Where Southeast Asian Cultures Come Alive
Stories, food, art, and community — gathered across generations and shared across America.
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 harkens back to the region's kampong villages, where meals were shared, doors stayed open, and people 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 inside the Asian Culture & Food Expo & Festival.
Interactive Theater
Story-driven performance rooted in food memory, migration, identity, and kampong spirit.
Art Gallery
Southeast Asian and diasporic artists deepening the emotional world of the experience.
Marketplace & Workshops
Block printing, batik patterns, and culinary moments that let you carry the culture home.
Where stories, art, flavors and traditions come alive — an immersive cultural experience inside the Asian Culture & Food Expo & 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.
In collaboration with SGN · A U.S. 501(c)(3)-pending nonprofit
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.