Maybe it’s a Cambodian American thing, but whenever someone from our community becomes successful and makes the news, our ears tend to perk up, and we take notice.
So it’s no surprise that when chef Nite Yun opened her restaurant Nyum Bai (which means “to eat rice” in Khmer), in 2017 in San Francisco—to great acclaim—the news reached me all the way up in Seattle. I couldn’t wait for the next time I’d be down in the Bay Area to be able to visit her restaurant, which started out as a pop-up, and support a fellow Khmer. But then Yun closed the restaurant in 2022 following the death of her father.
In full: https://joysauce.com/nite-yun-wants-to-know-why-youve-never-had-cambodian-food/
