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April 25, 2012
Irvine to Get A New Korean BBQ
For quite a while I knew that a new business called "All That BBQ" was going to open at Culver Plaza in Irvine, but I had no idea if it was a restaurant or perhaps a BBQ equipment supplier like BBQ's Galore.
Food
February 10, 2012
Han Yang Has a Bone to Pick
This Buena Park restaurant takes Korean food and its beef short rib soup beyond the borders of Little Seoul
Blogs
January 13, 2012
Irvine Korean Festival This Saturday
Dense in the head that I am, it still took me all of 3 seconds to realize how the City of Irvine came to host the Irvine Korean Cultural Festival tomorrow. Steven Choi, city councilman and a candidate for mayor, is also its founder. Why tomorrow? Well, because today, January 13th, is the day the ... More >>
Food
January 5, 2012
Gen Korean BBQ Makes You Wait for Your Meat
The wait is long, but the rewards are great at this Tustin hot spot
Blogs
December 23, 2011
10 Great Korean Restaurants in Orange County
Edwin GoeiThis list was a difficult one. How to just pick 10 restaurant out of the rich bevy of delights found at our Korean District? Or the burgeoning centers of Korean cultures in Buena Park and Irvine? No list could ever be definitive enough to be absolutely conclusive or comprehensive enough ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2011
New York Cracking Down On Kimchi
Health Department rules have long been the bane of charcuterie makers and Chinese restaurants who hang their ducks by the window. Now New York health officials are getting tough on the kimchi makers. Several online sources have reported that there's been an inherent crack down on the quintessenti ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2011
Irvine's Cho Dang Tofu & Korean BBQ Restaurant Sold
ProfessorSalt.comDumpling soondubu at Cho DangSad news, soondubu lovers. The owner of Irvine's best soondubu restaurant, Cho Dang, is selling her business and closing up shop in January. While there's no shortage of restaurants in Irvine that specialize in the spicy Korean tofu stew, in this writ ... More >>
Food
November 10, 2011
Itriya Cafe Shows Ssam Like It Hot
An ex-Cheesecake Factory executive sells Italian and Korean food under one roof in Irvine
Blogs
July 6, 2011
The Kimchi Chronicles With Hugh Jackman Premieres This Week on KCET
Remember The Kimchi Chronicles? The PBS documentary on Korean food featuring Roller Gi--I mean Heather Graham, Wolve--I mean Hugh Jackman, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and his wife Marja (who is half Korean) as host? It will finally start to air tomorrow, July 7 at 7 p.m. on KLCS and July 8 at 2 p.m. ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2011
Hugh Jackman Cooks Korean Food in PBS Series
Who knew that Wolverine could cook Korean food? The clip you see is a teaser for the PBS series, Kimchi Chronicles, which is a food documentary produced by the same man who gave us Spain...On The Road Again with Mario Batali and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Food
April 28, 2011
Mandoorang Dumpling House Is the In-N-Out of Korean OC
[Hole In the Wall] This Buena Park diner offers great dumplings and other late-night Korean munchies
Blogs
April 4, 2011
Jang Mo Gip Kimchi Big . . . in New York City?!
We here at SaFII have long loved Jang Mo Gip, the Garden Grove Korean restaurant most famous for its soups, whether haejangguk or seolleongtang. But at the Natural Products Expo last month in Anaheim, I saw a stall advertising Mother In Law's Kimchi. I had heard about the product before but figured ... More >>
Food
March 31, 2011
Koba Tofu Grill Offers Lovable Lava
This new Irvine entry in the Korean chain offers many soft-tofu soups that burn and roil, but, boy, are they delish!
Food
March 10, 2011
Morangak Has the Seoul of OC's Little Korean
[Hole In the Wall] This Garden Grove restaurant is famous for its Korean barbecue—but there's more
Blogs
January 10, 2011
Anna's Mondu Closes In Garden Grove
Flickr user mmm-yosoLate and sorely lamented...Anna's Mondu, the tiny labor of love of an older Korean couple in a shopping mall in Garden Grove's Korean District, has closed and been replaced by a sort of licorice allsorts (or mixture) of a restaurant (with no sign up when we drove past), its sl ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2010
The Five Most Played-Out Food Trends of 2010
It's the end of the year; time for retrospectives both heartwarming and heartburning. This year's trip down memory lane starts with trends that have reached the ends of their useful lives and need to be sent down the knacker's yard to die an ignominious death.
Blogs
December 7, 2010
Heather Graham, Hollywood Honey, Stars In Korean Food Travel Show
Rollergirl a.k.a. Felicity Shagwell a.k.a. Hollywood bombshell Heather Graham is going to Korea to film a food show tentatively called Kimchi Chronicles. Don't quite get the connection between this glamorous star and kimchi or Korean food? Well, remember that 2008 series that had Gwyneth Paltro ... More >>
Blogs
November 3, 2010
Visiting with Southern California's Mandu King
Flickr user Drab MakyoYou might've noticed a new byline 'round these parts: Michelle Woo (hi, Michelle!). She's our newest staff writer but will occasionally weigh in 'round these parts. I mention Michelle because we stole her from the fine magazine KoreAm, which documents the Korean-American exp ... More >>
Food
October 28, 2010
It's DIY Time At Bari Bari Japanese BBQ
OC's latest yakiniku lets you take the teppan into your own hands
Blogs
July 21, 2010
Who's Next At The Most Cursed Restaurant Location In Tustin?
