"For anyone who read through this list and wondered how much spice each sauce has: the reality is most focus on umami, rather than heat, and thus offer a pleasant hum, rather than any real burn. Not so with this one: this Filipino-style hot sauce burns so good, and impressively does so without any sacrifice on the taste front. It’s the furthest from traditional chili crisp of any of these sauces, but it does show the extremes to which fried garlic and peppers can be taken, especially with a boost of spices like star anise, bay leaf, and black peppercorns, plus fish sauce. Oragon currently stocks a ton of markets around the city, including Asian Family Market, Lam’s Seafood Market, and MacPherson’s Fruit and Produce."