Walk into El Maguey y La Tuna, a Mexican restaurant on Manhattan's Lower East Side, on a weekend afternoon, and chances are you'll find tables full of red-eyed 20- and 30-somethings face-first in bowls of a fiery-hot soup called pancita.

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Then Tony opens the box from Kim's, revealing two huge crabs, swimming - nay, drowning - in a fiery pink hot pepper sauce.

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Buyers who prefer to order by the bulb may choose a fiery Chinese Purple or a chili-pepper-hot Metechi.

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