Japan's ambassador shares video of wife gorging on spicy Indian food. PM Modi says, 'Keep it coming'

'My wife beat me': Japan's ambassador to India Hiroshi Suzuki tweeted that his wife beat him when it came to gorging on hot and spicy snacks and street food in Pune.

Ankita Sengupta

June 11, 2023 / 11:40 IST

Japan's ambassador to India Hiroshi Suzuki and his wife enjoy Maharashtrian snacks in Pune. (Image credit: @HiroSuzukiAmbJP/Twitter)

After eating golgappas with the Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida earlier this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday commended the way Japanese ambassador Hiroshi Suzuki and his wife have been gorging on Indian food.

Suzuki recently shared a video of the couple trying out different Maharashtrian snacks and street food in Pune such as pav bhaji, misal pav, vada pav, and sabudana vada with the ambassador asking for his dishes to be made less spicy while his wife requested hers to be made extra hot. "Kolhapuri?" a waiter is seen asking the wife as she tells him to make it "hot spicy". The Japanese ambassador also shared visuals of her eating guavas topped with loads of red chili. "My wife beat me," he captioned the video.

Reacting to the clip, PM Modi tweeted, "This is one contest you may not mind losing, Mr. Ambassador. Good to see you enjoying India’s culinary diversity and also presenting it in such an innovative manner. Keep the videos coming!"

This is one contest you may not mind losing, Mr. Ambassador. Good to see you enjoying India’s culinary diversity and also presenting it in such an innovative manner. Keep the videos coming! https://t.co/TSwXqH1BYJ
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) June 11, 2023

On Saturday, Suzuki had uploaded another video of the couple enjoying a plate of vada pav bought from a street stall. While the wife happily bites into the fried green chili usually handed with the snack, the ambassador says, "No chili, it's too spicy!"