RE: Chili Ever After

Hi there, Chili lover! 💚 Wow! That love for pepper is amazingly insane! I also love peppers, so I have planted some in the garden. But this variety isn't as hot as your peppers. We call them 'Siling pansigang' or 'Siling haba', which literally translates to Pepper for Sour soup and Long pepper.

Here in the Philippines, our native hottest chili pepper is 'Siling Labuyo' with 80,000–100,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). But I don't think it's the hottest pepper I've ever tasted in my region. It's because we already have imported and genetically modified varieties from other countries, like the one you've mentioned - Carolina Reaper with 2.2 million SHU. This variety is being cultivated in the southern part of our country, particularly in South Cotabato. Aside from this, another popular hot pepper that we have is the one which we call 'Siling Demonyo', which literally translates to 'Demon pepper' or the Naga Viper hybrid. It has 900k to 1.4 million SHU. These two varieties are non-native but are getting popular in our region.