Edwin GoeiHere we go again. The shack in front of Tustin's Sushi Wasabi at Newport Avenue and Walnut Street, which used to house a DIY Korean BBQ called Hebaragi, has changed hands yet again. At this point, I have no other conclusion than to say that this location is cursed.
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July 19, 2010
Jamillah Garden Gone; Myung Dong Kal GukSu Steps In
Edwin GoeiJamillah Garden, long a staple of the Tustin food scene and one of only a few Islamic Chinese restaurants in OC, has called it quits, finally folding and surrendering its corner spot in a hidden strip mall to a Korean noodle house called Myung Dong Kal GukSu. Myung Dong, as those who r ... More >>
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June 10, 2010
Battle Seolleongtang: Anna's vs. Jang Mo Gip
Flickr user thedeliciousYou could be excused for never having heard of seolleongtang. It isn't on the radar for most people who are just starting to delve into Korean cuisine, because it's never sold in barbecue restaurants or soon tofu places. You could be excused for not knowing how to pronounc ... More >>
Food
June 3, 2010
Soju Think You Can Drink?
The menu at JuJu Pocha exists to absorb the sneaky fuck-you-up-ness of the yogurt soju
Blogs
March 22, 2010
Kogi Reveals in Time Magazine That It Got Idea From Blogger
Edwin GoeiFor the most part, the recent article in Time magazine this week on Roy Choi of Kogi and the food truck phenomenon did not reveal anything new. But there was one thing in it that confirms something that I've long suspected: Kogi got the idea for their Korean tacos from a food blog ... More >>
Food
February 25, 2010
Hebaragi's Cheeky Barbecue
From pig jowls to beef stomach to plain old steak, it all tastes amazing at this Korean eatery
Blogs
January 28, 2010
New Tustin Korean Restaurant In Tustin Where There Once Was Another, and Another
Edwin GoeiI don't have a prize to give out, but I will offer a hearty attaboy to anyone who can tell me how many Korean restaurants have occupied the hut in front of Sushi Wasabi at the corner of Newport and Walnut in Tustin. My recollection has it at three. There was a joint called Happy ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2010
Ethnic Eating 101: Korean, Part 3
alanchan @ flickr.com CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Mmmm, Korean liquor...This week's installment keeps us in Korea, but might be better titled "Ethnic Drinking 101", since the bulk of the writing this week involves getting your Korean drink on. Koreans don't drink without eating, though, which means there are ... More >>
Blogs
January 15, 2010
Ethnic Eating 101: Korean, Part 2
leena @ flickr.com CC BY-NC 2.0As promised, today's edition of Ethnic Eating 101 concentrates on the two temperature extremes in Korean food: soon tofu, which is served literally boiling hot, and naengmyeon, which is served literally ice cold. No matter what the weather, there is a Korean dish pe ... More >>
Blogs
January 8, 2010
Ethnic Eating 101: Korean, Part 1
phy @ flickr.com CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Korean restaurants have Seoul... get it?Welcome to the new year of Ethnic Eating 101! Sorry for the unannounced hiatus; I was hung over--tequila is a delicious but cruel potion.While the wonders of Vietnamese cooking could fill up half a year's posts, the Vietnames ... More >>
Blogs
December 24, 2009
Dueling Dishes Soft Tofu Battle: BCD v. Kaya
This episode of Dueling Dishes is about soft tofu. Korean soft tofu. This week we pit together two houses of curd, BCD Tofu House and Kaya, who compete in the same town, serving the same dish. That town would be Irvine, where there exists six or maybe more restaurants who offer the same speciali ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2009
Life on the Veg: Dolsot Bibimbap at Kaju Tofu in Garden Grove
Grace LeIt's HOT. What better way to deal with this freakishly cold SoCal weather than by counter-attacking with some tongue-singeing Korean food? Dolsot (aka or stone pot) bibimbap is a wonderful way to keep your belly warm during T-shit unfriendly weather and Kaju Tofu in Garden Grove does it r ... More >>
Food
October 29, 2009
Myung Dong Kal Guksu in Anaheim Is a Temple of Korean Hand-Cut Noodles
Grace LeIt's HOT. What better way to deal with this freakishly cold SoCal weather than by counter-attacking with some tongue-singeing Korean food? Dolsot (aka or stone pot) bibimbap is a wonderful way to keep your belly warm during T-shit unfriendly weather and Kaju Tofu in Garden Grove does it r ... More >>
Blogs
October 16, 2009
Kim Chi From Garden Grove Makes It To The New York Times
Photo by Edwin GoeiIt's a long, long way from Garden Grove to New York's Lower East Side, but Young Ja Chun's kim chi had made the trip and was featured by The New York Times in a short but sweet article.
