Huy Fong Foods
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| Industry | Hot sauce |
| Founded | 1980 in Los Angeles |
| Founder | David Tran |
| Headquarters | Irwindale, CA, United States |
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Key people
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David Tran founder William Tran President Yassie Tran Holliday Vice President |
| Products | Asian-style hot sauce |
| Owner | Tran family |
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Number of employees
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200 (2011) |
| Website | www |
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| Vietnamese alphabet | Công ty Thực phẩm Hối Phong | ||||||||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Huìfēng Shípǐn Gōngsī |
| Wade–Giles | Hui4fong1 Shih2p'in3 Kung1ssu1 |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Wui6 Fung1 Sik6 ban2 Gung1 si1 |
Huy Fong Foods is a hot sauce company based in Irwindale, California. Beginning in 1980 on Spring Street in Los Angeles's Chinatown, it has grown to become one of the leaders in the Asian hot sauce market, particularly in Sriracha sauce.
The company is named for a Taiwanese freighter, the "Huey Fong", that carried the founder David Tran and 3,317 other refugees out of Vietnam in December 1978 ("Huey Fong" literally means "gathering prosperity.".) The rooster logo comes from the fact that Tran was born in the Year of the Rooster on the Vietnamese zodiac.
The sauce was developed by the company's founder, David Tran (born 1945), a Chinese-Vietnamese businessman and former Major in the army of South Vietnam, who fled the country in 1978 and arrived in the United States (first in Boston, then in Los Angeles) in the spring of 1980 as a part of the migration of the Vietnamese boat people following the Vietnam War.
Huy Fong Foods is a family business, staffed by eight members of the family. David Tran's son, William Tran (born c. 1976), is the company's president; his daughter Yassie Tran-Holliday is vice-president. The company has never advertised its products, relying instead on word of mouth.
The company's most popular product is its sriracha sauce. It was originally made with Serrano peppers and is now made with red Jalapeño peppers, reducing the overall pungency. It is currently Huy Fong Foods' best-known and best-selling item, easily recognized by its bright red color and its packaging: a clear plastic bottle with a green cap, text in five languages (Vietnamese, English, Chinese, French, and Spanish) and the rooster logo. One nickname for the product is "rooster sauce”, for the logo on the bottles. In contrast to similar hot sauces made by other manufacturers, Huy Fong's sriracha sauce does not contain fish extract, making it suitable for most vegetarians, although the presence of garlic may make it unsuitable for members of Buddhism and some Hindu denominations.
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