It's been 15 years of bending expectations around Asian cuisine at Urbanbelly in Wicker Park.
Digital journalist Jamaica Ponder caught up with the restaurant's founder, Chicago native chef Bill Kim, to see how he keeps the belly full."We grew up urban. We didn't grow up in the suburbs. We grew up in Chicago," Bill said."The belly part is the most meaningful part, because everybody thinks it's pork belly," Bill said."It's from the mother's womb.
Bill and his wife, Yvonne, had left their fine dining job on the East Coast to start something of their own.And they wanted to do it in their own community. "The sweetest thing about our journey is we got to do it at home," Bill said."And everybody was all hands on deck to help us grow.""It was all about accessibility, affordability, and having something that's super flavorful that everybody want to eat," Bill said."The development of the menu was; it was always inspired by the blending of cultures, and destroying boundaries," Bill said.
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