This article was originally published by LAist on May 29, 2026.
The soft hiss of fat dripping onto white-hot binchotan. The alchemical smell of both sweet tare sauce and charred meat. If you closed your eyes, you could easily imagine yourself parked at the counter of any number of South Bay yakitori joints.
But this is Three Pigs, a Long Beach-based pop-up and catering operation that roves around the region, one week perhaps at a street fair, another in the parking lot of a donut shop…