Spicy Asian Cucumber Salad

As a kid, if I wanted a snack, a grown-up would simply pick a crisp, spiny Chinese cucumber off a vine in my grandmother’s yard and hand it to me. It was the perfect thirst-quencher for a hot summer day and required no prep whatsoever.

As a grown-up, though, I like to dress up the raw cucumber with our signature sauces, plus an entire clove of garlic and as much chili oil as my taste buds crave. You could go ahead and slice your cucumbers like a regular civilian, but here at XFF we