Some play it safe, and just order a side of guacamole. We understand. Eating spicy food comes practically from the cradle here, in Mexico. There is not even a word for ‘picante’ or ...

Was there a way to get rid of the dip, cook, blow, eat, rinse-and-repeat ordeal? The solution they came up with is the mala xiang guo, which translates loosely from Mandarin as “numbing spicy fragrant ...