Early Bird Tickets for Hot and Spicy Festival 2023 Now on Sale!

Spicy food lovers the time has come! Early bird tickets are now on sale for the Beijinger’s Hot and Spicy Festival 2023 at Fudi Apr 14-16!

You’ll want to get your tickets fast because these early bird tickets come with one of two special deals: for RMB 30 your ticket comes with a free limited edition Spicy Fest bandana; or for RMB 60 you’ll get the bandana plus an adorable limited edition Chew La La plushie. Indecisive? Tix will be available at the door for RMB 40 (but neither the bandana nor the Chew La La plushie are included).

Tickets

Early bird ticket A: RMB 30
Hot and Spicy Festival ticket plus bandana (RMB 20 value)

Early bird ticket B: RMB 60
Hot and Spicy Festival ticket plus bandana (RMB 20 value) and Chew La La plushie (RMB 60 value)

Ticket on the door: RMB 40
Hot and Spicy Festival ticket (no bandana or plushie)

TABASCO Super VIP ticket (100 sets only!): RMB 260
Hot and Spicy Festival ticket plus bandana (RMB 20 value), Chew La La plushie (RMB 60 value), Hot and Spicy Festival shirt (RMB 100 value), a basket of TABASCO collectibles (RMB 220-240 value) -- includes a TABASCO eco-friendly bag, TABASCO mobile phone grip, 60ml classic TABASCO sauce and TABASCO mystery gift 

This year’s festival is brought to you by TABASCO, and here’s a few words from them:

“From our home on Avery Island, Louisiana, McIlhenny Company produces TABASCO Brand products, including the legendary TABASCO Original Red Sauce. A household and restaurant staple around the world, TABASCO Sauce is sold in more than 195 countries and territories and labeled in more than 36 languages and dialects.

With more than 150 years of pepper expertise, our family-owned and operated company is constantly experimenting with new flavors and products to carry on our legacy of exciting the world’s most popular food and drinks. Our core range of pepper sauces includes TABASCO Original Red Sauce, TABASCO Jalapeño Sauce, TABASCO Chipotle Sauce, TABASCO Sweet & Spicy Sauce, TABASCO Cayenne Garlic Sauce, TABASCO Sriracha, TABASCO Habanero 
Sauce, and TABASCO Scorpion Sauce.

To learn more about how we #LightThingsUp please visit us at www.tabasco.com or follow us 
on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and LinkedIn.”

Our Hot and Spicy Fest is always the spiciest event of the year, and 2023 is going to be no exception! Prepare to get your socks blown off with spicy offerings from over 30+ food and beverage vendors serving up hot and spicy food from more than a dozen countries and regions. We have a number of new faces joining us at the festival for the first time, along with some old favorites who have some surprise specials to share with you. Along with food we will also have plenty of drink vendors slinging craft beer, cocktails, wine and more to cool your tongue down and have some respite from all that spicy food. 

Even more exciting news: our Chili Pepper Eating Contest will be back once again! So if you think you can handle a habanero or scoff down a scotch bonnet with ease then put your money where your mouth is and sign up! Not only will there will be a grand prize for the overall winner and runners up, but also other prizes for contestants along the way. 

To sign up, you will need to join our Chili Eating Contestant group by scanning the QR code below. We will then ask you for some information about your chili eating capabilities to pre-qualify you for the competition.  Each successful participant can get five free tickets for friends and family.

Dress Code

This year the theme is “Into the Jungle” and as always we encourage you to embrace it and dress up! Whether you want to throw on a flowery shirt, go full safari suit or keep things fun and simple with an animal onesie or mask there are plenty of options. Pro tip: if you’re planning on joining with friends, group costumes can be particularly impressive.

Location

The Hot and Spicy Festival 2023 will be taking place on the 4th floor rooftop of Fudi (Yaowa Lake Park), located just southeast of Shuangjing. The weather is already warming up and it’ll be the perfect location to enjoy some spring sunshine. 

Fudi (Yaowa Lake Park)
North Side of Yaowa Lake Park, Chaoyang District
朝阳区窑洼湖公园北侧停车楼一层

If you also want to keep up to date with all things spicy, you can join our Beijing Spicy Food Lovers WeChat group! Just scan the QR code below to add TBJButler and ask to be invited (we have English and Chinese language groups, so be sure to specify). 

The Beijinger Hot and Spicy Festival will be taking place Apr 14-16, 11am-8pm. Scan the QR code in the poster above to secure your early bird ticket now. 

READ: Which Country Has the Best Spicy Food?

Images: The Beijingers, Uni You