rant brand has teamed up with manufacturer and distributer English Provender Company to launch their range of authentic recipe, pan Asian sauces to the UK retail market.A range of six dipping sauces will be available including Sweet Chilli Sauce, Sweet & Sour Sauce, Chinese Barbecue Sauce, Sriracha Sauce, Hoi Sin Sauce and Wasabi Sauce.
Using all natural ingredients, the sauces are MSG free and use no artificial colourings.
Run by sisters Helen and Lisa Tse, who have this year been awarded the MBE for their Services to Food & Drink, the family business was created as a result of a long history of their family cooking and making their living from food.
Lisa Tse, the chef who developed the sauces said:
“Our sauces are inspired by the three generations of women in our family and the cooking styles they have passed on, from southern China in 1920s, colonial Hong Kong in the 1930s and a changing England from the 1950s to present day.
“To be able to launch these sauces on a national scale will be a fantastic achievement for us.”
Sally Haydock, UK brand manager at English Provender Company said:
“We’re delighted to be working with Helen and Lisa and have the unique Sweet Mandarin brand under the English Provender Company family of brands.
“We’re really looking forward to bringing the provenance and authenticity of the Sweet Mandarin range to a wider UK market and developing the range with Helen and Lisa for an even greater Sweet Mandarin offering.”
Developed by the entrepreneurial Tse sisters, Sweet Mandarin achieved wide recognition on BBC television programme, Dragons Den, and Gordon Ramsey’s F-Word, following the success of their family-run Chinese restaurant in Manchester of the same name.
English Provender Company, the producer and distributer of award-winning dressings, condiments and marinades for many of the UK’s leading food manufacturers and retailers will manufacture and distribute the range.
Helen and Lisa have been able to put their sauces through tests when they cooked a meal for Prime Minister, David Cameron and the Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang at 10 Downing Street during a visit in June this year, as part of the PM’s business delegation.
Sweet Mandarin created a lunch of Wasabi Prawns using the new Wasabi Sauce, followed by their signature dish, Mabel’s Claypot Chicken.
The opportunity to cater lunch for the meeting follows the Prime Minister’s trade mission in December 2013 when Lisa joined David Cameron and host of other British businesses in China.
