Wholesale Da Hong Pao Sichuan Pepper

  If you are purchasing for a restaurant, contact us (via envelope icon in menu) to receive a wholesale discount. The top grade of red Sichuan pepper should have a strong citrusy fragrance and taste as well as an intense tingly, numbing quality. This electrifying spice may be shocking at first, but both its flavor and sensation quickly become addictive—and especially so when it is combined with chilies to create the defining taste of Sichuan, málà, "má" meaning numbing and "là," spicy hot.  In China, Sichuan pepper goes by the name hua jiao, or flower pepper. This da hong pao, or big red robe, variety is a single-origin hua jiao grown in the Wudu area of Gansu Province. As its name implies, da hong pao is a bright-red, large variety of Sichuan pepper, often opening into a six-petaled flower when dried and fully dislodging its gritty seeds (which are never eaten). We also carry a special grade of da hong pao that we call Flower Pepper because it is sorted to include a high percentage of