NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 09:26:06 CDT Xref: chi.eats:2696 Tamagawa wrote: <snip> >Can you recomend any type of *extremely hot* food available in the downtown? >I mean "hot food like hell" <snip> For really hot food, the no fooling around type that makes you sweat and cry with happiness I can recommend two places. Neither of these is in the downtown area but either of these will give you a legitimate hot food burn. The first is a Thai restaurant on the Northwest side of Chicago. Thai Aree has excellent Thai food and does not Americanize their food for non-Thai patrons. When we go there and ask for hot we get HOT. I have even asked for extra hot and this was hot enough to send me into a tailspin. I am not a neophyte pepper eater who thinks a sport pepper on a hot dog is hot. The second is Yak-Zies, this is a bar and grill that has good burgers and my favorite hot wings in the city. Yak-Zies has 5 levels of wings: Mild, Medium, Hot, Oh my gosh and Killer. The Killer wings are Oh my gosh that are rolled around in powdered cayenne pepper. They are VERY hot. If you do not have a car I would imagine that Yak-Zies is easily accessible by public transportation as it is just west of Lake Shore Drive on Diversey. Yak-Zies is also a great bar to have a drink in. If I really needed a hot food fix and could not get to either of these places I suppose I would just go to a Japanese restaurant and load up on wasabi or make a salsa with fresh habenero peppers. Good luck, Gary Thai Aree 3592 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL. 60641 773-725-6751 Yak-Zies 506 W. Diversey Chicago, IL. 60614 773-327-1717
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