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Eat Psy's Favorite Foods at Bibigo Korean Restaurant

This summer at all three Los Angeles locations of the Korean restaurant Bibigo, Korean pop megastar Psy, also known as the King of YouTube -- or his actual name Park Jae-sang -- is everywhere. On the front windows, the servers' T-shirts and even on the menu. Millions of people dance like him, and no ... More >>

Koreatown's Beer Belly Throws a Three-Day Beer Party

When beer bars and gastropubs started sprouting up en masse across Los Angeles a few years ago, not many could have predicted the rise of Beer Belly. Hidden off of Western near the Titantic-themed Cafe Jack and a two-story Kentucky Fried Chicken, the tiny former noodle house -- which is brightly pa ... More >>

Where The Chefs Eat: 6 Favorites from Plan Check Kitchen Bar's Ernesto Uchimura

Where the Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite dining options. This week, we check in with Ernesto Uchimura, chef at Plan Check Kitchen Bar. At Plan Check, chef Ernesto Uchimura offers up comfort food in the form of burgers, pastrami, and one ... More >>

Jamie Oliver to Produce Chef Race: U.K. vs. U.S TV Show

Well, Jamie Oliver is back filming in L.A., and this time he's not hanging around school cafeterias. Instead, he's serving as the executive producer on a new show on BBC America called Chef Race: U.K. vs. U.S., which premieres with two back-to-back episodes on Tuesday, Oct. 2. The show will pit tw ... More >>

Paul Mingyu Sang, South Korean Exchange Student, Suffocates in Sand-Pit Collapse at College Beach Party

A 19-year-old foreign-exchange student at a small Christian college in Santa Clarita reportedly suffered a tragic death at a SoCal beach on Wednesday, when a hole he was digging in the sand collapsed around him. South Korea native Mingyu Sang, whose American name was Paul, dug the hole while attend ... More >>

K-Town by K-Town: A Jokbal Platter Seoul Train Partying in Rounds

Coverage of the delicious side of Koreatown has expanded past the well-tread over the years. We've learned about chic naengmyon (kudzu noodles in chilled beef broth) and gamjatang (pork neck soup). If we want Korean-style barbecue, we can distinguish places by cuts of meat and quality of banchan. Ev ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 7/16 - 7/20

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Summer drinking is an endurance sport, after all, requiring stamina to get to sundown without collapsing in a heap on the passenger seat." Summer Drinks, Part II: The Americano. "There is so much wrong with this casting dec ... More >>

Seoul Sausage Update: The Great Food Truck Race, Their New Restaurant Buying Equipment with Bed Bath & Beyond Coupons

The last time we talked with the Seoul Sausage guys about their new venture it was late April and owners Ted and Yong Kim and Chef Chris Oh, were busily building out their new brick and mortar space on Mississippi just off Sawtelle in Little Osaka. Then, shortly after their announcement, the trio v ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Food Newspaper Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

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 >>

A-Frame: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Best D.I.Y. Pig Foot Feast: Jangchung-Dong Wong Jokbal's Jokbal

A. FrougBraised pig's foot at Jongchung-Dong Wong Jokbal​ Glistening under soy-glazed skin, slices exposing alternating layers of rosy meat, creamy fat and opaque gelatin, pig's foot at Koreatown's Jangchung-Dong Wong Jokbal arrives to the table on a silver platter, looking like a prop from th ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Iota

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Iota: K-Town Teen Heaven

F. FriesemaJonagold apples​ Are you a teenage girl? Do you know a teenage girl? Because if so, Iota may be your favorite place in the universe, a barn-size K-town coffeehouse where K-pop booms from giant screens, the air is permeated with caffeine, the walls pop with color, the menu groans wit ... More >>

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 >>

Sun Ha Jang: Addicted to Quack

Koreatown's pleasure palace of duck

30 Burgers in 30 Days: The Fix is In (Day 5)

The BYOB policy and high-quality, humanely-raised meats at The Fix Burger in Silver Lake, earned it "Best of LA" status in last year's mega-issue. This time, we visit The Fix with an eye toward comparing their classic burgers with their kimchi-laden Seoul burger, a concept we recently sampled at K ... More >>

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 >>

Gaon: Suburban Korean

Where chef Simon King respects tradition

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 >>

Macho Like Me

Seoul Octopus Day The Relative Joys of Octopus Heads

JoongAng DailyOfficials at Seongdong District Office in Seoul at an "Octopus Tasting Event"​ How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? And how many octopus heads are probably as many as you should eat in a day? The answer to the first question, of course, belongs to the philosophers and ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/18-10/22

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "In further news, I had three octopus heads for lunch today in Koreatown. But they were little ones." Seoul Octopus Day The Relative Joys of Octopus Heads. "While the study may not lead to intensive family planning strat ... More >>

Best BYOB Burger Joint: The Fix Burger

thefixburger.com​Sometimes we build an entire outfit around a new pair of shoes, and in the same vein, occasionally we end up pairing a meal with a beverage, instead of the other way around. If that six-pack of microbrew is burning a hole in your fridge, consider carrying it down to The Fix Bu ... More >>

School Food Blooming Roll, a Korean Chain, Now Stateside at MaDang Courtyard

Esther HahnSchool Food's Kimchi Noodles, "Jjol Jjol Myun"​ Restaurant openings in Koreatown seem to follow a distinct pattern: first, grow into a popular, multi-location chain in Korea, then open an outpost in L.A. That has been the case for the successful restaurants Yu Chun Chic, Chil Bo My ... More >>

Best Bibimbap: Okay, Maybe Not the Best, or The Happiness of Cham

A. ScattergoodBibimbap at Chams​ Bibimbap was 2003's favorite Dish of the Future, an amalgam of meat, various vegetables and egg tossed together with hot rice and Korean chile paste, an infinitely adaptable formula killed by venal entrepreneurs, both in Los Angeles and in Seoul, who saw it as ... More >>

Worlds Apart

Federal law gives gay citizens with foreign partners tough choices: Leave the U.S.A. Lose your love. Break the law

Brick’s Picks: (Far) Eastern Swing

You’re a Pig!

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

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

L.A. Koreans Spark Massive Lawsuit

Mad About the CowSpearheaded by about 50 of their fellow countrymen from the Los Angeles area, 1,020 Korean Americans have filed a $735 million lawsuit against Seoul TV broadcast company MBC. The suit claims that, by sounding a new alarm about mad cow disease and U.S. beef, which has been banned in ... More >>

Koreatown 1.0: A Food Diary

Sunday, bloody Sunday

Lawry's the Prime Rib: Give 'em Red Meat

A prime place for out-of-towners

Peter Frank Has Left the [Weekly] Building

Artists From All Parts on View at "DREAM(land)" and "It's the Money, Stupid!"

Tender nightmares, legal tender:

Blog This: 2007’s Best Films

No argument about this list

Top 10 Dishes of 2007

Hummus replaced foie gras, Southern Thai was hot and cheese shredded

Lee Chang-Dong Lets the Sunshine In

South Korean filmmaker illuminates life’s emotional twists and turns

Soup Opera

The broth, the squid and the glamour queen at BYJ

Hen Party

Sacrificial poultry and heavenly hangover relief

We Are What Eats Us

In The Host, our fears come back to bite

Koreatown's Top 40

Seoul Harvest

Korean films at USC

Eat, Like, a Pig

Into the Melding Pot

Rich flavors from the old country

In the Mood for Movie Love

The Fifth Pusan International Film Festival

Korean Comfort Food

Gook Soo is more than just a noodle

Mr. Monster

Korean pulpmaster Kim Ki-young