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' Bhutanese pepper ' or 'Ghost pepper' in Assamese [4]), is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in Northeast India. [5] [6] It is a hybrid of Capsicum chinense and Capsicum frutescens. [7] In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that the ghost pepper was the world's hottest chili pepper, 170 times hotter than Tabasco sauce.
Sichuan pepper is an important spice in Chinese, Nepali, Kashmiri, north east Indian, Tibetan, and Bhutanese cookery of the Himalayas. [ citation needed ] Sichuan pepper has a citrus-like flavor and induces a tingling numbness in the mouth, akin to a 50-hertz vibration, [ 12 ] due to the presence of hydroxy-alpha sanshool .
Gweilo or gwailou (Chinese: 鬼佬; Cantonese Yale: gwáilóu, pronounced [kʷɐ̌i lǒu] ⓘ) is a common Cantonese slang term for Westerners.In the absence of modifiers, it refers to white people and has a history of racially deprecatory and pejorative use.
Mala shaokao (麻辣烧烤): Chinese barbecue flavored with mala; Mala xiang guo (麻辣香锅): mala-flavored stir-fry; Mala duck neck (麻辣鴨脖子) Mouth-watering ("drooling") chicken (口水雞): Cold chicken served in mala sauce; Fuqi feipian (夫妻肺片): beef tendon, tongue, tripe, and sometimes also lung, served with oily mala sauce
"Ghost peppers were at one time the hottest measured pepper in the world, measuring over 1,000,000 SHU." "I have eaten these peppers fresh, dried and fermented in different varieties of hot sauces ...
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The scientific species name C. chinense or C. sinensis ("Chinese capsicum") is a misnomer. All Capsicum species originated in the New World. [7] Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727–1817), a Dutch botanist, erroneously named the species in 1776, because he believed it originated in China due to their prevalence in Chinese cuisine; it however was later found to be introduced by earlier European ...
The habanero is named after the Cuban city of La Habana, known in English as Havana, because it used to feature heavily in trading there.(Despite the name, habaneros and other spicy-hot ingredients are rarely used in traditional Cuban cooking.) [2] [3] In English, it is sometimes incorrectly spelled habañero and pronounced / ˌ (h) ɑː b ə ˈ n j ɛər oʊ /, the tilde being added as a ...