Touring the Sriracha Factory & Huy Fong Foods
Touring the Sriracha Factory & Huy Fong Foods
In Irwindale, CA about 30 minutes from Los Angeles, sits the home of the magical red sauce known as Sriracha. Huy Fong Foods has free public tours on most weekdays and I got a chance to go on one recently. The tour is only 30 minutes long but it is a lot of fun and it gives you more of an appreciation for the famous sauce.
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Huy Fong Foods
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. 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,Vietnamese businessman and former Major in the army of South Vietnam, who fled the country in 1978 and arrived in the United States 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, 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 It was originally made with Serrano peppers and is now made with red Jalapeño peppers, reducing the overall pungency.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 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 the Jain community and some Hindu denominations.
Huy Fong also makes sambal oelek and chili garlic sauces.
By 1987, Huy Fong Foods relocated to a 68,000-square-foot building in Rosemead, California that once housed toymaker Wham-O. 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.
Huy Fong Foods' chili sauces are made from red jalapeño chili peppers and contain no artificial ingredients. The company formerly used serrano chilis but found them difficult to harvest. All five sauces are manufactured in Rosemead, California. The company has warned customers about counterfeit versions of its sauces.
In December 2009, Bon Appétit magazine named its Sriracha sauce Ingredient of the Year for 2010. In 2010 the company produced 20 million bottles of sauce in a year. As of 2012 it had grown to sales of more than US$60 million a year.
In 2010, the company opened a factory in Irwindale, California. It is 23 acres, with 26,000 square feet of office space, 150,000 square feet of production space, and 480,000 square feet of warehouse. 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. Initially, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge refused the city's bid to shut down the factory 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. On May 29, 2014, it was announced that Irwindale had dropped the lawsuit against Huy Fong Foods.
Since 2014, the factory is open to visitors to visit and became a tourist attraction.
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Sriracha CEO Compares California to Communist Vietnam
Sriracha CEO Compares California to Communist Vietnam
David Tran is the founder and CEO of Huy Fong Foods, the maker of the famously tasty Sriracha hot sauce. Grappling for months with regulators and politicians in southern California about the spicy scents that his factory emits, Tran recently compared meddlesome government to that of a communist country.
It might sound hyperbolic, but he does know a thing or two about living under the nightmarish bureaucracy of a red utopia. NPR explains that Tran escaped Socialist Republic of Vietnam and its many intrusions three decades ago to start a new life in The Land of the Free.
Today, I feel almost the same. Even now, we live in [the] USA, and my feeling, the government, not a big difference, Tran said on Monday from his factory outside of Los Angeles.
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Host: In Los Angeles this past Sunday, the line stretched down the block at the first ever Sriracha Festival. There was Sriracha ice cream, Sriracha apples, and even Sriracha cocktails.
Man: There are certain things that have magic, you know. That sauce has magic. I bet you could get into Fort Knox or the Pentagon easier than you can get into the Sriracha headquarters.
Host: Ours were the first TV cameras let inside the brand new, $40 million Sriracha plant in Irwindale, California. This month is peak production. Two hundred thousand bottles are filled each day. Sriracha is run by founder David Tran. The rooster on the bottle is his astrological sign. David: If you don't like my product, what happened with you? Something wrong. There's something wrong with people? We do the fresh one, the best one, the cheapest one.
Host: But there are those people who say it's too spicy.
David: Using less. Using less.
Host: Just use less?
David: Yes.
Host: The main ingredient in Sriracha is spicy head jalapeno pepper. They are grown on this California farm just 70 miles away. Craig Underwood owns the farm and has worked for David Tran for 25 years. They started with 50 acres of peppers. Next year, they'll plant 4,000.
Craig: From the time they're picked until they're ground, it's about six hours. And that's important to David. He wants it fresh, he wants them red, he wants them spicy, and he wants them tasty.
Host: When the peppers reach the plant, they are washed, crushed, mixed, and then stored in these blue barrels. How many barrels are in this warehouse?
David: More than 200,000.
Host: David Tran drove us around the new 650,000 square foot facility. But now his hot sauce has him in hot water with neighbors near the plant. This week, the City of Irwindale filed a lawsuit asking a judge to shut down Sriracha until they can figure out how to manage [this] strong chili pepper odor that neighbors say is making them sick.
Woman: We had a bridal shower, we had to have the guests go inside because they were all choking, hacking, it was right in the throat.
Host: There's a lot at stake. Last year, Sriracha sold $60 million worth of sauce and revenue is growing at 20 percent each year. We interviewed Tran before the lawsuit was filed. Did you ever in your wildest dreams imagine you'd be running this?
David: I never thought that we would make big money or do something like that. But keep me busy, always. Every day, make more and more and more product.
Host: He's been perfecting his product for more than 30 years. After the Vietnam War, David Tran fled with his family to the United States. He started mixing hot sauce in barrels on the streets and sold it to LA's growing Asian community. He named his company Huy Fong Foods after the Taiwanese freighter that brought him out of Vietnam. He grew it without the help of any investors.
