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Korean Food and Cooking

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    Spicy Food Fight: Fukuburger vs. Kalbi Burger

    Though it may be more anecdotal than anything else, there is a popular theory that during South Korea's recession in the mid-to-late 2000's the country's young unemployed masses became especially enamored with a dish called buldak, or "fire chicken," a sauce-covered stir fry that was prepared so hot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    10 Best Korean BBQ Restaurants in Los Angeles

    Los Angeles' Koreatown probably doesn't need another BBQ place -- well, at least not another Korean one. There seems to be a restaurant with tabletop grills in every plaza, strip mall and food court, cannibalizing another one's business two doors down or across the street. Let's be blunt: Entreprene ... More >>

  • News

    March 8, 2012

    Know When to Fold 'Em

    Los Angeles' Koreatown probably doesn't need another BBQ place -- well, at least not another Korean one. There seems to be a restaurant with tabletop grills in every plaza, strip mall and food court, cannibalizing another one's business two doors down or across the street. Let's be blunt: Entreprene ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    Jonathan Gold's 60 Korean Dishes Every Angeleno Should Know

    See Also: A Google map for all 60 of the Korean dishes Jonathan Gold says every Angeleno should know, read "5 Koreatown Restaurants Open 24 Hours: Hangover Soup," learn about "5 Koreatown Beer Joints: Hite Requirement," or just look at more of Anne Fishbein's beautiful Koreatown food photography. I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    Best Kimchi In a Jar: Granny Choe's Version Comes With A Ninja Pepper Bonus

    jgarbeeGranny Choe's Kimchi​Of the Big Questions in life, we've long wondered why a really good store-bought kimchi is so hard to find. Until, that is, we stumbled upon Granny Choe's Kimchi at our local market. It's the best store-bought kimchi we've ever tasted, even better, it happens to be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    NYC Cracks Down on Kimchi

    Bureaucrats stomp in where angels fear to tread. Health inspectors in New York City have recently cracked down on how kimchi is stored, penalizing many Korean restaurants with violation points and fines. Health inspectors view the fermented cabbage dish as a cold food, which means it must be store ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    Ahn-Joo: Debbie Lee's Korean Pub Food Restaurant, Her Cookbook a Recipe for Chicken Meatballs

    Amazon​Ahn-joo is the Korean word for pub food. It's what Debbie Lee serves at her newly opened Ahn-Joo, a Korean snack bar in the Americana mall in Glendale. No liquor there, but Lee frequents Koreantown pubs so she knows the dishes well. And she adds her own spin to come up with a modern tak ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    August 18, 2011

    Jonathan Gold Reviews Moko

    Amazon​Ahn-joo is the Korean word for pub food. It's what Debbie Lee serves at her newly opened Ahn-Joo, a Korean snack bar in the Americana mall in Glendale. No liquor there, but Lee frequents Koreantown pubs so she knows the dishes well. And she adds her own spin to come up with a modern tak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    L.A.'s Idea of Korean Food vs. What Koreans Really Eat

    ​ Our continuing series of Venn Food Diagrams has explored American regional and a smattering of international cuisines in no particular order or with any sense of geographic or cultural continuity. We're taking another random trip from the land of tater tot hot dish to the land of kimchi hot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Top 5 Westwood Dishes UCLA Grads Will Miss

    Flickr/Kyle StricklandIn-N-Out Double-Double​ With the mass exodus of thousands of UCLA graduates from their picturesque Westwood neighborhood -- picturesque if you've always envisioned a neighborhood where you'd search 30 minutes for a parking space before giving up, or if you've dreamed all ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    The New KFC: Korean Fried Chicken

    Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: You seem to be writing about a lot of Korean restaurants recently. The new KFC is Korean Fried Chicken. I've tried BonChon and Kyochon. While both are good, I have to give the edge to Kyochon, although BonChon gets points for easy pa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Fried Rice Fight: Honey Pig vs. Mario's Peruvian

    Does anybody hate fried rice? If they do, we assume that some sort of repressed, emotional event is responsible. Did dad have a few too many mai tais at your Benihana birthday party, and crash face-first onto a steaming hot teppan? Or maybe you just ate too much of it as a kid. But for the rest of u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    The Top Korean Chef Isn't Korean: Two Orange County Guys Share the Title

