Oak pt.2 - working with Ye and starting night market

Check out Oak's entrepreneurial story from working with Kanye West to opening a night market!

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Alright, let's see you.

SPEAKER_04 0:03

Good to see you. Thank you for coming. Welcome to another episode of Chile Whippa. And I'm your host, Bo. In this podcast, all we talk about is chill kind of conversation, you know, and how to be the best you. Come chill with me, man. What y'all doing, huh? Chili Whippa! You know, just hear cool stories and just chill. You know the type of conversation you have while you're chillin' with your homies. But you get to just witness that, witness that, witness that, witness that, witness that. Today I have oak. Oak, oak like oak like a tree, you know, and then I'll just do the introduction real quick. I'll be like, he's a filmmaker, organizer of Diaz Night Thai Night Market. He makes music too. He also has YouTube. He just kind of does it all. I invite Oak because, you know, I had ran into him at Diaz Night Market and I was really inspired by what he does, and I want to hear more about his story.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

So I came into the US in 2011. I study English. I study I started studying photography because just want to learn about it, right? Because back then, when I was in Thailand, I told my mom, if I got into an art university called Silipacon, that's like the best art school. If I got into that school, I will not come to America. And I didn't. But I met um one of my mentor friends. He was doing like nice visual effects, video with DSLR camera. And I was fascinating, but I didn't know where, how to start to learn. And fast forward to America, it's available right there. But before going to the cinema class, you gotta take photography class. And my English wasn't well. And I studied photography class at LACC. Every classes from film to digital portrait, everything. And then my friend was like, you gotta choose which path you want to go, either photo or video. And I was like, why? Because video, they are more like acting, directing, cinematography, editing, sound, editing, all of stuff. Photo is also more, but the more specific way or path you can have is better. So I chose cinema. I want to learn hard things. And then I learned cinema in um L E C C and I went to CSAN Captain Northridge. After eight years, I graduated and I studied pretty much every every aspect of filmmaking.

SPEAKER_04 2:39

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 2:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:40

But you you've always been so ambitious and just seeking knowledge, huh? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Yeah. I was I was blessed because my mom took us here. I started working in restaurants with my brothers. My brother, yeah. So I know like it's it costs a lot to go to school in America. So I I try my best to study everything I can, from lighting to editing, to visual effects, to art to cinematography, to directing to producing. And the more I climb up, the more I realize like, oh shit. I wasn't just want to be a craft man. I want to be the entrepreneur. I want to be the boss. I want to be the leader. I need to learn more and more and more. And it shifts my set from being the craftsman or the guy who, you know, carrying gear to get shit done, to be the creator, to be the the boss, to be the one that brings people together to be the hub. And I became film director, I became producer. And after I graduated, I was so ambitious. Like I want I want I want to do so much thing. I want to produce film. We went to AFM, American Film Market. And we sold the film that I was the DP. It won the Best Audience Award at Culver City Film Festival. And we sold it to a company named Urban Flicks for 1.5 million. Oh wow. Yeah. But I wasn't in the financial part of it much after.

SPEAKER_04 4:12

So you made 1.5 million?

SPEAKER_00 4:14

I did not. Oh. That's why I'm saying I'm not in the partnership part. I'm more of the creative side. And it wasn't my company, it wasn't my right. It was a little But you was on the project. I wasn't on the project.

SPEAKER_04 4:24

But now you saw like, okay, I can really I really have this skill set and really can take it all there.

SPEAKER_00 4:29

Exactly. So I was the producer for my friend film for a feature, and I made some pilot for the feature that I want to make. I flew back to Thailand for the first time after eight years, and I start um what's it called? We wanted to do a music festival with my friend.

SPEAKER_02 4:49

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

Yeah. And I came back and it was 2020 or 21. COVID hit.

SPEAKER_02 4:57

Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_00 4:58

That shined everything. I bro I became broke right away. I maxed out my credit card.

SPEAKER_04 5:04

Because before that you were just in the film world.

SPEAKER_00 5:06

Yeah, and I quit I after I graduated, I quit my job too from from working in a restaurant. Because I was like, I don't want to work in a restaurant anymore. I wanna spend it.

SPEAKER_04 5:17

Yeah. So you just kinda went to art full time.

SPEAKER_00 5:19

Yeah. And then COVID hit. I all the project I did was a loss.

