Meet the Crip and Piru Chefs Behind Compton’s Underground Restaurant

[jjs07]

This was a dope read....the food looks on "Spankihanas" IG page. Gonna be interested to see if their actual restaurant takes off....

“It all started when I got hired to be a personal chef for local pimps while living in Las Vegas,” Malachi “Spankihanas” Jenkins tells me in his living room. “I started cooking for them after I dropped out of Le Cordon Bleu; they love rich pastas like shrimp and chicken Alfredo, and dishes like that.”

Jenkins and his business partner Roberto Arturo Smith have allowed me to step inside their DIY food commissary—the small kitchen inside Smith’s apartment, located just south of downtown Los Angeles—behind their underground restaurant, TrapKitchenLA. In what can only be described as Kendrick Lamar’s “m.A.A.d. city” come to life, I greet and pound the fists of four of their Crip friends chilling in their living room sofa, who nevertheless mad-dog me as I grill Jenkins and Smith with questions.

A stranger in their territory, I continue to follow my nose to the scent of cooked seafood into the kitchen, where I meet Smith. He is hollowing out half of a ripe pineapple for their Friday seafood special. He fills it with a heaping ladleful of white rice and tops it with a sliced lobster tail, a couple of king crab legs, sauteed shrimp, and a generous drizzle of teriyaki sauce. “We call this ‘The Deadliest Catch,’” he tells me as he proudly holds it up for a photo. “We can’t make enough of them fast enough for all of our customers; they go crazy for this dish.”

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[truth-serum]

Eeh

 

[youngthundercat]

Great read and the food looks amazing. Hats off to them.

 

[AEA18]

Food looks

 

[dipsetgeneral]

Good for them.

 

[iDon’tRead]

What's their tipping policy though

 

[g money 87]

Do they cook crabs tho??





















(Derogatory word for a crip)

 

[redd spyder]

sounds like a feel good story.

 

[AZwildcats]

good for them man

 

[zapatohead408]

Would Nawtyhare tip if he belonged to their gang?

 

[dtothedtotheo]

would be scared to complain if they messed up my order

would get beat up

 

[yeah]

Do they cook crabs tho??

Dope to see this kind of thing. Group economics is real, yall.

 

[jape]

would not support gang bangers 

 

[jaypesoz]

Do they cook crabs tho??





















(Derogatory word for a crip)

brabs

 

[lovehateself]

they boil the ribs?

 

[nazdrowie]

so you mean to tell me they don't serve any beef

 

[wayniac211]

Good for them.

 

[JRaW’d]

would not support gang bangers 

they've started up theyre own business.

I doubt theyre actually bangin.

 

[$tacy]

Do they cook crabs tho??





















(Derogatory word for a crip)

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[sole blessed]

If I was a millionaire would gladly invest into this but that food looks

 

[tay1]

I've gotten food from them before.

 

[HEATHEN]

Def gon see what's good next time I'm in LA.

 

[olx9o]

they've started up theyre own business.

I doubt theyre actually bangin.

Word. Plus there's alot of former gang members in high positions or that own businesses so you mightve supported a few already

 

[taj gibson]

so you mean to tell me they don't serve any beef

ZING!

 

[jehul]

What's their tipping policy though

Would like to see NTrs try and stiff the waiters.
Hilarity would ensue, I'm sure.