    B. HansenGuillas's prize-winning deconstructed bibimbap​ Not a single Korean competed in last Thursday's Top Chef Korean Food Challenge at the San Diego Wine & Culinary Center. The idea was to see what would become of Korean ingredients in the hands of chefs who don't ordinarily cook this t ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    February 10, 2011

    Sun Ha Jang: Addicted to Quack

    Koreatown's pleasure palace of duck

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    30 Burgers in 30 Days: Kimchi & Cultural Fusion at Kalbi Burger (Day 2)

    What hath Kogi wrought -- aside from a million imitations of its Korean fusion taco? How about a worldwide phenomenon pairing two of L.A.'s most ubiquitous immigrant cuisines with the accessibility of fast-food. Yet, the Korean fusion trend hasn't made its way to that other American classic: the b ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    January 27, 2011

    Gaon: Suburban Korean

    Where chef Simon King respects tradition

  • Eat+Drink

    January 27, 2011

    Olympic Cheonggukjang: Bean and Nothingness

    Korean soul food that will take your breath away

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Bicycle & Gogi: Where to Find Korean BBQ, The Perfect Smoker, Instant Ramen Spam

    D. GonzalezA Smoking Hot Plate: Combination #1 at Bicycle and Gogi​ 100 pounds of meat. A nationwide search for the perfect smoker. And six months of methodological trial and error. That is what it took Jesse Kim to merge his two favorite foods -- Texas-style barbecue and Korean marinated m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    First Bite: Simon King Cooks Suburban Korean in Pasadena at Gaon

    Jonagold apple, portion removed​Another suburban Korean restaurant? When you put it that way, I guess we are a little obsessed with the idea of gentrified Korean food. Everybody knows the cuisine is going to hit the mainstream at some point, but nobody has quite figured out what it is going to ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 9, 2010

    Kids in the Courtyard

    Jonagold apple, portion removed​Another suburban Korean restaurant? When you put it that way, I guess we are a little obsessed with the idea of gentrified Korean food. Everybody knows the cuisine is going to hit the mainstream at some point, but nobody has quite figured out what it is going to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    Korean Spaghetti Bolognese Fight: Not Literally, But Still Bizarre

    While having lunch at Ma Dang Gook Soo the other day -- the small Korean restaurant known for its hand-made noodles -- we noticed, toward the bottom of the menu, spaghetti with meat sauce. It is the only Italian (or really, non-Korean) dish on the menu. Surprisingly, we've noticed this before at a f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    10 Things You May Not Know About Korean Food a Recipe

    B. Hansenpork with kimchi at Yongsusan​ Did you know that L.A.-style galbi is famous in South Korea? If the answer is no, then bone up (what better term) on this and other little known facts about Korean cuisine with a 10-point guide that will make you sound like an expert. 1. L.A.-style g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    Making Kimchi with EJ Jeong of Cham Korean Bistro

    Guzzle & NoshBossam, a Korean dish traditionally served on kimchi-making day.​ Pickling is a hot trend these days, and plenty of cuisines have traditionally featured some form of pickled food, but few cultures revere pickling the way Koreans do. There's a Korean saying, chef EJ Jeong tells u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    Five Things L.A. Has That San Francisco Does Not (After Five Weeks)

    Anne FishbeinSoot Bull Jeep​ Five weeks ago, we packed our belongings into an orange-and-white truck and moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles. We'd spent eight years in the Bay Area, a period of time marked by bowls of lime-sluiced birria at Mexican diners in the Mission, curly fried sausa ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    September 2, 2010

    Baek Hwa Jung: Kogi's Choice

    Roy Choi's favorite Korean cafe

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    Korean BBQ Update: Bann Restaurant at MaDang Courtyard in Koreatown

    Esther HahnBann's Interpretation of the Korean Shaved Ice Dessert​ MaDang Courtyard is a new restaurants-and-cinema complex on Western in Koreatown. MaDang, which is the Korean word for courtyard, is a three-level mall, home to an upscale Korean BBQ restaurant, two casual dining options, a bee ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    August 12, 2010

    Dak Dak Galbi

    Playing musical Korean barbecue chairs

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Meatless Mondays: Be a Vegetarian, Just for One Day

