WHY Paradise for Korean food-lovers and cooks, right in the middle of a glitzy shopping mall. While you’re in the mall, check out Ho Won Dang, which sells special-occasion cookies. Try the tiny yellow cookies (their color comes from pine tree pollen) and the crisp, fried cookies coated with crushed pine nuts. WHAT It’s worth [...]
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WHY An extraordinary variety of mild and spicy panchan—those small, flavorful side dishes at the heart of a Korean meal—plus validated parking. WHAT This contemporary market in a Euro-chic shopping mall features an impressive array of Korean prepared foods, notably panchan, including marinated crab, pickled baby cucumbers, spicy squid strips and garlic stem salad. Other [...]
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WHY The truck-stop rule: All those people in the line snaking out the door at lunchtime know that these are some of the best Korean dumplings around. WHAT Beautifully crafted Korean dumplings are gems at this modest café, whose name, roughly translated, means ‘All Family Restaurant.’ They’re hand rolled and cut, and the taste and [...]
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WHY They really mean it when they say ‘super-spicy’ fried chicken. Or take a safer route and order the soy-marinated crispy chicken. WHAT It’s fried chicken, but it’s not fast. In fact, they don’t start cooking it at this stylish Korean café until you order it, which can mean a wait of 25 minutes or [...]
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WHY For the steamed King dumpling (a big daddy filled with beef or pork and either leeks, kim chee or rice noodles), the pan-fried dumplings and the kim chee dumplings. WHAT This Koreatown shack (really—it’s an actual shack) lives up to its name and serves authentic dumplings, but they’re as much Chinese as they are [...]
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WHY Coffee and tea drinks such as boba, Korean snacks, desserts and sandwiches. Drink prices are on the high side because many patrons stay for hours just ordering one drink. WHAT A lavish space catering to the Korean community features several heated outdoor areas, including one with a fire pit. All the amenities are provided, [...]
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WHY For the quintessential grill-your-own Koreatown experience—it’s a great place to bring out-of-towners. WHAT You’ll smell like meaty smoke all night after dinner here, and you won’t mind a bit. It’s one of Koreatown’s best-known places, a dive with brusque service and a constant wait for a table. The panchan (side dishes) aren’t as complex [...]
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WHY A particularly lavish and beautiful array of panchan, the small appetizers that accompany traditional Korean barbecue, and meat of very high quality. WHAT As far in atmosphere from smoky, funky barbecue joints like Soot Bull Jeep as you can get, Park is spare and industrial-chic, with a gorgeous and fairly formal serving staff and [...]
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WHY With a long, elegant dining counter, a lengthy menu of homey dishes and late hours, this simple strip-mall spot is a boon for night-owl industry types working in West L.A.’s studios and creative offices. WHAT A motherly woman behind the stoves of the open kitchen at this Japanese-Korean café turns out tamago with free-range [...]
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