Is Food in Koreatown Legit?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- We've been eating Korean food in Korea for over 7 years now. We wanted to see what Korean food is like outside of Korea and see if it's actually legit. Thanks to Jen and David for helping out in this video!
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Yayyy! This was so much fun to watch! I wish I could have taken you guys to a really good LA-style KBBQ place while you were here but that means next time that will be priority. :D MISS YOU SO MUCH ALREADY!!!!!
+From Head To Toe IKR? KBBQ in Ktown is the bombskies. You should take them to Kogi King! AYCE! Awww yissss
In all of the Korean restaurants I've been to they served the potato salad with apples in them and I thought it was delicious! So I looked up the recipe and it's actually called "Korean Style Potato Salad", not American. Americans aren't very hyped about putting fruit in their potatoes. :/
열정 that's exactly what I was thinking. American's don't put apples in potato salad. that's different to me.
My Korean mother makes it occasionally for family reunions. I think it's an old modern recipe from her generation. I always love eating it.
Decore Flagranti yo I always begin with that I swear I’m korean but I was born in Los Angeles
Really? In Ohio or where I'm from people put grapes in their potato salad and it's good.
Elektracity20 I’ve heard of grapes in chicken salad, but never heard of it in the potato salad.
Is food in LA's Ktown legit Korean food? We ask our friends David Choi and Jen From Head To Toe to be our guides to legit Korean food in LA.
whoop. haha.
Eat Your Kimchi my hubby also loves wating korean food specially kimchi..but martina just like to ask..are you still going to continue making videos on HOW to cook korean foods??please reply...love a lots from PHILIPPINES
Eat Your Kimchi Do we have Leigh to thank for all the 'Murica edits in this? XD Cause they were glorioussss
You guys should come to Arcadia for the Young Dong in Pavilions plaza! Best soondooboo I had in my life!!
bhella park You should check out Maangchi's channel. It's a Korean cooking channel and she speaks decent English.
All this food looks so good but I feel like if I ever went somewhere like that I would have no fucking idea what I'm ordering
Omg me too! I would be so confused
Hanna Huddleston just ask them what's popular. or go for the safer dishes like black bean noodles, bibimbap, seafood pancake, fried chicken
+tilky nah bruh fuck it Yolo
tilky Seafood pancake is divine. Tell your friends. It's perfection.
+Hanna Huddleston Most of the time, these restaurants will have it in English too.
That potato salad with Apple is not American....
Skinnydips Maybe she was referring to the distinct flavor? The typical, overwhelmingly mustardy potato salad is very much an American strongsuit ^^"
Silentgrace11 I don't think so, the potato salad wasn't even orange which it would have been had it had loads of mustard. She was referring to the apple, which is most defiantly NOT American. I've never had potato salad with an apple in it, and don't plan to either.
Usagi Felton You'd be surprised, actually. I've basically given up on expecting mayonnaise potato salad when I'm at events and such. At least around here, many store-bought ones have built up a ratio where they can have super mustardy potato salad while it still looks pale, and it wouldn't surprise me if there are home methods to do it too (I wouldn't know. I just use my great-grandmothers mayonnaise salad recipe). All that aside, I honestly don't know if apple is common or not. I think I've seen it at restaurants once or twice, but it was at a passing glance and I don't know if it was an international special or not. I wonder what it adds to the recipe. Additional texture, perhaps? Or maybe sweetness...I don't think it needs anymore sweetness, but we also use homemade sweet pickles and that does the job nicely ^^"
I have had apples in my potato salad. The apple gives it a crunch.
AntWorld Ah! Okay :) thank you for the explanation.
The fact that Martina says Man-Doo instead of Mahn-Doo makes me cringe, especially when she's talking about how different the "American" mandu is compared to Korean mandu.
Unless she's joking about the pronunciation, then it's totally cool.
