Spicy Cucumber Salad (Jeffrey Alford & Naomi Duguid)

This salad is EVERYTHING!!!! Balanced, fresh, spicy, addictive. I eat it over and over. Lightly pickling the smashed cucumbers in rice vinegar with some sugar, pouring over this chili oil with Szechuan peppercorns, and then the fresh green taste from the cilantro. And the leftover sauce is drinkable and so good over rice.