the peppers and chicken sure but the shellfish mean that I'd have to whip out the epi-pen so that I wouldn't die. No fun it that. I love spicy food even with no stomach acid and a tiny stomach.

Bettyesque 5 years 17 weeks

It looks great but I could never. Id die lol

helenahandbag 5 years 17 weeks

That dish looks amazing. I'm the kind of person who eats the peppers out of Chinese food, so this dish is right up my alley!

POPSUGAR Beauty 5 years 17 weeks

Is a good, if made vegetarian.

msdyanelk 5 years 17 weeks

Imagine how much torture would be done to your anus afterwards. NOT GOOD. :(

haze1nut 5 years 17 weeks

Yum, how did the peppers taste? on a spicy scale from 1 to 10??? where they dry or soft? I LOVEEE fried prawns, especially the kind where you can eat the skin along with the shrimp bc it's so perfectly fried

AmberHoney 5 years 17 weeks

Give me the recipe - I'd love to try this. Looks incredible!

ElleJay 5 years 17 weeks

thanks- i'm def. in then. the spicy the better !

emalove 5 years 17 weeks

I like spicy food, but this just has too many peppers. And I hate fried food. Maybe if the chicken wasn't fried and the peppers were toned down a bit, I'd try it.