"frankie" news and stories

I often whine about how I go to restaurants with the promise of spicy foods, and end up disappointed because I didn't even break a glisten. Korean food is spicy, but I always hear stories about Thai and Indian foods being hot enough to put hair on my chest. I've given up on Thai, mostly because I think restaurants in the LA area are too scared to really give me the fire, but I still had hope for Indian food.

And thank goodness I did, because I finally found something that got me a little hot. At Bombay Cafe, the lamb frankie made me glisten. The frankie is an Indian street-type food made of a thin bread similar to a tortilla that is coated with egg and fried. The tortilla is filled with meat and/or vegetables, then rolled like a burrito.

I tried the lamb frankie at Bombay Cafe, which had nothing but enormous chunks of lamb meat straight out of Hades. Granted, I wasn't reaching for the fire extinguisher, but it was still spicy enough that on a breezy winter day in LA, I had to lightly dab my forehead. I felt awesome.

The strange thing is, the heat was very different from the type of heat I get from Korean food. The lamb meat in the frankie wasn't so much a burn on my tongue that I feel from things like red pepper and jalapeno. No, this heat was an overall heat that I felt after I swallowed my bite of the frankie. Like I said, it was awesome.