Bong Is Cambodia by Way of Crown Heights
News Source : Grub Street
News Summary
- Chakriya Un has spent the better part of the past decade as an itinerant evangelist for the Cambodian food she grew up eating.
- Bong (a Khmer term of endearment and respect) is her first permanent restaurant.
- It’s a strong-flavored cuisine, sour, fishy, and fermented, less spicy than those of its neighbors.
- Un understands that authenticity is useful as both a kitchen practice and a marketing tool, especially when it's seasoned with a little mystery.
That opening a restaurant even in a restaurantmad town like this one is a fools errand is so well established it barely needs saying. The costs are high, the rewards few, the work grinding, the succ [+5787 chars]
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