Long-sought ingredients

[Wadeski]

Today was a good day...I found an ingredient I had been looking for for a whole YEAR! Since being given Fuscia Dunlop's chinese cookbook "Land of Plenty" I've been looking for szechuan Heaven Facing Chillies. They are a sweet, smoky tasty chilli that is different in taste to pretty much anything else out there.

but Wing Yip, Hoo Hing, online chilli-head websites, and Chinatown supermarkets all seemed to have been completely barren of them. Until they turned up today in a new mainland chinese supermarket called Q&L in Kilburn, right opposite Angeles (a great szechuan restaurant....like a cheaper Bar Shu).

Happy days, spicy food is on the table tonight