Sarah Squared Relevant: th-cam.com/video/fKGoVefhtMQ/w-d-xo.html
But mandu is pretty easy to pronounce... lol
Who cares miss perfect. I understood exactly what she said. That's all that matters.
Sarah Squared So are lots of other Korean words, but if you're speaking to people in English then you sound pretentious if you over pronounce everything. It's not a matter of difficulty, but of accessibility, and keeping the conversation going.
Eat Your Kimchi
But you're not over pronouncing it? Like if you say doenjang jjigae, that is usually a harder word for Americans or any person who isn't a native Korean speaker to pronounce. And I get that. You shouldn't have to over pronounce words if it's just making it harder for all of the people listening. But, in my opinion, if you're already making the effort of judging Korean food in LA compared to food in Korea, it would make sense to pronounce words that are easy to pronounce the way they are supposed to be pronounced?
I still enjoy all of your videos regardless of how you pronounce things haha but it is just an opinion I have.
how cool would it be if JKnews and EYK did an collab
+Mnemetsu Very cool
Extremely
Egg is egg +1 hahahaha
T Manuel Very important: egg must be egg.
Eat Your Kimchi Egg must not be Chinese counterfeit wax egg!
Eat Your Kimchi plot twist: eat your kimchi is actually how to basic
So apparently the choice of the restaurant doesn't matter for David Choi as long it's good drunk food lool
Soondubu was actually invented in LA koreatown by Korean expats and exported back into Korea.
I just wrote this. But people are not-knowers. That's why amateur-hour people are out of their depth at a certain point. LOL.
this is so cool to see you guys compare because this is basically a real genuine comparison (except for maybe someone who's lived in korea their whole life). i don't think anywhere near where i live has really good korean food. not that i would know if it was good or not though lol ....one of these days ill get my hands on some good korean food.
I know David Choi from JKNews
same, mudda bullshit
Ooh, you da mudda fan too
MADDA BULLSHIT!!
Oh hello mudda pepol!
neon5311 it lives in the deep sea -Tiff 2015
The thing about the spam is that in America it carries a slight stigma of being low class food. If served spam in a restaurant, besides those specializing in it, I believe most Americans, and myself included, would feel skimped and offended.
got2many You should go to Hong Kong style cafes then, they serve spam for breakfast. Does American restaurants not serve spam?
I don't know if they consider it too low class. I mean spam musubis have been popular for a while
+I ship It I can't say spam is completely ruled out BUT most non-Asian people I know think spam is nasty. The only people I know that like spam in fact are Asian people. I suppose there might still be spam served in Asian restaurants but yeah, it is not that popular compared to Asia. For example, the Denny's menu doesn't serve spam AT ALL, the closest thing I can find is ham. Source: Hong Kong Chinese living in Canada.
Coco Violet yoooo Hong Kong Chinese here too!!! But I live in LA... and I live in a densely Asian populated neighborhood sooo its easy to find spam at the restaurants.. didn't know it was mostly asians that liked spam. :O
I ship It hahaha yeah it was weird for me too since I grew up eating a lot of spam in tong sum fen and fried rice. When I grew up and talked to more white people I was very surprised that spam had such a bad reputation >.< But yeah, all my East Asian friends eat and like spam in fried rice!
well... there is literally nothing Korean in my town. I mean, we recently got some King's Kimchi at the grocery store, and that's basically the only Korean food you can buy in a 200+ mile radius of my town.
at least I don't have to get kimchi on Amazon anymore.
😱 where do you live?
I live in St. George, UT. It's extreme southwest corner on the state, and the closest big city is Las Vegas!
+Stephanie Erickson So you live near area 51? Seen any aliens around lately? :D
Krist Biene Could aliens be the reason kimchi is difficult to find there? Something to think about...Sorry, had to go there, lived in Roswell ;))
Krist Biene no aliens, but I DO live less than 100 miles from an old atomic bomb testing site, so if I ever wanted to get cancer, I could visit that!!
