Everything You Know About Sriracha is a Lie.

Food history is messy, but it's beautiful in a way how multiple people created similar tasting sauces that people around the world love.

I was talking to my grandma from Vietnam about how sriracha started. She said it didn’t came out till the 70s. Vietnamese just ate pestled chili, garlic, vinegar and fish sauce. The fine ground chili sauce was from the Chinese.

its much older if you study deeper

Дякую що зробили ефір про цей соус

ALL chilies originated from Mexico.

This was super interesting! Something as simple as a sauce made from pickled chilies and garlic has such a complex history!

There is a lack of comparison with the description of the different versions of this sauce.

Some day some guy on Mars gonna invent some more Sriracha

Sriracha like 12yrs ago was so much more hotter man nowadays its just super sweet

Can’t stand the American made Sriracha. It is so salty and hot; no blended nuance of other ingredients and flavors unlike the civilized
original Sriracha sauce made in Thailand. Too bad the name was taken to this American made chilli sauce by the Vietnamese immigrant. Why didn’t he use his own iinvention name ? Why did he use our original sauce. name ? Isn’t it illegal ?
Where is intellectual property
patent?

So everything I know about my Mom's pasta is a lie. It didn't come from Italy like I thought it did.

This , at 7,29 approx, is a perfect example of what your channel is about. Homemade , there has to be a Thai way of expressing it . She chooses an English word for it … The fusion of food and language through the ages …., 😊😊😊

A massive thank you for this video (and the follow up tasting one)! I can't believe that it came out over 2 years ago.

I'd found some chilli sauces before watching it, but the only one I knew regularly then was the David Tran US version. The availability of that got less and I went back to some Chinese wholesaler outlets (which weren't too bad). After the tasting video, I found a UK source of Sriraja Panich which was okay but UKP 3.30 per bottle (BHT140)!.

Long story short, I contrived to find myself in Bangkok 3 weeks ago and, while sightseeing (!), happened to buy some of both Gold Medal brand sauces (3 bottles for BHT100). And - they are delicious! The downside is that my 700ml haul is going to run out very soon!

Sriracha is my ketchup (I personally hate ketchup). Good to know the back story, and It's totally understood why no one made a trademark to the recipe, since they know that it's not something they can. Brilliant episode

Great investigation. I currently have three sriracha brands: Huy Fong, Kikkoman, and Kroger. I enjoy all of them, but I think I slightly prefer the Kikkoman, my newest acquisition. I'm still looking for Sriraja Panich in local stores.

I lived in Brunei for over 13 years and I can tell you its not a lie, you merely misunderstood and misinterpreted chili sauce and how it is used. While I am glad you are educating others this title is misleading like you took an Americanized condiment as the truth.

American Sriracha is the best!

Don't touch my Sriracha sause and make it different, I only like the rooster one!

Siracha tastes worse than ketchup, and I'm asian.

Once you have used the real deal from Thailand you will not go back I like Shark Brand, and Sriraja Panich.

I’m making my own sauce, inspired by this video, it came out in real time, good. I fried garlic in olive oil and sesame oil until crisp, set aside garlic . Cooked several peppers from the garden. Added peaches , vinegar, maple syrup, cooked it down until I could blender it. Then back to stove , to thicken up. Then tossed the garlic in, delicious? Yes! ❤

Amazing story 👍

Sriracha is not the best in chilli sauce but they have a biggest Japanese community in Thailand also.

sambal i say

The red and green curries i tasted in bangkok in the seventies ate not the same as now.

Thank you so much for making this video.

Now i want that thai version.

I can taste 3 ingredients
Chilli
Garlic
CCP

No he lie to you he never make any sauce in VIETNAM he was refugee in THAILAND and he see SRIRACHA sauce and after he came to US he then try to make it , luckily he sell to Vietnamese PHÕ then Vietnamese eat Pho they used for something because they don’t have any choice,later a lots of customers like his sauce so that how happens, customers don’t even know what SRIRACHA only know chicken sauce,

I always thought Sriracha looked sort of Chinese.

There are some Cantonese communities in Southeast Asia. Ipoh, my favourite food city in Malaysia, has a Cantonese community whereas most Chinese communities in Malaysia are Hokkien.

"panich" พาณิช apparently just means "trading" or "commerce" so in a way it's not quite part of the name in a similar way to TM or LTD etc

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I’m pretty sure the Hong Kong chilli Sauce was one the whole world Consumed first. but the westerners didn’t know the Brand name Because that’s the Chilli Sauce all Chinese restaurants offered at Yum Cha, it’s different in texture and it’s more peppery

Everyone call Siracha by "chilli sauce" until they taste Vietnamese the real chilli sauce 🤣

"Say it loud!" LMAOOO chill grandma

I was surprised when I’ve known that there are Siracha sauce from other countries. I think the recipe may from the same roots but the name is surely from Thailand.

Koon Yick Wah Kee is my favourite chilli sauce. The one I buy contains sweet potato, so it’s fairly thick. There are a couple of other brands in Hong Kong with virtually identical labels so I’ve been duped a couple of times by grabbing it off the shelf without a close look…

Dude, your driver isn't Thai. Boy is Pakistani.

Imagine if the C country starts selling sushi in US and makes Japanese locals can't sell it😥😥

My introduction first came a long time ago through Pho, here in Washington state. Pho took off decades ago here and can be found everywhere. Yay

All these white dudes doing docs in south asia ALWAYS have a token brown hole

The original sriracha is a brand called Sriraja Panich, created in 1930s.

Maybe the real Sri Racha sauce is friend we made along the way

Your Thai pronunciation makes my ears bleed lol but this was a really really well done video. Great background, supporting content, paced in a way that allows everyone to keep up, and great editing that efficiently supports the focus of the video at every segment.

I actually prefer the new american sriracha.

Something in the original throws off the flavor in my pho. More salty and vinegary.

Real spiracha is the one that is making the most money in the market that consumers are buying? GTFOH