A. Yes, it’s my newest project. I was never a businessman before any of this. For awhile, I had a lot of anxiety and started to overthink things to where if I made a move, am I over extending myself, am I selling out, am I doing too much, but finally I reached the point where I was like, fuck it. It’s not a bad thing that I can do these things, just do them with integrity.
Beechwood had reached its heyday and it was over, so I was like, man I could really come in here change it. It has great bones, great crowd and it’s at the heart of Venice Beach. But, I don’t think we can keep the name.
A. What is singing to me, right now, is the West Indies, Caribbean. But it’s not going to be a Caribbean restaurant. I don’t expect anyone from Martinique or the Bahamas to say this isn’t authentic, it’s just going to be in the spirit of the West Indies, use a lot of the ingredients that are down there, but just twist them to my LA mind.
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From not doing TV and interviews and it’s not because I’ve had a big head or anything like that, it’s been really weird for me. So, I’ve resisted it as far as I could. I haven’t done many festivals or food and wine events. The taste respected that. Instead of building a Paula Deen-type cooking event, we created a party that’s my style.
It’s a party on the streets of New York on the Paramount lot, we got a DJ, Jason Bentley, who is really respected, and we’re handpicking some of the best taco stands in LA.
A. A-Grocery Warehouse -- it’s like a wonderland. Any cook or any foodie would fall in love with this place. It’s been there for ages, probably 35 years. Hardly anyone knows about it, except for the people who actually shop there, mostly Cambodians, Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese, Thai, local chefs and a smattering of hipsters, who have moved into Silver Lake and Echo Park.
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A. Deep End Dining -- I really like this guy’s blog. He goes out and eats at really wacky places and he has a really fun, comical writing style.
This is a little bit obvious, but it may not be to a national audience, if you really want to know the city, you have to read Jonathan Gold, from a food level. If you’re from LA or your from a heritage that is not European-based, like Central America, you’re usually a part of the lifestyle that Jonathan is writing about about, so you don’t really need to read his stuff, you’re actually living it. Get out of West Hollywood and Santa Monica for a moment, go to LA Weekly, read Jonathan, pick a couple of spots and then go from there. Then start to see how we really live out here.
In the morning, I would take them for some beef soup at Han Bat. It’s kind of a cloudy, clear beef soup, that we eat for breakfast in Korea with kimchee. That’s all they serve, they only serve one soup. You go there and eat that and it’s a great start to your day.
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Maybe get some coffee. I think we have a great coffee culture in LA . Everyone knows about the espresso culture of Intelligentsia and Stumptown, but I think LAMill has a really great coffee program. It’s enlightened me about coffee, the brewing and the patience of it and the different extraction methods. But then, it doesn’t feel so cerebral.
I love Din Tai Fung Dumpling House in Arcadia, for their soup dumplings. I love 101 Noodle Express for their beef roll.
On the chef end, places like Animal and Son of A Gun. What [chefs] Jon and Vinny are doing, even though they are not from LA, they are one group of people that came in and they got LA from the beginning.
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For me, if you could pick one place out of the regional food and the Latino and Asian, just one spot you have to go to, it would be Mozza. Nancy Silverton is the cornerstone of LA and with what she did with La Brea Bakery and changing the way people eat bread in America. Mozza, just day in and day out for the last seven years or so, it’s just killing it. It’s always delicious.
A. Beverly Soon Tofu House. It’s a hot caldron of spicy silken tofu and that can be your gateway into the Koreatown.
A. El Parian -- they serve a Goat Birria, a Mexican stew, and carne asada tacos. 99.9% of the people they see all day are nothing like you, so it’s obvious to them that you are there for the food.
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A. South Philly Experience -- these guys really care about their stuff. They get Amaroso buns from Pennsylvania, they fly in their Herr’s chips, they get real meat and slice it really thin. They bring in the cheese whiz and they’ve got the provolone. They really try to do everything right from start to finish.
The Disney Fountain Soda Shop -- it’s my favorite milkshake in town. They use the Dewar’s Ice Cream from Bakersfield and it’s the old school soda fountain, with the seltzer sprayers and everything. They have great milkshakes and hot fudge sundaes.
The other hot fudge sundae that is really delicious is at Gulfstream Restaurant. It’s actually a chain restaurant from the Houston’s group and it’s just delicious, they put these little nuggets and chunks in there.
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La Descarga and the newest one is called Harvard and Stone. Amazing period bars. One is from the Fidel Castro era and Harvard and Stone is USO, American WW2 era. Amazing spaces and nothing kitschy or cliche, even though there are a lot of kitschy and cliche items, they just fit perfectly in the space.
I think the best mixologist is Julian Cox, he does stuff for Rivera and Picca. His drinks have a complexity, with floral and fruity profiles that I enjoy. He makes an avocado-guacamole cocktail at Picca that blows your mind, because it tastes nothing like you’d expect, but everything like you think it is.Choi is a chef who is celebrated for food that isn't fancy and is known as one of the founders of the gourmet food truck movemt.
Choi's parts met in the US but after marrying moved back to Korea. The family ded up emigrating from South Korea permantly in 1972.
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Choi was raised in Los Angeles and Southern California. As Choi grew up, his parts had many businesses: a liquor store, dry-cleaning shop, a Korean restaurant, and after selling jewelry door to door, finally a successful jewelry company.
For three years wh he was young. Choi's mother made kimchi that was so popular within their community that they packaged it and sold it locally.
His family once lived near Olympic Boulevard and Vermont Avue, as well as in South Ctral, the Crshaw District and West Hollywood.
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Choi attded a gifted-studts program, but changed schools in his early tes wh his parts achieved prosperity in the jewelry business and moved their family into a neighborhood in Orange County called Villa Park,
At age 15, Choi's parts st him to Southern California Military Academy in Signal Hill, California. He remembers this as a positive experice.
After high school, Choi wt to Korea and taught glish there. He th attded California State University, Fullerton, graduating with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. Choi attded Western State University law school, and dropped out after one semester.
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And in 2001, started working for Hilton Hotels. After being promoted within the company, Choi became chef de cuisine at the Beverly Hilton in 2007. It was there that Choi met his future business partner, Mark Manguera.
After this classical training and years of background in Michelin-star cooking, Choi said that the shift to the food trucks, initially based on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Vice
He was named one of the top t Best New Chefs of 2010 by Food and Wine magazine, and is the first food truck operator to win that distinction.
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Choi currtly runs Sunny Spot, in Vice, CA, which is Caribbean-inspired. He ran the Los Angeles-area restaurant Chego! which featured rice bowls,
In June 2013, Choi along with fellow chefs Wolfgang Puck and David Chang, conved at the Hotel Bel-Air to fuse differt styles such as ggaejjang style and kochujang onto the Hotel Bel-Air mu.
Choi said he didn't start out to write a book, but that he kept getting asked the same questions about his food, its flavors, and how it is prepared.
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While Choi doesn't see the book as social commtary, he felt it was important to show the real deal of the duality he felt growing up as an immigrant in the 1970s; the foods served in the restaurant were quite differt from what the family ate at home. The book also talks about the culture of Los Angeles and how it has changed since the 1970s.
The Jon Favreau movie Chef (2014) was loosely inspired by Choi and the food truck
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