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Most of you know how we feel about authentic Asian street food. And how hard it is to find it around here. So when our photographer friend Erik Castro told us he recently shot an up-and-coming Bay Area chef doing Malaysian street food, and issued his highest recommendation, we pounced. Chef Jesse Manuel grew up in the Bay Area and worked as a chef and consultant cross-pollinating various foods and cultures with different regions. Her first major consulting project in Bangalore brought Mexican food to India! In 2019, she was ready to make her own vision a reality and bring authentic Malaysian street food to the Bay Area. She launched her business on the streets of San Francisco— just a chef, her cart and a traditional Malaysian dish from the island of Borneo called LAKSA. “Once I set up the cart, the broth sells itself. I sold out in two hours, 300 bowls of soup all by myself,” she said. “You don’t really find anything like what I’m doing in the area. I’ve had a lot of people say they’ve never tasted anything like this before.” For these LIOCO pop-up’s Chef Jesse Manuel plans to showcase a dish called Nasi […]

Most of you know how we feel about authentic Asian street food. And how hard it is to find it around here. So when our photographer friend Erik Castro told us he recently shot an up-and-coming Bay Area chef doing Malaysian street food, and issued his highest recommendation, we pounced. Chef Jesse Manuel grew up in the Bay Area and worked as a chef and consultant cross-pollinating various foods and cultures with different regions. Her first major consulting project in Bangalore brought Mexican food to India! In 2019, she was ready to make her own vision a reality and bring authentic Malaysian street food to the Bay Area. She launched her business on the streets of San Francisco— just a chef, her cart and a traditional Malaysian dish from the island of Borneo called LAKSA. “Once I set up the cart, the broth sells itself. I sold out in two hours, 300 bowls of soup all by myself,” she said. “You don’t really find anything like what I’m doing in the area. I’ve had a lot of people say they’ve never tasted anything like this before.” For these LIOCO pop-up’s Chef Jesse Manuel plans to showcase a dish called Nasi […]

Most of you know how we feel about authentic Asian street food. And how hard it is to find it around here. So when our photographer friend Erik Castro told us he recently shot an up-and-coming Bay Area chef doing Malaysian street food, and issued his highest recommendation, we pounced. Chef Jesse Manuel grew up in the Bay Area and worked as a chef and consultant cross-pollinating various foods and cultures with different regions. Her first major consulting project in Bangalore brought Mexican food to India! In 2019, she was ready to make her own vision a reality and bring authentic Malaysian street food to the Bay Area. She launched her business on the streets of San Francisco— just a chef, her cart and a traditional Malaysian dish from the island of Borneo called LAKSA. “Once I set up the cart, the broth sells itself. I sold out in two hours, 300 bowls of soup all by myself,” she said. “You don’t really find anything like what I’m doing in the area. I’ve had a lot of people say they’ve never tasted anything like this before.” For these LIOCO pop-up’s Chef Jesse Manuel plans to showcase a dish called Nasi […]

Most of you know how we feel about authentic Asian street food. And how hard it is to find it around here. So when our photographer friend Erik Castro told us he recently shot an up-and-coming Bay Area chef doing Malaysian street food, and issued his highest recommendation, we pounced. Chef Jesse Manuel grew up in the Bay Area and worked as a chef and consultant cross-pollinating various foods and cultures with different regions. Her first major consulting project in Bangalore brought Mexican food to India! In 2019, she was ready to make her own vision a reality and bring authentic Malaysian street food to the Bay Area. She launched her business on the streets of San Francisco— just a chef, her cart and a traditional Malaysian dish from the island of Borneo called LAKSA. “Once I set up the cart, the broth sells itself. I sold out in two hours, 300 bowls of soup all by myself,” she said. “You don’t really find anything like what I’m doing in the area. I’ve had a lot of people say they’ve never tasted anything like this before.” For these LIOCO pop-up’s Chef Jesse Manuel plans to showcase a dish called Nasi […]

Most of you know how we feel about authentic Asian street food. And how hard it is to find it around here. So when our photographer friend Erik Castro told us he recently shot an up-and-coming Bay Area chef doing Malaysian street food, and issued his highest recommendation, we pounced. Chef Jesse Manuel grew up in the Bay Area and worked as a chef and consultant cross-pollinating various foods and cultures with different regions. Her first major consulting project in Bangalore brought Mexican food to India! In 2019, she was ready to make her own vision a reality and bring authentic Malaysian street food to the Bay Area. She launched her business on the streets of San Francisco— just a chef, her cart and a traditional Malaysian dish from the island of Borneo called LAKSA. “Once I set up the cart, the broth sells itself. I sold out in two hours, 300 bowls of soup all by myself,” she said. “You don’t really find anything like what I’m doing in the area. I’ve had a lot of people say they’ve never tasted anything like this before.” For these LIOCO pop-up’s Chef Jesse Manuel plans to showcase a dish called Nasi […]