Spicy soup literally burns hole in man's stomach

1:51 PM Sunday Dec 30, 2012

No amount of antacid could calm the fire in one Chinese man's stomach after eating a notoriously spicy soup.

The mala soup, a traditional Chinese dish that means "numbing hot", burned a hole right through the stomach of the 26-year-old man, Asian News International reported.

The soup gets its name from the numbing sensation produced by its ingredients, which usually include Sichuan pepper, local spices and chilli pepper.

The man ordered the spiciest version of the dish at a restaurant in Wuhan, central China, and was rushed to a local hospital after experiencing sharp pains and vomiting blood.

Doctors found a hole in the wall of his stomach, and declared the soup was to blame, The Daily Mail reported.

-AAP