DIY Steamboat Help!

• lemuelkoh

  26 Mar 09, 21:39

    I am addicted to steamboat lol
  
  would like to find out about that powder that stings the tongue.

  its awesome and someone told me its called hua jiao?how do i find it in supermarket? need pictures or recommend some brands?

• FireIce

  26 Mar 09, 21:40

  u means some powderful pepper?

• lemuelkoh

  26 Mar 09, 21:48

  yes queen, its those small "balls" that are really nasty and enjoyable

• ditzy

  27 Mar 09, 10:31

  Victoria Street Wholesale market.
  
  First herbal supplies store facing the Queen Street bus terminal.
  
  The chinese name of the store is Jian zhi 建志, I think the English name is Gainswell. Check out other interesting herbs there.

  Or you can try those chinese medical shops.

• elindra

  27 Mar 09, 10:37

  Peppercorns?

  You can get it from all major supermarkets

• lemuelkoh

  27 Mar 09, 19:37

  supermarket easier but i dont know how they look like. i saw the spices corner but there really alot. the only one i can recognise is cinammon

• elindra

  31 Mar 09, 09:29

  Originally posted by lemuelkoh:

  supermarket easier but i dont know how they look like. i saw the spices corner but there really alot. the only one i can recognise is cinammon

  
  Do an image search -_-"

  White Peppercorns
  http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0S020ylcdFJrCEAiXKJzbkF?p=white+peppercorns&fr=yfp-t-101&ei=utf-8&x=wrt

   

  Black Peppercorns
  http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0S020uucdFJVzoA.Z2JzbkF?p=black+peppercorns&fr=yfp-t-101&ei=utf-8&x=wrt&y=Search

   

  Green Peppercorns
  http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0S0203QcdFJ0K0AuYCJzbkF?p=green+peppercorns&fr=yfp-t-101&ei=utf-8&x=wrt

   

  First 2 are more common

• dumbdumb!

  1 Apr 09, 00:23

  you DIYing mala steamboat issit