{"id":6495,"date":"2019-06-26T15:54:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T22:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000000060"},"modified":"2019-06-28T10:45:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T17:45:04","slug":"addison-kim-prince-hotville-nashville-hot-chicken-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/addison-kim-prince-hotville-nashville-hot-chicken-2","title":{"rendered":"Kim Prince, Nashville hot chicken royalty, returns to Long Beach for round two"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Kim Prince\u00a0came to Long Beach the first week of June to take over Beer Belly in Downtown<\/a>, she didn’t expect to see a line down Long Beach Boulevard.<\/p>\n

“I told you serving hot chicken was like giving someone a warm Southern hug,” she said about .one of America’s most cherished dishes. “Looks like Long Beach has a hug of its own.”<\/p>\n

After selling out both days on her inaugural popup, it seemed only appropriate that Prince return. This time, she’ll host a three-day pop-up, once again at Beer Belly, on Friday, July 19; Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21.<\/p>\n

“I said I could do this all day, so why not come back and do it in Long Beach?” Prince said. “Hot chicken brings people together; it’s been bringing my family together for 80 years.”<\/p>\n

And once again, her three-day venture will be a full takeover with a top-to-bottom Hotville menu running all day and night.<\/p>\n

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Kim Prince of Hotville Chicken. Photo by Brittany K. Jackson\/L.A. Sentinel<\/a>, courtesy of Kim Prince.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When it comes to Nashville hot chicken, most locals think their proper introduction to this fiery piece of fried chicken came by way of Howlin\u2019 Ray\u2019s, a tiny-but-mighty bird shop tucked inside a mini-mall in Downtown Los Angeles\u2019 Chinatown\u2014a shop, mind you, that owes its existence to the Prince family. With a line that rarely, if ever, dips under 45 minutes thanks to its cult-like following, Howlin\u2019 is the closest thing you can score to the joint that invented Nashville hot chicken, the famed Prince\u2019s Hot Chicken Shack.<\/p>\n

True to her spirit and glow, Kim has little issue with Howlin’s success: “It’s a community, not a competition,” she said. “The only thing is if you slap the name ‘Nashville’ on it, it better bring the heat.”<\/p>\n

Again, Prince hits up Beer Belly in Downtown Long Beach on Friday, July 19; Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21.<\/p>\n

Beer Belly is located at 255 Long Beach Blvd.<\/em><\/p>\n

Brian Addison is a columnist and editor for the Long Beach Post.\u00a0<\/em>Reach him at\u00a0brian@lbpost.com\u00a0or on social media at\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0Instagram<\/a>, and\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After selling out both days of her first popup, it seemed only appropriate that Kim Prince returns to Long Beach with her Nashville hot chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":70341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[1789],"class_list":["post-6495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-downtown-long-beach","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6495"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=6495"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}