Hey everyone, I was super psyched to get to hang out in K-Town for this episode. I especially want to thank Matthew Kang and Margaret Cho for joining me! There are just a couple of episodes left in this season of OFF MENU so remember: Every time you tell a friend to watch this show, an angel gets its wings. Thanks and see you next week!!
high horse plus it takes years of experience to understand things. Not one interview with Margaret cho. Isn’t she Bay Area? She don’t understand ktown either! Lmao
for the skeptics, intestines are really delicious. imagine the fattiest, mot flavorful part of a nice juicy steak. THAT is what intestines taste like. SOOOOO good
If an Asian soup or dish doesn't have any of the weird ass cuts of meats in it, I don't want it. The textures of those meats enhances it and makes it taste better. If anything, it's better than sex. It's like saying yeah the beef, steak, flank was good. But this is also better! I have some friends who don't like tendon or tripe in their pho. It makes me want to scoop all those bits out and eat it for them.
I'm a regular at yangmani.... It made me proud they covered it and broke my heart the restaurant will probably be more popularized and thus busier.... Goodbye yangmani my love!
I wish more Indian restaurant owners had more similar thought process like Matthew Chang. Watch @5:55. Hope Indians show more pride and ownership of there culture.
I really like Rick Bayless... and hey... Matthew Kang can be the Rick Bayless Korean food. I have really enjoyed his videos in the past, and he is an excellent host. On a side note: Came here for the Margaret Cho and Matthew Kang... stayed here for the Lucas!!
The main reason why Korean food is starting to be main stream is because...it taste so good....and my wife is Korean who introduced me to the best of the best in Korean foods....! I am addicted to lettuce wraps.
Seriously tho, Yangmani is bomb. The lines are crazy long during dinner time and the meat is amazing but the main point of their restaurant is their banchan. Most other Korean restaurants don't really focus on their banchan. It's always just a side dish that's required to be given on a Korean spread. This place does it right by really making fresh, flavorful sides and don't skimp on the ingredients. Also, i'm a fat ass and love that they refill if you ask for it on most of the banchan.
Loved both guests! Why not do a complete episode with each? It kind of felt like things were super edited for time. Thanks for the surprise shot of the cocktail at the end, as well as the "maillard reaction" reaction...ha ha!
I don't know if they still have it, but if you tell the Prince staff that it's your birthday they have a pretty cool surprise. Tell them after you've ordered your food and drinks.
I'm happy to see Margaret Cho's story, growing up as a Korean-American, it was difficult to understand. Today, in retrospect, it all makes sense. Please keep this series going.
We had to cut it out of the show, but at every table at The Prince, there are bells to ring the servers to your table. It's a really fun dynamic that allows both privacy and attentiveness from the wait staff.
There are several gripes i have with America but right now i can only think of 2 that i think would make this country so much better. 1. national high speed train system (for another topic) 2. Foreign neighborhoods with American architecture - - - I wished we built our Oriental communities with Oriental buildings. that would be so amazing. Iv eseen videos of how many of these communities arn't being visited by tourist like they used to and are doing economicly poor. I bet if they were built with Asian style architecture not only in buildings but layout they would be jam packed with tourists.
Margaret talking about 7up isn't that odd. Koreans make kimchi with sprite instead of seafood like mini shrimps, for those allergic. But it only lasts 3 days. So it's not the fermented kind. I did learn on a Korean history food show that the original kimchi's did not have seafood in them. It was salt for salty but in modern times they changed it to add various things, and it's one reason there's regional diff kimchi w cabbage as well as by house/family. It's kinda like hamburger helper. Toss a variety of things in. Which is also similar to a lot of soups and bibimbap rice bowls since Korean War Also since 1950 Coca-Cola tried to get everyone to drink coke so they came up with a recipe book to cook w coke but it was really just a sugar replacement lol. There was all kinds of odd stuff they came up with several times. And today you'll see people on foreign TV surprised at someone using coke in a recipe like it's new lol it was from 50s
Poor Matt was being totally earnest talking about browning meat, and Lucas is just over there memeing lol. Next, they'll start referring to things as the "platonic ideal."
Matthew Kang did not really give proper credit to the question of why Korean food is so popular. I have a theory where every culture has it's unique genius in certain things ... to that extent, I think, when it comes to food, I think Korean food is genius ... the richness of flavor and healthiness of its vegetable and herbal side dishes is simply genius ... personally, it is addictive to a point where I can't live without consuming it.
