Ben Daitz is not Cambodian.
But his sandwiches are (and so is his business partner), and a passport is not required to run the Southeast Asian sandwich game. His sandwich shops Num Pang (Cambodian slang for bread or sandwich) have been changing the sandwich scene since opening a Union Square shop with the square footage of a rickshaw in 2009, and they’ve gone full-on Manhattan in the years since.
No, Ben Daitz is not Cambodian. But as he proves in this video, he does know flavor: the sweet, sour and spicy Southeast Asian kind, and the New York spray paint hip hop kind.
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