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Will not be here anytime soon. [ laughter ] >> roy choi: yeah, i mean, so that's when all the stuff started to go down. >> anthony: roy choi is a second-generation korean american. he lives in los angeles. he's the owner/operator of four groundbreaking and much loved food trucks, among the first to harness the strange and terrible powers of social media to alert customers to where to find delicious food. >> roy choi: this was the command post. from here, you know, you could look and you could see if fires were going on. >> anthony: when the los angeles riots happened in 1992, roy was 22 years ...

Groundbreaking and much loved food trucks, among the first to harness the strange and terrible powers of social media to alert customers to where to find delicious food. >> roy choi: this was the command post. from here, you know, you could look, and you could see if fires were going on. >> anthony: when the los angeles riots happened in 1992, roy was 22 years old. and this plaza's rooftop played a central role for koreans defending their town. but let's back up a bit. after the immigration act of 1965, thousands of koreans began arriving in l.a. the first to arrive were mostly middle-class, c...

Town was going down, and no one was showing up. and so, we as koreans figured that out really quickly. there's a point where you and i look at each other and say -- >> they're not coming. >> they're not coming. you know, like -- >> the choppers will not be here anytime soon. >> that's when all the stuff started to go down. >> roy choi is a second-generation korean-american. he lives in los angeles. he's the owner-operator of four groundbreaking and much-loved food trucks, among the first to harness the strange and terrible powers of social media to alert customers to where to find delicious fo...

Years old. and this plaza's rooftop played a central role for koreans defending their town. but let's back up a bit. after the immigration act of 1965, thousands of koreans began arriving in l.a. the first to arrive were mostly middle class, college educated, hoping to make a lateral move into american society. but unless you have a medical or engineering degree, that turned out to be tough. they found work as merchants, store owners, opened liquor stores, groceries, massage studios, dry cleaners. they did that in an area that was, as it's called, underserved. where major chains feared to trea...

Delicious food. >> this was the command post. from here, you know, you could look and you could see if fires were going on. >> when the los angeles riots happened in 1992, roy was 22 years old. and this plaza's rooftop played a central role for koreans defending their town. but let's back up a bit. after the immigration act of 1965, thousands of koreans began arriving in l.a. the first to arrive were mostly middle class, college educated, hoping to make a lateral move into american society. but unless you have a medical or engineering degree, that turned out to be tough. they found work as mer...