Move to the Inland Empire dear restauranteers. It needs good food and more diversity of foods. Badly. Though I am a pale skin granny, I love East Asian entertainment. And not just Kpop. I did want to learn about Korean food because watching everybody eat in their movies and dramas had me drooling. Language barrier was the problem from the get go when I went to the couple of Korean restaurants I found. So when a large oriental market opened near me I got a cookbook then went to the store. Not a single employee knew American so I could not even ask if they had most of the ingredients I was looking for. Rancho Cucamonga has a lot of diversity but I am not aware of many who are literate in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean so I wonder if the market survived. I moved across the country to a place that is even more of a food wasteland because my son-in-law has a brain injury. He is now very sensitive to smells and textures. Severely limits what we can cook. Darn it. But the Inland Empire needs something other than chains. A lot of what they had that was good did not survive the 2008 crash. Temecula, Rancho Cucamonga, Murrieta, some parts of Riverside, are good places to research.
Actually, Korean royalty and aristocrats did not share their dishes, each individual got their own main dishes with their own banchan dishes as well. Communal eating/sharing dishes was necessary for poor peasants who did not have the money or servants needed to have such lavish meals.
sadly, margaret cho's rise to fame in the 80's and 90's was due to the fact that she would do extremely bad korean stereotype skits bordering racist, that her hollywood masters loved cos they couldn't do it themselves. it filled a demand mostly by non-asians, cos asians NEVER watched her. her audience were mostly white. she was basically a circus act to them.
Such a weird question: Why are intestines so popular? .....um cuz it’s good Kind of like asking....Why do ppl like burgers? Unfortunate, that the interviewer has to question the popularity of food that is foreign and strange to him.
The whole thing about communal-ness is incorrect. The traditional Korean way was to eat on your own individual table called "soban." The communal-ness is a modern development because having to prepare banchan individually for everyone is quite inefficient. Also, Korean BBQ in Korea is much better and premium than Korean BBQ in LA. Is LA Korean BBQ a better value? Probably. Is it better? No.
Unfortunately this Korean American like to claim that all their Korean foods are better than the motherland. My question is how often do they go there? And I'm pretty sure they only go to Seoul, there's a lot of places besides Seoul in Korea...
I like the premise of this feature, but this was so difficult to watch. This dude's inability to articulate questions was just beyond. I don't know if he was winging it/was woefully unprepared or what, but dude, get it together. Also, his chopstick skills are TERRIBLE.
Korean barbecue in Korea not that good according to him... Korean American do like to downplay Korean as if they are the upper ones... Like I mean all this ingredients that they are getting are all from Korea... Jst because u are living in LA does not mean Korea food is the best... Motherlands Korean food is the best...
this half Korean (I presume) Lucas is really off putting by acting he is "discovering" these Korean customs he should recognize immediately if he was brought up right. This dummy probably tried to disassociate from his Korean heritage and now all of a sudden is sorta exploring his heritage in half baked way only because it helping his career.
please discuss the actual food more!! yes its about culture we get that. do not only talk about culture!!! !!!!!!!!!!! but please discuss more about what you are eating specifically!!!
Hey everyone, I was super psyched to get to hang out in K-Town for this episode. I especially want to thank Matthew Kang and Margaret Cho for joining me! There are just a couple of episodes left in this season of OFF MENU so remember: Every time you tell a friend to watch this show, an angel gets its wings. Thanks and see you next week!!
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Can't believe you poured Matthew a beer with one hand, SMH, Lucas!
Mailliard.....reaction....uggghghhhhhh
this was pretty weak sauce.
high horse plus it takes years of experience to understand things. Not one interview with Margaret cho.
Isn’t she Bay Area? She don’t understand ktown either! Lmao
Thank you Lucas. Love waking up to these episodes!
for the skeptics, intestines are really delicious. imagine the fattiest, mot flavorful part of a nice juicy steak. THAT is what intestines taste like. SOOOOO good
Absolutely agree, People! go and try the Nepalese recipe. Type in "Khasi ko Bhutun" which means goat's Intestine
Na they taste bitter
If an Asian soup or dish doesn't have any of the weird ass cuts of meats in it, I don't want it. The textures of those meats enhances it and makes it taste better. If anything, it's better than sex. It's like saying yeah the beef, steak, flank was good. But this is also better! I have some friends who don't like tendon or tripe in their pho. It makes me want to scoop all those bits out and eat it for them.
