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Korean Food and Cooking

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Another Concept/Name Change At "Tustin's Most Cursed Restaurant Location"

    If you've read this blog for the past couple of years, you'd know of my fascination about a particular shack on Newport & Walnut in Tustin. Every time there's a change in ownership and/or concept, I write about it. I am the unofficial historian of what comes and goes in what I joking referred to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    Lunch On the Go: Bibimbap from Sobahn Express

    Korean supermarkets are one of the best-kept secrets for a quick lunch; nearly every one has at least one lunch counter, and some--like the H-Mart in Garden Grove's Korean District--have entire food courts. The H-Mart at Diamond Jamboree, though, is suffering: there's a Korean bakery with the u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Las Vegas Crawfish Restaurant Featured on Man v. Food To Open in OC

    ​UPDATE, MAR. 6: The planned location of Hot N Juicy will be in Fountain Valley in the old spot previously occupied by Déjà Vu at Euclid and Edinger.ORIGINAL POST, MAR. 5:In recent years, we've seen more than a few food trends peak and peter out. Frozen yogurt store development is now frozen. Cu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Tustin's Most Cursed Restaurant Location Claims Another Business; New Cajun Joint To Try Next

    Edwin Goei​I think I've become the unofficial and unintentional historian on the businesses that have come and gone at the shack on 14430 Newport Ave. in Tustin. Over the last five years I have been keeping track, there has been about four different restaurants trying and failing at that spot. Now ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    The Simpsons Takes on Food Blogging, Molecular Gastronomy and Sriracha in Next Episode

    Courtesy of 20th Century Fox via Grub Street​When we saw this image, we did a double take. What the what? Nope, our eyes aren't deceiving us. That is, in fact, Bart chillin' with some faux Sriracha and kimchi.It's from the next Simpsons episode, which, as Grub Street reveals, will be devoted to fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    Assi Natural Market To Replace Stein Mart in Irvine

    ​Last week Anne Marie told us that the Mitsuwa was opening its second OC store in Irvine. Now comes news that Irvine is going to get a lot more where that came from: that is to say another Asian super market is coming to town. This time, it's Korean. Assi, which has a market in LA's Koreatown, wil ... More >>

  • Food

    May 26, 2011

    Jang Mo Gip Is Like Mother, Like Daughter

    [Hole In the Wall] The Garden Grove Korean favorite moves locations but keeps its great soups.

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    Eat There, Not Here: Korean Tacos

    Edwin Goei​Notice the flip-flopped title of this post. This week, I'm calling it "Eat There, Not Here". What I'm saying is that despite the promise of a non-itinerant "Kogi Taco" at Koba Tofu Grill's walk-up window in Irvine, you're likely to find better, tastier Korean tacos at the original truc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    Dueling Dishes: Korean Fried Chicken

    Edwin GoeiBBQ Chicken's chicken​This week on Dueling Dishes, we compare and contrast the golden fried birds from BBQ Chicken versus that from Pizza & Chicken Love Letter, the two preeminent Korean fried chicken chains in Orange County. Why these two? Well because they're also the only the tw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    New Korean Soft Tofu Restaurant Opens Near UC Irvine

    ​Koba Tofu Grill--Irvine's tenth or eleventh (I've lost count) Korean restaurant to serve sundubu jjigae, gurgling cauldrons of soft tofu soup--opens this week in Campus Plaza near UC Irvine in what used to be Blockbuster Video. If it seems serendipitous that their debut coincides with the coldes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Calbi BBQ's Delicious Pirateria--But it Can Still (and Will) Improve

    A quesadilla of near-perfection​Fifth entry in our series where we promise to review, for better or worse, every "high-end" roach coach that visits the Weekly's world headquarters. Soho visits us next Monday--when will YOUR mobile food truck come? Inquire with Jessica Ford at jeford@ocweekly.c ... More >>

  • Food

    December 24, 2009

    [Hole in the Wall] Korean-Chinese Fusion Fun Time at Young Pung

    A quesadilla of near-perfection​Fifth entry in our series where we promise to review, for better or worse, every "high-end" roach coach that visits the Weekly's world headquarters. Soho visits us next Monday--when will YOUR mobile food truck come? Inquire with Jessica Ford at jeford@ocweekly.c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2009

    Tomorrow Night: Keith 2.0 in Long Beach

    ​ The runaway train that is Long Beach's Basement Lounge keeps gaining steam. Tomorrow is the weekly Big Audio and similar to previous events, this one seems like it's going to be worth attending.Spinning tomorrow night is Keith 2.0 and the return of Sonny Moore, who opened the club on Oct. 1, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2009

    Eyewitness Kogi Truck Report

    ​This just in from someone who spotted the Korean BBQ taco-spewing Kogi truck near the Barnes and Noble in the Orange Town and Country center across from Mainplace Mall in Santa Ana:"There was no one there before the truck pulled in the parking lot around lunchtime, but as soon as it stopped there ... More >>

  • Food

    June 25, 2009

    [Hole in the Wall] Sticking to It With Cambinos Asian BBQ

    ​This just in from someone who spotted the Korean BBQ taco-spewing Kogi truck near the Barnes and Noble in the Orange Town and Country center across from Mainplace Mall in Santa Ana:"There was no one there before the truck pulled in the parking lot around lunchtime, but as soon as it stopped there ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2009

    A Mexican Commentary on the Muy Bueno Kogi BBQ Burrito

    It was about 10 after midnight Sunday Morning when the mysterious Ben Dayhoe and I descended into his lair and cut a short-rib Kogi BBQ burrito for the two of us to split. We had spent two hours on the sidelines of the famed taco truck, which was dishing out its Korean-style Mexican food from the pa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    Where Obama Might Chow Down During His OC Visit

    We may have been thwarted in our attempt to get tickets to see Obama speak at the OC Fair & Event Center later today, but that doesn't stop us from trying to guess where he might fill up on his OC jaunt, should hunger strike. Both Barack and Michelle are known for their love of food. They don't ... More >>

  • Food

    March 5, 2009

    [Hole in the Wall] Pocho Tacos Muy Machos

    We may have been thwarted in our attempt to get tickets to see Obama speak at the OC Fair & Event Center later today, but that doesn't stop us from trying to guess where he might fill up on his OC jaunt, should hunger strike. Both Barack and Michelle are known for their love of food. They don't ... More >>

  • Food

    October 23, 2008

    [This Hole-in-the-Wall Life] Saucy Hawaiian at Waikiki Hawaiian Grill

    We may have been thwarted in our attempt to get tickets to see Obama speak at the OC Fair & Event Center later today, but that doesn't stop us from trying to guess where he might fill up on his OC jaunt, should hunger strike. Both Barack and Michelle are known for their love of food. They don't ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2008

    Kyochon Chicken Opens in Stanton

    Of all the trendy foods to hit L.A. recently, nothing has intrigued me more than Kyochon Chicken, fried chicken as done by Koreans. Jonathan Gold's Pulitzer-prize winning taste-buds swears by it ("Current fried chicken mecca", he writes), while food bloggers, Chowhounds, and Yelpers alike have gon ... More >>

  • Food

    November 29, 2007

    This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

    Sllllllllllllurp!

  • Food

    April 19, 2007

    This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

    Mothering Your Meat at Ku Wol San

  • Food

    March 25, 2004

    Piggie Porn

    Fetishizing hog at Seoul Soondae

  • Food

    January 30, 2003

    Soju Satori

    Is the Korean liquor soju the next St. Johns Wort?

  • Food

    March 2, 2000

    Seoul Kitchen

    What, me cook?

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