Nobody makes hotter food than the Thais do. You can get spicy food in a Thai restaurant here, but it's dumbed down. Back in Thailand, you can get food that will make you cry.
The hottest food I had there was in a student cafeteria, of all places. It was a tofu-vegetable stirfry in hot oil with some kind of peanut sauce that was also very spicy. It was so hot that my scalp began to bleed sweat after the first few bites. It was so hot that I could feel it burning not only in my mouth, but in my throat, my esophagus, my guts, and finally, on the way out. I've never been able to track the progress of a meal through my guts by "feel" before, or since!
I ate it all, though, because it was great.
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