I usually make my own curry pastes with a mortar and pestle.
If you use chinense chillies or any chillies really, because of texture and size and all that, remove the seeds and pith and pound them into the curry paste FIRST. Then follow your recipe the same afterwords - homemade curry pastes with mortar and pestle are indeed awesome, you should try it!
Stir-fry?
Hot sauce?
Curry?
eat them whole?
candy?
Or even fry them up with a bit of oil so they crisp up and become crunchy! (cut them into strips/julienne first) and then eat them as a snack or a side-dish to dinner...