David: I want to say thanks to the American. They accept me when I refugee. I try to do something, give back to the American.
David: Tran says he wants to be a good neighbor and will work with the city to reduce the pepper smell. But while he may not be popular with his neighbors, to Sriracha fans, this 68-year-old is the hottest thing around.
The Secret to Sriracha Hot Sauce’s Success
David Tran is the man to thank for the Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce you douse your scrambled eggs with every morning. You know the stuff. Red bottle with a green cap and a rooster on the front—plus five languages on the bottle—this simple sauce connects people from different cultures and backgrounds. “It never occurred to me that our hot sauce could get so much attention and acceptance from different people, said Tran. Today, Tran oversees a hot sauce empire, but he comes from humble beginnings. He arrived in the United States from Vietnam 40 years ago as a refugee. So how did the founder of Huy Fong Foods turn his fresh, homemade hot sauce into an internationally-recognized brand and household staple? We visited his factory in Irwindale, California, to learn the secret to his sauce.
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Sriracha challenge? Texas tries to steal hot sauce maker from California
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Looks like the battle between Texas and California is pho real this time. Texas sent a bipartisan Sriracha Delegation to Irwindale, California in an attempt to woo hot sauce maker Huy Fong Foods to the Lone Star State.
Irwindale residents have fought for months to close the Sriracha factory, which they say belches strong chemical fumes that cause heartburn, nose bleeds and itchy eyes. The Irwindale City Council will vote tomorrow on whether to declare the plant a public nuisance. If the vote passes, Huy Fong will have 90 days to curb the factory's emissions.
Sriracha would likely face less resistance to its polluting in Texas, where both the state and local governments don't seem to care much about air quality standards.
State Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) is leading a group of Texas officials to the Golden State to meet with Huy Fong Foods founder and Chief Executive David Tran to see if they can entice the famous hot sauce maker to relocate. He's joined by state Senator Carlos Uresti (D-San Antonio) who represents the district where most of the chili peppers needed for Sriracha are grown. State Representative Hubert Vo (D-Houston) is also tagging along, as are representatives from the offices of Governor Rick Perry and Attorney General Greg Abbott.
Tran is reportedly considering the offer. Maybe Huy Fong Foods can catch a ride with Toyota, which last month announced that it will move most of its North American headquarters from Torrance, California to the Dallas suburb of Plano.
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A judge has denied a Southern California factory town's attempt to shut down production of the popul
A judge has denied a Southern California factory town's attempt to shut down production of the popular Sriracha chili sauce over complaints about the pungent smell of pepper and garlic fumes emanating from the factory.
A Nov. 22 hearing was scheduled on a preliminary injunction.
The shiny, new $40 million plant processes some 100 million pounds of peppers per year into Sriracha (sree-YAH-chah) and two other popular Asian food sauces, and as many as 40 trucks a day pull up to unload jalapeno peppers by the millions.
When the factory opened two years ago, residents were happy to get new job opportunities. But now, they say, the spicy smells are too much to cope with.
We've been closing them (windows) lately. It does get a little bit - the smell, said Joanna Pena, who lives across factory.
City officials say residents complained the odor give them headaches, burn their throat and make their eyes water.
Especially in the evenings... I have feel -- (sic) -- something in my throat and eyes, said Juan Ramirez, an Irwindale resident.
Huy Fong Foods executives said they were cooperating with the city to reduce the smell, but desisted to move forward with the city's suggestion of putting in a new filtration system that would cost $600,000.
The odor is only there for about three months, during the California jalapeno pepper harvest season, which stretches from August to about the end of October or first week of November.
The company said it was looking into other alternatives when the city sued.
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Irwindale Sriracha plant to partially shut down
A Sriracha hot sauce plant in Irwindale, the subject of odor complaints from residents, will be partially shut down under an order by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge.
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Keeping Sriracha in SoCal | SCE & Huy Fong Foods
When Huy Fong Foods was contemplating moving its operations out of the state, Southern California Edison's (SCE) Customer Service Economic Development Services stepped in to provide an economic analysis, and helped the company convince local officials of its economic value to the region.
Huy Fong Foods worked with SCE’s Business Customer Division on a rate analysis that showed the company could save $100,000 per year on its electricity bill, and saved more than 150 local jobs.
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Sriracha plant in hot seat after residents complain of burning eyes
The city has filed suit to suspend production of Sriracha hot sauce at the Huy Fong Foods factory, saying odors from the plant are a public nuisance.
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Sriracha smell could cause Irwindale factory to shut down
A Sriracha factory in Irwindale could be shut down due to resident complaints of the hot sauce's odor.
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Top 10 Secrets To Sriracha Hot Sauce’s Incredible Success
List of the top 10 secrets to Sriracha hot sauce's incredible success. Sriracha hot chili sauce from Huy Fong Foods Inc. is a type of sauce made from a paste of chili peppers, distilled vinegar, garlic, sugar, & salt.
