Comments on: Here’s A Quick Way To Spice Up Your Travels

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:03:49 +0000

Hi Elly –

I love nasi goreng! I discovered it when I arrived on Bali. Delicious! I ate it often during my 3 weeks in Indonesia.

Malaysia – I’ve heard great things. I’d definitely like to check out some of your beaches/islands in the north.

By: Elly

Elly — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:47:06 +0000

My favourite is our Malaysian spicy food, especially when I’m going for seafood and order Szechuan soup. At first I thought it was deemed too spicy, but after awhile it’s actually very tasty.
On weekends, I like to make some stir-fried rice, or as we call it, ‘nasi goreng’. Each home has their way of making them, as it’s very simple. You only need a small amount of oil, slices of garlic and onion, ‘cili kampung’ or small chillies which I put into a blender, and small amount of salt. Once the oil is hot, just place the items and usually I add some anchovies and rice.

Hope you’ll be travelling to Malaysia soon!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:26:50 +0000

Ah yes, spicy papaya salad – I remember trying that for the first time last year. :)

By: Monica

Monica — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:59:14 +0000

Mine was in Brazil, not exactly a too spicy food country.

I was in a buffet restaurant and after filling my plate with delicious food (btw, Brazilian food is delicious), I poured an innofensive-looking sausage that ended up being like pure chile.

My first bite was enough to have me in tears and I couldn’t eat anything else from that plate.

By: Cate

Cate — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:34:07 +0000

Mine’s from Thailand… I was feeling pretty gangster after we’d been in Bangkok for about of month, so I started asking for my som tham (papaya salad) extra spicy.

One day I watched as the lady put like 10 of those insanely hot chiles into the salad. I thought I could handle it, and about halfway through, I was doing OK. But the longer I sat there, the more my mouth started to burn and after a few minutes, I was in serious pain!

My husband ran from shop to shop trying to find me milk as my eyes teared up. Finally he found some and I chugged it as fast as I could…which gave me a pretty bad stomach ache.

I still love som tham, but not that spicy!