DAVID CHOI ♡
Sup Hee HE'S A COOL DUDE :D
"When you're drunk, everything tastes good." ~ David Choi
WORD.
Um, traditional American potato salad doesn't have apple in it, but I've definitely seen apples popping up randomly in squash and potato salad in Korea (and both are very sweet).
ktown in NYC is even more expensive, my wallet cries every time haha
My wallet also 😭
LABYRINTH OF CHAOS you should check out the k-town in queens rather than the k-town in manhattan!:)
skyblue Jen E I went to flushing for the first time two weeks ago and it was ahmazing! if only it wasn't so far haha
LABYRINTH OF CHAOS Palisades Park, NJ along Broad avenue is the biggest k-town in USA by number of businesses. There are quite a number of affordable options.
+Tal Mamatov hi. tell me more about this "ktown in chi-town" you speak of......
English subtitles now up! Thank you to the person who made them :D
The reason the pork tastes different here is because in order to satisfy the health nut crowd, U.S. farmers started breeding leaner pigs with less fat, thus cursing the nation with less flavorful pork. If you want what pork used to taste like here, go to a place that uses pork from heritage breeds of pigs. Makes all the difference in the world.
Nice editing! I liked it, Leigh. /o/\o\
Video editing was hilarious XD loved this video. Thank you for your honesty :)
Hahaha!! I had no idea you were filming in BCD the whole time! xD We were too drunk....
It's so strange, but every Korean place I've been to in america serves that weird potato salad/cole slaw stuff. It's has joined the bancham lexicon here.
Jeez! Even I felt bad looking at that dolsot bibimbap!
What the heck was that?! It looked like a shepherd's bibimbap pie.
Thank goodness my local Korean restaurant keeps that dolsot bibimbap REAL!
Love ya, Sun and Moon! Muah!
After watching your videos for so long and being so interested in korea i decided to start learning the language! Its actually pretty fun to just pause videos at points where theres writing in the background to try and read it!
Dolsot bibimpbap is $20 in my city. We need more Koreans here.
Raphanne It's not cheap near me either. So I learned to make it myself. :)
Heather Farley-Marshall Oh, that's cool! Did you buy the bowls and everything? I'm much better at eating stuff than making them, unfortunately. :D
Raphanne There are absolutely no Korean restaurants in my general area (unless you include one of the Chinese restaurants run by people from Korea ^^") so I had to learn to make it on my own. Delicious and definitely worth while
+Raphanne I found the bowls in an asian food store. Sadly, I have to drive about 1.5 hours away to go there. I live in a small town lol.
Raphanne And I thought the bay area was expensive. The place I go to charges 15 dollars, but they use all organic..i rather have non-organic and save another 5 bucks.
Cool that you took suggestions from LA based TH-camrs/TH-camrs who did Korea Town food reviews. Your videos, especially FAPFAP, have gotten me excited about trying Korean food in addition to just barbecue meats and a zillion pickled vegetables and side dishes.
Hodori is the Denny's of Korean restaurants
BCD Tofu House is fucking amazing. it's the spot to hit after every damned concert. it hits the spot!
the very first time I went, I I ordered mild because I'm a weenie and can't handle spicy. well... I didn't get mild (confirmed by my friend) but it was so damned good that I powered through it. and now I'm not a spice weenie anymore!
+Yas Mean I LOVE BCD TOFU HOUSE!
I force my sister to take me there every time I visit her because I can never get enough of it.
LunaMinervaLovegood nice! You can't force the willing!!! Lolol ugh it's so good.
+Yas Mean If you're in LA, try Beverly Soon Dubu. I think it's better than BCD! But it does have less "jung shik" variety.
