Phall vs Vindaloo - much hotter?

NickK said:
Never tried Vindaloo or Phall. Maybe with my recent Dorset Naga experiences I'll have a try. I've had some seriously hot Thai dishes which may equal them. I've also cooked Thai red curry with masses of paste and a Naga resulting in the king prawns being like hot lava coals.
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Thai red/green curry fan here, absolutely lush :cool:.
 
SuBsTaNcE said:
I'm really boring when it comes to curry, I don't usually mind hot food but I always worry that if I get something too hot then I won't like it and it will be £10 down the drain, I usually just go for a bhuna or a balti
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Bhuna is my favourite curry also.
 
I used to have Phalls often in my younger days. The only issue was the next morning pretty much as Von Smallhausen mentioned.
 
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I used to eat phall's regularly going back 10 years, I'd have curry a couple of times a week and I just sort of ended up eating hotter and hotter ones, until I could eat a phall sober just fine as a normal meal.

I remember having one in the the 'Ganges' in Wooton Basset once, and the waiter tried to warn me off having it, when he eventually brought it out all the waiters and kitchen staff stood and watched me eat it (sniggering), they were really disappointed when I just ate it and told them it was very nice. One of the people I was with tried a tiny bit on her naan bread and went purple and started choking. :D

These days I rarely eat curry though, and hence I can't take the hot stuff any more as I've become less acclimatised, the hottest I'll eat now is a madras or jalfrezi.
 
Uriel said:
Depends entirely on where you get it. One curry house's vindaloo can be hotter than the phall at the next.

It it's a good phall, it will still be tasty as well as shred your insides.
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^^^^ this tbh....

for a lot of curry places the standard chicken curry, madras, vindaloo and (if they offer it) phall will come from the same big curry pot in the kitchen - only with progressively more chillies added.....

AFAIK a vindaloo at one place not offering a phall might well be the same as a phall at another.... and a vindaloo at the place offering a phall might be more like a madrass at another etc....
 
I had a phall once, and it was the morning afterwards experience that put me off having another - burning ring of fire indeed.
I had an equally hot thai soup in Bangkok once that made my eyes water, but didn't seem quite so painful the next day. While I like hot food, I tend to tone it down a little these days and stick to Jalfrezi level heat now.
 
Kennysevenfold said:
The morning after is just not worth it.! :p
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This is pretty much it. I really miss the days when I used to be able to eat Madras and Vindaloo like it was going out of fashion. But since improving my diet a couple of years ago my system just can't take it anymore. It'll be fine during the meal, but the next day I'll be in pain till lunchtime. Just not worth it.

Biryani all the way now....
 
Stretch said:
Yes, if it's made correctly.

I know a guy who works in a family run curry house in cambridge. We order phall sauce most times just to see if it was as bad as the last. The pain is indescribable. Last time the chef had to leave the kitchen the chilly fumes we so potent. He only knows one man who can actually eat one.
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where is this place? i'll have to check it out :)
 
My old man loves Vindaloo & wants to try a phall, Vindaloo was way too hot for me so no point.
I used to enjoy a good madras or a chilli masala with a few pints but that was hot enough for me. Even the next day after those I swear even my pee burned....that might have been something else though.

Phall is not for me & tbh I cant even eat a decently hot Madras anymore.....maybe I just don't drink enough now. Tikka masala is lush though.
 
Depends my friend. Some places in Notts do Vindaloo as a medium dish and others as a very hot dish.

I have Vindaloo at a place called Chutney here in Nottingham and it's great stuff, pretty damn hot.

I've only had one Phall from a takeaway and it wasn't that hot from there.

They are just names and a lot of places the dishes and possibly ingredients will vary wildly.
 
Had one before a long time ago and whilst it was hot, the next day was agony, lets say just say there was blood and not being able to sit down for a while. Never, ever again, but they will obviously vary from place to place. I always used to go to the same shop and used to ask them to "spice up" the Vindaloo. I'm assuming that when I ordered a Phaal, they "spiced up" that as well.
 
MrSix said:
I had a buddy who used to pride himself on being a real man - slaying bears with his bare hands, having a hairy chest, playing rugby...that type of real man.

We went to my local Indian resturaunt where he proudly announced that he wanted "the hottest curry you've got" to the owner (who I know very well as I've been going there for years). The owner took the order and gave me a sly smile as he went away...twenty minutes and four pints later the curry was brought out and turned out to be a Phaal.

My mate dug in with his naan bread and proclaimed how it "wasn't that hot at all"...but five minutes later he was dripping with sweat, which he claimed was just because it was hot in the restaurant, but the finishing touch was that his nose started to bleed. Obviously he couldn't be proven to be a feeble mortal and he finished the curry (with a napkin up each nostril) to prove his alpha male-ness as well as drinking six more pints.

Apparently it was just as spicy coming out as it was going in.
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Domi said:
heh to be honest I am getting on a bit now but I was the typical jack the lad can eat and drink anything and could out eat and out drink a small herd of wildebeast but I once made the mistake of mouthing off on the move up from Vindaloo to Phall in Whitley bay not so far from the place mentioned in the link above.

Honestly I have done the eat the raw chillies without a drink sort of stupidness but the Phall I had at a now defunct place 20 years ago put me off even Vindaloo for life.

The point where cold lager seems to just evaporate before it hits your mouth is I decided just a liittle too hot for me.
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Haha people like that are so daft and funny.

Thing is I used to be exactly the same in my early 20's :p
 
Vindaloo is my curry of choice, never tempted to go hotter, although i can take the curry in, i always end up with a johnny cash ring of fire the next day, so no doubt i could up the stakes but i see no reason to!
 
I tend to stick to milder curries now, I enjoy hot curries and my mouth can take it, but the other end the next day is too much :(
 
I like reasonably hot but I have just had to give up ordering them, the pleasure of eating is not worth wiping out the next morning where you can't be more than a few metres from the bog.
 
I don't really suffer from the day/morning after anymore really. I have had some bad times in the past but maybe it's killed all the nerves down there! The worst I get is a stomach ache usually now. A few times I have been to work though and felt dreadful before spending my lunch hour in a far away toilet. Once when I started eating curries (Started on madras) I was almost sick in a session it hurt so bad. I never learned though!


Slightly vulgar topic sorry!
 
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