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In my current job I will be working in the "western" U.S. including places like Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and California. Apparently New Mexico and Texas aren't on my list.

Next week I'm flying into Billings, MT. Then driving to Sidney, MT. Then driving from Sidney to Great Falls, MT. I've already been to Butte, MT and Helena (Montana's capital city, which they will remind you about at every opportunity).

Food in Montana is not fantastic so far. They have too many pizza places by a lot, too few independent restaurants and basically no ethnic options other than Mexican.

Anyone here have any tips?

I am a heat seeker. By that I mean I want to eat the hottest food offered by a restaurant anywhere and everywhere. I get that Montana likely isn't going to set any records for me. I'm not adverse to flavors of any kind. They don't have to be spicy. I love all the food from all the places that I have ever had. Nothing offends me or scares me. I'll eat anything... twice. I mean that. Give me Rocky Mountain Oysters, give me tendons and tripe, give me anything. If it is a mainstream food anywhere in the world I'll eat it.
 
Any idea where you'll be when you're in Oregon?

When you say heatseeker, do you prefer Meixcan hot, or Szechuan, Indian, Thai, Creole, etc, etc? Like what type of heat. I personally prefer Indian hot. While I love Mexican food, Mexican hot just always seems kind of one note, just all that capsaicin and nothing else, whereas with Szechuan, for example, you add a lot of the peppercorn flavor, or indian you get more creaminess with the cumin and chili and ginger. Etc etc etc.
 
gandalfe said:
Any idea where you'll be when you're in Oregon?

When you say heatseeker, do you prefer Meixcan hot, or Szechuan, Indian, Thai, Creole, etc, etc? Like what type of heat. I personally prefer Indian hot. While I love Mexican food, Mexican hot just always seems kind of one note, just all that capsaicin and nothing else, whereas with Szechuan, for example, you add a lot of the peppercorn flavor, or indian you get more creaminess with the cumin and chili and ginger. Etc etc etc.
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All of it. Honestly. I've become a huge fan of numbing spicy Szechuan food, I love the complexity of Indian Spices, Thai is usually where I can count on them saying "**** it" and just dumping on fresh chilis when I ask for full spice, Mexican is a mixed bag, because Chili Tepin and Habanero might enter the chat. I love the hottest Aquachili I can get.

I'm not trying to spice flex because this is not an indication of masculinity or anything else. I have pushed to become more spice tolerant for more that 30 years. So I can eat anything any sane restaurant would put on the menu for their general customer. I make my own hot sauces and my own recipes that are hotter than anything I eat in any restaurant.

I'm always looking for the thing I can't even eat because it's too spicy. I'm pretty sure, outside of food challenge dishes, it doesn't exist.

So that said, I also like good food. It doesn't have to be spicy. That's my special pleasure, but I can eat a BLT and be happy.
 
Where in Oregon? Some random Mexican joint in Tillamook (where the ice cream and cheese comes from) had the best shrimp a la diabla I’ve ever eaten. We were just up in Great Falls and Helena on our way back from Canada but can’t be of much help there since we grabbed the kids Little Caesars.

As far as Indian, they opened a new place (well, maybe within the past 18 mos) in Lehi/AF called Little India which I believe is the best joint in the state (eaten at at least 12-15 places in the state).
 
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Where in Oregon? Some random Mexican joint in Tillamook (where the ice cream and cheese comes from) had the best shrimp a la diabla I’ve ever eaten. We were just up in Great Falls and Helena on our way back from Canada but can’t be of much help there since we grabbed the kids Little Caesars.

As far as Indian, they opened a new place (well, maybe within the past 18 mos) in Lehi/AF called Little India which I believe is the best joint in the state (eaten at at least 12-15 places in the state).
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I work on ventilators, so I might travel anywhere they use ventilators.
 
I'll tell ya, Montanans sure do love them some pizza places. I have no reason to think any of them are any good but they have a **** ton. Here in Billings and in Helena.

Anyone ever had Pizza Ranch. Seems to be a chain up here
 
Gameface said:
I'll tell ya, Montanans sure do love them some pizza places. I have no reason to think any of them are any good but they have a **** ton. Here in Billings and in Helena.

Anyone ever had Pizza Ranch. Seems to be a chain up here
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We actually were headed to get pizza as we passed through Helena. Everywhere was downtown and impossible to find parking so we bagged it and ended up at a BBQ place that had already sold out of most of their meats.
 
Sidney, Mt is actually kind of a cute town. First town in Montana that is not overwhelmingly depressing. Helena wasn't all bad, but the sadness was always right there.

Billings was like taking a time machine to 1989.
 
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