Has anyone ever heard of "wind pepper"?
Posted by yabbitgirl on Feb 14, 2010 · Member since Apr 2006 · 14266 posts
And no, I'm not talking about the rock band...
I bought one of these ready-made spicy tofu sauces that comes in an envelope, I think the brand is Master Sauce. (Taiwanese). I was looking at the ingredients and in English, after the fermented soybean paste, garlic etc it said "Wind Pepper." I figure it must be a type of chili pepper, because it is very hot stuff, but when I Googled, all it came up with was a rock band of that name. When I looked at the Spanish ingredient list, it said "ginger" which sounds like the translator didn't know what it meant either and just put something down.
Any of you chili experts heard of "wind pepper" before?
http://www.master-sauce.com.tw/product/68701.html
Is this it? How nice of them to list all the ingredients. I'm guess the English translation is just as messed up as the Spanish one. Maybe it was supposed to be bird pepper?
I have never heard of it and am inclined to agree with lbarte, that it's a mistranslation. Or maybe they call it wind pepper because after you eat it you break wind! >:D
That's the one, Ibarte. It's actually quite good. I put it on zucchini (cuz I can't eat tofu no more. :'()
On the website I see it says "Sichuan pepper." So whatever kind of pepper they have in Sichuan, I guess.
Here you have only dried chili peppers and they're all called "guindilla." There are big sort of oval ones, big long ones, and little ones. And that's all I know. Hopefully with the influx of South and Central Americans here, we will acquire a place to buy fresh chillis someday.
I have never heard of it and am inclined to agree with lbarte, that it's a mistranslation. Or maybe they call it wind pepper because after you eat it you break wind! >:D
My thoughts exactly! >:D