Sriracha facts
Posted in Misc on 06/11/2009 09:31 am by debbie_ka
A friend shared this with me and now I’m sharing with you. Since so many of us know of and use Sriracha, I thought you might find it interesting.
This article was in the New York times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/dining/20united.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2
Interesting things revealed included: From Food Party…
-the sauce was developed in the 80s in Los Angeles, by David Tran, Vietnamese immigrant, in aspirations to be as awesome as Heinz 57
-the rooster on the bottle comes from his astrological zodiac symbol
-Huy Fong is the name of the freighter on which Tran left Vietnam
-an early chili sauce that Tran developed in the 70s, intended as a dip for beef plucked from bowls of pho, was more popular as a sauce for roasted dog.
-more than 10 million bottles of Sriracha roll off the factory line in Rosemead CA every year.
-People in the actual town of Sriracha in Thailand supposedly have no idea what Sriracha even is.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:28 am
there is a chilli sauce made in Sriracha, a small seaside town on the way to Pataya. The sauce is wellknown in Thailand as “Sriracha sauce”. This vietnamese sauce evidentlt adopted the name of the famous Thai sauce and they made it bigger in America.