🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦Today is snack day. Or condiment. Or cooking ingredient. Because this can be all three.<br> <br> 香辣脆 (Xiāng là cuì or "Fragrant, Spicy, Crispy") is a weird little thing that can be eaten straight (typically with alcohol, like bar peanuts), or it can be thrown on top of food to give it a bit of bite and crunch, or it can be straight-up used as an ingredient in some dishes.<br> <br> It's made by making a paste of wheat flour, some leavening, and some sesame, cramming it inside finger chilis, then deep-frying that until its crisp. Personally I eat them like potato chips but that's because I have a cast-iron tongue. And throat. And stomach. And ... ah ... the other end.<br> <br> This is probably vicious for most North Americans, but in small doses, perhaps mixed with peanuts to cut down the burn, it would be great.<br> <br> More info in the alt text as usual.<br> <br> <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/Chinese?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinese</a> <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/Snack?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Snack</a> <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/香辣脆?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#香辣脆</a> <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/FragrantSpicyCrispy?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FragrantSpicyCrispy</a>