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IRWINDALE, CA. - AUGUST 22, 2014: CEO David Tran, left, has his picture taken with Maggie Guzman, right, as 300 sriracha fans tour Huy Fong Foods in Irwindale on August 22, 2014.
Sriracha (/ s ɪ ˈ r æ tʃ ə / sirr-ATCH-ə or / s ɪ ˈ r ɑː tʃ ə / sirr-AH-chə; Thai: ศรีราชา, pronounced [sǐːrāːtɕʰāː] ⓘ) is a type of hot sauce or chili sauce made from a paste of chili peppers, distilled vinegar, pickled garlic, sugar, and salt.
Bottles of a leading brand of Sriracha hot sauce are suddenly hard to find, driving up prices for them as high as $150 — but there are alternatives to opening your wallet that wide.
Huy Fong's sriracha sauce (/ s ɪ ˈ r ɑː tʃ ə / sih-RAH-chə; Thai: ศรีราชา, pronounced [sǐːrāːtɕʰāː] ⓘ; [3] Vietnamese: Tương Ớt Sriracha), also referred to as sriracha, cock sauce or rooster sauce [4] due to the rooster on its label, is a brand of sriracha, a chili sauce that originated in Vietnam.
Marie Sharp's Habanero Pepper Sauce Hand harvested, hand chopped, farm-to-bottle organic vegetables: Crisp carrot, juicy red Habanero peppers, sweet yellow onions, whole garlic cloves, key lime juice, natural vinegar, salt. Sauces vary in pepper content. *Substitute Grapefruit, Orange and Prickly pear for carrot 65,000 - 250,000
What caused past Sriracha shortages? The company goes through about 50,000 tons of chiles a year to make its Sriracha, chile-garlic sauce and a sambal oelek, Huy Fong revealed in 2022.
Huy Fong Foods was founded by David Tran (born 1945), an ethnic Chinese businessman and a former Major in the South Vietnamese Army. [7] Tran, after leaving Vietnam in a cargo boat, arrived in Boston in the spring of 1979 as a part of the migration of the Vietnamese boat people following the Vietnam War. [8]
Though Tran loosely based his sauce on a Thai fermented dip for eggs and seafood, and named it for the coastal Thai town of Si Racha, Huy Fong’s sriracha is quite different—thicker and less sweet.