SPEAKER_04 5:25

Oh damn.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

Yeah, and I became broke right away and no job because of the COVID. Right, right. It was the worst time to graduate.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

Right.

SPEAKER_00 5:34

And I started doing content. Just like me cooking with my air fryer. And I put all the knowledge I have unconsciously. I act in the video, I edit very well, I put lighting, good sound, good music.

SPEAKER_04 5:50

Oh, because you had the film background. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:53

Um, I put plots in there, story, cooking skill. It was a chef too. Yeah. And I had a cat. So all the element is so marketable. I did it, went so viral in Thailand. Back then it was like a group called Samai Home Lodge Pom Jack Menu Moto Atlanta Man. Like they wanna get they wanna be, they wanna use the air fryer together and they just share the menu. But I did like I like the name too.

SPEAKER_04 6:17

The name was funny. It's actually we're gonna get skinny from using cooking without using oil.

SPEAKER_00 6:23

Yeah. And and I I was I was the star. Like literally, I'm not trying to, you know, make make myself feel good, but it was only me doing that in the group. And it went like millions of views. I got sponsored. I was like, oh shit, this is filmmaking, this is film directing, this is acting.

SPEAKER_04 6:44

Now now you get to like reap the benefit. Because back then, like you you did it, but then it was somebody else's project.

SPEAKER_00 6:49

Now you can Yeah, now it's just like, oh, you can be a solo pioneur.

SPEAKER_04 6:53

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

Yeah. And I was doing content for that for a while, and then I started doing content, YouTube content with my friend thrifting vintage clothing called Silpway.

SPEAKER_02 7:06

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 7:07

And it blew up too.

SPEAKER_02 7:08

Right.

SPEAKER_00 7:09

I put my style with vintage length, my storytelling with little visual effects, and here and there. And that time it was like, okay, I I I think I'm a content creator. Until one day, I got hit up by a company that we work on uh some short films together called Specular. So Specular hit me up like, Oak, we got a job for you. For what? We're gonna fly you. We are gonna go together. Like, where? Go to Wyoming.

unknown 7:39

Oh, what?

SPEAKER_00 7:40

Oh, hell yeah, it was COVID. I need gig. I need a job.

SPEAKER_01 7:44

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:45

And you cannot tell anyone who you're gonna be working with. Like, whoo! If I tell you, you're gonna be shocked, but we're gonna go, okay? So I flew on a jet plane that has like gold sink.

SPEAKER_04 8:00

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 8:01

And the jet plane has cellular cellular signal.

SPEAKER_04 8:05

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

Is that nice? And I went to the what's it called? Ranch, not a house. And it was Kanye.

SPEAKER_04 8:14

Oh wow. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

And it was the editor. It was my first editing gig that I get paid. I was the I was I should have put the two and two.

SPEAKER_04 8:23

You know, I love Kanye too. I should have put the two and two together when you say Wyoming. Uh-huh. Because that was during the that album that uh I hate bipolar or something, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:34

Yeah. So back then it was during the COVID time. Yeah. He had Bipolar happening.

SPEAKER_04 8:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

He wanted to be the president. Yeah. He was breaking up with Kim Kardashian. And he was launching new album, Donda. He was launching Yeezy Gap. So there's those so many shit happening.

SPEAKER_04 8:54

Yeah, and then there's a bunch of people there too. Like in terms of like artists and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 8:59

And I didn't I didn't know all of them. I wasn't a hip-hop fan or anything. I just went to film school. And I love being a content creator.

SPEAKER_04 9:09

And they just hit you up for editing because they love the way you edit.

SPEAKER_00 9:11

Exactly. Exactly. And we work together and it's pretty much like a pilot gig. You know, you you want all the ideas to become a solid piece visually so they can see. And, you know, if you are a billionaire, if this project, like some hundred thousand, it to be a top for the pilot is worth it. And I was so blessed to be there because I'm the only editor with this skill that can edit like right now. Because I'm a film director, so I know how to write, how to, you know, tell the story. I know how to finish the product with post-production skill. Right, right. So I combine everything. I have good music from Kanye, like a pilot track. Justin Bieberkim, Pusha T, John Monopoly, all the OG people. That's fire. Yeah. I forgot the name. Damn Dash was the guy who Rick Rubin.

SPEAKER_04 10:10

Uh-huh. So everybody from business side, everybody.