Yummyyyy. I love intestines!!!
no they don't. they taste like rubber. or bad seafood.
Margaret Cho! Lucas, once again great vlog!
Omg! I was eating at the restaurant with my friends when the shooting was happening! My friends and I made an appearance 1:42!!!
Are you the middle one on the right?
I'm on my way to K-town this summer
🌺🌺🌺Aloha🌺🌺🌺
Deliriously happy to have found this series Lucas! My son and I were like "what happened to dining on a dime" and now we know!
Your new series is more like Parts Unknown than Dining on a Dime. Good guests.
I've enjoyed every episode, so I hope this series gets extended. After all, you've barely scratched the surface of LA's food scene!
great interviews as always but especially cool to see margaret cho, she's a legend
I'm a regular at yangmani.... It made me proud they covered it and broke my heart the restaurant will probably be more popularized and thus busier.... Goodbye yangmani my love!
whoa my favorite eater's host in one show. LOL
Lucas yelling at Matthew about the Maillard reaction is so good
Great episode! Even more obsessed with Margaret Cho now.
Hope k-town doesn’t change in LA. It’s like a bastion of culture and AMAZING food 🤤
It will. Neighborhoods always change. It could be gone in a generation for all we know so go visit it while it exists.
Maillard reaction gives us umami!! Of course we should talk about it lolol
I wish more Indian restaurant owners had more similar thought process like Matthew Chang. Watch @5:55. Hope Indians show more pride and ownership of there culture.
That is one stunningly beautiful bar. (Wow!) Gotta get to the Prince!
LOL . i love that end credit thing with "maillard reaction" . i understood that reference..
It’s amazing how some country’s follow our American ways it’s so cool
Fascinating and insightful - made me super hungry to try more undiluted Korean food. Thank you
Another awesome off the menu, always wanted to see Lucas and Matt Kang together in an episode
Omg I miss you Lucas!!! So good to see you after Eater!
This was more about cultural food 🥘 history as opposed to the foods itself : Lucas rocks
I really like Rick Bayless... and hey... Matthew Kang can be the Rick Bayless Korean food. I have really enjoyed his videos in the past, and he is an excellent host. On a side note: Came here for the Margaret Cho and Matthew Kang... stayed here for the Lucas!!
Love her
I'm a min and half into this and giving it a thumbs up! Nice to see you in LA dude...
Good to see Lucas back on TH-cam
K-town has SO. MUCH. food. Every if you think you tried everything...you definitely haven't.
The main reason why Korean food is starting to be main stream is because...it taste so good....and my wife is Korean who introduced me to the best of the best in Korean foods....! I am addicted to lettuce wraps.
Seriously tho, Yangmani is bomb. The lines are crazy long during dinner time and the meat is amazing but the main point of their restaurant is their banchan. Most other Korean restaurants don't really focus on their banchan. It's always just a side dish that's required to be given on a Korean spread. This place does it right by really making fresh, flavorful sides and don't skimp on the ingredients. Also, i'm a fat ass and love that they refill if you ask for it on most of the banchan.
Loved both guests! Why not do a complete episode with each? It kind of felt like things were super edited for time. Thanks for the surprise shot of the cocktail at the end, as well as the "maillard reaction" reaction...ha ha!
Lucas your the man! Love your videos! Keep it up
Matthew x Lucas is legendary
I don't know if they still have it, but if you tell the Prince staff that it's your birthday they have a pretty cool surprise. Tell them after you've ordered your food and drinks.
I'm happy to see Margaret Cho's story, growing up as a Korean-American, it was difficult to understand. Today, in retrospect, it all makes sense. Please keep this series going.
Being Indian American I can relate to so much there saying about culture and representation.
love these!!!! Lucas keep these gems coming
the product placing of that beer was spotted from miles away
GD, Margaret Cho looks fantastic.
The squid thing really hit home. My mom would pack spicy dried squid in my lunchbox everyday.
What's with the bell ringing every couple of seconds? Just curious
We had to cut it out of the show, but at every table at The Prince, there are bells to ring the servers to your table. It's a really fun dynamic that allows both privacy and attentiveness from the wait staff.
There are several gripes i have with America but right now i can only think of 2 that i think would make this country so much better. 1. national high speed train system (for another topic) 2. Foreign neighborhoods with American architecture - - - I wished we built our Oriental communities with Oriental buildings. that would be so amazing. Iv eseen videos of how many of these communities arn't being visited by tourist like they used to and are doing economicly poor. I bet if they were built with Asian style architecture not only in buildings but layout they would be jam packed with tourists.
