Taco USA
It’s like any other comfort food, Keval says. “It comes from a longing for home. Second- or third-generation immigrant kids might not ever be able to taste what our families originally ate, but we still long for it—the taste is coded into us.”
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When I talked to Choi in 2014, he said he wanted to create a menu that represented the Koreatown he had known as a child—a place with Mexican lowriders and mixed-race couples.
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Although I am, by nature, allergic to overwrought food writing, the virality of his Kogi BBQ taco truck came from the earnestness of its message. “Kogi is more than just a taco, right?” he told me. “I’m slinging love out there.”