Two girls.
One home kitchen.
We have day jobs in tech. We also grew up with sambal on the table every single day.
Then we moved to NYC and realized nobody here had what we grew up with. Every chili sauce tasted wrong. Too oily. Too vinegary. Too... not it.
So we started making our own. Brought it to a dinner. Didn't say anything — just put it on the table. By the end of the night people were scraping the jar.
We showed up to Washington Square Park one Saturday with 30 packs. Sold out. Someone asked for two. We said no — one per person.
That felt like something.
DOTI is Taiwanese, Korean, and Indonesian. It's our grandmothers' recipes. It's the flavors Southeast Asia doesn't get enough credit for. And it's handmade in NYC by two people who really should be sleeping.
Southeast Asian food deserves way more spotlight. Walk into any grocery store and you'll find Korean, Chinese, Japanese — entire aisles. But Southeast Asian flavors? Barely a shelf. DOTI exists to change that — starting with the two things our families put on everything.
doti · small batch sambal & snacks · nyc 2026