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From Pad Thai to French fries, Sriracha sauce goes with everything and it is very quickly becoming the number 1 condiment that everyone must-have. Because of this, it's important to know all there is to know about this super chili sauce. So here are the top 10 facts about Sriracha hot sauce.
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2:22 No Advertising Department
3:22 Sriracha Is Not A Trademark
4:21 Sriracha Fakes!
5:34 This Means War!
7:39 The Vietnam War Saved Sriracha Sauce - Sort Of.
9:08 It's All About The Chiles
10:19 The Owner Put A Lot Of Himself Into It
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- Capsaicin also does is it 'tricks' the nervous system into believing it's ingested something hot and therefore the brain releases endorphins throughout the body which give us a natural high and leaves a lot of people in a momentary state of euphoria.
- Many astronauts have specifically asked for Sriracha sauce to be taken with them as the spicy sauce is apparently still tasty in outer space.
- Now Sriracha has expanded into the alcohol market with Sriracha infused Vodka.
- Tran wanted his sauce to become popular by word of mouth. In other words, why spend millions on advertising when people will sing its praises for you?
- Perhaps one of the strangest and more surprising facts about Sriracha sauce is that it's not a trademark. The
- Huy Fong Foods decided to never trademark or copyright their product in any way. While this may have saved a lot of money, and maybe even increased sales, it does leave the company open for others to make their sauce.
- The town of Irwindale got together and filed a lawsuit against Huy Fong Foods with the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
- Tran had a dream and that dream was to create the Asian Ketchup.
- The chili peppers used to make Sriracha sauce still aren’t as hot as the legendary Jalapeno pepper.
- David Tran and his family arrived in the U.S, first in Boston, and then they moved on to California to conquer the chili sauce world.
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Texas Lawmakers Tour Embattled California Hot Sauce Plant
The maker of the popular Sriracha (suhr-AH'-chuh) hot sauce says he has no intention of moving his embattled factory out of Irwindale, California, but he has told two visiting Texas lawmakers he might consider expanding into that state. David Tran spoke to reporters on Monday after giving the politicians a tour of the factory, which some neighbors claim emits offensive odors. Irwindale city leaders have tentatively declared the plant a public nuisance, leading numerous other cities and states to urge Tran to relocate his business and jobs. The City Council is scheduled to vote on finalizing the nuisance declaration on Wednesday but there's a staff recommendation to delay the vote another two weeks. Tran believes he'll have the odor issue resolved by June 1.
Texas Officials Tour Sriracha Plant In Attempt To Woo Hot Sauce Maker
Officials from Texas Monday toured the Sriracha plant in Irwindale in an attempt to lure the business to the Lone Star state. Jeff Nguyen reports.
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Huy Fong Foods is an American 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.
Judge Orders Sriracha Plant To Partially Close Over Smells
A judge in southern California has ordered popular hot sauce maker Sriracha to stop any operations that are releasing strong orders into the city.
Texas Delegation Woos Sriracha To Move
As the makers of Sriracha battle to stay open in California, legislators from Texas are wooing the makers of the chili sauce to move to the Lone Star State. Texas state Rep. Jason Villalba leads the delegation meeting today with David Tran, head of Huy Fong Foods , which makes the famous red sauce with the trademark rooster logo, in Irwindale, Calif. The delegation will make their pitch while touring the factory where Sriracha is produced. For months, Huy Fong has been battling the Irwindale City Council over complaints that fumes from its Sriracha plant are causing neighbors to get sick.
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Looks like the battle between Texas and California is pho real this time. Texas sent a bipartisan Sriracha Delegation to Irwindale, California in an attempt to woo hot sauce maker Huy Fong Foods to the Lone Star State.
Irwindale residents have fought for months to close the Sriracha factory, which they say belches strong chemical fumes that cause heartburn, nose bleeds and itchy eyes. The Irwindale City Council will vote tomorrow on whether to declare the plant a public nuisance. If the vote passes, Huy Fong will have 90 days to curb the factory's emissions.
Sriracha would likely face less resistance to its polluting in Texas, where both the state and local governments don't seem to care much about air quality standards.
State Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) is leading a group of Texas officials to the Golden State to meet with Huy Fong Foods founder and Chief Executive David Tran to see if they can entice the famous hot sauce maker to relocate. He's joined by state Senator Carlos Uresti (D-San Antonio) who represents the district where most of the chili peppers needed for Sriracha are grown. State Representative Hubert Vo (D-Houston) is also tagging along, as are representatives from the offices of Governor Rick Perry and Attorney General Greg Abbott.
Tran is reportedly considering the offer. Maybe Huy Fong Foods can catch a ride with Toyota, which last month announced that it will move most of its North American headquarters from Torrance, California to the Dallas suburb of Plano.
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Sriracha maker may relocate factory amid battle over smell
Relocation offers are reportedly pouring in for an Irwindale-based Sriracha plant, and the hot sauce maker says it's seriously considering moving the factory.
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