Some of the most coveted condiments, including a cooking sauce from Noma, the Kogi BBQ truck sauces, the Dino's Famous Chicken sauce, Jitlada hot sauce and Alta Adams’ spicy ranch, are now available to use at home.
I have a confession to make: The pandemic has turned me into the real-life version of the Condiment King, the most excellent, most underrated villain from “Batman: The Animated Series.” Instead of hoses that shoot powerful streams of ketchup and mustard, I’ve been wielding bottles of Hotville Chicken Cayenne hot sauce and lashing bland food with spoonfuls of chile crisp from Yang’s Kitchen, Needle, Hui Tou Xiang, Go Go Bird and Rice Box —to name a few.
“Mix it with yogurt for crudités,” Patterson said. “It’s great in cooking. For meatloaf. Fifty-fifty with ketchup, it’s a great dipping sauce for fries or chips …”Patterson and Corbin are about to launch the first in a line of pantry products from Alta restaurant. Red Ranch is a combination of the restaurant’s signature Fresno chile hot sauce and the chefs’ take on a classic ranch, made with yogurt and buttermilk.
The red sauce is packed with red Thai chiles, garlic and lime juice. At the restaurant, it’s served alongside duck rolls, beef salad, fried rice and fried fish. If diners ask for any sort of hot sauce or specifically for Sriracha, this is what Singsanong and Sungkamee will offer. Dino’s Famous Chicken Thiccc sauce, 9 ounces, $8.50, and Dino’s chicken seasoning shakers, 2 ounces, $4.75, and 4 ounces, $8.75
Also available is the Dino’s Thiccc sauce, an addictive dressing fortified with the Dino’s seasoning blend used to coat the restaurant’s chicken tenders and wings. The sisters also plan to start selling what they call the “juice,” or the marinade and finishing sauce used for grilled chicken,Andrews said the Thiccc sauce is designed to be used on shrimp, any fish and pasta in addition to the chicken and other proteins. In college, she said, she made many friends by using it on her steaks.
“People would always say, ‘How can I get your sauce?’” Choi said on a recent phone call. “For 10 years, I told them I’m just trying to prep the food and keep up. We ended up putting sauces in deli cups and selling them for $2.”