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Red Hot Chili Pepper burns with spectacular spice

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Jackson Monge
The Chili Prawns were spicy — a persisting inferno on the delicate tongue. Nonetheless, they were gigantic, tender, and very good.

Red Hot Chili PepperĀ is a restaurant in San Carlos where one can explore just how spicy food can possibly be. It’s a place to explore and test your own pain threshold.

Red Hot Chili Pepper isn’t the famous American rock band, but rather an Asian fusion restaurant that loves to serve spicy food. The Devil’s Chicken earned its notoriety by making patrons faint from eating it. Thankfully, nothing else is as spicy as the Devil’s Chicken.

Jackson Monge
Supposedly the Devil’s Chicken has made people faint. So know what you are getting into if you order it.

To drink I had an Arnold Palmer, which is lemonade mixed with tea.Ā Red Hot Chili Pepper’s Arnold Palmer is more tea than lemonade, which is an abnormality as most restaurantsĀ serve a mostly-lemonade Arnold Palmer. In addition to that, it seemed as though the tea was a more herbal or fruity tea, rather than the more traditional black tea. I wasn’t disappointed; it was quite good.

Jackson Monge
A different rendition on the Arnold Palmer than I was used to, nonetheless it was good

Onto the food: if I had to describe it, it was spicy. It was good too, but really pay attention to the number of chili peppers next to the name of the dishes, as it tells you how spicy they are. I probably should have paid more attention to them, but luckily I didn’t end up getting anything too spicy.

I ate the Firecracker Chicken and Chili Prawns for appetizers. For the meal, I ate the Five Spice Beef Short Ribs. I also had rice that came in a cool pail container, and it helped sop up some of the sauces and juices from the appetizers and meal.

Jackson Monge
The rice was great for soaking up all the juices from the short ribs and the spice from the appetizers.

The appetizers were good, but I couldn’t eat too many of the prawns. They were too spicy for me — really good, but too spicy. The best way to describe them would be, almost like spicy orange chicken, except that it’s shrimp. They are also pretty big for shrimp, so I definitely got my fill. The Firecracker Chicken was far easier to eat, it was more tangy than spicy. The Firecracker Chicken was almost like chicken calamari if that makes any sense.

The Firecracker Chicken was far easier to eat; it was more tangy than spicy. The Firecracker Chicken was almost like chicken calamari if that makes any sense. It wasĀ a thin crisp, covering a soft meaty inside.

Jackson Monge
The FirecrackerĀ Chicken is sort of like tangy calamari chicken; you can’t go wrong with ordering it.

The short ribs were good. They were almost like very tender chunks of stew meat. There wasn’t a knife at the place setting, but that just shows how tender they were. They were drenched in a sweet sauce, and funnily enough, they did have some spice to them. It sounds odd, but when there’s an item on the menu that can make people faint with how spicy it is, nothing surprised me. Overall it was good and goes great with the rice, since the rice sops up all the sauce.

The Five Spice Beef Short Ribs were tender and drenched in a tasty sauce. You may want to consider these as your meal for the night.

Overall, Red Hot Chili Pepper’s food was really good and quite spicy. If you like a lot of heat and spiciness, take your mouth and wallet here. Do be wary of the Devil’s Chicken — the restaurant’s had to call ambulances due to customers fainting from the meal. Just remember to stay careful of what you get, but no matter what you choose, you’ll probably enjoy it.

About the Contributor
Jackson Monge, Staff Writer
Jackson Monge is a junior at Carlmont and a staff writer for Scot Scoop. His rap favorite rap artist is Politikz, and enjoys watching the latest Bo Jack Horseman.

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    RebekkahNov 3, 2021 at 7:51 am

    I signed the release, ate the Devil’s Chicken. I got through half of it at the meal, and ate the rest the next day. It was even hotter the next day, if you can believe that. And of course, the afterburner was spectacular.

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    GodzillamommyMay 28, 2017 at 5:18 pm

    Love the spicy review !!! Spice is a subjective matter…

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