"LA's most popular weekly food gathering, Smorgasburg, returns on January 14, 2024, with a crop of 10 new vendors serving a wide swath of compelling dishes and cuisines. Notable newcomers include Battambong BBQ serving Cambodian Texas barbecue, Softies with smash burgers, tacos de canasta specialist the Basket Taco Co., and Miya Miya with Jordanian-style shawarma."
"Coming out of a three-week holiday hiatus, a few vendors have graduated out of Smorgasburg including Love Hour, which is open on Sundays in Koreatown, and Smoke Queen, which will open a permanent restaurant in Garden Grove later this year. Avocado Mama, one of the market's original vegan vendors, will discontinue pop-ups for the foreseeable future to focus on packaged food, while flauta vendor Los Dorados has not signed on for 2024 yet but could potentially return later in the year."
"General manager Zach Brooks says that Smorgasburg has looked for a shawarma vendor for years but wanted to wait until an operator could properly execute the popular Levantine street food every week. Miya Miya comes from Yazeed 'Chef Yaz' Soudani who perfected his chicken shawarma working in Amman, Jordan. It is served with pickles, creamy garlic sauce, and saj bread; the meat is seared on a flat-top grill. Popular smash burger pop-up Softies, which draws dozens of eager fans wherever it sets up shop, takes over the former Love Hour slot. Founded in August 2022 by Sam Hong and Josh Kim, the stand drew some of the longest lines for Smorgasburg's Burger Day last year. Using classic Oklahoma-style burgers as a template, Hong and Kim weave in other Asian-influenced touches like a tempura-fried enoki mushroom burger."
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