SPEAKER_00 10:13

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:14

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 10:14

When I tell this story to the hip-hop lovers, they were like, what? I know.

SPEAKER_04 10:18

No, no, I'm I'm kicking out inside too. I love that whole thing. I'm wearing uh I'm wearing like a Yeezy sandals right now. Yeah. So I was like, you know, I do like, I do like all that.

SPEAKER_00 10:28

Yeah. So I I just, you know, the YouTube thing, the air fryer thing, like, fuck that for now. I'm now on a jet plane working with Kanye. Yeah, right. I told my mom like I have right to Hollywood. I'm done. I'm I'm Achive. Like, I got this. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 10:47

How old were you? You still like that was like a couple years ago. You was like 26?

SPEAKER_00 10:51

Oh, I would say maybe 20, yeah, like like 26, something like that. During the COVID was 2019, 20?

SPEAKER_04 10:58

2020.

SPEAKER_00 10:59

20. Yeah. So it's like five years ago. Uh huh. Yeah, it was like 26, 27. And it was like good two weeks of work working with Kanye.

SPEAKER_04 11:10

And so what did you edit? You edit the the short film, the music video. Everything. Everything. Oh, so you're the main editor for the whole thing.

SPEAKER_00 11:17

Yeah. That's crazy. I did. So Dem Dash was the guy who managed shit that's happening there. Every idea shared every second. Whatever they tell me, I do, I get it done.

SPEAKER_04 11:28

And then that's crazy. And you're like an expert already because you've done it. That's fire.

SPEAKER_00 11:33

So there's like a fashion video. They want to create like a Netflix type of thing with Kanye stuff. It was the senator coming to the ranch and talking with Demdash about how shit happened with Kanye when he wanted to do the president. Right, right, right. With Gab, they're doing some, you know, some product.

SPEAKER_02 11:57

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:58

And our crew, the specular crew, they shot the video with like the top end of love of video. And they have the gear.

SPEAKER_04 12:06

6k black man.

SPEAKER_00 12:07

Yeah, the coolest lane in the world. And Kanye got the coolest car called Sherp or something. It's like the car that can go underwater and like it's so weird. And it just like huge thing happening. All the OG was there.

SPEAKER_04 12:23

And they just found you that on like what how did you market yourself? They just found you through your Instagram or LinkedIn?

SPEAKER_00 12:28

No, we worked together before for short films.

SPEAKER_04 12:31

For Specular. Yeah. Okay, cool, cool, cool.

SPEAKER_00 12:33

Yeah, and we and she is Thai, the owner.

SPEAKER_04 12:35

Oh yeah? Yeah. This is dope though. This is really dope. Shout out to Thai people and Asian people. You know, I think a lot of people don't know, right? Like with the end and then behind the scene.

SPEAKER_00 12:45

Yeah. So I worked for Specular for that gig. And then after I came back, I was like, okay, let's focus on film. Film only.

SPEAKER_02 12:54

Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 12:56

So after I came back from Kanye Ranch working with I started working with Demdash.

SPEAKER_02 13:02

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 13:02

And it was smooth in the beginning. And then after that, it wasn't smooth. And I don't know if I can talk about this topic, but it just it just stopped there. And then I became like, oh shit. The real bipolar hit. Like, oh my God. Why am I born to do this? Like, I I don't want to do art anymore. I don't want to.

SPEAKER_02 13:26

Oh wrong.

SPEAKER_00 13:27

Yeah, I feel so bad about my life. Like that I was broke. The art that I chose, like content creation, I just left it behind.

SPEAKER_04 13:36

And then Because even though like you had like because I think this one thing people don't understand about art. You can have big moments, but it doesn't mean you end up rich right away.

SPEAKER_00 13:45

But that's a good good. I would say the best moment because looking back, it just like big slap to my head. Like, yo, stop being big ego. You are no one. You can fail. You are stupid. And I became humble again.

SPEAKER_02 14:04

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 14:05

And started working with Thai community more. I it was during the COVID, right? So I worked with Thai Town House of Los Angeles. I did like 40 restaurant video for very, very, very cheap red with my team. And Specular supported and my my team supported. I was I showed, I showed I edit, I created music for every restaurant. Colored it, put the subtitle, and you know, one make one to make the video for the wider audience so they can they can see the restaurant at the cheap cost, seeing the food, the story here and there. And after that, it just more small gig, a little commercial here and there. So working with my team from there, which is the team that I work with at night market right now.

