In Thailand, the dish is made with no dried chili flakes at all (that looks like pad see eww). The chili flakes are on-the-side in a small jar and you put however much you want on it.
So, buy Thai chilli flakes and you can make it as hot as you want.
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So I live in the middle of nowhere in the midwest. With that said, my wife and I did our honeymoon in Thailand for two weeks and we ate pretty much exclusively local fare the entire time. We tried to find non-touristy places whenever we could. All of that is to give a little credibility for the next part of this story, which is that I found a genuine Thai restaurant in the middle of nowhere a few years back. It was owned and operated by a single Thai gentleman who was waiter, cook, and cashier. I found the dish that I really liked in Thailand (beef and basil here in the U.S., but on the menus in Thailand it was beef with thai chili sauce.) Anyway, I ordered it and asked for it to be “Thai” spicy.
So, I had an hour for lunch, probably got the food about 15 minutes in. During the next 45 minutes I was able to get through approximately half the dish. It was insanely good, otherwise I’d have just given up. It was also easily outside of my spice tolerance by like an order of magnitude.
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In Thailand, the dish is made with no dried chili flakes at all (that looks like pad see eww). The chili flakes are on-the-side in a small jar and you put however much you want on it.
So, buy Thai chilli flakes and you can make it as hot as you want.
So I live in the middle of nowhere in the midwest. With that said, my wife and I did our honeymoon in Thailand for two weeks and we ate pretty much exclusively local fare the entire time. We tried to find non-touristy places whenever we could. All of that is to give a little credibility for the next part of this story, which is that I found a genuine Thai restaurant in the middle of nowhere a few years back. It was owned and operated by a single Thai gentleman who was waiter, cook, and cashier. I found the dish that I really liked in Thailand (beef and basil here in the U.S., but on the menus in Thailand it was beef with thai chili sauce.) Anyway, I ordered it and asked for it to be “Thai” spicy.
So, I had an hour for lunch, probably got the food about 15 minutes in. During the next 45 minutes I was able to get through approximately half the dish. It was insanely good, otherwise I’d have just given up. It was also easily outside of my spice tolerance by like an order of magnitude.