What is Chilis for Charity?

To promote the launch of the new Chili pepper focused Spice Market Menu, Mama Fu’s held a chili pepper eating challenge benefiting five Austin charities with a total prize pool of $25,000.

Each charity’s champion(s) had to chew and swallow up to nine increasingly spicy peppers. The peppers ranged from the simple Jalapeno to the hottest pepper on Planet Earth, the Carolina Reaper. As the Scoville units of each level increased, so did the cash each organization collected.

Keep scrolling to learn more about the 5 spicy dishes on the Spice Market Menu through March 2018 and watch the recap video to find out who made it through the gauntlet of mouth-melting peppers for their charities!

To promote the launch of the new Chili pepper focused Spice Market Menu, Mama Fu’s held a chili pepper eating challenge benefiting five Austin charities with a total prize pool of $25,000.

2018 Participating Charities

Spice Market Menu

January thru March try our Spice Market Menu featuring these 5 dishes

that all highlight one prominent ingredient from Asian cuisine, chili peppers!

January thru March try our Spice Market Menu featuring these 5 dishes that all highlight one prominent ingredient from Asian cuisine, chili peppers!

We’ve drawn inspiration from dishes throughout Asia (and borrowed a few tricks from Texas)

to bring you a menu that is full of flavor and has plenty of heat.

Ranging from a delightful kick of jalapeno to a fierce explosion of spicy goodness,

we hope that you enjoy these dishes as much as we enjoyed creating them.

We’ve drawn inspiration from dishes throughout Asia (and borrowed a few tricks from Texas) to bring you a menu that is full of flavor and has plenty of heat.

Ranging from a delightful kick of jalapeno to a fierce explosion of spicy goodness, we hope that you enjoy these dishes as much as we enjoyed creating them.

Yup, we've created a delicious Asian appetizer with a spicy Texas twist! Halved jalapenos filled with blue crab meat, cream cheese and scallions, then fried in a Rangoon wrapper, topped off with a Togarashi spice blend and served with dynamite ranch.

A staple made famous by Asian street vendors, nobody can resist saucy chicken on a stick! These chicken thigh skewers are glazed with a mild honey sriracha chili sauce, served with house pickled vegetables and rice.

This dish not only celebrates China's Hunan Province and their love for everything spicy, but it was an excuse to offer thick cut bacon! Preserved red chilis, bok choy, carrot, water chestnut, and smoky bacon is tossed with your choice of protein in a black bean chili garlic sauce. Try it with shrim...

There are Asian Dishes that will make you break a sweat, but this noodle dish will make you breathe fire. We've combined Habanero, Bird's Eye, and Arbol chilis with delicate vermicelli noodles, Thai basil, onion, baby corn, and celery. Add your choice of protein... and don't say we didn't warn you!

Ever come up with a brilliant idea in the middle of a BBQ? Mama Fu's was born in Austin TX, so naturally we decided to do a little Asian-Texas experimenting. We combined fried rice with delicious smoked brisket, charred onions, jalapenos and mushrooms. It was SO GOOD we just had to share.

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2018 Chilis for Charity

Think your non-profit organization can take the heat in 2019?

Contact Us (http://www.mamafus.com/contact-us/) and we will let you know how to apply for the next Chilis for Charity Challenge