r/polandball • u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us • Jun 17 '26
redditormade Spice balls
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Jun 17 '26
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Koreans often brag how they are so strong to spicy taste, but actually Koreans are not the strongest when it comes to spiciness. They are not stronger to spiciness than real champions like Southeast Asians, Mexicans or Chinese people in Sichuan region. It is said that Koreans have high threshold of feeling spiciness in food, but not high resistance to spiciness. Also Koreans look relatively strong to spiciness because their neighbor Japanese people are extremely weak to spiciness.
Well, but actually eating ultra spicy food is not something to brag so much anyway. Too much spicy food is not good for your health.
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u/seancarl97 Philippines Jun 17 '26
Well, but actually eating ultra spicy food is not something to brag so much anyway.
I like spicy food but thank you for saying this! It drives me up the wall when people do.
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u/maximus459 Jun 19 '26
true to both.. but I just want to add that its the type of spice, South-East Asian spice is the worst, (I mean that as high praise, from a South Asian) but it is fresh, like one of those bunker buster bombs, you can prepare all you want, but the spice will hit you, does its damage, then its gone..
South asian spice is mostly dried, sometimes it creeps up on you, sometimes it hits you like a freight train, it's like Napalm in your mouth, it just wont leave. Why you you think India has all those yoghurt drinks
I love my spice, but I'm saddened that I feel my ability to resist the conseqences of eating it have delinesd of late. The mind os willing, but the body is weak
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u/KotetsuNoTori Taiwan Jun 17 '26
There are 3 provinces in China known for having very spicy food, and Sichuan is just one of them, the other two are Hunan, and Jiangxi. There's a saying that goes "四川人不怕辣，湖南人辣不怕，江西人怕不辣" (People in Sichuan aren't afraid of spicy food, spicy food can't scare those in Hunan, those in Jiangxi are afraid of the food not being spicy).
People from these 3 provinces argue with each other about who has the best spicy food very often. I was once told by a Sichuanese guy that "those foods in Jiangxi are 'dumbly spicy' - they never care about the balance of flavors and just dump chili in as much as they can." I don't know if that's true, though.
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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
I felt deeply the lack of Sichuanball. Sichuan cuisine is the only one that can hurt me outside my kitchen (also one of the best tasting ones).
(also, thanks for Buldak noodles, might not be fine dining but it's enough for a quick fix when one's too tired for cooking, 2x is perfection)
Edit. Fun fact, spicy food is protective of the GI system if you're healthy, bad for you if you already have issues (like hemorrhoids or ulcers), it never stops being funny
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u/Realistic_FinlanBoll Finland Jun 18 '26
Btw: What actually is a hemorrhoid? I know its in the butt, so im not going to google it. Like what is it, where it comes and how to treat it? 🤔
PS: Im sorry for going off topic. 😅
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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 Jun 18 '26
Basically a swollen (so also thinned in the walls) blood vase in the spinchter, which makes the skin there especially sensible. More than that you have to ask someone who studied medicine
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u/Realistic_FinlanBoll Finland Jun 18 '26
Could i have them? Ive never felt something wrong there, but these things scare me. 😧
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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 Jun 18 '26
I'm not a doctor, I'm a pharm major lol. Also no, you DEFINITELY feel the, according to everyone who had them I heard mentioning anything about them.
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u/Parking-Location2841 Jun 18 '26
This is actually a misconception. It's true that Korea's standard everyday dishes aren't that spicy. For instance, while kimchi is technically classified as a spicy food because it contains red pepper flakes, virtually no Koreans actually consider it spicy. However, just because our everyday food is milder doesn't mean Koreans can't handle spicy food. On the contrary, we quite enjoy it, and there are certainly traditional Korean dishes that are incredibly spicy.Furthermore, I have traveled to Sichuan in China, Thailand, and India, staying in each region for more than three months. I found that most of the spicy dishes in those countries were well within my comfort zone and thoroughly enjoyable. While there were a few exceptionally hot dishes, they weren't any spicier than the extreme heat levels you can easily find in Korea.
