type private industry hot sauce founded 1980 in los angeles founder david tran headquarters irwindale ca united states key people david tran founder william tran president yassie tran holliday vice president products asian style hot sauce owner tran family number of employees 200 2011 website www.huyfong.com huy fong foods chinese name traditional chinese transcriptions standard mandarin wade giles hui4fong1 shih2p in3 kung1ssu1 yue cantonese jyutping wui6 fung1 sik6 ban2 gung1 si1 vietnamese name vietnamese alphabet c ng ty th c ph m h i phong huy fong foods is a hot sauce company based in irwindale california . 1 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 . contents 1 name 2 founder 3 products 4 history 5 new factory and community relations issues 6 references 7 external links name edit 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 . . 2 the rooster logo comes from the fact that tran was born in the year of the rooster on the vietnamese zodiac . 2 3 4 founder edit the sauce was developed by the company s founder david tran born 1945 vietnamese businessman and former major in the army of south vietnam 2 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 . 4 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 . 2 the company has never advertised its products relying instead on word of mouth . 5 products edit sriracha by huy fong foods the company s most popular product is its sriracha sauce . it was originally made with serrano peppers and is now made with red jalape o peppers reducing the overall pungency citation needed . 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 . 6 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 . huy fong also makes sambal oelek and chili garlic sauces . 7 history edit by 1987 huy fong foods relocated to a 68 000 square foot 6 300 m2 building in rosemead california that once housed toymaker wham o. 6 the company purchases chilis grown in ventura los angeles and kern counties . most of each year s chili mash is produced in just two months during the autumn harvest . the sauces are produced on machinery that has been specially modified by tran who taught himself machining and welding skills . in 2001 the company was estimated to have sold 6 000 tons of chili products for approximately us 12 million . citation needed huy fong foods chili sauces are made from red jalape o chili peppers and contain no artificial ingredients . citation needed the company formerly used serrano chilis but found them difficult to harvest . citation needed all three sauces are manufactured in rosemead california . citation needed the company has warned customers about counterfeit versions of its sauces . 8 in december 2009 bon app tit magazine named its sriracha sauce ingredient of the year for 2010 . 9 in 2010 the company produced 20 million bottles of sauce in a year . 10 as of 2012 it had grown to sales of more than us 60 million a year . 2 new factory and community relations issues edit huy fong foods headquarters irwindale california in 2010 the company opened a factory in irwindale california . it is 23 acres with 26 000 square feet 2 400 m2 of office space 150 000 square feet 14 000 m2 of production space and 480 000 square feet 45 000 m2 of warehouse . 10 the odor of chilis that emanates from the new irwindale factory upset the community s residents and the city of irwindale filed a lawsuit against huy fong foods in october 2013 claiming that the odor was a public nuisance . 11 initially a los angeles superior court judge refused the city s bid to shut down the factory 12 but a los angeles county superior court judge ordered the factory to essentially shut down on november 27 2013 prohibiting all activities that could cause odors . 13 on may 29 2014 it was announced that irwindale had dropped the lawsuit against huy fong foods . 14 since 2014 the factory is open to visitors to visit and became a tourist attraction . 6 15 references edit contact us huy fong foods retrieved february 26 2010 . a b c d e shyong frank 2013 04 12 . sriracha hot sauce purveyor turns up the heat huey fong literally means gathering prosperity . david tran introduced sriracha to the u.s. in the 1980s and it quickly caught on . his company sells more than 60 million of it a year . . la times . retrieved 2013 04 30 . clemens randy 2011 . the sriracha cookbook 50 rooster sauce recipes that pack a punch . random house . p. 10 . a b edge john t. 2009 05 19 . a chili sauce to crow about . new york times . retrieved 2013 04 30 . sriracha how a sauce won over the us . bbc . retrieved 25 july 2015 . a b c once secretive sriracha factory becomes california s hottest tourist attraction forbes sep 24 2014 huy fong foods products . retrieved 12 april 2014 . to our valued customers huy fong . best foods of the year . conscious cook world wide web log . bon app tit . dec 2009 . retrieved 2011 12 03 . a b huy fong foods is moving to irwindale . the scene . los angeles nbc . rogers john october 30 2013 . city odor from sriracha chili plant a nuisance . associated press . sriracha lawsuit judge denies calif. city s bid to close hot sauce plant news cbs . shyong frank 27 november 2013 . effect on sriracha supply unclear after partial shutdown ordered . los angeles times . retrieved 27 november 2013 . shyong frank may 29 2014 . sriracha truce brokered with help of gov. jerry brown s office . la times . sriracha hot sauce house tour national geographic traveler april 16 2015 fire in the bowl david tran the emperor of hot sauce los angeles magazine april 2001 archived from the original on sep 2005 . nakamura eric . the famous hot sauce factory tour 1997 . giant robot no. 9 pp. 32 33 . external links edit los angeles portal companies portal food portal huy fong foods website . v t e hot sauces adobo aj ajika ajvar bajan pepper sauce biber sal as blair s sauces and snacks b falo cholula hot sauce crystal hot sauce d elidas dave s gourmet dog gone 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