{"id":50002,"date":"2022-11-05T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/05\/chinas-hottest-woman-the-driving-force-behind-crunchy-chilli-sensation-lao-gan-ma"},"modified":"2022-11-05T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T05:00:41","slug":"chinas-hottest-woman-the-driving-force-behind-crunchy-chilli-sensation-lao-gan-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50002","title":{"rendered":"\u2018China\u2019s hottest woman\u2019: the driving force behind crunchy chilli sensation Lao Gan Ma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tao Huabi rose from humble origins in south-western China to create a beloved condiment that can now be found in fridges around the world<\/p>\n<p>There is a saying about the south-western Chinese province of Guizhou: \u201cNot three feet of flat land, not three days without rain, not a family with three silver coins.\u201d But, with the help of a spicy condiment, Tao Huabi, also known as China\u2019s \u201chottest woman\u201d, has well and truly defied this rule.<\/p>\n<p>Tao Huabi is the woman behind Lao Gan Ma Spicy Chilli Crisp, a hot, crunchy sauce of chopped chillies that are fried to a red so dark it is almost black. The name means \u201cold godmother\u201d and everyone who picks a jar up must face the stern look of a short-haired woman. Open it, and you find the formidable combination of the odd peanut, a few crunchy, salty soya beans, MSG, and oil so infused with the chilli that it seems to glow. It looks almost dangerous.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/05\/chinas-hottest-woman-the-driving-force-behind-crunchy-chilli-sensation-lao-gan-ma\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tao Huabi rose from humble origins in south-western China to create a beloved condiment that can now be found in fridges around the worldThere is a saying about the south-western Chinese province of Guizhou: \u201cNot three feet of flat land, not three days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,311,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-food","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50003,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50002\/revisions\/50003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}