Manages to be proper hot and properly sour at the same time, which shouldn't work but absolutely does.
Fun fact: Half its ingredients — lemongrass, galangal, lime leaves — are aromatics you leave in the bowl uneaten.
French blokes lobbing metal balls in a gravel car park and somehow making it look dignified.
Fun fact: It was invented in 1907 so a man with rheumatism could play boules without having to run.