Live at CES: Kris Yenbamroong Wants to Be a Populist Chef

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Coming at you LIVE from the Google Assistant activation at the consumer electronics show, we're joined by Kris Yenbamroong of Night + Market in Los Angeles. Follow Kris on IG: Instagram.com/ntmrkt Pick up a copy of Night + Market's book from a bookstore! or on Amazon (if you must). Today's episode of the eater upsell was hosted by eater travel editor Lesley Suter and Dan Geneen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Eder Upsell, a podcast from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:09.0	My name is Daniel Janine. I am a producer at Eater and today we are taking you live to the
0:15.8	Consumer Electronics Show CES in Las Vegas for a live episode of The Upsell with
0:21.8	our travel editor Leslie Souter. Why is there a food
0:26.0	episode coming from the Consumer Electronics Show at the Google Assistant
0:30.5	Activation Space? I think why not is the most appropriate answer to that.
0:35.7	Anyway, today we were talking to Chris Yen-Bamroom, who is the chef of Night Market in Los Angeles.
0:40.8	We intro him on the spot and it's a better intro than I'm going to do now so I'm just
0:45.2	going to leave it in and here is the episode with Chris Yen Bemrung of Nightmarket.
0:50.8	If you like it please subscribe, rate us on the iTunes store, all the stores,
0:56.6	tell a friend and enjoy the episode.
0:58.8	Chris, you want to just tell us a little bit of what Night market is for people that don't know?
1:02.8	Yeah, it's a restaurant, now three restaurants in LA that started really as
1:09.2	regional Thai restaurant and now has morphed into something that I like to call like more like an
1:14.7	LA restaurant. It is an absolute sensation in the city of Los Angeles where I am
1:19.6	lucky enough to call home. Chris was born in Los Angeles, and with no babysitter,
1:25.1	he grew up basically in his family's Thai restaurants.
1:28.4	His Thai restaurant on the Sunset Strip
1:29.9	called Tallasai, that was an icon.
1:32.6	He traveled back and forth to Thailand growing up
1:34.6	before going to NYU for film school.
1:37.0	And he worked in film until he finally decided
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