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It’s one of the key ingredients in Chinese “málà †cooking, and its effects are said to be both physiological and mental. I didn’t see it coming, that mild feeling of electric currents buzzing on my tongue as if I’d licked a battery. Seated on a busy pavement in front of a lazy Susan weighed down with sizzling hotpot, diced rabbit and fish soup, I was digging into a spicy meal on the humid first night of a visit to Chengdu, the capital of China’s south-western Sichuan province and the cradle of the region’s famously fiery cuisine. View image of The...
