We ate ate the East India Grill on La Brea, Tamara. They have four levels of spicy, and you can specify when you order. Their mild and even their medium is well flavored with little heat.

So, I never have Indian food because I am afraid that it is too spicy for me. How does the spicy in Indian food rate to Thai food or Mexican food?

I find the burn in Indian food to be mellower that Thai or Mexican. Usually because there is a real blending of spicy, sweet, startchy. Admittedly, I never really go for the pickle condiments that are really hot. Also, they have raita, which is a spiciness-cooling yogurt dish.

That place is very close to my house, Sean. I will give it a try.

Also, they have raita, which is a spiciness-cooling yogurt dish.

Yeah, raita cuts the heat nicely on the spicier dishes, and serves as an excellent compliment for mild dishes.

That place is very close to my house, Sean. I will give it a try.

It gets the seal of approval from S and *me*. S and *me*.

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So, I never have Indian food because I am afraid that it is too spicy for me. How does the spicy in Indian food rate to Thai food or Mexican food?

You can get mild indian in most places. Kristin can't do spicy foods and Chicken Tikka Masala is one of her favorite foods.

Thai food is (in general) way spicer than the Indian I've had.

I pretty much show up on time (or early, but then I often sit in my car) unless I know the times are waffley (bbq or summer pool party as opposed to seated dinner.)

And meetings? Oh hell yeah on time! A couple minutes of bullshitting is allowed, but then we have to get to the point -exacerbated by the fact we've lost 3 conference rooms due to construction, so everything is booked tight and you WILL be kicked out when your reservation is up. We've even turned our ops room into a clandestine meeting room and would be fucked if word of it spread (technically, it *can't* be a public room per the Gov't. Only certain access cards allow entry. But with real estate at a premium, gotta be careful.)

I got my ticket to NYC (flying into Newark) for less than $300 last week but I suspect that ticket prices will climb this summer, rather than go on sale.

DH got sick of servers calling Owen "she" so he clipped his hair tonight. This was the third person this week. The boy is back to nearly bald for the summer.

Chicken Tikka Masala was invented in England, so it's very white-person friendly in terms of spicing.

Generally speaking, Indian food (at least Northern Indian, which is what mostly gets served in the US) is spicy-flavorful more than spicy-hot. It's not like Thai where you can never be entirely certain you haven't just accidentally put an entire bird chile into your mouth.

(South Indian food, OTOH, is spicy-hot LIKE WOAH. When I was traveling with DH's family, we ate lunch in this little hole-in-the-wall hotel restaurant outside of one of the ruined forts we toured, and nobody there spoke English and the only thing they served was a vegetarian thali, of which the only thing on the plate I could swallow without physical pain was the rice. Unfortunately, this led the locals to believe that I just didn't know how a thali worked, and so our waiter very helpfully poured one of the sauces all over my rice to show me. Fortunately we had some crackers in the car.)

Thai food is a lot hotter than any Indian or Mexican food I've had. Cajun gumbo and hot wings are the only things that have come close in my experience.

I've told the tale of eating with friends at a Thai restaurant while attending GenCon, right? We were given four seasoning options (mild, hot, super-hot, and Thai style), and when a couple of the guys ordered Thai style our waitress turned around and laughed all the way to the kitchen.