Watch: This Chef Went DEAF After Eating The World’s Hottest Noodles

A British chef is regretting trying the world’s hottest noodles after they left him temporarily DEAF.

Ben Sumadiwiria decided to try out the ‘death noodles’ at a tiny back street restaurant in Jakarta, Indonesia

The name of the dish should have been a bit of a giveaway but the 22-year-old decided to give it a shot and wolfed down the noodles, that contained 100 bird’s eye chillies crushed together.

Hot hot hot: Ben wasted no time in tucking into the dish (SWNS)

That spicy kick gave it a Scoville rating (a measure of spiciness) of 20 million - a staggering 4,000 times hotter than Tabasco sauce.

Ben’s reaction to the dish were fairly alarming - he started sweating, became dizzy, had to soak his head in water and even went deaf for two minutes.

Describing the experience, the chef said: ‘This was definitely the hottest thing I’ve ever eaten. Within seconds of tasting them I was sweating and feeling sick.

Pain: It didn’t take long for the spice to kick in (SWNS)

Side effects: Ben went temporarily deaf while eating the death noodles (SWNS)

'Everybody who tried them threw up outside the drain. They’re known as 'death noodles’ and some locals can even finish a whole plate, which is just crazy.

'We’ve done the calculations and these are definitely the hottest noodles in the world. They are definitely the hottest commercially available dish.

'I’m not really partial to spicy food but when somebody throws down a challenge I just can’t say no.

Too much: The chef sweated profusely after eating the spicy noodles (SWNS)

‘I went temporarily deaf and my mouth was burning for hours afterwards.’

Ben became so hot after eating the noodles he had to take off his shirt and hold his head under water to cool off.

He downed half-a-dozen glasses of water, a milkshake and ate a cold banana but was still dizzy from the intense heat in his mouth.

After losing his hearing for two minutes, he then went outside to throw up on the street several times.

Bit of a kick: The death noodles contain 100 bird’s eye chillies (SWNS)

Ben added: 'You don’t really taste the noodles, it’s just pure heat with a tiny hint of noodles.’