New Orleans chef treated for tumor opens restaurant near hospital that treated him

Now it's your turn in the kitchen. Do you have everything you need? I hope so. What do you make? Make it *** sea? OK. Good coconuts do. So it's kind of like Asia meet Central America. So sausage. So that's what we would call. So *** way to make it more locally advance you, you look like, you know what you're doing sometimes, sometimes that's *** ton of flavor in that short of time. Yeah. Delicious. We talk about what is the elephant? The elephant in *** row. It is *** like if I take this off, it's all one day I, I felt sick, right. I felt like I couldn't breathe in *** couple of days by spot and it got worse and worse and it's really like, oh, something blocking your airway. It was *** big tumor growing on my vocal chords and they still know what it is. It's funny because while I was there, you know, all the nurses come in and ask you, oh, you know, what do you do? Like, oh, I'm *** cook who work at Emerald's. They're like, oh, man, no, we have nothing to eat around here. My place is directly across the street from University Cos.

A New Orleans chef saw a need at a time when he needed support the most. Aaron Villeda, chef and co-owner of Bao Mi, one day became very sick and felt like he was unable to breathe. Doctors found a tumor on his vocal cords. While being treated at University Hospital, Villeda said the nurses asked him what he did for a living. Villeda, at the time, was a chef at Emeril's. The nurses complained that there was nowhere to eat nearby. Villeado, who was treated and had the tumor removed from his vocal cords, said he opened his restaurant right across from the hospital. Villeda told the story about this full circle moment while competing on Very Local's cooking competition show 'Blind Kitchen.'You can watch Villeda compete by downloading the Very Local app. Click here to download the Very Local app.Very Local is your best source for shows about New England communities, bringing you 24/7 access to news from your trusted local news source, weather updates and more. Very Local also brings you fresh, untold stories from your very own city and communities like yours, with exclusive original shows and local stories specific to where you live. Get the channel to stream Very Local FREE on Roku or Amazon Fire TV.Follow Very Local on Facebook and @VeryLocal on Instagram for more.Very Local is a subsidiary of WDSU's parent company, Hearst Television

NEW ORLEANS —

A New Orleans chef saw a need at a time when he needed support the most.

Aaron Villeda, chef and co-owner of Bao Mi, one day became very sick and felt like he was unable to breathe.

Doctors found a tumor on his vocal cords.

While being treated at University Hospital, Villeda said the nurses asked him what he did for a living.

Villeda, at the time, was a chef at Emeril's. The nurses complained that there was nowhere to eat nearby.

Villeado, who was treated and had the tumor removed from his vocal cords, said he opened his restaurant right across from the hospital.

Villeda told the story about this full circle moment while competing on Very Local's cooking competition show 'Blind Kitchen.'

You can watch Villeda compete by downloading the Very Local app.

Click here to download the Very Local app.

Very Local is your best source for shows about New England communities, bringing you 24/7 access to news from your trusted local news source, weather updates and more. Very Local also brings you fresh, untold stories from your very own city and communities like yours, with exclusive original shows and local stories specific to where you live. Get the channel to stream Very Local FREE on Roku or Amazon Fire TV.

Follow Very Local on Facebook and @VeryLocal on Instagram for more.

Very Local is a subsidiary of WDSU's parent company, Hearst Television

New Orleans chef treated for tumor opens restaurant near hospital that treated him

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