Chef Roy Choi and The Street Food Remix

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs. (2017).Chef Roy Choi and The Street Food Remix. Bellevue, Washington: Readers to Eaters.

30 page, Grade 1-5,Biography and Children’s non-fiction literature, ISBN 978-0-9836615-9-7

            Chef Choi is a Korean born chef that grew up in L.A, California where he enjoyed eating his favorite food, his mother’s Korean home cooked meals cooked with sohn-maash (love and talent that comes from the finger tips), along with a variety of other different food in L.A. He became a chef in a fancy restaurant. Although cooking for fancy occasions and celebrities were great, the toll of the work caught up to him and which led him to lose his job. This situation led him to the bright idea of starting the Kogi food trucks, in hope to put his passion out there and make amazing sohn-maash flavorful food available to all people, children, teens, shufflers, skateboarders and so forth. It worked!

            This book is really great because it has the author’s nots and the illustrator’s note on the back and it is really special because it give a great sense of the wonderful relationship that the author and illustrator has with Chef Roy Choi. I would definitely recommend this book to be used in social studies because it is a true story, it shows an insight of what it’s like to have people immigrate into a country, it shows real struggles, it shows how the mix of cultures can work together like the Korean bbq tacos, and it has awesome pictures that speaks for itself.