Chris Oh burst into the public awareness when he won Season 3 of
The Great Food Truck Race. Shortly after winning, he opened the
popular Seoul Sausage restaurant in Los Angeles where crowds clamor
for his galbi poutine, Korean fried chicken, and fried balls
stuffed with things like kimchi fried rice and ginger mayo.
But he’s no longer merely a fixture in the open kitchen at
Seoul Sausage. He’s now splitting time between a number of other
ventures, like the restaurant Escala, where he developed a
Columbian menu (that some Columbians say is as good as home), and
Good Times BBQ where he has given new meaning to a Sunday afternoon
kick back. Most recently, Chris did an overhaul on the concession
stand at the Los Angeles’ famed Chinese Mann Theater.
Chris has won Food Network’s Cutthroat Kitchen and Esquire’s
Knife Fight. He was also a regular chef on Food Network’s Kitchen
Inferno and a judge on FYI’s Late Night Chef Fight. Soon he’ll
be judging competitors’ dishes on Bravo’s new show, Recipe for
Deception.
Even with all of that, he’s still not where he wants to be.
The end goal is pretty simple: live on the beach and sell Coronas
and spam musubis all day. Until then, he’ll continue working on
being the “Jay-Z of the food world.”
