There are a lot of spices and stuff in China..and tea..so much tea. But for us there is only one, our years long quest for proper Sichuan pepper.
There are different types, as you see with both cinnamon and safeon. There are Spanish versions, African and American. Getting hold of Chinese Sichuan pepper is not always easy peasy. But now – we’re here!
She had a nice day at work today 🙂
We had just been at the Chinese arts museum, and looking at the map we found a vegetable/fish market up the road. We where already a bit outside the tourist track so we where confident we could get some good stuff for normal prices.
The Sichuan pepper is either green or red, the red is the one regularly used in food. It not really a -pepper-, its in the citrus family and gives off what they call ‘cold heat’, also it makes you lips go slightly numb. You will get proper Sichuan pepper dishes at a few restaurants in Norway.
The lady in the picture above, in the Zhaojunsheng Vegetable Market had both red and green in prepacked pouches.. God knows what a punch weighed – probably 100gr pr bag. We bought 10 of each! ..So now we are very well stocked.
The price was 10rmb (thats about 14-15 Nok pr pouch/bag) so close to free, or at least very very cheap. I also bought half a meter of local cinnamon… Because.
The rest of the marked was full of other stuff to, lots of vegetables and some met n fisjmh.
