Beloved chef and owner King Phojanakong of Kuma Inn on the Lower East Side for 15 years, died on January 2 at the age of 54; Grub Street reports it was from a rare infection of the brain and nervous system.A New Yorker born to a Filipina mother and Thai father, Phojanakong's Thai Filipino small plates spot Kuma Inn would have been as dynamic today, if it were still open, as it was in 2003 when it opened on the Lower East Side.
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