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>> roy choi: mm, that's good. >> anthony: mm. yeah, all tofu should be spicy, by my way of thinking. it's so good. >> roy choi: yeah, it's really good. >> anthony: koreans can well remember when nobody was interested in their food. now it's confusingly au courant. must be strange for the owners, who've just been doing what they've been doing for years. >> roy choi: like, for example, like, us sitting here like this, the questions a lot of people are asking me in korean, like, i'm telling them we're filming, you know, we're trying to show a piece of koreatown. the, the number one question is, t...

I'm the suicidal pirate. >> anthony: oh, already signs of trouble appear. >> david: my older brother is the hip-hop santa, and my -- he was the oldest. >> anthony: right. >> david: he'd beat me up. i'd beat him up. and then he would just cry. i'll show you my dad's painting. hey, dad? >> jim: yeah? >> david: hey, come over here for a second. when did you paint this, dad? 30 years ago? >> jim: uh, '73. 1973. >> david: every christmas, he unrolls it, um, and just, like, scotch tapes it to the wall. [ chuckles ] >> david: and my mom's the artist in the family, now. >> anthony: so, this is a famil...

Honestly. that sounds, like -- totally joy -- >> roy choi: that's my -- life, man. >> anthony: totally joyless. >> roy choi: yeah. >> anthony: uh, what did your parents want you to be when you grew up? >> roy choi: for me, a doctor or lawyer. >> anthony: right. you're obviously not a doctor or a lawyer. did you finish college? >> roy choi: i finished college and i went to one year of law school and i walked out. >> anthony: right. so, you're a bad korean. >> roy choi: i'm a bad korean. if i was a mediocre accountant, it'd be better than being a top chef. >> anthony: according to who? >> roy ch...

Day, unless i'm doing something crazy like this. so it's kind of like i have a, a huge las vegas hotel, but the hallways are the streets. [ chuckles ] >> anthony: first stop, chego, a rice bowl place in the palms neighborhood. >> roy choi: these are my guys right here. hola! [ whistles ] >> man: hey, chef. [ speaking spanish ] >> anthony: kimchi spam, classic. >> roy choi: yeah, this is the menu right here. >> anthony: a big bowl of rice with meat, vegetables, and lots of flavor, for less than 10 bucks. good deal. but it's funny to hear you're so sentimental about the business of feeding peopl...

And, uh, mo -- and at the same most appreciative? >> estevan: yeah, the ones that you want to see your car, you know? >> anthony: it's a slow-moving piece of art. and you treat the car like a piece of art, acutely aware of the dangers -- cops, for whom you are a target, potholes, other cars. in east l.a., you see people "ooh and ah." you see expressions change from, "who the -- is that?" to, "nice ride." >> estevan: that was, like, a full-fledged gang member. >> anthony: yeah. >> estevan: you know, giving us, like, props, giving us respect, you know? first you build a car for yourself. but at ...