I just made Sriracha Peanut-butter M&M cookies.
Still like it.
It’s okay, but I use it only sparingly to dip grilled ham and cheese sandwiches in.
The wife has finalized her plans to be back in Thailand in January and February. She’s bringing back some real stuff. Hotcha!
Take a pic of the bottle. I want to see the real stuff. Can we get it in the US?
This is it. I’ve never seen it in the US myself, but supposedly Eastland Food Corporation does distribute it.
That looks like a Sriraja Panich bottle. I thought I mentioned it by name here, but I didn’t. That’s one of the usual Thai brands I find around here. I prefer the Shark brand, personally. But, yeah, they’re noticeably different than the Huy Fong brand. The Panich definitely tastes sweeter to me than Huy Fong, perhaps a little hotter, and not quite as “musty” as Huy Fong’s. Shark’s is less sweet, which is why I prefer it.
Don’t understand it’s mass appeal, not really good, but it’s OK sometimes.
The one to the right of the Huy Fong bottle is the Sriraja Panich one I see at Thai stores here. The one to the left of the Huy Fong bottle is the Shark brand I was talking about. Oddly enough, both of those Thai brands (which I like) ranked last and next-to-last in that taste testing, and Huy Fong finished #1. Of course, it’s a matter of what you’re used to. If you grew up with the Thai brands, I bet the taste test rankings would be inverted. I consider them different sauces. I wouldn’t use Sriraja Panich on exactly the same types of things I use Huy Fong on.
Panich basically means “trading” in Thai and is probably in the name of the company, Si Racha Trading Co or something like that. No one in Thailand calls it Panich. No one. It’s Si Racha.
Well, that’s fine, but I have no other way of referring to it in English. I suppose I could say “the bottle of sauce with the words Sriraja Panich” on them, but that’s a bit unwieldy.
I see your dilemma, but it sounds weird to me. It would be something like hearing a Thai ask for a Pepsi Trading or a Microsoft International.
Wow, that’s pretty pricey. It’s usually around $3-$4 at the Thai grocery I buy it at (with English labeling), but I understand the vast majority of the US probably doesn’t have a Thai grocery they could find it at. 
I may and I might have to go look. Hmmm…
I’ll just wait. The wife now has her flights arranged and will be back in Hawaii in early March. (In Thailand from mid-January to early March.)