    Santa Monica Farmers Market​ It's Monday, the grudging beginning of another work week, and the end of a weekend perhaps spent barbecuing or, if you were anywhere in the vicinity of Koreatown, consuming plenty of what others threw on the grill at the Korean BBQ Cook-Off, called, appropriately e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Let's Meat: 2nd Annual Korean BBQ Cook-Off

    ​It's still summer, and that means you should probably be standing near a grill on a Saturday afternoon. But this coming Saturday, you can ignore the hot dogs and head over The Korean American Coalition's 2nd Annual Korean BBQ Cook-Off, at 3600 Wilshire Boulevard in Koreatown. Entrance is free ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    July 29, 2010

    Cold as a Kudzu Vine in Winter

    Yu Chun's naengmyon for a hot summer's day

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Ahn-Joo Food Truck Rolls Out With Korean Pub Food

    Giana MucciAhn-Joo food truck​ Before you get too blasé about the launch of yet another food truck, you might want to check out the Ahn-Joo food truck, which rolls out this Friday. It's the brainchild of Chef Debbie Lee, one of the alums of The Next Food Network Star. Ahn-Joo, which loosely ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2010

    Dumpling Station Food Truck Launches

    Los Angeles has plenty of Thai food, but what about Tai food? Outside of the San Gabriel Valley, it can be hard to find Taiwanese dumplings. Hoping to bring these delicate balls of meat, vegetables, and dough to the masses, Helen Pan, 25, and Chris Aragon, 28, launched the Dumpling Station food truc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    The $2 Taco Returns, and It's Korean

    Barbara HansenDakgoki, a Korean style chicken taco at the Grand Central Market​The $2 taco is back at the Grand Central Market in downtown Los Angeles. In 2008, the price went up to $2.50 at the three main taco purveyors there, Tacos Tumbras a Tomas, Ana Maria and Roast to Go. But in Decemb ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    September 17, 2009

    You’re a Pig!

    If you want to be, at Koreatown’s Don Dae Gam

  • Eat+Drink

    April 9, 2009

    In the Midnight Hour: Late-Night Goat Supper at Bulrocho

    Dispensing chile-red comfort in a bowl of Koreatown goat soup

  • Eat+Drink

    March 12, 2009

    The Morning After: At Koreatown's Bon Juk and Mountain, Porridge Is the Cure

    Sometimes rice gruel with abalone is just what your roiling insides need

  • Eat+Drink

    January 29, 2009

    The Korean Taco Justice League: Kogi Rolls Into L.A.

    From Rosemead side streets to Venice dive bars, hungry Angelenos have a new way to roll

  • Eat+Drink

    October 23, 2008

    Must-Stops on a Spicy-Food Marathon

    Heated discussion

  • Eat+Drink

    June 5, 2008

    Chunju Han-il Kwan Draws Hungry Night Crawlers With Its Budae Jjigae

    Fusion reaction

  • Eat+Drink

    February 21, 2008

    Park's Barbecue: Prime Time

    A cut above in the fleshpots of Koreatown

  • Eat+Drink

    August 2, 2007

    Soup Opera

    The broth, the squid and the glamour queen at BYJ

  • Eat+Drink

    March 30, 2006

    Ask Mr. Gold: Korean Barbecue

    The broth, the squid and the glamour queen at BYJ

  • Eat+Drink

    October 20, 2005

    Self Serve

    Chosun Galbi, a pleasant restaurant with the patio-side glamour of a Beverly Hills garden party.

  • Eat+Drink

    September 22, 2005

    Ask Mr. Gold

    Chosun Galbi, a pleasant restaurant with the patio-side glamour of a Beverly Hills garden party.

  • Eat+Drink

    February 5, 2004

    Kim Chic

    Cooking Korean at home

  • Eat+Drink

    February 5, 2004

    Koreatown's Top 40

    Cooking Korean at home

  • Eat+Drink

    February 8, 2001

    Pow!

    Maximal flavors in a minimalist setting

  • Eat+Drink

    June 15, 2000

    L.A. When It Sizzles

    Taste these little hotties

  • Eat+Drink

    June 1, 2000

    Heart and Seoul

    Strange and wondrous kimchi in Koreatown

  • Eat+Drink

    January 27, 2000

    Korean Comfort Food

    Gook Soo is more than just a noodle

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