Bang Chang Chili

Chili is considered to be a spice that has lived with Thai people for a long time. However, many people might not know that chili did not come from Thailand originally. Its origin was in Central and South America and it is one of the oldest spices in the world. There was archaeological evidence which indicated that Indians in Mexico ate chili for 9,000 years. The hard feces that were found in Huaca Prieta had a fossile of chili seeds in it. Moreover, there was a study on the lives of the Olmec, Toltec, and Aztec, which indicated that these tribes knew how to grow and consume chili as well. In addition, biologists on pre-historic botany had found fossils of chili trees more than 2,000 years old at many shrines in Peru and also chili embroidered on the clothes of Indians in Peru from 1,900 years ago.