Chili, the most frequently used condiment in Chinese cooking industry, China is one of the world's largest producer of chili peppers, and it is also the largest country in the world, and the reason is that the Chinese people are too hot! In the domestic spicy food areas, cooking a variety of dishes, will be put on some pepper, coupled with regional soil and water factors, some areas of the people are obvious preference for chili Peppers, Sichuan, Hunan as the most.

Although Chinese people generally love spicy food, but Pepper is not originated in China, but in the Ming Dynasty, by the introduction of foreign scholars, and thus gradually become the Chinese food industry indispensable seasoning, but also gradually emerged from the chili Peppers and some of the dishes cooked, such as Hunan Classic chili fried pork, Sichuan classic Mapo tofu, and some representative dishes, such as Kung Pao chicken, boiled fish, cooked pork, etc., are lack of chili.