1. **Intensely Spicy**: As a type of chili pepper, spiciness is the most prominent characteristic of Yunnan small pickled chili peppers. Their spiciness level is relatively high. When you first taste them, the tip of your tongue can quickly feel a strong sense of stimulation, and this spiciness will spread rapidly throughout the mouth, bringing a strong impact to the taste buds. However, this spiciness is not simply a burning hotness. It also has a certain mellow quality, making people more and more addicted to eating them.
2. **Unique Sour Taste**: After pickling and fermentation, the small pickled chili peppers have a unique sour taste. This sour taste is refreshing and appetizing, interwoven with the spiciness, forming a unique flavor. The sour taste can not only neutralize part of the pungency of the spiciness, making the overall taste more balanced, but also bring a different gustatory experience when tasting, stimulating the appetite and making people feel very hungry.
3. **Fresh Aroma**: Yunnan small pickled chili peppers have a fresh aroma, which is a mixture of the taste of the chili peppers themselves and the fermentation aroma generated during the pickling process. When you open the container of the pickled chili peppers, you can smell a fresh and alluring smell, similar to the faint aroma of herbal plants, adding a unique charm to the small pickled chili peppers. In cooking, they can not only increase the spiciness and sourness but also endow the dishes with a different aroma.
4. **Crisp and Tender Texture**: After pickling, the small pickled chili peppers maintain the characteristic of being crisp and tender in texture. When you take a bite, you can feel the crisp texture of the pickled chili peppers, and the juice overflows, adding a bit of fun to the tasting process. This crisp and tender texture, combined with its intense flavor, makes Yunnan small pickled chili peppers able to bring a good gustatory and tactile experience whether eaten directly or used as an ingredient.
5. **Long-lasting Aftertaste**: After tasting Yunnan small pickled chili peppers, there will be a faint spiciness, sour taste, and aroma lingering in the mouth, with a long-lasting aftertaste. This aftertaste will make people deeply impressed by the taste of the small pickled chili peppers, and it may make people can't help but want to taste them again to feel the unique flavor spreading in the mouth.