Forwarded to friends.
Should be a different topic, but the one time locally I’ve been felled by spice was something called “the revolver” at Izakaya Ginji in San Mateo. You get 6 stuffed peppers arranged in a circle, and one is filled with a devil’s brew of hot, the others are sweet and tasty, and you do them all in one go… that caused me to … empty stomach in the bathroom.