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My Szechuan Restaurant Is So Spicy That a Customer Called The Cops on Me

Everybody takes spice differently. When I opened my first restaurant, I got so many complaints about the level of spice. A older woman once tried to call the cops on me because she thought that I was trying to fuck with her because the dish was so hot.

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“So I started thinking, What can I do to solve this problem? As a Chinese restaurant in America, we have a lot of people send back dishes to the kitchen, and this is culturally the greatest offense to us. This is unheard of in China. If you don’t like a particular dish, you don’t eat it, and then you don’t go back to that restaurant. In China, you would get your shit kicked in in the back of an alley if you sent a dish back.

I wanted to prevent that from happening, so I invented a spice scale that has a range from one to ten for people to understand the heat index. We always suggest that people go lower on the scale so that we prevent dishes from getting sent back. The old lady that called the cops on me had ordered a dish that was about a five on our scale. She was like, “Yeah, I like spice” but she probably likes as much spice as black pepper on her mashed potatoes.

Ignorance really bothers me. When I opened my first restaurant, our menu was five pages long with over 500 dishes. We had a lot of exotic stuff: pig intestines, tripe, rabbit, and frog. Some of the customers that would come in would get disgusted and make comments like, “Oh my god, you eat rabbits? They’re so cute!” or “Wow, you eat intestines?” It’s total ignorance when people say those kinds of comments—it really bugs me. The reason why we’ve been eating those things for over 5,000 years in China is because there have been so many wars and natural disasters, and starvation as a result. When people are hungry, you’ve got to get your hands on anything that you can eat. I wish people would stop looking down on others who eat that stuff, because there’s a reason for it. And as times have gotten better, we still eat those dishes because we’ve perfected them and they remind us of those tough times. We cherish them and make the best of it because these things have become integral.”

For the love of god someone pls bring me some mapo dofu or malayu.