Blogs
July 29, 2009
LA Times: De-odorized Kimchi Patented
Edwin GoeiBreaking news: according to a fascinating LA Times article, someone has invented kimchi that doesn't stink. Now, I didn't know kimchi stink was even a problem, let alone one that needed fixing. To me, the Korean side-dish of Napa cabbage pickled in garlic, chili and ginger does not po ... More >>
Food
July 16, 2009
Eating Korean Fried Chicken and Getting Sauced at the Past Memories in Garden Grove
Edwin GoeiBreaking news: according to a fascinating LA Times article, someone has invented kimchi that doesn't stink. Now, I didn't know kimchi stink was even a problem, let alone one that needed fixing. To me, the Korean side-dish of Napa cabbage pickled in garlic, chili and ginger does not po ... More >>
Food
June 4, 2009
[Summer Guide] The Grills of Your Barbecue-Loving Dreams
Edwin GoeiBreaking news: according to a fascinating LA Times article, someone has invented kimchi that doesn't stink. Now, I didn't know kimchi stink was even a problem, let alone one that needed fixing. To me, the Korean side-dish of Napa cabbage pickled in garlic, chili and ginger does not po ... More >>
Food
March 12, 2009
Wako Honey Pig: How Sweet It Is
Edwin GoeiBreaking news: according to a fascinating LA Times article, someone has invented kimchi that doesn't stink. Now, I didn't know kimchi stink was even a problem, let alone one that needed fixing. To me, the Korean side-dish of Napa cabbage pickled in garlic, chili and ginger does not po ... More >>
Food
October 9, 2008
The Soup at Garden Grove's Jang Mo Gip Comes Two Ways: Spicy and Really Spicy
Edwin GoeiBreaking news: according to a fascinating LA Times article, someone has invented kimchi that doesn't stink. Now, I didn't know kimchi stink was even a problem, let alone one that needed fixing. To me, the Korean side-dish of Napa cabbage pickled in garlic, chili and ginger does not po ... More >>
Blogs
September 3, 2008
Diamond Jamboree = More Asian Eateries = More Fun
Good things do happen in Irvine, even if it's going to make traffic even more hellish. It's called Diamond Jamboree Center, a sprawling shopping complex you might have seen being built on the corner of Alton and Jamboree Rd. So far, just the signs are up. Finishing touches are still being made. ... More >>
Food
July 24, 2008
New Irvine Korean Barbecue Shik Do Rak Takes the DIY Aesthetic to a New (And Delicious) Level
Good things do happen in Irvine, even if it's going to make traffic even more hellish. It's called Diamond Jamboree Center, a sprawling shopping complex you might have seen being built on the corner of Alton and Jamboree Rd. So far, just the signs are up. Finishing touches are still being made. ... More >>
Food
June 26, 2008
[This Hole-In-the-Wall Life] Semper Full in Paul's Coffee Shop
Good things do happen in Irvine, even if it's going to make traffic even more hellish. It's called Diamond Jamboree Center, a sprawling shopping complex you might have seen being built on the corner of Alton and Jamboree Rd. So far, just the signs are up. Finishing touches are still being made. ... More >>
Food
May 1, 2008
The Korean Barbecue at Go Goo Ryeo in Garden Grove Is Amazing, But Your Date May Not Approve
Good things do happen in Irvine, even if it's going to make traffic even more hellish. It's called Diamond Jamboree Center, a sprawling shopping complex you might have seen being built on the corner of Alton and Jamboree Rd. So far, just the signs are up. Finishing touches are still being made. ... More >>
Food
March 6, 2008
Korean Restaurant Harubang Spices up Buena Park
Good things do happen in Irvine, even if it's going to make traffic even more hellish. It's called Diamond Jamboree Center, a sprawling shopping complex you might have seen being built on the corner of Alton and Jamboree Rd. So far, just the signs are up. Finishing touches are still being made. ... More >>
Food
October 11, 2007
Pork Belly Decadence
It’s a do-it-yourself world at Manpuku
Food
June 7, 2007
This Hole-in-the-Wall Life
Spoonfuls of Summery Hooray: Patbingsu at A.R. Supermarket
Food
December 21, 2006
Making Kimchi Chic
Hashigo Tofu makes Koreanfood cool. And delicious
Food
June 15, 2006
This Hole-in-the-Wall Life
An Ethnic Costco: HK Market in Tustin
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October 6, 2005
BCD Tofu
An Ethnic Costco: HK Market in Tustin
Food
May 12, 2005
Hwang Hae Do BBQ
An Ethnic Costco: HK Market in Tustin
Food
April 24, 2003
Boar War
Blubber-bound blowhard battles Tony Bourdain for the favor of his beloved at Yi Dynasty
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