Brick Lane Curry House

Brick Lane Curry House was featured on man vs. food. They have a curry dish called Phaal, which they describe as follows: An excruciatingly hot curry, more pain and sweat than flavor, for our customers who do this on a dare, we will require you to state a verbal disclaimer not holding us liable for any physical or emotional damage after eating this curry. If you do manage to finish your serving of curry, a bottle of beer is on us.

Who the heck makes something that doesn't taste good on purpose?

Obviously Brick Lane Curry House.

Unfortunately, I'm a sucker and can't pass something like this up. So we each ordered our own dish and an order of phaal to share (it seemed like a waste to order phaal as your main dish as it doesn't even taste good).

I ordered lamb saag because I like lamb and I like spinach and I have slightly large forearms so it satisfies my need to make sure i'm not Popeye. I'm not. Every time.

The phaal is terrible. It tastes like spicy. Or to quote Ralph Wiggum; "It tastes like burning." Ralph had a lit candle in his mouth but I don't think this tasted much worse. You basically took a bite of the phaal and then your mouth burned for ten minutes. We took turns taking larger and larger bites. Then we left to get ice cream from Sundaes and Cones.

306-308 E 6th St
New York, NY 10003

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