A giant in Sacramento’s upscale dining scene, Buu “Billy” Ngo is best known for Japanese cuisine. With this year’s opening of Chu Mai — one of his most personal and complex projects to date — he draws inspiration from the food he grew up with.
“I’m mainly known for sushi because of Kru Restaurant. But I’m ethnically not Japanese,” Ngo said.
“The first job I ever had was at a Japanese restaurant, and I fell in love with the cuisine. That’s how it started. But this restaurant is actually going back to my roots.”…