A Chili Sauce to Crow About

[lsanderson]

BY THE BARREL OR BOTTLE David Tran's sriracha sauce in a market in San Gabriel, Calif.
By JOHN T. EDGE
Published: May 19, 2009
ROSEMEAD, Calif.

David Tran, foreground above, with his son, William, at the Huy Fong Foods warehouse in Rosemead, Calif.
AFTER-HOURS calls to Huy Fong Foods, here in the suburbs of the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles, are intercepted by an answering machine. One recent day, 14 messages were blinking when Donna Lam, the operations manager, hit “play. More

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[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

the thing is, all foods are a mishmash of cultures.

Pad Thai means "thai-style noodles". But the noodles are Chinese. So it's a Thai-flavored spin (heavy on peanut and fish sauce flavors, with green onion) on a Chinese noodle dish.

[yarram.livejournal.com]

I <3 Sriracha.