The annual Araluen Fremantle Chilli Festival is back on Esplanade Reserve in Fremantle this weekend.
This year’s festival has a spicy Bollywood theme and is set to be the hottest yet.
Over 100 exhibitors will celebrate chilli and three stages of local talent will keep punters entertained while they wait for their mouths to cool down.
For the little chilli heads the Spare Parts Puppet Theatre will be roving through the crowd, there will be face painting and story telling.
Chefs on the Thorny Devil stage demonstrate how to incorporate chilli into everyday cooking.
On the Bailey’s stage Araluen Botanic Park’s knowledgeable garden experts will show how to care for the chilli plants purchased from their stall.
There will also be demonstrations on how to make chilli beer and chilli cocktails.
A spokeswoman for the event said psychologists have suggested eating a chilli was an example of constrained risk similar to the experience of riding a roller coaster.
“Araluen Botanic Park would like to welcome you to jump on our festival ‘roller coaster’ and experience some of the spiciest food and beverage WA has to offer,” she said.
Adults $20, under 18s are free when accompanied by an adult.
