Finally I know the real chef, the woman on the logo of a famous oyster sauce brand, is no stranger.
Revealing the real face of the chef on the famous oyster sauce bottle, the logo that we’ve seen since childhood, is actually no one else.
It can be said that this seasoning has been a part of Thai cuisine for more than 40 years. Mae Krua oyster sauce has a logo of a middle-aged woman wearing a red shirt, covered with a white apron, holding a bottle of sauce while cooking. It can be said that this is a classic and has become an image that has been remembered since childhood.
Mae Krua Company Limited has revealed that the woman in the logo is a picture of Khun Mae Nguay Kanchanawisitphon, the inventor of the original oyster sauce recipe and founder of Mae Krua Company Limited, owner of Mae Krua and Mae Krua Golden Label products.
Mr. Setthi Kanchanawisitphol, the second-generation executive, talked about his family, saying, “I grew up in Chonburi province with 8 children. Everyone had to help each other work. My mother opened a shop selling dried seafood and fresh oysters. Which was a job that my grandfather had done since his grandfather’s generation. My brothers and I had the duty to go out on the boat to smash oysters for the women to sell fresh in front of the สมัคร UFABET วันนี้ รับเครดิตฟรีสำหรับสมาชิกใหม่ shop.
Sometimes we couldn’t sell all the oysters, so we had to invent ways to preserve the food. Which we usually pickled. But when there was a lot of it, my father thought of transforming oysters into a seasoning similar to soy sauce. So he tried stir-frying them. After that, he developed the recipe and method continuously. Until it became oyster sauce and has been called Mae Krua until today. We are considered the first in Thailand.”
“Since oyster sauce was a new product, it sold very well at first. It became a must-have item in every household, just like fish sauce. We started by selling to restaurants in our neighborhood. Because there were many large restaurants in Chonburi, so people quickly became familiar with us. Most of our customers were my mother’s previous customers. And the second lucky thing was that Mom Rajawongse Thanadsri Sawatdiwat bought some to try and wrote about it in the magazine “ฟ้าเมืองไทย” at that time, and gave him the Shell Chuan Chim logo. Our sauce became widely known.”