The Sriracha hot sauce guy is an American hero

All hail David Tran

David Tran.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn)

Many decades ago, a man in Vietnam had a noble dream. David Tran wanted to make the greatest hot sauce the world had ever tasted.

For five years after the fall of Saigon, he put his homemade chili sauce in old glass baby food jars and delivered them via bicycle. In 1979, he boarded a Taiwanese freighter called the Huey Fong and was able to gain entrance into the United States as a refugee.

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Matthew Walther

Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers. He is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.