A socialist republic on the eastern Indochinese Peninsula, with Hanoi as its capital; its present state was established through the reunification of north and south in 1976.
The name of Sriracha maker Huy Fong Foods has nothing to do with sauce. In 1979, founder David Tran escapedVietnam aboard a cargo ship named Huey Fong, which took him to Hong Kong. He later named the company after the ship that saved his life.