Araya's Place: Kevin Smith’s First Avocado Ever?!
Vegan Abattoir
Harley Quinn Smith & Kevin Smith
4.7 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Vegan Abattoir, Kevin and Harley Quinn Smith sit down with Cheri Kim, founder and head chef of Araya’s Place, to talk about food and survival.
Cheri shares how Araya’s Place survived lockdowns, strikes, and fires, the realities of delivery apps like DoorDash, and how her menu carries forward her mother’s legacy — all while Kevin has a true first-time food moment.
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| 0:00.0 | Not both. One or the other. I see what you're doing. No, I don't want to serve it, turf it. I can't. You got pick one. Pick one. But I've had Saitam before. You've never had an avocado. No. This will be the first one. This is very exciting for me as his... Are you sure the curry's not going to ruin this shit for me? It's a little spicy. You just have to take one bite. Be adventurous. |
| 0:34.3 | Greetings, culinary cucks and dare you enter into the vegan abattoi. I'm Kevin Smith. And I'm |
| 0:38.7 | Harley Quinn Smith. The girl and her dad eat free fucking food right in front of you. It's a good time. |
| 0:43.8 | That's the name of our show. How are you? I'm doing quite well. How's your head and heart? |
| 0:47.4 | Head and heart. My heart is quite full today. Last night, I had band practice for preparing for our upcoming show. How did it go? It was so great. We have grown in size. We're now five, five members of the band. You used to be a power trio? We did. And now you're... Now we're at five. Was that a quintet? Something like that. What makes up the five members of the band? Is a guitarist? Two guitarists, a bassist, a drummer. Isn't a bassist also a guitarist? Wouldn't there be three guitarists? Are you? We've had this conversation. I know, but now that we have a witness, she always goes, like, there's two guitarists and a bass person. I was like, the bass is a guitar. She's a, you know, yeah. Technically, yes, it's a bass guitar, but they're a bassist. So three guitarists, and then a drummer? This fucking guy. A drummer? Yes, a drummer. And do you count as the fifth artist in the band? Yes, I do. Your instrument being your voice. My voice. I see. What's the name of the band? |
| 1:44.7 | Cinnamon. |
| 2:01.3 | Oh, my God, man. Named in honor of my late beloved rabbit. The band Cinnamon couldn't be sweeter. Listen to them on Spotify. Enough about you. Let's talk about me. I've been working on, I wrote a comic book. I'm, you know, I write comic books. She knows, but maybe they don't. I've been in comic books for years. |
| 2:17.6 | We wrote a comic book mini-series a couple years ago from my own comic book imprint, Secret Stash Press at Dark Horse Comics. And it was a book called Masquerade. It was always kind of like, I love it. It is our book. But it was always kind of like, hey, if somebody wants to take it and run with it go make a series of of it, go ahead. Some people were sniffing around it. And then suddenly the other day, I was like, wait a second, |
| 2:21.4 | I'm always talking about people like, would you want to make a comic movie? And I'm like, fuck no. But if it's your own comic book. That's the thing. It's like, I created this shit. But also why? |
| 2:29.3 | Me and Andy and John Springermeyer. |
| 2:30.8 | So why am I letting somebody else do it? |
| 2:32.6 | It's a dope story. |
| 2:34.0 | It is. |
| 2:34.4 | It's really cool. |
| 2:35.3 | You read it? |
| 2:35.9 | I did. |
| 2:36.5 | Yes. |
| 2:37.3 | She kept outches. John Spranglemire. So why am I letting somebody else do it? It's a dope story. It is. It's really cool. You read it? I did. Yes. She did get bouches for me. Absolutely. So I took, I'm taking the eight comic book scripts and turning them into one feature script. And it's, yeah, it's fun because it's more the writing's done. Yeah. So this is more editing because it's like, I mean, number one, you're taking out like when you're writing a comic book script, it's like page one, panel ones, all that shit goes away. But just in terms of compressing the story, it looks like it's coming in a little over 120 pages without like me having to hack anything out yet. So what are you having to fill in like the actions and everything? |
| 3:08.4 | Yeah, sometimes make it more fluid. Each issue, of course, ended on a cliffhanger. Those get kind |
| 3:13.2 | of eliminated because you don't need seven cliffhangers in a movie. Or do you? Or you could. Perhaps |
| 3:19.7 | that's my lane, as the kids say. So I don't know, I've been having a good ass time doing that. |
| 3:24.7 | That's really awesome. |
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