SPICY, SPICY

Doyoun Kim took me to a Korean restaurant two weekends ago. This place is close to Kenmore but I can not remember now the name and the exact address.

The restaurant is really good. It looks brand new, it is well attended, and pretty clean. I loved Kimchy but actually, my favourite dish was spicy Korean soup. Trying to recreate the recipe, I remember water, oil, onions, garlic, tomato juice, rice noodles, carrots and spicy kimchi.

While I was eating, some phrase brougth into my mind: "Love come in.....througth the stomach". And if I think in this phrase in a metaphoric way, I could say: eating spicy Korean soup is like fall in love. Actually, you can find this soup pretty normal at first glance. Nothing special. As a many really good people. When you taste the first spoon, you get confuse. What is it? (Who is him/her?)...And you want to see again. Why is it so nice?. You can never understand. Your cheeks get red and hot with each spoon and you get mute and sweat (think in the nervous first date). Your companions at table are going to make fun of you. With each spoon you start to know better and to be familiarized with the flavor, so that you can feel more comfortable. And suddenly, when you have the situation under control your soup is gone.

Scientist have studied what happens with spicy food. They say that when you eat spicy food you are going to have a double reaction: first a pleasure sensation and then an unconscious defense of your brain (due to the painful spice taste) that makes you deliver endorfins. Endorphins are endogenous opioid compounds. This substances have named the hormones of the hapiness (even thougth they aren't truly hormons).

Like if I had fallen in love, I felt happy when I ate spicy Korean soup.

Thanks Korean friends for your advice to go there.