Blair P. Houghton > wrote in news:rN3Kb.3772227$be.591397
@news.easynews.com:

>>1 heaping teaspoon Vietnamese garlic chili sauce
>
> There's your secret ingredient. Chili-garlic sauce is
> one of the great discoveries in all of cuisine.

I use it in a lot of stuff.

> What is it that makes this one Vietnamese (as opposed to
> the generically Chinese versions like Lee Kum Kee brand?)

It's actually Californian, Huy Fong Foods, Inc. of Rosemeade CA (not
Canada), the makers of Sriracha and Sambal Oelek. This is the most
common brand here (maybe in fact the only brand) in Asian food
stores.

The product name is Túóng Ót Tói Viêt-Nam, a registered trademark.

http://www.huyfong.com/no_frames/garlic.htm

Strangely enough the company does not refer to it by its registered
trademark. A holdover from those Nam days? ;-)

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