The hot sauce Woon keeps on the pass at its two Los Angeles rooms, made from Mama Fong's recipe for one specific job: adding a kick and cutting the savoury weight of a rich dish.
Fermented Fresno pepper mash, vinegar and garlic. That makes it bright and sharp rather than smoky or sweet, at a medium heat that does not stop you eating.
Woon puts it on noodles, rice, chicken wings, eggs, avocado toast, pizza, soups and tacos, which is close to admitting it goes on anything.
Fermented Fresno pepper mash, vinegar and garlic, so it is bright and sharp rather than smoky, at a medium heat most people can eat freely. Woon built it to cut the savoury weight of a dish, which makes it a finishing sauce more than a cooking one.
Noodles and rice, a few dashes at the table rather than in the pan
Chicken wings, straight over the top
Eggs in any form, fried, scrambled or soft boiled
Avocado toast and pizza, where the acidity does the work
Soups and tacos, stirred in at the end
Because the heat is moderate and the acid is high, it will not flatten a wine the way a chilli-forward sauce does.
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Woon Kitchen Mama's Way Hot Sauce, 14 oz
$16.00
The Brand
Woon Kitchen
Woon began as a family pop-up in a Koreatown alley, run on vacation days for three years before it was ever a restaurant. Keegan Fong eventually left a marketing job to open the first room in Historic Filipinotown. There is now a second in Pasadena.
The cooking is his mother's. Julie Chen Fong, called Mama Fong because she took care of everyone, was born in Shanghai and taught herself to cook Shanghainese and Cantonese food at home. What started as hot pot nights and family dinners turned into a menu of wok-tossed noodles, fishcakes, pork belly and five-spice wings.
The bottled sauces come out of that same kitchen. They are not a separate retail line built for a shelf, they are what the two restaurants cook with every day, which is why they behave like a finished dish rather than a condiment.
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