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Subject:     Re(6): Chinese food Hua Jiao BANNED BY FDA
Name:        JenW
Posted:      September 11, 2001 at 15:18:56
 
In Reply To: Re(5): Chinese food Hua Jiao BANNED BY FDA
             Posted by Jerome on September 04, 2001 at 20:40:15

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A while ago I asked my favorite Sichuan restaurant where they get their extremely numbing hua jiao and despite our earnestness, they wouldn't give us a direct answer (this was after my parents tried cajoling them by pulling out their Sichuan dialect). We suspected covert activity.
 
Anyhow, we eventually found our supply of fresh tingly pepper - in Shanghai (and undeclared). The woman selling us the precious sachets stopped and asked us what we were going to do with so much pepper. The point of the digression? - we could only find it overseas, sigh.
 
In case anyone is curious about the restaurant mentioned above with the [almost] killer hua jiao, it's Maxim's/Long Chou Sho in Roland Heights at 18438 Colima Road #106, inside the shopping mall. 626.810.7818.
 
Some dishes exemplifying this wondrous spice: fu chi fei pian (spicy thin-sliced beef and tendon), sui zhu niu rou (water-cooked-beef -- but it's actually oil)
 
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