About Fifth Taste Foods, LLC

Global flavors and experience are oo’mämē‘s inspiration. A taste for travel, the culinary experiences integral to the journey, are a match to the flame of our passion for adventure. We draw inspiration from the rich culinary heritage of places that can be out of reach for many in everyday life. Chinese New Year’s in Szechuan… Los Dias de Los Muertos in Oaxaca. Inspired by a Chinese chile crisp, we traveled the globe and brought the aromas and tastes of other lands to this concept, creating an entirely new category and bringing exotic to the table in a shelf-stable jar. At the age of 24, our founder Mark Engel was on a quest for 牛肉，肌肉，豬肉，魚 和， 菜!!! Those were actually his first Chinese words (beef, chicken, pork, fish and vegetable), when as a young adult, he packed up his American life 30 years ago and moved to Taiwan in search of good food and some Chinese language skills. Travel and experiencing far off lands through food has been an amazing journey. We don’t think you will find anything that comes close to our global chile crisps. oo’mämē ™ is handmade in small batches, using all-natural products, right here in the USA. Foreign-made products simply can’t make the quality claims we can. Our experience and travel have shown that they are generally mass-produced, under unknown conditions, lacking the quality control we insist upon. We want to make sure to nourish our bodies with things we can pronounce, sourced from responsible producers. Share the adventure!Read their story