Where Southeast Asian Cultures Come Alive
Stories, food, art, and community — gathered across generations and shared across America.
Hear the Kampong story.
Why Kampong Collective?
Southeast Asian culture is vibrant, layered, and evolving, carried through food, language, family memories, creativity, small businesses, and everyday acts of care. Yet it remains underrepresented in American cultural life.
Kampong Collective uplifts the artists, chefs, founders, makers, families, and community builders who carry this culture forward.
Our name comes from the Southeast Asian village, the kampong, a place where doors stayed open, meals were shared and neighbours looked out for one another. Today, we carry that spirit into modern spaces for connection, creativity, and belonging.
Welcome to the kampong.
2026 Flagship Experience
Spice & Story
Where stories, art, flavors and traditions come alive — an immersive cultural experience that's part of the Asian Culture & Food Expo and West Coast Asian Foodie Festival.
Interactive Theater
Story-driven performance rooted in food memory, migration, identity, and kampong spirit.
Experiential Gallery
Step into a living kampong filled with hands-on experiences, cultural discoveries, and opportunities to reflect, create, and connect.
Village Marketplace
Discover Southeast Asian makers, businesses, and community partners in a vibrant marketplace inspired by the spirit of the kampong.
Where stories, art, flavors and traditions come alive — an immersive cultural experience that's part of the Asian Culture & Food Expo and West Coast Asian Foodie Festival.
See the experience
Where it began
The Singapore Festival drew over 3,000 people in the Bay Area.
In 2025, what emerged was more than an event — it was a glimpse of what a modern kampong could look like in the U.S. That founding energy now powers Kampong Collective.
Culinary Workshops
Cook together. Share a meal.
Stay for the conversation.
More than cooking classes — these workshops gather diverse communities around the table for memory, belonging, and connection. Launching in NYC and Washington, D.C.
The door is open.
Pull up a seat at the kampong.
Volunteer, partner, or just show up.
Every kampong needs its people.