This year was the 2018 Winter Olympics. The Olympics is a competition all about bringing people from around the world together. And what better way to bring people together and celebrate diverse cultures than through the window of food? So we had a party to watch the opening ceremony, and everyone brought food from a…
Tag: Korean
Far East Plaza Restaurant Review
Gold Dig #44 Similar to Grand Central Market, Far East Plaza brings a bunch of eateries together in a Chinatown shopping center. The plaza as a whole is on Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list. While I’m conflicted about the notion of including a grouping of restaurants that vary in food type and quality onto…
Kogi Restaurant Review
Gold Dig #43 Kogi started out as a Korean-taco truck, and has since expanded to three taco trucks (whose schedule you can find on their website) and two taqueria locations – one in a Whole Foods in El Segundo, and the one we went to in a little strip mall in Palms. The whole Kogi empire…
Roasted Turnips Dduk
Cookbook Club – The Red Rooster Cookbook For June’s Cookbook Club, we used Marcus Samuelsson’s The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle in Harlem. I made the Roasted Turnips Dduk. Go to my Cookbook Club site for a taste of all the southern comfort food with Samuelsson’s multicultural twist. For now –…
Soban Restaurant Review
Gold Dig #32 Soban is another Koreatown spot on Jonthan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list. They have his picture and review prominently displayed on the wall opposite the door. You can’t miss it, as Soban is a pretty small place. Half the restaurant is filled with a handful of tables, and the other half the bar seating…
Park’s BBQ Restaurant Review
Gold Dig #29 Park’s BBQ is one of the Korean restaurants on Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list. I think he likes Korean food almost as much as he likes Thai food, as he often talks about his visits to Koreatown. As you might have guessed from the name, Park’s BBQ does Korean BBQ, where your order…
Korean Slaw
Korean slaw has all of the crunchy freshness of coleslaw, but with the spicy kick of kimchi (without having to wait for days of fermentation). It’s also great for using up bits and bobs of fresh veggies. I threw in some carrots and green beans because I happened to have some that needed using up,…
Baroo Restaurant Review
Gold Dig #18 Baroo is one of the most strikingly different restaurants I have been to. In some ways, it is so very LA… in a strip mall next to a 7-Eleven, with no sign other than the remnants from the previous establishment which looks to have once read “Thai Noodle”; ingredients that are local, sustainable,…
City of Gold
City of Gold is a documentary in which Jonathan Gold explores the food culture of LA. Given my little side project of working my way through Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list, seeing this movie was a must for me. I was so excited to hear that they would be doing a City of Gold event at…
Shortcut Kimchi Cucumbers
When I was little, I got on a kimchi-making kick with my mom. Kimchi takes days to ferment, and can be pretty stinky (we did it in the garage). I give credit to my mom for going along with this for several months – I think she thought of it as good mother-daughter bonding. But…