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Not just Daddies sauce or Lea & Perrins.


Here's my current dalliance, found it a 'Masalamart' on the Charlton wholesale estate, SE7.

It's a pickle sold in Burma made with bamboo shoots, seriously spicey, but flavoursome and crunchy.

This is a copy (made in London) but it's a good copy, IMO as good as the real stuff.


Isn't there something 'special' you keep in the larder as a treat ?

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available in Camberwell Chinese supermarket and most similar stores...


and...


http://images.mysupermarket.co.uk/ProductsDetailed/39/065439.jpg...available in Pretty's, NorthX Rd.


apologies for the size - getting these photos in aint as simple as it usedto be...

KidKruger Wrote:

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> Not just Daddies sauce or Lea & Perrins.

>

> Here's my current dalliance, found it a

> 'Masalamart' on the Charlton wholesale estate,

> SE7.

> It's a pickle sold in Burma made with bamboo

> shoots, seriously spicey, but flavoursome and

> crunchy.

> This is a copy (made in London) but it's a good

> copy, IMO as good as the real stuff.

>

> Isn't there something 'special' you keep in the

> larder as a treat ?


SMB sell it too


Shito!

Gotta try this Shito, sounds like it's a plain no-messing 'hot bastardos' chilli-based sauce.

For mental hotness (or whatever the term is for super chilli heat grading), I think this one has a reputation, certainly one to mix in tiny amounts when making marinades etc and it will hurt you if you take it in same quantities you'd eat (say) mustard.


I got it a couple of years ago at a stall at Goose Green fair, I immediately put it on some jerk chicken I'd just got from another stall and had an instant refresher lesson in how dangerous chillis can be !

It's a swine. Play with it at all, then not wash your hands properly and scratch your eye, you know about it soon enough...

The bloke with the stall at Goose Green said he'd researched the subject, travelled a bit in the process and reckoned he'd made the hottest sauce on Earth. Once you get into these realms of spiciness it's all about (reducing) the pain.

Not a condiment to have sprung on you / involuntarily, on the contrary, it should come with a training course for H&S reasons !

Earlier I was oing to add a similar comment like is it some man/macho thing, fave sauces are always spicy ?!


I have a bottle of the hottet stuff on Earth but I'm scared to touch the bottle without scrubbing my hands vigorously afterwards !

It's an OK talking point but not at front of the jars in my larder, meanwhile I get through other jars at some pace, chief of which is currently the Burmese gear above.


There is a curry, the Phal, which was only available in one curry house in my hometown, it was hotter than Vindaloo and this is where people would contest the who's hardest at curry-eating every year or so !

El Pibe Wrote:

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> Shito's not actually that pokey, it's just sort of

> deliciously weird. It's more of an oily

> accompaniement than a sauce really.



It has an unusual taste I agree - hefty level of chilli but tempered with a kind of smokey, fishy flavour. We've used it as an accompaniment, in spicy dishes and also spread (thinly!) on crackers. Scrumptious.


I am not into uber hot 'insanity sauce ' type condiments but Shito manages to combine heat with taste.

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