[CH] Alabama Hotluck
=Mark (mstevens@exit109.com)
Sat, 16 Jun 2001 20:42:49 -0400
This is a roundup of my recent trip to Huntsville. Had a nice little chat
with Alex over some BBQ at Dave Gibsons #2 Tuesday night. Want to thank
him again for giving me a nice little vial of his hab spice mixture and
hotsauce. Should spice up that airline food nicely...
Went to dinner Wednesday at a Thai place called Siam that was recommended
by George Goslowsky from the list. The food was quite tasty but suffered
from the usual ubiquitous failure to believe that we Chiuleheads actually
mean HOT when we say hot. The server asked "One star? Two?" to which I
replied "Three, maybe four..." When it came there was the expected lack of
fire. Sigh...
Luckily most Thai places have those little carriers of spicy condiments.
I've seen as many as six different ones, usually a siracha type ground
pepper sauce, dried red pepper flakes, pickled thai pepper rings, ground
cashew or peanuts and others. This place just had the siracha and red
chile flakes, but these were enough to wake things up. Fairly stunned the
waitress by dumping a
heaping teaspoon of each on my entree and a good slug of the powder into
the peanut dipping sauce for the satay...
The following night I dined at El Camino Real, again at Georges suggestion.
Was advised that the Chile Colorado was the spiciest dish and was also my
waitresses favorite. Was quite good and was started as an unassuming brown
sauce with chile flakes in it caught up with me quite well by the time I
was halfway thru it. Maybe the sliced jalapenos and shakes of El Yucateco
helped...
I'd like to thank all the folks suggestions and again thank Alex for the
Anti Bland Food Emergency Supplies!
PS - Those supplies came in handy while stranded for 9 hours in Charlotte,
NC airport on my way back...
=Mark "Runs With Scissors" Stevens
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