Lol. I think I have a jar of everything mentioned in this thread. I've been meaning to make some of the Chinese chili oil that I think hogleg posted a pic of. That's pure crack and so simple to make. Look on youtube for various recipes. I don't think there's a single hot sauce I prefer over this chili oil. The problem is there's no one recipe and no one pepper. A lot of the peppers used in Chinese cooking seem to be Thai pepper-like or possibly cayenne-like. I have a Chinese friend who gave me some seeds I grew a couple of years ago. She said she got it from a plant her parents planted. They produced a plant that produced what looked to be the longer rooster spur peppers I've seen. That sucker produced peppers relentlessly. She said they also used a Korean pepper that looked like a cayenne/kung pao pepper.