During our recent trip home to the United States, I was able to purchase some seeds of the bhut jolokia chili pepper. This Indian pepper has many names, but is also known as the worlds hottest pepper. I had cooked up an idea to grow it here in Thailand and concoct some super spicy Thai food. Unfortunately, the local insects have thwarted all my attempts at growing them so far.
Other people have had better results than I have though. After a friend of ours picked my family and I up at the airport in Sukhothai, he went back to his labors along the Thai-Burma border with a packet of my jolokia seeds. He then passed them on to a contact in the Karen state who evidently is having much better results. The contact sees a real value in the peppers, since he and others are often on long backpack trips in the jungle, where every gram you can shave off of your pack weight is a blessing. These little peppers definitely wont require much pack space to pack some punch into their meals on the trail. Enjoy guys!
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