Real ingredients · Real flavours · A richer tomorrow
Artisanal chilli sauces from Singapore, made the old-school way: rich, fragrant and spicy, just like the kind we grew up eating at home.
Our story
Many years ago, our grandmother made a fresh batch of sambal chilli whenever the jar at home was running low. Later, our mother took over, keeping the recipe alive in our kitchen. When we were old enough, we were roped into the family production line, manually pounding the chilli mixture with a mortar and pestle.
According to our father, who was born in the late 1930s, he remembers watching our grandmother make this very same sambal when he was a young boy. That means this recipe has been part of our family for many decades, passed from one generation to the next.
No shortcuts. Just a traditional family recipe, made with care.
We want more people to experience the taste of our family heirloom, made using carefully selected, quality ingredients. Our dream is for this humble recipe to one day become a Singapore heritage brand.
古早辣
From our family to yours
The range
Same family recipe, made for different dishes.
Prices shown are placeholders pending final pricing from the team.
Ways to enjoy
Each blend is suited to how it's actually used at home.
Chilli pounded with fermented prawn paste. Every family in Singapore has its own version; this is ours. Spoon it beside grilled fish, prawns, a plate of hokkien mee or a meat dish.
Fry the sauce until fragrant, add kangkong, long beans, brinjal, okra or petai, and toss. One sachet takes up to 400 g of vegetables. Best hot, with steamed rice.
Fry the sauce, toss in the crab, simmer, then finish with beaten egg for that glossy, sweet-savoury gravy. Enough for two crabs, up to 2.4 kg. Serve with mantou to mop up.
Dried shrimp and chilli, slow-fried until every spoonful is savoury, spicy and fragrant. Pile it on rice, spread it on bread, stir it through pasta or top a pizza with it.
Why Gu Zao La
Traced back to our grandmother, made the same way our father remembers as a boy in the late 1930s.
Every jar is made in small batches, the traditional way, without cutting corners.
We use carefully chosen ingredients to preserve the authentic, old-school taste we grew up with.
Good to know
To be confirmed. Exact shelf-life details are being finalized and will appear on packaging and here once ready.
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Islandwide across Singapore. We're not shipping internationally at this stage.
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