This is a follow-up to a couple of posts from late November (excuse the geographical jump)... >Thanks to a suggestion from Joseph Dubin , I also tried >Sri Lanka Curry House while in Minneapolis. It was excellent. My wife >had a medium-hot noodle dish that was indeed quite as hot as most Thai >food gets. I had a sort of lamb burrito; I ordered it very hot! They >warned me I couldn't send it back to the kitchen; they warned me that >only about one in two hundred people ordered food very hot; they were >serious. I was not to be deterred (really hot food in the Midwest?, >c'mon). It was awesome! I had to eat it carefully. I found four >different kinds of thinly sliced chiles, each quite hot. I think that >was so as you got used to one or two, the others kicked in. It was >huge! I ended up taking half of it back to the hotel and eating it for >lunch the next day. The really amazing thing to me was that the dish >was clearly excellent, even had I ordered it mild. There was an artist >at work in the kitchen. > >The only other interesting point is that my 13-month-old son kept eating >my wife's noodles (after she removed the hot as best she could). Every >once in a while he'd look up with a surprised expression and start to >cry. After calming down he'd ask for more. Repeat. I didn't let him >touch mine. > >Great place. Go there if you're in the neighborhood. > >Jon > >P.S. This is a piece of my promised report on my Minneapolis/St. Paul > trip. I got some good suggestions from folks on this group but > I haven't written it up completely yet. Real soon now.... >-- > /\__/\__/\__/\__/\__/\__/\__/\__/\__/\__/\__/\__/\__/\__/\ >[\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\]Jon Ziegler } >[////////////////] Cupertino, CA } > \/~~\/~~\/~~\/~~\/~~\/~~\/~~\/~~\/~~\/~~\/~~\/~~\/~~\/~~\/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Erik S. wrote: > I just had my first Sri Lankan experience at a place in Minneapolis. All > of the dishes were available in mild, medium hot, hot, and very hot. The > medium hot was hotter than almost any Thai food I've ever had in the > States. It was a very tasty meal. The very hot must be incendiary! > >When I last lived back there, there was a place called Sri Lanka Curry >House on N. Hennepen Ave. If a non-Asian customer ordered spicier >than medium, they would try to talk him out of it. I eat food about >as hot as anyone I've met, and I felt like I needed a shower after one >of their medium dishes. > >If you think Thai food isn't spicey enough, you should ask the >restaurant to make it spicier. Some places will tone it down if they >think you're not up to it. >-- >Jerry Kreuscher, MicroUnity Systems Engineering, 122 0 46 W, 37 24 10 N > I was in Minneapolis for Christmas last month and went to Sri Lanka Curry House with my brother and 2 sisters. We ordered 4 dishes - they were wonderful. Three of them were ordered medium hot, and I ordered mine very hot (read: *very* hot). The woman waiting on us warned me, but I was not about to be disuaded after having flown 200 miles to eat there :-). It was extremely hot, as I like it (I too had to eat it carefully). All of the dishes were very good; it was very different from Indian food, somewhat more imaginative; dishes with scallops, shrimp, and interesting spices. This is a great restaurant. I highly recommend it to anyone traveling to the Twin Cities area. It's on Hennepin, a couple of blocks north of Lake. The only hotter curry I've had was at a place called Mandala, near exit A6 of the Jimbocho station in Tokyo. It's one of the best Indian restaurants in Tokyo. Also, a couple doors north, in a converted Victorian, is one of the nicest coffee houses I've ever frequented (forget the name, sorry). It was especially nice after the Sri Lanka meal (and since it was 10 degrees below zero :-) Don Now back to your regularly scheduled newsgroup...
Minneapolis, MN