i give you your money back. but within those rules, there's a lot of love, and there's, there's a lot of care. >> anthony: across town in venice is a-frame, roy's first brick-and-mortar. >> roy choi: this used to be an ihop, so everything's -- >> anthony: oh, yeah? >> roy choi: yeah, everything's really narrow. >> anthony: ah, hence the, uh, the shape. it's heavily influenced by local takes on hawaiian cooking, not that you'd necessarily notice. every dish designed to be eaten with the hands. what's good? the baby back ribs are air-dried, braised, then breaded and fried. lean cod tacos treated like shawarma. beer can crackling chicken -- it's brined, rotisseried, then air-dried like peking duck, then fried. meanwhile, not too far away, on sawtelle, a kogi truck pulls up, stops, reverses back to the corner. before the awning is even up, there's already a line. hungry people have been waiting in cars or around the corner