Szechuan peppercorns - where to purchase in MSP/STP area?
Looking for those tongue numbing incidiary Szechuan peppercorns to use in a dish in the next couple of days. I headed over to Dragon Star and Double Dragon oriental food stores in Saint Paul but no luck - they carried regular hot chilies and hot peppers but not these Szechuan peppercorns.
Has anyone been able to locate them in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and are they usually sold dried?
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Penzey's carries the dried Szechuan peppercorns. They have three locations in the Twin Cities.
www.penzeys.com
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I second KTFoley's recommendation. I've purchased the peppercorns elsewhere (it was either United Noodles or Shuang Hur, but i can't which one remember now), but I found the ones at Penzey's (try the Grand Avenue location in St. Paul) to be of higher quality. More tingly. They were dried.
~TDQ
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the Wedge has them in bulk from Frontier, local brand that IMO is pretty much on par with Penzey's.
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