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Huy Fong sriracha
American brand of sriracha chili sauce
Huy Fong's sriracha sauce (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. The sauce is produced by Huy Fong Foods, a California manufacturer, and was created in 1980 by David Tran, a Vietnamese immigrant to the US from Vietnam.[5][6][7]
Some cookbooks include recipes using this brand sauce as their main condiment.[8] Huy Fong sriracha can be recognized by its bright red color and its packaging: a clear plastic bottle with a green cap, text in Vietnamese, English, Chinese (in traditional top-to-bottom, right-to-left script), and Spanish, and the rooster logo. The logo refers to the Year of the Rooster in the Vietnamese zodiac, as David Tran was born in 1945.[7][9] The green cap and rooster logo are trademarked, but the U.S.
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How Vietnamese refugee David Tran became a hot sauce billionaire
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Forty-five years after arriving in Los Angeles, David Tran has built Sriracha into a billion-dollar business.
In December 1978, David Tran, then 33, left his home in Vietnam with 100 ounces of gold. Worth $20,000 at the time, or about $90,000 in today’s terms, the precious metal was stashed in cans of condensed milk to evade the attention of Vietnam’s Communist authorities. Tran traveled by freighter to Hong Kong, where he spent eight months at a refugee camp, then moved to Boston for six months before settling in Los Angeles.
Once in L.A., he sold a chunk of the gold and bought a 2,500-square-foot building in the city’s Chinatown. He set up his business, Huy Fong—named after the freighter he took—to make a hot sauce he called Sriracha, after a recipe originally from Thailand.
More than four decades later, Sriracha has been on Survivor, the International Space Station and dining tables worldwide. Its bottles, with their rooster logo and green squeeze cap, are in nearly one in ten U
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Who is David Tran, the 'saucy billionaire' behind this cult chilli sauce?
Key Points
- David Tran, the man behind the hot sauce bottle in your pantry, has now become a billionaire.
- Sriracha has become a fanatical household staple for decades since its inception - born from a Vietnamese refugee.
- The iconic condiment's company is named after the ship he travelled on to flee Vietnam. This is Mr Tran's story.
Hot, rich and saucy.
One product has elevated David Tran as arguably the world's 'spiciest' billionaire.
Sriracha is widely-known around the globe as a cult condiment that's been a mainstay in households for decades, but very few know about the Vietnamese refugee who brought the sauce to their dinner tables.
Mr Tran, 77, is the sole owner of Huy Fong, his business that he named after the ship on which he travelled to flee Vietnam.
He's described Sriracha as a "rich man's sauce with a poor man's price", and now he's become one himself.
So how did he do it?
From refugee to riches
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