Bird’s eye chili, bird eye chili, bird’s chili, or Thai chili is a chili pepper, a variety from the species Capsicum annuum, commonly found in Ethiopia and across Southeast Asia. It is used extensively in many Asian cuisines. It may be mistaken for a similar-looking chili derived from the species Capsicum frutescens, the cultivar “siling labuyo“. Capsicum frutescens fruits are generally smaller and characteristically point upwards