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.

Thanks for the input everyone. It is all very helpful. I am very adventurous when it comes to food and will try anything at least once. I just have some issues with spices (mostly of the pepper variety) and am glad to know that Indian food is not Thai spicy. It makes me very sad that I am not able to eat Thai food.

Thai can burn me the way the hottest green chile from NM can't. I'm told red is hotter, but I don't like it much, no matter the spice (red tastes meatier and sweatier. I like the green taste better-which is also why I like thai food despite the heat. It's a green flavor. Hate the sweaty.) It doesn't last as long, though. Which is nice.

My dad claims the hottest he's ever had (and he likes breaking out in a pouring sweat over spicy heat) was vietnamese and it made him puke.

There's a lot of Thai (in the U.S. anyway) that's not spicy, but yeah, the potential is there.

ION, I was just ordering meds for the dog online from 1-800-petmeds, and in addition to wanting an actual birthdate, one of their clicky options for the pet's medical conditions is "mental confusion." Seriously? Like, when I ask her where she was on Tuesday the 8th, she mixes it up with last Christmas?