What's the hottest (chilli) food you've ever eaten?

[Frank La Rue]

Maybe not the hottest chili - but my hotest food experience ever- This took place in 1985, in Singapore:'

The first time I went to Singapore I went to see my future inlaws.
There were also a few other "firsts" on that trip.

It was my first trip to Asia as climatic Zone

It was my first trip on a long haul flight, i.e.12 Hrs or more

It was my first introduction to the variety of indeterminable cuisine of Asian origin.

The result was a first as well.

I landed at Changi back in 1985 with my Singaporean girlfriend whom I had met at work.
She was happy and proud about inviting me to Singapore for holiday and off we went.
We took a taxi from the airport and her parents and some of her siblings had gathered in the parents house to greet us.
I had no concept of how you go about your life in the tropics, so when her retired chinese father had gone as far as putting long pants on to go with his T-shirt he had really dressed up whereas I thought he had dressed down.
My future Singaporean wife's parents lived in Wee Nam Road, just two minutes walk from Newton Circus, a popular Hawker Center. There where at the time several semidetached houses there with a bit of garden and a good location to explore Singapore.

After the usual introductions to a newbie we where given a room together, decently made up and it was about 10 o'clock in the evening when we went out to have something to eat.
We went to the hawker stalls at Newton Circus. At the time it still had an aura of autenticity to it, no plastic utencils or glasses and it was cheap.
I had never eaten or even heard of the food offerings presented to me. I ate hearty of foods which turned out to be more on the spicy side than not. A particular favourite that evening was the Satay beef sticks, with spicy peanut sauce.
Being timelagged, I had a healthy appetite and being dehydrated I was thirsty.
Eating spicy food called for drink to go with it and being a simpleminded Norwegian I did what one would usually do, wash the food down with beers.

Around three in the morning I was fast asleep in the bed I shared with my Singaporean future wife. My digestive system, however was rather bussy.
I woke up realizing that I had about 4 seconds to go before all my intakes from Newton Circus would come back up the way it came down.
Fortunately, we were sleeping with the bedroom window open.
Fortunately, the bedroom was (I presume still is) on the ground floor.
Unfortunately we were sleeping in the bedroom next to my future parents-in-law.
Unfortunately they were sleeping with their bedroom window open too.
In a flash of that 4th second several things happened.

- I hung out of the window emptying my bowels for all
to hear.
- I hung out of the window, wishing to God my parents -
in-law had had an aircon in their bedroom

- I hung put of the window promising myself tommorrow was going to be different, I was going to start to listen to other peoples recommendations.

Timelag, dehydration, spicy food and loads of beers is not a winning combination.
There are more than religious reasons why the others don't drink alcohol at times, as a Nowegian I hadn't appreciated any, now I could.

[Alfasteve]

Thai beef salad can be really hot - especialy up north!