Chulo I'll do that! Thanks! :)
+Yas Mean I MISS BCD TOFU D: D: D;
I took my mom (who is Korean) to Ktown to try a few places but had no idea where to go. My parents will be back here soon so I'm bookmarking this. ^_^ As it was, my 어머니 wasn't so impressed by the places we went to. She said the three places we went to had food that wasn't made "the traditional way."
although i found the comparisons interesting i dont think its fair to comment on the "legitimacy" of korean food in LA. i grew up in LA and have spent many summers in korea so i can share my opinions on the differences of the foods. in LA, korean food is often prepared traditionally however since we live in such a cultured and diverse city it allows cooks to be free with preparing meals. its the same food, but different recipe. how else are these restaurants ganna compete with each other. the bibimbap that you had is very unique but i can assure you that if you walk into any other korean restaurant they will make it how its usually made (with carrots, bean sprouts etc). i think just going to one restaurant out of the dozens in LA wasnt doing LA korean food any justice. of course im not holding this against you but i want people watching this video to look down on LA korean food
also im ganna point out that korean food in LA has become its own culture, a culture that is specific only to LA. korean bbq has become a trendy and popular food amongst non koreans and even in korea korean bbq has become adopted. you will find that some restaurants in korea will specify "LA style korean bbq" on the menu versus the traditional korean style.
it is not that korean food in LA isnt legit. its not really all that comparable anymore since its evolved into something different
i hope this made sense i know my thoughts are all jumbled. ive never posted a comment on youtube but this topic really had my mind going
***** i *dont want people watching to look down on LA korean food
+Sky Kim I agree. Also, in a 2.5 mile radius, Koreatown packs a gigantic number of Korean restaurants. Some are known for their banchan, some are known for their fish dishes, naengmyun (like Yu Chun Chic which I thought was just OK), some in BBQ, some in traditional Korean, some in the "royal banquet" style, etc. etc. etc. 3 restaurants, one of which is a global chain, one of which I think is terrible after drinking food, is not a fair sample
+Sky Kim
I agree and it's difficult if they're comparing it to one particular dish at one particular restaurant in Korea. Even among restaurants in Korea I'm sure different restaurants have slightly different tastes for the same dish. They're not all carbon copies of each other. It seems kind of unfair to be judging based on how "close it to" one at a particular restaurant in Korea.
+Sky Kim As long as it's not evolved to cater to non-Korean tastebuds, it's legit. Can't say the same for American Chinese food. Not hating here, I'm Chinese.
I absolutely agree 100% with you. I love the food here in Korea Town in LA. Same dishes but different ingredients for different restaurants. For example Mexican restaurant, same dishes but different ways of making in different restaurants. It just all depending on your taste buds really.
Hi, guys! I'm new to your channel and I can't understand how I've lived so many years without you! You're amazing!! I don't know if you've already made a video on that topic (if yes - please, forgive me but I couldn't find it :/) but could you recommend any books or websites for learning Korean? Finding a private teacher or local language courses is not an option, unfortunately.
Thank you for your reply if you ever see this message!
Welcome to our videos! A good friend of ours runs a site called TalktomeinKorean. They're great, and make a lot of books too :)
Apples are really common in Korean potato salad tho
You sure? These two have been living in Korea for 7 years. They are experts on all thinks Korean now.
i feel like I Saw more of Jens Husband in this one video, than i have in Any of her videos haha. I'm glad you had them on, you two are such adorable couples!
IS THAT JEN'S HUSBAN AT 6:00??? HAVE WE FINALLY CAUGHT A GLIMPSE AT JEN'S HUSBAND??? He's got a nice hairstyle. :)
He's also there around 1:28! But yes, that's him. He's also on her Instagram a couple times (:
I love Martina's "mmhmms" and head shakes at the start of the challenge. That swagger and attitude is all like: bring it on and lets see what you got... all wrestling style! lol
Is that Park PD @ 6:46 Ssin's little brother???
OH MY GOSH!! YES I I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAUGHT THAT! I THINK IT IS! IT LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE HIM!
