Alternatives to Rooster Sriracha hot sauce

[nik-]

If you want a thicker sauce like sriracha, Marie Sharps is really good. Radically different flavour compared to sriracha, but a better one imo

[activeStick]

My taste buds don't like it when I mix Asian hot sauces or Chili oils with non-Asian foods and vice versa. Can't have Sriracha or Chinese Chili oils with tacos and hot dogs and could never use South American or American hot sauces on fried rice or soup noodles.

[nik-]

Just sounds like you're cheating yourself.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by blankall

We use a lot of Nando's sauce in our home. More of a garlic, smokey, sweet kind of taste, but not overpowering.



Also like El Yucateco:



Once again, good flavor but not overpowering. Both Yucatan and Nando's are available in a variety of flavors, so you can pick a favorite depending on the flavor profile you want. You can get large bottles of Nando's at Costco.

I really like the Callypso sauce too, but it does have a pretty strong, almost fruit, flavor:



A friend's wife just came out with her own hot sauce, that's selling really well. Obviously more specialized, with a more unique flavor profile:

https://kulafoods.ca/products/pili-pili-sauce

I've been hunting for this forever, i can't find it in Canada.



I wonder if one of those might be a substitute

[Reggie Dunlop]

Cheech's (of Cheech and Chong fame) Mojo Mango Habanero

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by FlameOn

Buldak sauce is also very very good. Though it might be spicier than most people like. You'll have to buy off Amazon or a Korean Supermarket like A-Mart or H-Mart for this one.

This stuff will knock your socks off. Be very careful! But very awesome in noodles, rice, stir fries, hot dogs...

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by nik-

Valentina or Valentina black. Sriracha is over

This for me (just hate the added food colour)

https://shoplatinfoods.ca/products/hotsauce-picamas

[blankall]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

I've been hunting for this forever, i can't find it in Canada.



I wonder if one of those might be a substitute

The Calypso sauce would potentially be the only thing close to that. It's quite sweet. Never tried Delish, so can't really compare.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by blankall

The Calypso sauce would potentially be the only thing close to that. It's quite sweet. Never tried Delish, so can't really compare.

Delish, isn't sweet it is a mustard/vinegar based hot sauce.

And I've yet to find anything close to it.

It makes me sad.

[White Out 403]

edit: ugh too big!

[White Out 403]

I find myself using this now instead of my last little bit of rooster now. This is the correct answer to my post.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Supposedly a shortage of Huy Fong these days.... Drought in Mexico has affected their chili pepper crops.

[FlameOn]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Supposedly a shortage of Huy Fong these days.... Drought in Mexico has affected their chili pepper crops.

If you had the sauce pre-pandemic, and now it tastes different. It wasn't the drought that caused the issues. They screwed over and negotiated in bad faith with their 30 year exclusive supplier of their specific breed of chili peppers. They rightfully got sued, lost, and had their entire US supply chain get destroyed. Now no farmers in the US would work with them afterwards and Huy Fong is forced to source their peppers from Mexico, which is an entirely different breed that has a different, inferior taste. They're getting hammered now by the Mexican drought too because of their mistake. I'd rather use Lee Kum Kee if anything nowadays.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...712-story.html

[8 Ball]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

This stuff will knock your socks off. Be very careful! But very awesome in noodles, rice, stir fries, hot dogs...

We put a few dashes of this in hot pot broth. And ya, be careful.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by FlameOn

If you had the sauce pre-pandemic, and now it tastes different. It wasn't the drought that caused the issues. They screwed over and negotiated in bad faith with their 30 year exclusive supplier of their specific breed of chili peppers. They rightfully got sued, lost, and had their entire US supply chain get destroyed. Now no farmers in the US would work with them afterwards and Huy Fong is forced to source their peppers from Mexico, which is an entirely different breed that has a different, inferior taste. They're getting hammered now by the Mexican drought too because of their mistake. I'd rather use Lee Kum Kee if anything nowadays.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...712-story.html

I didn’t know the backstory. I had just started preferring the Lee Kum Kee in recent years.

[White Out 403]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

I didn’t know the backstory. I had just started preferring the Lee Kum Kee in recent years.

Lee Kum Kee is delicious. I didnt know about the back story of the other guys. #### them

[Hack&Lube]

Side note, Huy Fong is named after the refugee boat that the founder took to escape Vietnam.

This is the same boat that Ke Huy Quan (Short Round) was on.

[bdubbs]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Side note, Huy Fong is named after the refugee boat that the founder took to escape Vietnam.

This is the same boat that Ke Huy Quan (Short Round) was on.

Damn, a lot of success came from that boat....

[White Out 403]

Okay the more I use this hot sauce the more I ####ing hate it. If anybody wants an unopened bottle just let me know. I'm trying to Tabasco flavored Sriracha tomorrow. If that doesn't work I'm going to break and just spend $30 on a ####ing eBay one from the hung foy ####ers

[DoubleK]

Originally Posted by nik-

Valentina or Valentina black. Sriracha is over

Valentina is our go to.

I have to watch my sodium and it ticks that box too.