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    Roy Choi's mom, 'Mommy Choi,' teaches us how to make tteokbokki (spicy Korean rice cakes)

    by Noelle Carter, Los Angeles Times Feb 26, 2018 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - "Roy's never been here?" Jai Nam Choi asks, surprised, as she walks into the L.A. Times Test Kitchen. "Oh, I have to look around." She breaks into the widest smile.

    By Roy, she means Roy Choi, her son, the Los Angeles chef and restaurateur whose restaurants include A-Frame, Chego, Pot at the Line Hotel in Koreatown and, with chef Daniel Patterson, Locol - a conscientious fast food chain, with chef Daniel Patterson - as well as the Kogi BBQ trucks.

    Jai, who prefers to be called Mommy Choi or simply Mommy, is no stranger to cooking. She spent most of her life working in the jewelry industry, but she's found a second career selling Mommy Sauce, a line of Korean-inspired sauces that includes kimchi, bulgogi, spicy bulgogi and "magic," an all-purpose sweetened soy sauce blend with notes of garlic, onion, ginger and

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