*thought I was
I appreciate the little cheap joints that introduce you to foreign foods. For me, it was the 16th Street food court in Denver, Colorado that had a little Korean food stall. Really good and inexpensive dishes like bulgogi (grilled marinated beef) and galbi (marinated beef or pork short ribs) that got me interested in other Korean dishes like Korean-style twice fried chicken (KFC!) and their wildly spicy ramyeon instant noodles.
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Aye Myatkhine Sounds interesting! We'll put some thought into it :D
+Eat Your Kimchi yay
Thank you guys for making this video!!! I live in NY and there's a KoreaTown near me and I really want to try good Korean food. But I was not sure if it's LEGIT... So thank you! KoreaTown is Eat Your Kimchi approved!
wait did you guys go together or did you not know that you were sitting at the same table as liah yoo at BCD tofu? she's another youtuber
+hahajenlee We all went together :D
We have Yu Chun in Hawaii too :)
Every time I pass by that place I think of Yoo Chun from JYJ... yeah...
yay new video!!!!!
love your content KEEP IT UP!!
Cortni lamb Thank you!
+Eat Your Kimchi always a pleasure to keep you happy😀😀😀😀😀
it took me so long to watch this (and by so long I mean a week) cause I love you guys, and David Choi and Jen so much and wish I could meet you all at once. it makes me so happy seeing some of my favorite youtubers all together sad I missed you guys, next time come to Tahoe!
Everyone's uploading on my birthday 😂. What an awesome present.
Happy birthday
Omg, we have the same birthday 😃 Happy (belated) birthday!
Omg, we have the same birthday 😃 Happy (belated) birthday!
Omg, we have the same birthday 😃 Happy (belated) birthday!
Omg! We have the same birthday! Happy birthday to you too!
I can't believe you missed "Kang Ho Dong BaekJeong"! Best BBQ Korean Restaurant. If you planning to visit NYC. They have it too. Questlove loves it!
what if i told you that a lot of “Americanized” versions of foods were actually the product of immigrant experiences and are not “bastardized versions”
Your video content is too creative, too funny, too entertaining, too .... I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! THUMBS UP!
Unfortunately you are not gonna find a bibimbap for less than $10 ANYWHERE in America :( Tho the one i had in the Korea town mall cafeteria in L.A. looked waaayyy better than the one you had Martina.
is the mall where Honeybees is located? I found it one day circled around the block and lost it >_> but there was a big building with shops all in it, and there was a kdorean bbq place nearby and down the street somewhere was It's Boba Time! I've only been to ktown twice sorry if my descriptions are vague
conejitoasesinoOG 8 dollars down the street from my house here in South Carolina. And way better than that monstrosity she showed.
Arirang. They also give you at least 14 banchan. Delicious.
+conejitoasesinoOG I live near the bay area where we have a small ktown, and our bibimpbap is under $6 :) Or free if my halmoni makes me some :)
This is false. SLC, UT has a hand full of korean resteraunts that have dolsot bimbimbap for reletively the same price you would get it in Korea. (obviously a little more expensive but still "cheap")
Literally watching this at 4am and I am planning on sneaking to the kitchen because you guys make me hungry..
do you prefer using plastick, wooden or metal chopsticks?
*plastic
the apple in potato salad is a norm for many Korean people. I'm Korean, and every time I had potato salad from a Korean person it was sweeter, had apples in it or another fruit or vegetable (cucumber, orange slices, pear, sometimes even sweet potato noodles chopped up). I don't think that's "American" because most American style potato salad tastes very different either heavily mayo based or mustard based.
So after 7 years living in Korea, can you guys speak fluent Korean?
my school cafeteria in Korea served that kind of potato salad all the time..sometimes it was apple, sometimes it was corn. It was usually served on the 'Western' food days (along with the crazy sweet spaghetti), so I think it's a Korean person's attempt at Western food. So it's totally Korean..but Korean-style Western food
You guys totally went to the wrong places! Hodori? C'mon! I can take you guys to the best places when you're here in LA again ;)
You guys should be expert food critics you guys are really good.