SPEAKER_04 14:55

Oh no. It got seems close. Every time I go, you guys hang out.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

So they they've been through all of my up and down. And then we were like, we need a a physical project that can connect every the world and can make money. And it becomes night market. It starts from there.

SPEAKER_04 15:15

Whose idea was that? All of y'all.

SPEAKER_00 15:18

Yeah, the night market idea is in every Thai people. We all want to have a night market like in Thailand. Right. It is every day, everywhere. Everywhere, all day, all night.

SPEAKER_04 15:29

That's why I I love going there. It makes me feel like I'm in Thailand for real. Yeah. And the energy too. The energy you brought too is like naan what?

SPEAKER_00 15:36

Yes. Because it's like loud as hell.

SPEAKER_04 15:38

Yeah, and then the music, the dance, and it's very like, I think that's one thing I like about Thai culture too, because America sometimes is like trying to be too cool. You know? And then when it's like, let's just have fun, very community. It's not like gatekeep or trying to be better or anything.

SPEAKER_00 15:51

Exactly. We just like create a nice hood. Yeah. And we started at Lexi, which is the Thai Costco.

SPEAKER_04 16:02

You fun yourself. It is like a Thai Costco, though.

SPEAKER_00 16:05

Yeah. And then, you know, we got a good support from the owner, and we had the big night market. We have like 30 vendors.

SPEAKER_04 16:13

Oh, you know what? That's crazy. Because I went to that one. I didn't know it was the same one.

SPEAKER_00 16:17

Same one.

SPEAKER_04 16:18

Ah. It's a different energy though, because you already have the music and the vendors look a little bit different.

SPEAKER_00 16:22

Yeah. Yeah. It was like one roll. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 16:25

Because I went there a couple years ago.

SPEAKER_00 16:27

Yeah. And the hard thing was the noise that we made. You know, we loud as hell. And next next door is the apartment.

SPEAKER_04 16:37

Oh yeah, because they have all the apartment right here.

SPEAKER_00 16:39

Exactly. We got a complaint, especially about karaoke. Yeah. But it threw out DM was like, imagine someone sing that bad next to your room, something. I was like, oh shit. So we end the contract after six months. So no, we had a problem with sale and parking. So when people, like thousands of people come every weekend, the resident around there got mad. Yeah, yeah, got mad. So if we m moved to Far East Plaza, is in Chinatown, which is nearby Howling Race.

SPEAKER_04 17:08

Oh, so it's it's not where you guys are at now. No, that's that plaza. Yeah. Like with the kind of like and it's not abandoned mall, it's like a mall kind of thing.

SPEAKER_00 17:16

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Next to the mall. And then was there for two months. Didn't work out for um the tenants that are there already, because we took their parking and the customer there couldn't go to the restaurant there.

SPEAKER_02 17:30

Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 17:31

And we came to Shanatao Central Plaza, which is already around ten months at this location. And the landlord loved us, the community, the neighbor, everyone loved us. We're so blessed, we tell them, like, hey, thank you for letting us be here. Like they thank us back. Like, yo, we thank you guys to make it lively and bring more food traffic. And here we are right now. Yeah, from you know, Kanye to night market. Right. But the night market right now, I would say, is on the very, very, very thin line of closing it.

SPEAKER_04 18:10

No, I've been seeing content.

SPEAKER_00 18:12

How come? Because the financial and it's a simple equation. Less food traffic, less audience, less customer means less vendors.

SPEAKER_03 18:21

Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_00 18:22

Less vendor means we have less money to operate. With utilities and all the stuff we need to pay. Even though it's a hard time, our landlord and BID team, the Chinatown team, they help us a lot for, you know, the rent, the things that we need, whatever. And still, we still cannot say to the world like very optimistically, like, yo, we're gonna be going. We cannot lie to ourselves anymore. Our debt is growing. We don't get paid. I don't get paid for a while. That's why all of us have the four the four co-founders. We got our own vendors. So we can survive through that. But still, the equation is not right because the the big pyramid starts from the customer. We need customers. More customers, more vendor, more our vendor can sell, more our vendor that rent us, and more like you know, longevity we can survive. But now it's just like it's the worst year of the history. You know, people is the economy too though. Economy, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:31

In general, it's it's just been hard.