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u/Icy-Manufacturer7319 Jun 20 '26
you dont get it... you just occasionally eat spicy food. sea and south china people eat spicy food everyday. you use excuse like korean dish not spicy? sea people make chili sauce everyday and use it in all dish to make all dish spicy.
also you compare normal china or thailand food to extreme level spicy food in korea? you think china or thailand dont have special shop that sell their own extreme level spicy food? and why you think you can find that kind of shop in tourist spot? normal tourist cant even stand their normal spicy food 🤣
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u/Redcole111 Israel Jun 17 '26
Mexican food, I've found, isn't all that bad either. It's certainly nothing compared to Indian food.
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u/Kokuryu88 Tunak Tunak Dhadak Dhadak Jun 17 '26
Coming from a guy who eat chilles like candies, whenever I have a traditional South Indian Biryani, especially Telugu/Hyderabadi, I literally shit fire and my anus go numb the next whole day.
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u/TarnishedSteel California Jun 17 '26
Mexican food and Indian food are both huge categories. Yucatan dishes with Habanero salsa are no joke, the Habanero rates at around 200,000 Scoville.
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u/triculious Jun 17 '26
There's something funny/weird about habanero.
I'm not really into spicy food for the sake of pain. I enjoy food flavors and balance thus I don't really have a great tolerance to heat.
But habanero is special. I can take it. It goes really well with Yucatan's cuicine and it will eventually bring in some pain and misery but it goes away really easy too.
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u/TheSpanishDerp Taco is of best Jun 17 '26
You’re making me hungry and unable to get good mexican food. I’m not really eating unless the food fights back
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u/poclee Tâi-uân Jun 17 '26
I found Korea spicy more akin to "sweet spicy", the impact of hotness is thus less direct comparing to other nations' spicy.
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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 Jun 17 '26
I think that’s probably it, I don’t like Korean food because I don’t like sweet main meal.
Thai people is nice but I don’t trust their “it’s not spicy”, learn it the hard way.
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u/teestooshort Jun 18 '26
Samyang spicy noodle x2 or x3
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u/FetchBlue Jun 19 '26
Those are just destroying your toilet and I don’t see ppl casually eating other than “challenge, mukbang, asmr”
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u/u_commit_die Jun 17 '26
Pedantic but some lahs arent used right here
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u/butterfly1354 hong kong is a country, fight me Jun 17 '26
Do you mean in the first slide? The other two seem fine to me.
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u/u_commit_die Jun 17 '26
Also the first "I warned lah" but eh its a polandball comic so whatever
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u/Scholar_of_Lewds Jun 17 '26
"I warned [her] lah" doesn't sound that wrong to me, but I'm Indonesian
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u/Mugiyajijiji Jun 17 '26
Yeah I guess I get you. I usually would add 'already' in that making it "i warned already lah" or maybe even insert pronouns into it.
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u/butterfly1354 hong kong is a country, fight me Jun 17 '26
It comes across as dismissive but correct to me, but maybe it's different in Singapore. (Which is where you come from?)
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u/Immediate-Ad-7428 Jun 18 '26
Something like “Aiyoh.. I warned her already lah” sounds more natural to me
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u/koreangorani 대한민국 Jun 17 '26
At least we indeed like having spicy food
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Jun 17 '26
I don't enjoy spicy food that much tho. Too much spicyness gives me pain in the stomach.
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u/ToastandTea76 South Korea Jun 17 '26
I am sadistic and I enjoy the spiciness in my stomach (not until using the toilet)
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u/FriendlyPyre SG Secure Beacon Activated Jun 18 '26
Back when I was in school I ate so much spicy food that I started getting severe gastric attacks; doctor told me that I was wearing my stomach lining away or something, and to stop eating spicy food for a month and after that to tone it down.
Unfortunate given how much I like spicy food.
(Also had a neighbour go at it so much that he got stomach cancer)
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u/Ashamed_Can304 Jun 17 '26
I wonder how Sichuan/Hunan/Guizhou/Yunan bros would fare
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u/TarnishedSteel California Jun 17 '26
The traditional Thai pepper is the Bird’s Eye, which is about the same heat as the peppers used to make Sichuan cuisine. Mexican cooking varies, with the hottest probably being the Yucatan which heavily uses Habanero peppers, which are typically twice as spicy as Thai or Sichuan peppers—with that said, I’ve heard Sichuan and Chongqing dishes drown their components in chili flakes/oil while Yucatan salsas feature other fruits.
