He's cool to watch through the rearview mirror of this purring and potent hot-guymobile I'm at the wheel of, this manifestation of my wished-for middle-age libido, though I feel it as a clear affront that I can't lose him.
It's hard to beat the potent, spicy, nose-tinglingly hot flavor of fresh ginger.
Accompaniments include gari, or ground cassava, and the potent fish-scented hot sauce called shito.
These are noodles with a mean streak, a potent lashing of hot chile and oil, laced with Sichuan peppercorn that numbs your palate just enough to make the next bite not just tolerable but actually kind of great.
These are noodles with a mean streak, a potent lashing of hot chile and oil, laced with just enough Sichuan peppercorn to numb the pain of the pure chile heat.
The spicy beef noodle soup is excellent, easily as good as the renowned versions at No. 1 Noodle House in Rowland Heights or Dai Ho in Temple City, but the draw here is probably the zhajiangmian: noodles with a mean streak, a potent lashing of hot chile and oil, and laced with just enough numbing Sichuan peppercorn.
Meat dishes here are less ambitious, but each holds its own satisfactions, in particular a special called (what else?) Saigon chicken, with its potent dark-brown hot-pepper sauce.
The group's songs — blasts of potent riffs accompanied by the hot-wired vocal sound Iggy Pop used on the Stooges' "Fun House" — aren't particularly original, but they are primal, and fun as hell.
On each visit, our hopes were raised by a hearty giveaway appetizer -- bruschetta one night, potatoes and hot peppers in a potent, earthy broth on another -- but were steadily let down as the evening went on.
Capsaicin, the major pungent ingredient in hot peppers, is a potent agonist for the transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) channel, also called the capsaicin receptor.
