Personally I'm excited that what I'm seeing in the Bay Area, even though the Bay Area has never been exceptionally strong on SE Asian food other than Filipino and Thai and Vietnamese, is that so many chefs from Singapore / Malaysia haved moved here and are starting things up.
Also that their backgrounds make it such that it's not just Chinese Singaporean food that is featured (as is often the case back home), it's Malay and Indian Singaporean and Malaysian foods too