Chinese Hot Oil (La Yu) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 teaspoons dried chili flakes (, the same kind you put on pizza)
5 tablespoons vegetable oil

Preparation

Heat the oil in a sauce pan until it's just hot enough so that the chile flakes sizzle like crazy when you add them- but not so hot that they burn.
Turn off the heat.
Stir the flakes into the oil.
Let cool.
You can strain the oil or leave the flakes in it.