East Asian Pepper Pack

East Asian Pepper Pack: Japanese Frying & Thai Chili Seed Bundle

Build a pepper patch for blistered shishitos, grilled Japanese frying peppers, stir-fries, quick pickles and bright chili heat. The East Asian Pepper Pack gathers four Casa Verde pepper varieties with a clear kitchen purpose: mild, sweet frying peppers for everyday cooking, plus a classic Thai chili for sauces, oils and heat.

What’s Inside the Pack:

1. Shishito Pepper — the classic Japanese frying pepper for blistering in a hot pan, serving with salt, citrus, sesame or soy.
2. Fushimi Japanese Pepper — a long, slender Kyoto-style frying pepper with thin walls, gentle flavour and excellent pan-char potential.
3. Manganji Pepper — a sweet Japanese pepper with bigger pods for grilling, stuffing, roasting and summer market-style plates.
4. Red Thai Pepper — the hot counterpoint for chili oil, curry paste, vinegar, sauces and stir-fries that need real heat.

Why Grow This Pack?

• Built for cooking: every variety has a real kitchen job, from blistered snacks to sauces and stir-fries.
• Balanced heat: mostly mild Japanese frying peppers, with Red Thai for the hot end of the pantry.
• Canadian garden friendly: start indoors 8-10 weeks before last frost, transplant after nights are warm and grow in full sun.
• Chef-curated: selected for texture, flavour and the kind of harvest that actually gets used.

Growing Tips:

• Start indoors: peppers germinate best with steady warmth and patience.
• Harvest often: Japanese frying peppers are best picked regularly while glossy and tender.
• Use fresh: blister, grill, pickle, chop into sauces or dry the Thai chilies for winter cooking.