SPEAKER_00 19:33

Yeah, start at the beginning of the year it was the fire.

SPEAKER_04 19:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:38

Then it you know, the holidays and events, like those stuff are inevitable.

SPEAKER_02 19:43

Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 19:44

You know, it depends on how you promote yourself with the business. If you fail, we we learn. But all the stuff that we cannot control, like ice red, right, those change the whole thing. The energy changed, people are scared, all the price went up, COVID shut down.

SPEAKER_02 20:03

Right.

SPEAKER_00 20:04

And now it's the weather, now the holiday season, and it's so hard for us. And we don't want to do the dramatic content all the time. We want to be celebrating.

SPEAKER_04 20:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:16

Our slogan is like, we can celebration.

SPEAKER_02 20:20

Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 20:20

We want to create a safe place for people to hang out every weekend.

SPEAKER_02 20:23

Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 20:24

But how would I lie to myself? How would I just go on a stage and you know, have fun, everyone? But inside I'm crying.

SPEAKER_02 20:31

Right.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

Like I I work four days, three days at the night market, one day prepping my stuff, and at the at the end of the week, I don't make profit and I lost.

SPEAKER_02 20:43

Right.

SPEAKER_00 20:44

Why would I keep doing it?

SPEAKER_02 20:46

Right.

SPEAKER_00 20:46

So doing that content, telling people like, yay, we are kind of close. Like this week, if you guys don't show up, and now we're bringing audition vendors like art, craft, merch, vintage for free. We're supporting you, you're supporting us. All of us will help each other to bring more customers. Right. And if you want to donate, you can donate even a dollar. And people donate.

SPEAKER_03 21:12

Where can people donate at?

SPEAKER_00 21:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:13

No, where can they donate it?

SPEAKER_00 21:14

Oh, they can donate throughout Zale uh at DS DSnightmarket at gmail.com.

SPEAKER_02 21:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

Yeah, it's on Zale, and we truly appreciate you guys. And people not just donating only one dollar, like one, five, ten, even one hundred. Like, who the hell are you? Like how much you care about us? Like that much? We're so impressed, like, oh shit. People want us want us to survive and keep going for real, but the economy doesn't really uh allow us to do. And many restaurant business owners that we know struggling too. Some people just gotta fire the employees, some people gotta keep washing the dish on their own. Some people just keep not making profit for months. Right. And we are struggling like that too. Like we don't want to cut our employees. We don't want to pay them late. Everyone has their own problem. That's why we have our own vendor to just like okay. We're gonna make our best food, pay ourselves with that, and pay our crew with that, and attract more vendors, attract more people, and try our best until the last minute that the night market can survive. We don't want to create the full location. We want this to be our last location, and that's it. And move on to new business because it's a pros and cons to create three consecutive days night market. Good thing people can come every day. Bad thing people can come any day. Right? They they don't come this week, maybe next week they're gonna be here. Right, right, right, right. And the parking is Chinatown.

SPEAKER_04 22:53

It's not too bad, though.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

Not too bad.

SPEAKER_04 22:55

Not too bad.

SPEAKER_00 22:56

But when there are events. Oh yeah, like Dodger Game. Dodger game, concert, at the park, at the Dodger Stadium or whatever. Yeah. The parking price goes up a little bit and people don't want to pay that much of the cost to to eat street food. Right, right. And for the street food, we got a lot of complaint too. Yeah? Yeah. Not not for the vibe of anything, just for the um the price. So the price, I would say it's a hard topic to talk about, but first thing is Thai food don't need to be cheap.

SPEAKER_04 23:32

It don't.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_04 23:34

No, and I'm glad you're saying this because I always feel so I grew up working in restaurants too. And I've always been like, I feel like Thai people, and uh, we can talk this is a whole nother topic. I'm gonna just segue real quick. But you know, like, you know, I'm not trying to be divisive with Asian people. But you know, like when it comes to Thai people, sometimes I feel like they don't put the respect like East Asian food, you know, like Japanese food and Korean food can be expensive. But Thai food, if they sell expensive, they're like, oh why? And Thai food is I I can be biased, but it's also pretty fucking hard to make. Yeah. And it requires a lot of ingredients. Yeah. And people will like, but it's just like the social status of Thai food is not as high. Exactly. And I think people don't understand Thai food. Like, I think Thai people, I would say, are newer to America or newer to the market. You know what I mean? It's not as incorporated into American, doesn't understand Thai people, Thai food, or Thai culture as deeply as they might see other Asian culture and food and value it at higher aspect.

