Before he arrived in the U.S. 18 years ago, Ejelonu was a cook and a manager at his family’s restaurant in Benin City, a Nigerian metropolis with more than a million people. In Kansas City, he worked in health care administration at what was then Truman Medical Center and St. Luke’s. But after work, he grew restless. He started cooking again. “People in Kansas City, they go to work and come home and don’t know what to do,” he said. “So I would cook and invite friends over to eat some free food. And eventually I said, ‘I gotta monetize this.’ That’s how the restaurant was conceived.” The menu at Ejeonu’s restaurant My Village Grill in midtown KC will be familiar to those who dined with him at his former spot in Independence. Popular dishes include suya (spicy, barbecued meats on skewers), puff puffs (fried sweet dough) and all kinds of fufu, a starchy side made from your choice of yam, plantains, oatmeal or yucca. Read more about the new restaurant at the link in our bio. 📸: zl...