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Chef’s fiery signature

COMPILED BY NIMI KURIAN

Photo: CH. Vijaya Bhaskar

Spicy dip: Its only chillies.

A Thai restaurant’s potent homemade chilli sauce caused a chemical scare in central London, with police shutting streets and firefighters forced to smash down the door. Streets were cordoned off outside the Thai Cottage restaurant in London’s Soho theater and nightlife district. Firefighters dressed in special suits broke down the doors and discovered the source of the smell: chef Chalemchai Tangjariyapoon’s fiery signature nam prik pao chilli sauce. The chef was baffled by the commotion. “I was making a spicy dip with extra-hot chillis that are deliberately burnt. To us, it smells like burnt chilli and it is slightly unusual,” he told the Times newspaper.

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