SPEAKER_00 24:34

Have you heard somebody say you can spend sixty-eight dollars to buy all the ingredients to make one pai thai? Or go to a restaurant for 10 something bucks or 20 bucks to get the best pathai that they made for 10,000 of that already.

SPEAKER_02 24:50

Right.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

And going to a restaurant or eating Thai food that cheap. It's okay to be cheap, but I don't think Thai food needs to be cheap. Like other food too. Not because of you want to make more money, but think about the culture, the experience, the the hardship of making it perfect. And you know, making one curry or even patai, it's it requires so much. It's not just like flipping burger.

SPEAKER_04 25:17

And it is respect too, because people will spend $24 on a fucking burger.

SPEAKER_00 25:21

Yeah. Bro, disrespect.

SPEAKER_04 25:23

Yeah, like or a sandwich. You know what I mean? Just because it's like little fancy or it's American or whatever, you know?

SPEAKER_00 25:30

Yeah, but I understand the hardship of the financial thing that people want to get the the cheapest and the best quality. I agree. I'm that too.

SPEAKER_04 25:39

Me too.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

If I find it, good. But I would not complain about it. I know everyone has some business going on. Otherwise, you get Wagyu from McDonald's already. Right? Having the night market and selling the food, we have different price range. If you can afford the OG skewer, eight skewer for $10 and sticky rice, that's Thai. Yeah. If you can afford my all-in rodeo barbecue plate, $36, but you get overnight marinade meat, charcoal grill, rice, street corn, hot sauce that I made, ribs, uh, pork jowl, New York strip, rice in the gold plate. If you can get that, get that.

SPEAKER_04 26:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:31

Like, okay, if you can afford or you can afford, let's try. If you love it, then love it. That's why cars has different price too. Right, right. You can drive Mercedes or you can drive, or you can just don't drive, take metro.

SPEAKER_04 26:48

Right.

SPEAKER_00 26:48

Either way you get there.

SPEAKER_04 26:50

No, there's respect. It's just what you want to make. Because remember, respect the craft.

SPEAKER_00 26:53

Yeah. The craftsmanship of Mercedes Benz or Rolex is the preference. But does anyone complain about how expensive it is? They just press, like, oh shit, this is the craftsmanship. Why don't you press Thai food? Right. Oh shit, this chef spent so much time and he became broke and he cried in the kitchen and and he is make this food.

SPEAKER_04 27:18

Good quality. Because I was surprised the quality that you went for it. Like I told people it's our best Thai barbecue. And I could say that though. I'm not even trying to like toot your horn. You know, the people are brought, they're from OC. They're from New Mexico. Like the people that are abroad, they're from the valley. They're all driving an hour to come, you know?

SPEAKER_00 27:35

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 27:36

And I'm gonna bring more people.

SPEAKER_00 27:37

Yes, thank you. Thank you. And it's a hard topic to talk, and people are there. Some people that already go there, like our usual, they know the deal. Like, okay, today I'm gonna get this and those. Like, you're not walking to a restaurant and you have a s a certain selection of menus, but you can have the open uh the conversation opener, like, oh, do you like the noodle? Oh, honey, I like the barbecue more. I like the smoothie here and there. That's the cause. That's the cost of the fresh air. That's the cause of EDM night, the live music, the karaoke, the vibe.

SPEAKER_04 28:15

It's a vibe, because it's an event. It's not even just like a food, it's like a whole event. It's like a that's how I found you guys. Like, I just heard music. I'm like, what the fuck is going on? Yeah. And I'm like, let's go there. And I'm like, oh damn, this is Taiwan? I was just like, what?

SPEAKER_00 28:28

Uh-huh. And still, some local people nearby our night market don't know, like, oh, you guys exist? Like, where did you exist? Like, where did you go? We're here. This is Chinatown's central plaza, like, is central. Yeah. And at the same thing, I don't know if you know about Feng Shui.

