Thanks to a colleague from my past (Sunil) I was already acquainted with the principle of a Madam Chenet… these are very small peppers which are much hotter then a normal pepper. I think in Holland you can only buy them in special shops. These peppers are so hot that you should never eat them. If you want you can keep one or two in your dish, but you need to cut them to very small pieces. The rest you take out and put aside and you don’t eat them.

Well, I went to a local Chinese place and ordered some food. I did not know what it was I ordered, because it was called the ‘chef’s choice’. The waiter asked me if I minded hot food but I thought it would be okay, and told him not to worry. When I get my food I directly notice quite a large number of pepper and the waiter gives me the advice not to eat them, because they are very hot. During my dinner I separating the little peppers from the rest but it did not go without problems. The amount of ingredients and the sauce made it difficult to recognize the peppers and after separating 6 peppers (with chopsticks of course) the next pepper slipped through.

I never drank my beer so fast…. and I still feel the heat in my mouth when I breath.. :-(