sriracha

English

Bottles of Huy Fong Foods' sriracha on tables in a restaurant

Etymology

From Thai ศรีราชา (sǐi-raa-chaa), named after the city of Si Racha in Thailand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈræ.t͡ʃə/
• IPA^(key): /sɪˈrɑ.t͡ʃə/~/sɪˈrɑ.t͡ʃɑ/, /səˈrɑ.t͡ʃə/~/səˈrɑ.t͡ʃɑ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪˌrɑ.t͡ʃɑ/
• Hyphenation: sri‧ra‧cha

Noun

sriracha (usually uncountable, plural srirachas)

1. A Thai-style hot sauce, typically made from sun-ripened chili peppers, vinegar, garlic, sugar and salt.
   • 2007 January 24, “Recipe: Tea-Smoked Chicken Thighs With Pomegranate Glaze”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     While chicken is smoking, combine zest, hoisin, pomegranate molasses and sriracha in a small bowl.

   • 2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

     Chilis and peppers help, in whatever form. Hot sauce helps—shrill, vinegary tonics or sweet, syrupy srirachas. Lots of pico de gallo, with triple the jalapeño.

   • 2023 July 2, Aliya Uteuova, “Sriracha lovers feel the heat as hot sauce shortage continues”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Sriracha lovers everywhere are feeling the not so pleasant sting of the beloved hot sauce shortage, now in its second year. Drought in Mexico has resulted in a scarcity of chilli peppers – in particular, red jalapeños, the raw material of sriracha – leading Huy Fong Foods, the California-based maker of the iconic condiment, to scale back production.

Alternative forms

• siracha

Translations

a Thai-style hot sauce

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 是拉差香甜辣椒醬／是拉差香甜辣椒酱 (Shìlāchā xiāngtián làjiāojiàng), 是拉差醬／是拉差酱 (Shìlāchā jiàng)

• Finnish: sriracha-kastike
• Polish: sriracha (pl) f
• Russian: со́ус Шрира́ча m (sóus Šriráča)
• Swedish: srirachasås (sv) c, sriracha (sv) c
• Thai: ซอสศรีราชา (sɔ́ɔt sǐi-raa-chaa)
• Vietnamese: tương ớt Sriracha, tương ớt (vi), tương đỏ

Anagrams

• aircrash