Épices Rœllinger Pepper Cousins<Lai Chau wild Forest Pepper

This sophisticated, delicate Zanthoxylum rhetsa peppercorn belongs to the same family as Szechuan peppercorns, but its flavor is not as potent and it doesn’t have the same numbing qualities. This makes it much more accessible to western palates. 

Forest or lai chau pepper grows wild in the mountainous forests of North Vietnam where the tiny Szechuan peppercorn cousins are patiently and meticulously gathered by indigenous people there. It is also called wild hunter pepper, because hunters use it to preserve meat.