Barbara Hansen

Shopping for groceries can make you hungry. This is a good thing if you’re in a Korean supermarket, where eating pre-made food on site is a tradition. In most Korean markets, a food stall or small restaurant will be only a few steps away. When you’re done shopping, you can......

You don’t go to a Korean restaurant to eat spring rolls unless it’s Shabu Hyang, where do-it-yourself versions accompany your shabu shabu (meat, mostly beef, boiled in broth) and a couple of barbecue items. The kitchen at the Vietnamese-Korean fusion restaurant doesn’t send out these rolls readymade. It’s your job......

You have to be willing to get your hands dirty to eat Korean pork bone soup. What you get is a bowl piled high with savory bones in steaming, spicy red broth, which looks generous until you realize these are neck bones, certainly not the meatiest part of the pig......

Copenhagen Pastry opened this month in Pasadena, just in time for Danish pastry lovers to stock up on Christmas goodies without the long trip to the original shop in Culver City. Even better, customers can drop in on Christmas Eve (today!) and New Year’s Eve too, from 7 a.m. to......

Project Taco just popped up in Mid-Wilshire, so now you don’t have to go all the way to Hermosa Beach to taste some of L.A.'s most creative fusion tacos. The new outpost of the South Bay favorite is just west of Crescent Heights Blvd., not far from the food trucks......

Thirteen is a lucky number for Pasadena, which just acquired the 13th California outlet of the Taiwanese bakery cafe 85°C. In case you’re not familiar with this chain—until now the closest branches were in Torrance and Gardena—the name indicates the perfect temperature for hot coffee. This leaves out the bakery......

Little Bangladesh's restaurant row is growing. Yes, there is such a restaurant row. It runs along West 3rd Street between Western and Vermont Avenues and around the corner onto Vermont. The latest addition is Biriyani Kabob House in the first block west of Vermont. The restaurant is named for its......

No matter how savvy you are about mole, here's one you probably haven't heard of. It's mole de caderas, a goat mole from Tehuacán, Puebla. If you want to taste it, go to La Feria de Los Moles this Sunday, Sept. 28, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at La......

There wasn’t a tlayuda or plate of mole negro in sight when L.A.’s popular Oaxacan restaurant Guelaguetza celebrated its 20th anniversary with a dinner on August 11. Instead, guests dined as if they were in the trendy restaurant Origen in Oaxaca city. Its chef, Rodolfo Castellanos, flew in to recreate......

While the city sleeps, Tomas Martinez is wide awake. By 4 a.m. the day's work has begun at Tacos Tumbras a Tomas, the stall at Grand Central Market he's run for nearly two decades with brothers Manuel and Jesus. Four in the morning is actually late for Martinez. When the......