{"id":49060,"date":"2025-11-23T05:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/49060\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T05:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:09:25","slug":"korean-american-food-influencer-jaeki-cho-brings-new-york-seoul-vibes-to-hong-kong-pop-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/49060\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean-American food influencer Jaeki Cho brings New York-Seoul vibes to Hong Kong pop-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On November 15, Korean-American content creator Jaeki Cho touched down for a one-night-only pop-up in Hong Kong, bringing a taste of New York and Seoul to Sai Ying Pun\u2019s Shop B.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The event, a collaboration with the modern Cantonese restaurant, saw Cho transplant his influential \u201cRighteous Eats\u201d platform from the digital realm to a physical gathering, offering a taste of his mission to foster community and cross-cultural dialogue through food and music.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The menu was a combination of Cho\u2019s Korean heritage and New York upbringing mixed with local Cantonese flavours.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The stars of the night were a Hong Kong-style bacon, egg and cheese in the form of a pineapple bun sandwich with char siu and honey butter, and K-BBQ in a loaded baked potato using crispy pork belly and gochujang sour cream. There was also a ceviche with cured hamachi, scallop, pickled red onion and mala oil, eaten with prawn crisps.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"One of the stars of the night were the pineapple bun sandwiches with char siu and honey butter. Photo: Shannen Buxani\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/f665feaf-ea52-4ba4-905f-49b45131bc48_c9bc92c6.jpg\" title=\"One of the stars of the night were the pineapple bun sandwiches with char siu and honey butter. Photo: Shannen Buxani\"\/>One of the stars of the night were the pineapple bun sandwiches with char siu and honey butter. Photo: Shannen Buxani<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Cho, a former music journalist for hip-hop publications XXL and Complex, is not a restaurateur in the traditional sense. Instead, he has carved a niche as a culinary curator and ally, using his platform to champion small food businesses in the United States. The Hong Kong pop-up served as an international extension of this ethos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On November 15, Korean-American content creator Jaeki Cho touched down for a one-night-only pop-up in Hong Kong, bringing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[27655,98,96,27649,842,27653,27652,9,24,55,54,56,27654,122,27650,27651,22623],"class_list":["post-49060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-amsterdam","tag-brooklyn","tag-complex","tag-creators-lunch","tag-hong-kong","tag-jaeki-cho","tag-k-bbq","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-paycheck-protection-program-ppp","tag-queens","tag-righteous-eats","tag-sai-ying-pun","tag-seoul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}