Imagine walking into a grocery store and seeing a single brand of each item. Actor Simu Liu, who serves as the chief content officer for MìLà, a food and beverage company that makes frozen dumplings and chili crunch, challenged Momofuku to a blind taste test on Twitter last week: “Winner keeps the name, loser backs off.” In a statement to …
In February 2015, in a tiny ramen-ya in the Far East Plaza in Chinatown, Jonathan Gold led a hot sauce taste-off with chefs Roy Choi and Alvin Cailan. You can find a jar of chili oil on the tables at countless restaurants and noodle shops in the San Gabriel Valley, but in the last two years, Los Angeles has experienced …
Five to try Sbez, from the proprietors of Eszett restaurant, wasn’t the only hot sauce to surface during the pandemic. Fresno hot sauce by Alta Adams Chefs Keith Corbin and Daniel Patterson always served their remarkably bright hot sauce alongside Alta Adams’ signature fried chicken — and in the mayo of the fried chicken sandwich — but when the West …
