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Xốt Quốc Yến: a son of Bạc Liêu who crossed the country in search of one sauce for 500 vegan dishes

Lý Trường Huy grew up in Bạc Liêu with a love of cooking and of Vietnamese produce. A fascination with herbs and medicinal plants took him across Vietnam, tasting the sauces of many countries, until he set himself a problem: a sauce with Vietnamese roots that any kitchen could use. More than twelve years of research followed, with the flavour tuned to the palates of over 500 chefs and restaurant owners across all 63 provinces and cities. The result is Xốt Quốc Yến.

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"A sustainable brand needs more than quality. It needs roots," he says. "Only purely fermented products can create the most natural flavour."

Fermented from soybeans, for 500 vegan dishes

Xốt Quốc Yến is a concentrated all-purpose sauce, naturally fermented from soybeans with Bạc Liêu salt or pink salt, brown sugar, sesame oil and 12 herbs; the 50 ml version is made by hand from fully vegan ingredients, and the company says a single bottle works for more than 500 vegan dishes. Quốc Yến's customers range from households to five-star hotels and restaurants; its "cloud kitchen" model also develops bespoke sauces for restaurant chains in about two weeks. The company states it holds HACCP, ISO 22000 and FDA certification and offers full traceability. "Happiness is not in grand things, but in every small drop of sauce," is how Mr Huy describes his work.

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For Indian cuisine, where spice is the soul and most kitchens are vegetarian, a soybean sauce fermented with Vietnamese herbs is an easy thing to taste and an easy thing to talk about at Lumi Hub on the morning of 04.11.2026.

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