Tag: Bamboo Penny’s

Global flavors layer together as 200+ chefs serve up their best dishes for KC Restaurant Week

By Tommy Felts / January 12, 2023

Kansas City Restaurant Week serves as a sampler for curious diners to satisfy their taste buds with an array of delightful dishes — and chefs from more than 200 local eateries showing off their culinary creativity and most visual see-food specialties, said Andrew Fontes.  “It’s a great opportunity to go outside your comfort zone and…

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Penny Mufuka, Bamboo Penny’s

Bamboo Penny’s plants KC Thai in Leawood, plating culture alongside pineapple fried rice

By Tommy Felts / April 13, 2021

Fearlessness is on the menu for Chef Penny Mufuka, a 25-year veteran of the stovetop, bringing to boil plans for a second Johnson County-cooked restaurant in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. “It makes me sweat everyday,” Mufuka laughed, musing the decision she made with husband and co-owner, Doug Mufuka, to open Bamboo Penny’s in…

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