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Here in the UK the Thai-manufactuered Flying Goose brand is widely available and incredibly delicious. Much better tasting than the Californian brand IMO.

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I find most of the Thai brands to be too sweet. I prefer the Huy Fong as it has less sugar (I tried to compare the nutrition facts but the Huy Fong one is a bit BS).

However I find most Asian products in the UK always seem to have crazy amounts of sugar in them which I'm not a huge fan of.

> the Huy Fong one is a bit BS

If you look at nutrition facts for larger containers it's about 9% sugar by weight.

(It starts out higher in sugar, but some of that is consumed during fermentation.)

Nice find! Yep I read about fermentation as well. I'm neither a huge fan of sweet or vinegary hot sauces so I usually find Sriracha or Mexican hot sauces (eg. El Yucateco) as my go to's.

El Yucateco kutbil-ik xxx hot sauce is my number one. it's so damn hot, and the flavor is unmatched. the black special reserve one is next level too. at this point my cellular makeup is roughly 20% habanero because of them.

Huy Fong makes a garlic chili sauce, which appears to be Sriracha, but without any sugar at all. I think the garlic chili sauce comes off the same line, but gets bottled before the sugar is added.

Their chili garlic sauce is not pureed. Otherwise, yes, it's their sriracha without the sugar.

I have a foodservice jar of the stuff. I'll run out by 2030 or so.

The Flying Goose brand is the most common here in Germany. The Huy Fong brand hasn't been available for a few years after the EU implemented some restriction on one of the ingredients.

It's also the only acceptable. I've tried every available other 'knock-off', too. They were bad. No matter if green, or red capped. I guess they were too old, and have gone bad on the shelf. Realized that much later, when I had a small, almost empty bottle of the Flying Goose stuff, and the last of it tasted bad the same way the others did. Also smell, nothing strong, but noticable, once you know it. I don't know how to put this exactly. An 'empty' sting? Feeling hot and sharp, without being spicy? More like tear-gas? Just numbing without taste?

> The Huy Fong brand hasn't been available for a few years after the EU implemented some restriction on one of the ingredients.

My fride, my pantry and my local Asian shops would respectfully disagree with that statement.

Hui Fong Sriracha is less sweet, less garlicky, brighter and the chillies come out way more. It's not the same product as the Flying Goose brand and they certainly can't be substituted for each other. I love 'em both.

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