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Chef Ed Kim and the owners behind Mini Mott rebranded their counter-service burger joint as this full-service Asian American restaurant, where the menu is influenced by their childhoods spent straddling two cultures. Think galbi steak frites with chimichurri, octopus with fermented black soybeans, and 

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