There is more food science to come, but I was reminded last night in FreakyTrigger Central (PunKum restaurant) of one of my least favourite food misidentifications. Last night my hot Thai curry was flecked with red chillis. Not a problem, I avoided all but one and the sweat was pleasant enough. But it was also populated with some small green thin things which looked like beans.
But then the small green thin things I happily chomped through a couple of years ago in Chilli’s, the ominously named curry house in Crouch End, had turned out not to be beans. Instead they were bullet-like chillis which invoked a tongue shaving.
It turned out the PunKum bits were beans, and crunchy cool ones at that. Still, I am always wary…