“American barbecue is all slow and low, you know, or low and slow, as they say down in the South, in Texas. But Korean barbecue is thinner cuts of meat.”

Korean-American chef

Roy Choi is a Korean-American chef who became widely known for creating the Kogi gourmet Korean-Mexican taco truck. He emerged as a public face of the gourmet food truck movement and for a style of cooking often described as food that is not fancy. Choi’s work helped bring street food and restaurant ideas together in a new way. In 2019, he began presenting the Netflix cooking series The Chef Show with Jon Favreau.