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Now that I spend most of my work days in Monterey, where the food is good, but shall we say mild, I find myself making up for lost time on the weekends.

El Yucateco XXXL hot sauce in.. POTATO SALAD! Everything! When I get home :)

Not quite at the hot sauce in my pocket stage, but soon

Eating here feels like the inversion of how I’ve eaten most of my life.

Back in Singapore / Malaysia / Thailand, everything was spicy by default and you had to go out of your way to eat un-spicy foods and cuisines

Here, I have to add spicy to almost everything

Still haven’t adjusted. Some days if I go for more than 3 days without a capsaicin hit to my brain that is strong enough to notice, I get very very sad

Possibly also why I default to eating Mexican food when I eat out here. Most Mexican cuisines taste close to what I like to eat. I still have to add a ton of hot sauce. Thankfully I live very close to the two Thai places in SF that do ‘thai spicy’ by default (unlike everywhere else) so I don’t even have to ask. Or I order in Thai to really bump it up.

Hot take: Eating not spicy food as a person who prefers spicy food is just as painful as eating spicy food for someone who doesn’t like it

@mikemccabe Zen Yai and Sai Jai Thai

I absolutely dislike Ler Ros coz I find the food super toned down and it makes me extra mad coz I know they can make proper food (they used to own another spot that was great..)