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06 Feb 2024, 8:23 pm

No

I make better rice than the local chinese place.


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06 Feb 2024, 8:31 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
The chilies, or the tingly/numbing pepper?

don't like either. Sichuan people like to use pepper.


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06 Feb 2024, 8:39 pm

My favourite is Thai seafood rice and Tom Yum soup



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06 Feb 2024, 8:40 pm

belijojo wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
The chilies, or the tingly/numbing pepper?

don't like either. Sichuan people like to use pepper.


Pepper was exported from souther India during the time of the famous Admiral Zheng He



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06 Feb 2024, 8:45 pm

I ought to look for those Szechuan spices in the Asian market!



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06 Feb 2024, 11:35 pm

belijojo wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
The chilies, or the tingly/numbing pepper?

don't like either. Sichuan people like to use pepper.


I've noticed, a lot of the dishes I tend to order are listed as Sichuan whatever. But it's the tingly/numb peppers that I'd associate with the region because I'm used to hot peppers being in a lot of dishes.

I'm kind of a fiend for hot food. :twisted:


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