Is Rooster brand American?
It was founded by david tran, a vietnamese-born immigrant, 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 with its sriracha sauce, popularly referred to as rooster sauce or cock sauce due to the image of a rooster on the label. Huy fong’s sriracha sauce (/sɪˈrɑːtʃə/ sih-rah-chə; thai: ศรีราชา, pronounced [sǐːrāːtɕʰāː]; vietnamese: tương ớt sriracha), also referred to as sriracha, cock sauce or rooster sauce due to the rooster on its label, is a brand of sriracha, a chili sauce that originated in si racha, thailand.David Tran is the founder and owner of Huy Fong Foods, the Irwindale, California-based company that makes Sriracha hot sauce. Tran arrived in the U. S. Vietnam in 1979 and started selling hot sauce from a blue Chevy van in Los Angeles in February 1980.Why it matters: After months of Sriracha belt-tightening, the sauce is back on the shelves. Huy Fong Foods Inc, the Irwindale-based manufacturer, says production resumed about two to three months ago. The backstory: The shortage was first reported in April 2022, when Huy Fong Food Inc.