HODOR
eyl227 hodor hodor hodor hodor
Eat Your Kimchi HODOR HODOR HODOR
awww you guys were in L.A, if I would have known earlier I would have been so happy to give you guys a tour around the area. Love you guys.
Are the people beside Martina at the 3rd restaurant strangers? They don't seem to be a part of the gang lol
No, we're all there together :)
Eat Your Kimchi LOL I see. I thought the restaurant was too packed and you guys have no choice but to sit with the others. They were so focus on their own food~
For sundubu jjigae you MUST try Beverly Soon Tofu- by far THE BEST sundubu jjigae in all of koreatown! The flavor is creamy with the right amount of spice and it isn't watered down unlike other places. It's so good I have dreams and wake up craving it!
OMG whaaat out of all the good restaurants in ktown u guys didn't even go to any of the good places!! Nooooo
Yea...Americans definitely dont put apples in their potatoes salad (not normally anyway). I've had the thing they are eating at Korean restaurants in the States before...but only at Korean restaurants and doesnt taste like American potato salad either. Anyway Korean fusions cuisine is where its at, its a shame they didnt get a chance to check out any Korean Taco trucks..or just plain old Korean Fried chicken. Also there should be a rule against Canadians saying 'Merica.
Welcome to California where everything is overpriced
Not quite well compared to restaurants in Korea. But I was happy to eat Korean foods when I went there. That time I was an exchange student in US and missed Korean foods so much. When I ate Kamchatang in L.A. instead of sightseeing Berkley Univ., there' no regret at all!!!! My Korean friends and me was super happy to eat Korean foods.
Of course the food is not going to be as good as the country of origin.
the editing in this video was so flipping cool!!! I love the retro video game feel ahhhh.
This is the most pretentious thing I've seen recently.
xG4mx it's just for fun
U guys made me want to try Korean food even more. I've never had Korean food. Ever.
Two white people judging whether Korean food is legit?
Well like they said at the beginning, they lived in Korea for 7 years eating Korean Food everyday so they have a pretty acquired/specific taste when it comes to Korean food.
+Ash Q. Lopes couldn't have said it better myself! :)
They lived in Korea longer than most American Koreans. They are pretty legit.
Lmao, that's like saying two black people can't judge French or German food, even if they've lived there for many years.
Two white people who lived in Korea for 7 years and ate Korean food every day for those years are probably good judges of Korean food by now.
Glad to say I am from LA. I will definitely check these places out when I go back home. In the mean time, I need to find some Korean places in BHam Alabama.
Now I'm hungry and I miss Korean food! Great job on the video guys!
I was in LA for two weeks and just got back, how'd I miss you guys?!?!? Darn nabit!!!
The editing in this video was soooo good!
Tatu's "All About us" featured the Hodori restaurant at the beginning. They were drinking soju.
The hot stone bibimbap they sold at the Korean market near my place in Northridge would've impressed you more. Though it was also pretty pricy.
Aw, you guys went to BCD my fave!! It's so fun to hear whether these local spots are authentic to their origin. Super cool!
I just LOVE you guys "Game of Thrones" references :) One day i will read those books...
I can't believe you guys went to Hodori!!! David said it was good after drinking because it's cheap, fast, and open late. There are so many more legit places around ktown
I love their Murica jokes. On point!
Dear Simon and Martina, please do a video on public toilets!
I am from Canada and recently went on a trip to Asia I went to Japan China and thailand and each had very different kinds of public toilets.
Japan has toilet seat butt washer, china has squatting toilets and thailand has a hose that sprays water out...
I have never seen those kinds of toilets before and I was wondering if Korea had different public toilets as well.
Authentic Korean like me never go to Hodori. that place is for Korean Americans. when I first went to LA some of my school mates brought me there and I was like WTF is this even a Korean food? but they usually Korean Americans go there because Hodori is the only 24 hour open in Koreatown. there are plenty of other places where can give you authentic Korean food so little bit of researching can be helpful ^^
what about Toronto k-town? do a 3 way competition between North York, Bathurst and actual Korea!!!
