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Who Needs Ketchup Anyway?

My friend Stef introduced me to this wonderful hot sauce back when she lived here in the south. I have enjoyed it since then-- adding it to soup, using it as a dipping sauce for everything from potstickers to pizza crusts, and even squirting pretty designs on my plate for my fried eggs.

When I received this month's Saveur yesterday, I was delighted to find 2 pages dedicated my my favorite hot sauce: Huy Fong Food's Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce. Saveur recognizes its growing popularity in both homes and restaurants. It even said that the body was designed to look like a chili pepper, complete with a red top, or stem. I learned that the rooster on the bottle respresents Tran's (the creator) astrological sign and that it is named after a port in Thailand where it was supposedly created.

You may have seen this sauce in Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, or Thai restaurants, but it can be used for more than just Asian food. Here are some of my favorite suggestions offered by Saveur:

*Put it on top of cooked eggs (this is really good!)
*Use it in place of ketchup, like on a hotdog for example
*Sprinkle it on top of pizza instead of red pepper flakes (or dip the pizza in it like I do!)
*Add it to a stir-fry, fried rice, or pho (Vietnamese soup)
*Use in combination with mayo as a dipping sauce

And my suggestion:
*use it for anything you can think of!

Posted by Hannah at September 17, 2005 02:10 PM