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To: BenLurkin
Relocation Offers Pour In For Sriracha Maker

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From the Internet:
Huy Fong Foods (Chinese: 滙豐食品公司; pinyin: Huìfēng Shípǐn Gōngsī) is a hot sauce company based in Rosemead, California. Beginning in 1980 on Spring Street in Los Angeles's Chinatown, with an initial investment of US$50,000 in family savings after being turned down by a bank for a US$200,000 loan, it has grown to become one of the leaders in the Asian hot sauce market, especially Sriracha sauce.

The company is named for the old Panamanian freighter, the "Huey Fong", that carried 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 bottles' trademark green top symbolizes the freshness of the chili used.

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Vietnamese company.

10 posted on 04/17/2014 8:14:32 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

It’s an American company. California has a large Vietnamese population and the majority are second and third generations’.

Sort of like fortune cookies that have been made throughout the decades in the US.


13 posted on 04/17/2014 8:19:58 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: cloudmountain
The company is named for the old Panamanian freighter, the "Huey Fong", that carried Tran and 3,317 other refugees out of Vietnam in December 1978.

A local restauranteur here did the same thing. His Restaurant is called 'Sea-Land'.........................

17 posted on 04/17/2014 8:25:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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