Chongqing Strange – Flavored Broad Beans are a super interesting snack. We start with good – quality broad beans. First, we clean and soak them, then peel off the skins. After that, we fry the beans until they’re nice and crispy.
The special part is the flavor. We mix together lots of different seasonings. There’s spicy chili powder, which gives it a hot kick. Chinese prickly ash is added, making your tongue feel a bit numb in a cool way. We also put in sugar for sweetness, salt for saltiness, and some fragrant sesame seeds. All these flavors blend on the surface of the broad beans.
When you take a bite, the beans are really crispy. And then, a crazy mix of spicy, numb, sweet, salty, and nutty flavors explodes in your mouth. It’s called “strange – flavored” because it combines so many different tastes that you might not expect to go together, but they just work amazingly well! It’s a must – try snack when you’re in Chongqing.
