The gig: David Tran, 68, founded hot sauce company Huy Fong Foods Inc. in Chinatown in 1980 and a few years later introduced Sriracha sauce to the U.S. His Sriracha, a version of a hot sauce ...

David Tran is the founder and CEO of Huy Fong Foods, the multi-million dollar company that makes Sriracha. The clear bottle filled with fiery red paste has itself become iconic, with a bright green ...

With the booming Sriracha cultural obsession, the rooster is now a tongue-in-cheek enhancement for dozens of everyday items like water bottles, iphone cases and cycling socks.. The genesis of this ...

After the Vietnam War, David Tran fled persecution by immigrating to America. In 1980, he started the sriracha company Huy Fong, named after the boat he took from Vietnam.

David Tran, the owner of Huy Fong Foods, holds bottles of Sriracha hot sauce during a rally at Irwindale City Hall, in Irwindale, California on Wednesday. JONATHAN ALCORN / Reuters.

Huy Fong Foods has never advertised its best-selling product, the jalapeño-garlic-sugar purée called sriracha. Documentary filmmaker Griffin Hammond has filled that void with his new 33-minute ...

David Tran, the CEO of Huy Fong, says he escaped from Vietnam almost 35 years ago to be free of the communist government there and its many intrusions. "Today, I feel almost the same.

David Tran, 77, founded Huy Fong Foods in southern California after fleeing Vietnam in 1978 with his wife and son, with his life savings of $20,000 worth of gold hidden in cans of condensed milk.

Bottles of Huy Fong brand Sriracha chili sauce are seen for sale at a grocery store in Los Angeles, California, October 30, 2013 Photo by Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images Tweet Share Share Comment ...

NEW YORK — It's not just you. Sriracha is hard to come by these days — at least for one popular brand. The shortage of Huy Fong Foods' Sriracha, the beloved red hot sauce packaged in those ...