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Mate. You need to be making your own chilli oil.
I'll need to look into it and get started
It's a bit of an outlay for the spices the first time but its super easy and super tasty. Blows Lao Ga Ma out of the water.
No one buy star anise, I have 1kg of it which is many a lifetime supply.
1kg! Why?
I was in springy grabbing bulk spices and they were all 1kg. It was only ~$12 or something. I've been making my own chai for years and haven't got through the wee bag of it I got from Friends of The Earth 20 years ago. 1kg of Star anise is crazy, someone will inherit that.
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never get kilos of any spices except pizza ones and chicken salt. (and in my case, lemon pepper but I'm total spiders george on that)
go for the bicarb soda bags instead.
I get through kilos of cinnamon, chilli and szechuan peppercorns.