Sa Rit Gol 3189 W Olympic Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90006 (213) 387-0909 Sa Rit Gol, favored by many Korean food lovers, impresses its customers with many tasty side dishes (banchan) in the first place. The restaurant has also earned the reputation of one of the best Korean restaurants in Los Angeles thanks to their famous seafood dishes, i.e., spicy cod stew, and good quality Korean BBQ. The restaurant, tucked away in the northeast corner of a tiny mall between Olympic and Serrano is well-known for fish dishes and Korean BBQ that have the flavor of home-style cooking. They have quite a big selection of ...

Feeling thrifty and feeling lazy, my husband and I agreed to have ramyun for Saturday dinner in spite of its definite killing of Saturday's romantic mood. Cooking ramyun is extremely simple with very minimum requirements. Yes, water, heat, and ramyun are all you need! Yet, I believe many people are willing to pay a little more attention to it, i.e. adding more vegetables to it. That will make a big difference in nutrients as well as taste. I usually add some vegetables such as spring onions, Korean peppers, mushrooms and seaweed mix at the end. I sometimes add eggs or mandu (Korean ...

The delicious mandu (Korean dumplings) that I had a week ago in Myung Dong Kyoja in Korea Town, Los Angeles triggered me to do more research about it. =) Mandu, one of the most favored Korean snack dishes, refers to crescent-shape (or less commonly round-shape) food of meat (usually pork) and vegetable mix wrapped with a thin piece of flour dough. Usually, it's served either fried (usually pan-fry, not deep fry) or steamed. The most similar food in non-Korea culture is Chinese dumpling, jiaozi or baozi. The name itself originates from Chinese food 'mantou', steamed flour buns, but mantou doesn't have fillings. ...

3630 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90010 (213) 385-7789 After I found out authentic Chinese dumplings are probably not for many Koreans, I was not in the mood to try any dumplings anywhere. But subconsciously I must have wanted to compensate my disappointing experience in Beijing by finding an alternative place nearby in Los Angeles. All of sudden, I suggested this place Myung Dong Kyoja for Saturday lunch to a friend of mine. Dumplings, most of them made of pork, are not one of my favorites because of my personal eating habit grown from childhood. But often I have vegetable dumplings that can be ...