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>> roy kim: this is the roast gui. this is what were known -- its thinly sliced rib-eye, marbled rib-eye. >> anthony: oh, its beautiful. roast gui. thin-sliced rib-eye. and bulgogi. thinly-sliced, fat-marbled beef, barbecued table-side. >> roy choi: for us koreans, its kind of funny that barbecue has become the gateway to our food, though. >> anthony: hey, it could be >> roy choi: it could be worse, yeah. >> anthony: at least its delicious. >> roy choi: its delicious and were like, "okay, this i...

A lot of love, and theres, theres a lot of care. >> anthony: across town in venice is a-frame, roys first brick- and-mortar. >> roy choi: this used to be an ihop, so everythings -- >> anthony: oh, yeah? >> roy choi: yeah, everythings really narrow. >> anthony: ah, hence the, uh, the shape. its heavily influenced by local takes on hawaiian cooking, not that youd necessarily notice. every dish designed to be eaten with the hands. whats good? the baby back ribs are air-dried, braised, then breaded ...

I got ninja swords and ninja stars and stuff. >> anthony: you need -- you need a puppy, man. [ laughter ] >> anthony: you need a puppy. >> david: i do need a puppy. [ laughter ] im going to paint you today. is that cool? >> anthony: yeah, sure. >> david: all right, so, just sit. >> anthony: sit? >> david: right there. and -- sorry. dont usually paint this early in the morning. okay. im going to go more expressionistic, if you dont mind. >> anthony: i want to know, and you were on record, you sai...

Anthony. this is mari. >> anthony: how you doing? >> david: this is, uh, harry kim, aka guam cruise. heres more koreans right here. >> man: heres more koreans. >> anthony: some friends of cho seem to favor this place. they are a thirsty and diverse bunch. >> anthony: im asking everybody -- stress position as a child? did, did you have to do the, uh, knees forward? >> man: oh, you know about this. >> anthony: it went right in, right into it. stress positions? >> woman: oh, we did that. >> anthony...

New york city. he runs his trucks like youd expect of someone with that background. >> roy choi: within our food media landscape, weve romanticized certain compositions of what a great chef and a, and, and a great kitchen are supposed to look and smell and feel like. but just because those are beautiful doesnt mean that this is not beautiful. for me, i dont see mustard plants and sheep grazing. i see barbed wire and telephone poles, and i see puddles. and, you know, all of that stuff contribute ...

>> anthony: terrific, thanks. excellent. oh, yeah. pouring for your elders. oh, now youre getting all korean on me. >> david: yeah. super embarrassed right now, because were in koreatown and im taking you to eat at sizzler, which, for a lot of koreans, is the best food in koreatown. um. >> anthony: so, if you were eating non-korean, this was it? >> david: we never ate out, ever. and if we did, it was mcdonalds. and if it was a birthday and a special celebration, you wanted to kick it up a notch ...

Around here. >> roy choi: nah. you can get tacos across the street, korean bibimbap right next door, and then get goat stew. you can pray to mohammed or buddha. >> anthony: a tiny mosque next door where services are held five times a day. >> anthony: just talking to a guy in the parking lot who said, "this is the first little bangladesh in america." >> roy choi: yeah. and that just happened, like, two years ago. like, we went to sleep, we woke up, and it was little bangladesh. [ laughter ] >> an...

>> roy choi: probably one guy showed up. >> anthony: yeah. >> roy choi: filipino fast food just behind us. >> anthony: mm-hm. >> roy choi: and then a bunch of riff-raffs in between. >> anthony: filipinos ought to be very proud of their food. >> roy choi: mm-hm. >> anthony: underrepresented. >> roy choi: i think theyre going through kind of what we went through, where the glass hasnt been broken yet to, to translate it but still keep the core and soul of it. but it tastes delicious. >> anthony: a...

All that was happening was, "just dont break down my store." making sure our parents, our uncles, our families, these stores, this town, stays alive. >> anthony: 58 people were killed. only a quarter of korean-owned businesses survived, either destroyed outright during the riots or abandoned afterwards by owners who felt the entire underpinning of their contract with america had shifted. yet today, koreatown is bigger and better and forever changed by what happened in 1992. dong il jang, however...

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