SPEAKER_03 28:44

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:45

Yeah, Huangchui. Like, like those stuff. It's like, if Chinese people, they create Chinatown as like this is the biggest one, one of the biggest outside of China, right? One of the biggest. I don't know which where's the biggest one, but this is in LA, Chinatown. Uh-huh. And this is the central, the Feng Shui, the whatever thought they have already created this place. And we're blessed to be here. Are we gonna leave this place? This is the gold mine. This can attract so much people. This can grow opportunities. This can build businesses. This can create jobs. This can be so much better than it's like.

SPEAKER_04 29:26

This could be the next big. It's already the biggest thing in my eye, but it I think like the world needs to show more respect. Like, you know, like they have like what 66 market or or Smokersburg, whatever. I feel like I don't know how big those are, but this can be bigger than that.

SPEAKER_02 29:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:43

The food is better. I mean, I don't want to talk shit. I don't want to talk personally, and I'm not even considering that. You know, like, because I we know we both like live in our ALA Jason, and it's like I don't really go to places.

SPEAKER_00 29:55

This one, I go. I would say if people watching or hearing this, I would suggest them to try everything as they can so they can know which one is better. Right than the take a side, right?

SPEAKER_04 30:06

But but you know what? And the food is so creative too. Like, you know, they got the kanum croak with the with the kanum amounts.

SPEAKER_00 30:14

Oh, yeah, the coconut cake with mango stick, right?

SPEAKER_04 30:16

I was like, who the fuck thought of this?

SPEAKER_00 30:19

That's like extra of extra of extra sauce.

SPEAKER_04 30:22

I never heard of it. I never I never experienced this before. I don't know if they had it in Thailand, but when I saw that.

SPEAKER_00 30:28

I never seen.

SPEAKER_04 30:29

I was just like, who the fuck thought of this? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 30:33

I was I was like, we also served the coconut cake with durian on top. Oh, wait. With mango cigarettes, with now we create the green tea version.

SPEAKER_04 30:41

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:42

All green and with the green tea matcha.

SPEAKER_04 30:44

It's like innovation. It's like it's like a game changer. That's almost like, oh wow, this is the first time they made soul beats.

SPEAKER_00 30:52

We have uh uh a vendor called Pat Pat, which is created by Mile, Awanawawa Ko Foudry.

SPEAKER_02 30:59

Uh huh.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

He made like drunken noodles, all Pat Pat stuff is like all the stir-fries, walk spy noodle stuff, pasil, pat kimao, and Pat macaroni is a pat macaroni too. Yeah. Sukiyaki Xiaomin. And he collabed with me with my meat. So he put instead of just like boiled plain bland chicken, he used my pork jewel, New York strip or ribeye, and put on top of it. Oof, very addictive.

SPEAKER_04 31:30

Yeah. Hey, the sauce is good too. I'll buy the sauce. I don't know if you sell the sauce.

SPEAKER_00 31:33

I sell the sauce by bottle now.

SPEAKER_04 31:34

Oh yeah?

SPEAKER_00 31:35

Yes, and now and now I'm trying to uh distribute and and improve my brand, Tyrodeo barbecue. Uh-huh. I want to sell it online. Because I know sometimes I cannot go out there to sell. I gotta be at night market. But I believe in my content, I believe in in my marketing. So I'm trying to create the meat ready to ship, you know, freeze it, and they can put in the air fryer.

SPEAKER_02 32:02

Bite to the air fryer.

SPEAKER_04 32:03

Exactly. Hey, this air fryer got him to kanje, to DS Thai night market creation. Shout out to air fryer.

SPEAKER_00 32:11

Yeah. The best innovation.

SPEAKER_04 32:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:13

And then, you know, ship it out with the sauce.

SPEAKER_04 32:16

Nah.

SPEAKER_00 32:17

And then they can have have their own night market version on the table.

SPEAKER_04 32:20

I fuck with the vision. I'll definitely be one of them people.

SPEAKER_00 32:24

Yeah, I'll send it to you.

SPEAKER_04 32:25

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:26

Um, once I finish the label and and all the packaging stuff, I'm gonna start sending to people to do like a little testimonial video for you. I could do it. I could do it.

SPEAKER_04 32:34

I could do it with the brand too.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

Yeah.

unknown 32:37

Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_00 32:38

That's the journey. My my life is uh roller coaster, that's why I'm single.

SPEAKER_04 32:42

Yeah. Come on. Does anybody want to ride along with oak just like the tree?

SPEAKER_00 32:48

Ride out ride or die.

SPEAKER_04 32:49

Ryo die, Tyrodeo.