I was tickled to show my wife that her favorite hot sauce in the whole world is currently the subject of the #1 emailed story in today's New York Times. Great story. Lot's of surprises, too.I think that I first ran into Huy Fong's Sriracha on Argyle St. in Chicago's Little Saigon ...after discovering my first bowl of pho a couple of days earlier. That setting and the Vietnamese name on the bottle always made me think it was from Vietnam.
Sriracha, however, turns out to be the name of a seaside town in Thailand. The inventor is ethnically Chinese ...from Vietnam. And the bottle has always said "Made in USA" (the tears in my eyes probably kept me from picking-up on that last detail.)
Yep, the stuff is as yanqui as Mike.
1 comment:
Mike,
I think those brand is available in Chinatown, at the bigger grocery stores. I see a lot of Vietnamese mix that with a sweet bean sauce and dip the meat from the pho in there...
Fred
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