Bird Chillies

I noticed a pack of small green chillies at the supermarket, they were called "piments oiseaux" and given my past experience with chillies and naming around here I wasn't sure what to expect. As it turns out they are in fact known as "bird chillies" in English too (which is be the direct translation from French).

Bird chillies hail from Thailand and are quite hot, but their smallness makes it quite easy to dose them right. It does seem to me that they turn up the hotness a notch once they turn orange.

The pack was quite big, and a fair number of them dried out before I was through using them, but they can be used just fine dried as well.