A long-lasting friendship between two companies has flourished into a spicy collaboration.
Cosmic Sass Chili Sauce and Overall Murals have teamed up to create a robust, fresh, magical, and vivid flavor. Our simple ingredients bring out the multi- dimensional flavors that highlight the peppers' fruitiness and depth. This unique taste is best enjoyed when friends gather. That's when the magic happens.
Meet the Spicy Duo
Meet the spicy duo Angel Saemai and Helen Li, who crossed paths in Boston shortly after college. These two entrepreneurs eventually moved to opposite coasts—Angel to New York and Helen to Los Angeles—where they started their families and businesses.
In 2016, Helen, an architect, and her husband, Leo Lamprides, a trained culinary chef, launched Chinese Laundry Kitchen, a hand-pulled noodle food truck in Highland Park. Their venture was inspired by a curiosity to explore the intersection of diverse cultural backgrounds and culinary influences. Since then, they have launched a successful Dan Dan sauce, now sold nationwide.
Angel and her husband, Dmitry Pankov, founded Overall Murals in 2010. They combined their backgrounds in art and advertising to create a nationwide outdoor advertising and mural painting company.
They decided to merge their talents to celebrate their lifelong friendship—which now includes their spouses and children—and their shared appreciation for creativity and hard work (along with Angel's love for hot sauce). They didn't want to keep all the hot sauce to themselves, so they partnered to release an exciting collaborative sauce called Cosmic Sass.
Released in the summer of 2024, Overall Murals proudly shares this sauce with their friends and partners, ensuring everyone can enjoy it.
1:1 with Angel and Helen
How did the two companies/friends meet?
HELEN: Angel and Helen met in Boston shortly after college, and have remained besties ever since.
ANGEL: After Boston, Helen moved to LA and Angel to NY where we met our husbands and business partners. Our hubbies and kids are now also buddies and we never miss any opportunity to take a beach trip as well as an annual camping trip together!
Roots of your company / How and why did you start?
HELEN: Chinese Laundry Kitchen was started in 2016 as a food truck fueled by our curiosity to explore the overlay of our different cultural backgrounds and culinary influences.
ANGEL: Overall Murals began in 2010 to fuse the two owner’s backgrounds as well: art and advertising, but on a much larger and public scale.
Why the collaboration?
HELEN: Because we appreciate each other’s creativity. Plus creating with friends is FUN!
ANGEL: We love CLK’s hot sauce and crave it whenever we don’t have any in the fridge. It has quality ingredients, just like the top notch quality we strive for in our own mural work. We didn’t want to hog it all and wanted to share it with our friends and OM’s partners.
