Went to Seoul at the start of this year, I think maybe the best country I've been to for food, but this rang very true. No idea what spice level you were going to get at any minute

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Great food tho.

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For a while I thought it was just a “in some Korean restaurants I am getting the Western tourist heat, in some I am getting the Full Throttle” but increasingly I realise, no, it’s just that the heat ratings in Korean restaurants, across the world, are meaningless.

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Three chilis on a menu in an Indian restaurant - the spiciest thing on the menu Three chilis on a menu in an Indonesian restaurant - the spiciest thing on the menu Three chilis on the menu in a Korean restaurant- literally could mean anything from “modest kick” to “your sinuses will burn”

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If you live in London, you benefit from the labour of a thousand years and a hundred generations that have lived here before. All they ask in return is that you spend five minutes of your day cleaning their bone juice off your shower screen, and that they intermittently wreck your plumbing.

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