I wish I could find a traditional Korean restaurant where I live. Every time I watch you guys eat I want some sooooooooo bad😩.
I knew it wasn't going to be good the moment you guys showed up at hodori. That place was popular when I was in college mostly because it was open 24 hours. There is are a lot more places to check out next time you guys make it to LA, especially if you head out to Orange County.
Heyyy!!! Any OTHER random Korean food place in K-Town, even low end, has the type of dolsot bibimbap Martina described. I'm sorry you both got that weird hot-rice-bowl experience like that. My only guess is that the ajummas at Hodori typically have non-Koreans pick out the bean sprouts and namul even if the customer expresses interest in Korean cuisine so they prepped for "western" preference. - - As for the potato salad, that is actually common in Korean cuisine. My mom always made hers with tons of apples like that since she was a little girl in Korea. So long as there was mayo in Korea (probably a recipe introduced by U.S.) there was potato salad.
So excited about this video! I've wondered about this for real!
AHHHHH DAVID CHOI AND JEN!!!!!!!! YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME!
We have a BCD in Seattle and I LOVE IT. Now I'm really hungry and wanna go.
I was in LA with my fam in July and honest to god the korean food there is more korean than us. SO GOOD. My parents and I are in Toronto, and we envy the Korean food in LA so much. *sidenote: their galleria is amazing.
my mom likes going to this one korean market called galleria and they have a food court, and they have the same kind of potato salad with apples. I actually really like it though?? my sister always lets me have hers too
holy shit same. Galleria in Toronto amirite?
+jstyledipset Probably the one in Koreatown, LA. They have a pretty good food court in Koreatown Plaza as well (in LA).
Chulo Oh shoot I had no idea they had another location because their website only lists the Canadian location
ohhh i'd die to get REAL naeng myun in Korea. I've been getting it from NYC's k-town and queens and love it so I can only imagine Korea being ten times better.
hey! apples in potato salad is Korean! I've only ever had it in Korea and Korean restaurants
I don't know if you guys are still in LA, but when you're in the area try Morandak! They have very authentic and absolutely delish North Korean-style naeng-myun, and they're quite generous with their extra service. :)
Please do more videos with Jen in the future please!
I live near Washington DC and there are restaraunts here that are pretty legit. After coming back from Korea, there are subtle differences like how the restaraunts here in my area have more salt on their foods and they DO have that confusing potato salad I never ever touch (I hate potato salad). Ive also brought my friends from Korea to different places here and they said the only thing that is different is that its saltier which I could agree with because North America uses a lot of salt. Come and try the food here! :D
Cryin rn BCD is such the basic Korean Chain restaurant. There are so many more better places, but some of the most authentic places aren't as popular. There's a place called Jang Mo Gip (장모집) and actually they're known for their kimchi which is sold at many grocery stores. But their food is one of the top most authentic food you can get.
Also, you're in LA. In the USA. It's all about that all you can eat kbbq. I'd suggest Gen, good quality meat right there.
Ahahaha, David's eye "star" twinkle....
"Yeah, when I drink.....umm, pop. Soda."
Mandu is pretty similar in Korea and in Koreatown.. The food is pretty "legit" too, it's Koreatown for a reason! It is a bit more stronger in flavor than Korea, imo, but it isn't too different... (I'm a Korean American who visits Korea every year, if that gives me more credit LMAO)
Korean-Americans tend to prefer Korean American food. The Korean BBQ is much better in LA, especially the Kalbi. I don't like Pork so couldn't tell you about the Pork Belly. Recently got back from Seoul and the food is really good but a bit too spicy. My mother who was born in Seoul agrees. Yes she has lived more than half her life in the states now so her tastes may have changed a bit also. Nangmyun and Mandoo is much better in Korea.