California’s Home For The Best Cambodian Food || Eat Seeker: Nyum Bai

An underrepresented cuisine across the country, Cambodian food has been slept on. This underrepresentation presented itself as an opportunity for chef-owner Nite Yun to open Nyum Bai. An ode to Cambodia’s “Golden Era”, the walls of the colorful Oakland restaurant are covered in rare Cambodian rock records from the 1960s and filled with the smells of a Cambodian kitchen. Chef Yun’s pride and joy are her kuy teav phnom penh, a piping hot bowl of rice noodles, she grew up eating every weekend and based off her mother’s own recipe. As Yun puts it, “Vietnamese has pho. Japanese has ramen. We have kuy teav phnom penh.”


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Producer
Phoebe Melnick

Camera
James Pace-Cornsilk, Alrik Bursell

Editor
Brendan Dean, Zachary Lapierre

Assistant Editor
Leonard Klein

Graphics Art Director
Ted McGrath

Animators
Fredy Delgado, Megan Chong

Production Coordinator
Sarah Barry


Line Producer
Emily Tufaro

Post-Production Supervisor
Daniel Byrne

Senior Producer
Chas Truslow

Supervising Producer
Stasia Tomlinson

Creative Director
Tom O’Quinn

Executive Producer
Justin Lundstrom

Special Thanks
Nyum Bai



Music
Track Title: Stay True
Composer: Steven Devilliers
00:00:00

Track Title: Everything
Composer: Jesse Gonzalez, Alexander Valente
01:12:23

Track Title: Inner Island
Composer: Nicolas Boscovic, Tom Hillock
02:01:17

Track Title: A Love Yet To Happen
Composer: Frank Abington
02:40:05

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