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LEE KUM KEE 李锦记

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HOW ABOUT LEE KUM KEE CHILI SAUCE BRAND INTRODUCTION

Founded in 1888, Lee Kum Kee has developed into a condiment kingdom over the past 100 years, and is one of the most representative brands of Southern Condiments and one of the four major soy sauce garden families in Hong Kong. As early as 1991, Lee Kum Kee set up a production base in Los Angeles, USA, and now its products sell well in more than 100 countries and regions. Lee Kum Kee is the first food manufacturer in Hong Kong to obtain the ISO9002 certificate, and the first food company in China to pass the FDA audit with zero defects, and has become the designated supplier of the Beijing Olympic Games, Shanghai World Expo and Hong Kong Disneyland.
 
In the field of chili sauce, Lee Kum Kee is not inferior to professional hot sauce brands, and its market share is closely followed by Lao Gan Ma. The richness of the category is incomparable with other brands, and the chili sauce products basically include most of the types on the market, such as garlic chili, oil chili, sweet and spicy sauce and other local specialty chili sauces, the strength of each sauce is not bad, and the quality control is also the leader in the industry.
 
It is said that southerners don't eat spicy, and Lee Kum Kee's ability to make chili sauce into a southern style has its own uniqueness, among which the most representative product is garlic chili sauce, which is an oil-free chili sauce product, which belongs to another style of taste compared to Lao Gan Ma oil-made chili sauce.
 
When the production process is not dominant, the recipe is particularly important, and Lee Kum Kee Garlic Chili Sauce lacks the special fried aroma provided by the stir-frying process, but has more flavor of the fusion of ingredients. The first raw material is chili, add garlic, sugar, salt and vinegar and other ingredients to taste, the dosage is just right, garlic, salty, sour, sweet, spicy with harmony, garlic flavor is rich, spicy is weak, and a little sweet and sour, light Cantonese and Hong Kong-style diet, this is the best dipping sauce, when cooking sweet dishes, you can also add this sauce to increase the flavor, the effect is outstanding.
 
Lee Kum Kee Garlic Chili Sauce is priced at around $20 for a 226g pack, but this chili sauce has a unique taste and good seasoning, and there are not many alternative products on the market, so its popularity has not been affected by the pricing.
 
In addition to garlic chili sauce, Lee Kum Kee's other products are also very strong, with better quality and taste than average, and high cost performance, such as spicy sauce and sweet and spicy sauce, the price is relatively cheap, around 12 yuan, the degree of grinding of the sauce is relatively high, the form is more delicate, and the sense of reality is weak, but it is more suitable as a dipping sauce, and it is especially flavorful when eaten with staple food.