Roy Choi

Bio:

Roy Choi was born in Seoul, Korea and raised in Los Angeles, California. Choi is known as one of the architects of the modern food truck movement through Kogi BBQ by merging food and social media with community and honoring the street food culture that laid the path before him. He is the host of the civic-minded Emmy Award winning series "Broken Bread" on KCET/Tastemade, which in 2020 won him a James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Host in a television series. On a global scale, Roy is the author of the New York Times bestselling LA Son: My Life, My City, My Food and co-host of the Netflix cooking series The Chef Show with Jon Favreau. Choi was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People.

Choi is a voice and advocate for street food culture past, present, and future, and he is the co-owner, co-founder, and chef of Kogi BBQ, and Tacos Por Vida in LA, and The Chef Truck and Best Friend at Park MGM in Las Vegas. His newest cookbook, The Choi of Cooking: Flavor-Packed, Rule-Breaking Recipes for a Delicious Life, was published in April 2025. He lives in Los Angeles.