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1. Garlic chili oil. Tasty and not too spicy.

2. Chili oil with fried garlic

3. Omg I love this stuff
   roasted/fried garlic with chilli in oil

4. The label says “Spicy-seeming and not really spicy, just a little spicy chili oil.”

   The word I’m translating here as “chili oil” is *raayu*, which refers to oil (sometimes sesame oil) infused with chili.

5. Sooo good with cucumber!

6. I love it, and the title is hilarious. I often recommend it to friends. It’s great on cold tofu.

7. Delicious but horrendously high in calories cause of the straight oils… one of the things in my life that I had to begrudgingly give up with serious sadness in my heart.

8. Garlic chili oil. Stuffs DELICIOUS, just scoop all on some rice & eggs.

9. They sell it at our grocery store here in Oakland. My kids say “wouldn’t this be better with a little S&B?” Kind of a chile crisp but not spicy like the Chinese brands.

10. Just brought back many jars from Japan. It’s findable in the U.S. but 5x the price

11. lol i have this in my fridge too. good stuff !

12. I love that stuff! I got gifted a jar and got hooked. It isn’t available in my area so I decided to try making it myself. It doesn’t taste EXACTLY like it, but it’s very close and still amazing. If you’re up for it, here’s the recipe I used: https://www.justonecookbook.com/crunchy-garlic-chili-oil/

13. One of my colleagues gave me this. Her house favourite, we really like it but it’s not that spicy.

14. This particular brand is really good. It has actual pieces of garlic in it and they’re actually crunchy – it has a really clean flavor.

15. Looks like chilli oil with garlic but I’m no expert

16. That is Momoya brand’s Japanese-style Garlic Chili crunch, not very spicy. I prefer S&B Crunchy Garlic with Chili Oil. I find the overall flavor to be more balanced, and it contains more solids to oils than the Momoya version.

17. Take a photo of the label and submit it Google translate. Works pretty well

18. I always add this to my ramen and rice. Very good.

19. this is my FAVORITE chili oil!! so good

20. Translate.google.com

21. Delicious.

22. Ooh I’m jealous. This is tasty.

23. Ryu. Put a few drops with even parts soy sauce and vinegar and now you’ve got a dip for your gyoza.

24. CRUNCHY garlic chili oil. You can use it like a dip for shabu and sukiyaki, just on top of your rice for a snack or if you’re a poor neet. Also, you can easily get it in the states~~

25. All answers here are correct, but to be more specific it is “Taberu Rayu” or edible chili oil, with pieces of pepper flakes, garclic, shallots, and sometimes other things inside that you eat along with the oil.

    Very tasty on basically anything lol

26. It’s my favorite! Unlike some other chill oils, it has these crunchy garlic flakes you can sprinkle on anything from eggs to pasta.