[1] When she was two years old Yun's family was sponsored to go to Texas, but they decided to settle in Stockton, California instead, which was already home to a large Cambodian community.
[2] While eating kuyteav at a noodle staff in Phnom Penh during Yun's fourth trip to Cambodia she had the idea of opening her own Cambodian food business.
[5] She earned her place in the program by serving the La Cocina's board of directors kuyteav, which later also became her restaurant's signature dish.
Initially, Yun ran a pop-up restaurant in the Mission District[6] and catered for private events,[4] before moving to a food stall in the Emeryville Public Market in February 2017.
[7] On 18 February 2018 after a successful Kickstarter campaign Nyum Bai opened in its first brick and mortar location at the former site of The Half Orange near Fruitvale station with an expanded menu.