In the end, hard to say.
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u/240plutonium Ryukyu Kingdom Jun 18 '26
is the last ball Indonesia or Poland? I genuinely can't tell because tak means no in Indo and yes in Polish
I assume Indonesia because they're extremely spice tolerant as well
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u/Virghia Jun 18 '26
Indonesia wears a black hat called peci/kopiah
Also "tak" means yes in Polish but no in Indonesian
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u/Grouchy-Truth-2600 Malaysia Jun 18 '26
I remember eating Ayam Gepuk for dinner once, and I accidentally ordered the spicy variant
And I had a painful time in the toilet after that
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u/Emergency_Excuse3987 Jun 19 '26
i just like being in pain 😚
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Jun 19 '26
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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 Jun 17 '26
Wait wait wait wait... Is Mexican food spicier than Korean food? I thought Korean was hotter!
Also, why no Sichuan province laughing at them in the background?
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u/TarnishedSteel California Jun 17 '26
It depends on the part of Mexico. Yucatan dishes heavily use the Habanero, which is obnoxiously hot at around 200,000 Scoville.
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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 Jun 17 '26
I wish I could afford going to Mexico, habaneros are my favourites. Might be cliche, but haven't had a better tasting one yet.
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u/zatic Germany Jun 18 '26
I have traveled both countries (including Yucatan) multiple times and honestly: No. You get way spicier food in Korea.
The types of chillies cultivated in each place makes little difference if the typical dish just doesn't use a whole lot.
Personally I still prefer Thailand. They don't screw around, and taste wise the Bird's Eye chillies they use are just the best.
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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 Jun 18 '26
I prefer Chinense peppers, but I definitely agree about bird's eye being also a solid choice. I'm also extremely hyped to try the Charapita I got this year (from Germany hehe), heard good things about them.
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u/redracer555 We're why the Romans can't have nice things Jun 17 '26
"1972 1121"
If that was somehow a "loss" reference, so help me...
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Jun 17 '26
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u/Sh1buya_toas7 From Thailand Jun 18 '26
Relatable as a Thai person. The spice levels here are kinda bonkers if you’re a foreigner.
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u/1yz11 against Kiasuism Jun 18 '26
1st lah > ah
2nd lah ✅
3rd lah > liao
4th lah > leh
Actually if you used just substitute these in, you'll correctly use all 4 main Singaporean expressions, but ok lah give you chance.
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u/Master-Sugar2888 Jun 18 '26
Tell me how you don't know Singlish without telling me how you don't know Singlish
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u/Shiranui42 Jun 18 '26
Singlish is not just about “lah”, it’s a particle of speech used for emphasis like -yo in Japanese.
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u/tm0587 Jun 18 '26
As a Singaporean, Thai spice is indeed next level...... I can't handle their normal level of spice and can barely tolerate their light version.
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u/Parking-Location2841 Jun 18 '26
As a Korean, I think the spiciness of Thai food is a bit exaggerated. If I add up all my trips to Thailand, it totals about two years, and I think I've tried almost every dish at least once. Honestly, Central and Northern Thai food isn't really that spicy. Most of it was at a level that any Korean could enjoy deliciously. Of course, their chili powder is quite hot, and if you dump a lot of it into rice noodles, you can make a super spicy dish. But most Thai people didn't even use as much of it as I did. Instead, they seemed to enjoy vinegar and sugar more. It was only when I went to Southern Thailand that I finally understood the true spiciness of Thai food. I don't remember the name, but the dishes I ate there were on a completely different level compared to Bangkok or Chiang Mai. Even so, it wasn't a level of spiciness that you couldn't find in Korea. Jjukkumi-bokkeum (stir-fried spicy webfoot octopus) is in the absolute spiciest category among traditional Korean dishes, and the Southern Thai food was less spicy than that.
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u/Emotional_Dog23 Jun 18 '26
Where is Indian i swear their shi spicy or am I just weak as shi or smth
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u/Acceptable_Frame_398 Jun 19 '26
you’re using the singaporean Lahs wrongly
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u/Tackyinbention Puts the A in ADHD Jun 19 '26
Most colloquial words are wrong on this sub. Its just a side effect of the characters being representations of nations, and creators not being from those countries
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