Huy Fong Foods

Huy Fong Foods, Inc.
滙豐食品公司
Company typePrivate
IndustryHot sauce
FoundedFebruary 5, 1980 (1980-02-05) in Los Angeles
FounderDavid Tran
Headquarters,
United States
Key people
William Tran,
President
Yassie Tran Holliday,
Vice President
ProductsAsian-style hot sauce
OwnerTran family
Number of employees
≈200 (2023)
Websitewww.huyfong.com
Huy Fong Foods
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese食品公司
Simplified Chinese食品公司
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHuìfēng Shípǐn Gōngsī
Wade–GilesHui4fong1 Shih2p'in3 Kung1ssu1
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingWui6 Fung1 Sik6 ban2 Gung1 si1
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabetCông ty Thực phẩm Hối Phong
Chữ Hán公司食品

Huy Fong Foods is an American hot sauce company based in Irwindale, California.[1] It was founded by David Tran, a Vietnamese-born immigrant, beginning in 1980 on Spring Street in Los Angeles's Chinatown.[2] It has grown to become one of the leaders in the Asian hot sauce market with its sriracha sauce, popularly referred to as "rooster sauce" or "cock sauce"[3] due to the image of a rooster on the label.

  1. ^ Contact Us, Huy Fong Foods, archived from the original on January 25, 2010, retrieved February 26, 2010.
  2. ^ Shyong, Frank (April 12, 2013). "Sriracha hot sauce purveyor turns up the heat". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 5, 2023.
  3. ^ Usborne, Simon (November 20, 2013). "Sriracha hot sauce: Heated dispute". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on May 24, 2022. Retrieved June 29, 2015. But like most obsessives, Erskine is fiercely loyal to 'rooster sauce' as some know the brand (in the US it is sometimes also called 'cock sauce').