Company type | Private |
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Industry | Hot sauce |
Founded | February 5, 1980Los Angeles | in
Founder | David Tran |
Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | William Tran, President Yassie Tran Holliday, Vice President |
Products | Asian-style hot sauce |
Owner | Tran family |
Number of employees | ≈200 (2023) |
Website | www |
Huy Fong Foods | |||||||||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 滙豐食品公司 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 汇丰食品公司 | ||||||||||||
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Vietnamese name | |||||||||||||
Vietnamese alphabet | Công ty Thực phẩm Hối Phong | ||||||||||||
Chữ Hán | 公司食品滙豐 |
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.
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').