There is a kind of pepper in a few mountainous areas of Luxi City, Dehong Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. It is small in size and has wrinkled skin. When it is ripe, it is red, bright in color and pungent in smell. Locals call it Mala Tang, also called Xiangbi Spicy. The local area is subtropical and borders Myanmar. Elephants often haunt here. It is said that because the elephant accidentally bumped into this kind of pepper with its nose, the spicy elephant ran wildly and its nose kept shaking, hence its name, which shows its spicy "addiction". In India, this kind of pepper is called "devil pepper". According to scientific determination, it contains 1 wanskovier unit of pepper (scovill is a pepper unit, a certain amount of capsaicin is put into a certain amount of water, and scovill is tasted with the tip of the tongue, and the higher the scovill index, the hotter the pepper is), which is more than 10 times that of ordinary pepper, making it the king of peppers in the world.

At present, weevils are mostly wild, with low yield and poor adaptability to the environment. This is a rare pepper. Among the five local counties and cities in Dehong Prefecture, only some remote mountainous areas in Luxi City have production, and the number is small. Locals can only go to town once every five days to catch the street. Because of the long distance and difficult mountain road, it takes a whole day to go back and forth, or even return overnight, and the peppers that can be sold at a time are only a few kilograms, which shows that it is hard to come by. Because of the low yield of pickled peppers, locals generally sell pickled peppers by quantity, not by catty.

There is a saying among local folks that "an elephant trunk can rinse a cow", which shows its spicy taste. Even a sip of an elephant's nose is burning, which can make people unbearable. Eating a small piece of raw elephant trunk pepper can make people cry. A whole "hot nose" is simply a great damage to the sensory organs. Some people joked that it was like drinking a cocktail made of battery solution and broken glass.

The local Dai and Jingpo people like spicy food very much in their eating habits, and Xiaomi spicy food is not worth mentioning in the eyes of local people. They can dip raw millet in salt and eat it directly. However, for blanching, every consumer is cautious and does not dare to be brave. Restaurants never add spicy food directly when cooking, but put a half-trunk spicy food on the edge of the dish, so that guests can decide according to their own spicy tolerance. Elephant trunk is generally used in spicy and juicy dishes. When eating, hold the pepper with chopsticks and rinse it gently in the soup a few times, then take it out to eat.

It is not sensational that elephant trunk pepper is a "heavy explosive" in pepper. If the Japanese eat puffer fish, they should have the spirit of death; Then, it takes Dong Cunrui's courage to give up his life to eat wine with an elephant trunk! The hotness of instant peppers is as high as 1 1,000,000,000 scovill units-the seasoning chili sauce is "at most" 2,500 scovill, while Mexican peppers are "only" 1 1,000 scovill units on average.

Generally speaking, the trunk is not eaten one by one, so it can only be washed with water or soup! If there is a "braggart" who dares to say that eating all the peppers in the world will not break his heart, then take him to Dehong and let the "fragrant wall rinse spicy" turn him upside down. Its spicy taste is twenty or thirty times higher than other peppers. If you use the "hot nose" to prepare the dip dish, you only need to touch it and roll it in the dip dish, and its spicy taste will be extremely extreme. Import a taste: fresh, cool and spicy. The spicy feeling spread from the middle of the tongue and was extremely enjoyable.