A pork chop with a hot-cool chili glaze requires the incisors of a jungle cat.
The bakery itself sells 400 muffins on a busy day, plus a few cakes and croissants and, on cool Fridays, turkey chili.
There is a flavorful squid salad as well, like a Vietnamese green-papaya salad born of the sea, cool and fragrant, chili hot.
In the first year this guy came into our halls and tried to invent a new slang term for cool, which was "chili pepper".
If you do get irritation from the peppers, read How to Cool Burns from Chili Peppers.
There are a few other foodstuffs that send touch-like information to the brain, including menthol, which produces a cooling sensation, while chili can cause heat or even pain.
These include thinly shaved pickled radish, sliced zucchini in a hot chili paste, cool marinated spinach leaves and crunchy marinated bean sprouts.
Must-haves for chilies include jalapeño, a blunt three-inch pepper that can be harvested any time as it ripens from green to red; habanero, a wrinkled little fruit that can cause serious pain, so beware; and ancho-poblano, a heart-shaped flattened four-incher that is relatively cool for a hot chili.
Be sure to allow chili to cool thoroughly before refrigeration.
In addition to the street food dishes, there were more refined options, including a banana flower salad typical of the cooking of Hue, with the slightly pungent and meaty shredded flower mixed with chicken and touches of chili, a cooling hint of mint, and sweet peanuts.
"Oh yes!" She thought a chili was something cool, as its name imported, and was served with some.
