“There are certain foods that are somewhat sacred or you're not supposed to mess with. When you do mess with them, it touches a nerve where you have to compare it to the original, and then that thing you're creating has a loosing change right out of the gate.”

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.