Shout out to El Taurino for taking 1 hour to fill my 3 taco order.
Margaret talking about 7up isn't that odd. Koreans make kimchi with sprite instead of seafood like mini shrimps, for those allergic. But it only lasts 3 days. So it's not the fermented kind. I did learn on a Korean history food show that the original kimchi's did not have seafood in them. It was salt for salty but in modern times they changed it to add various things, and it's one reason there's regional diff kimchi w cabbage as well as by house/family. It's kinda like hamburger helper. Toss a variety of things in.
Which is also similar to a lot of soups and bibimbap rice bowls since Korean War
Also since 1950 Coca-Cola tried to get everyone to drink coke so they came up with a recipe book to cook w coke but it was really just a sugar replacement lol. There was all kinds of odd stuff they came up with several times. And today you'll see people on foreign TV surprised at someone using coke in a recipe like it's new lol it was from 50s
pls make a show called comedians in cars getting korean food thank u
You guys deserve a checkmark right next to ur name
Um I’m an idiot but i live on 7th street in k town and never knew what the prince was..I pass it all the time and now I needs ta go
I use to go there since the 90s
good episode. background music could be quieter or less distracting
Poor Matt was being totally earnest talking about browning meat, and Lucas is just over there memeing lol. Next, they'll start referring to things as the "platonic ideal."
Lucas reminds me of Late Anthony Bourdain with his story telling and conversational style.
Play on “Young Money”?
Matthew Kang did not really give proper credit to the question of why Korean food is so popular. I have a theory where every culture has it's unique genius in certain things ... to that extent, I think, when it comes to food, I think Korean food is genius ... the richness of flavor and healthiness of its vegetable and herbal side dishes is simply genius ... personally, it is addictive to a point where I can't live without consuming it.
PSY knows his Koreatown
Move to the Inland Empire dear restauranteers. It needs good food and more diversity of foods. Badly. Though I am a pale skin granny, I love East Asian entertainment. And not just Kpop. I did want to learn about Korean food because watching everybody eat in their movies and dramas had me drooling. Language barrier was the problem from the get go when I went to the couple of Korean restaurants I found. So when a large oriental market opened near me I got a cookbook then went to the store. Not a single employee knew American so I could not even ask if they had most of the ingredients I was looking for. Rancho Cucamonga has a lot of diversity but I am not aware of many who are literate in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean so I wonder if the market survived. I moved across the country to a place that is even more of a food wasteland because my son-in-law has a brain injury. He is now very sensitive to smells and textures. Severely limits what we can cook. Darn it. But the Inland Empire needs something other than chains. A lot of what they had that was good did not survive the 2008 crash. Temecula, Rancho Cucamonga, Murrieta, some parts of Riverside, are good places to research.
What's Psy doing in this video???
Shout out to the Carl's jr. on 5th.
and Western.
Oh shoot it’s this guy! ...Lucas! Why you on this channel now bro?
That was awkward at the end when the host tried to put the guest "in his place" with the attractive waitress observing to the side.
It's an inside joke from their Eater days lolol.
They just speak Korean too. Little sketchy but not bad
Now this Canadian wants to go to Ktown to eat
Actually, Korean royalty and aristocrats did not share their dishes, each individual got their own main dishes with their own banchan dishes as well. Communal eating/sharing dishes was necessary for poor peasants who did not have the money or servants needed to have such lavish meals.
OHH you mean like the 98% of "SUSHI" restaurants that are owned by KOREANS!!!! cmon listen to what you say
Yakiniku!!!!!!!!!!!!
if youre from La and live in ktown never leave ktown lol
I'm half Korean and Mexican
I have been eating Korean all my life
It's not new sorry
The stinky squid!
sadly, margaret cho's rise to fame in the 80's and 90's was due to the fact that she would do extremely bad korean stereotype skits bordering racist, that her hollywood masters loved cos they couldn't do it themselves. it filled a demand mostly by non-asians, cos asians NEVER watched her. her audience were mostly white. she was basically a circus act to them.
Such a weird question: Why are intestines so popular? .....um cuz it’s good Kind of like asking....Why do ppl like burgers? Unfortunate, that the interviewer has to question the popularity of food that is foreign and strange to him.
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The whole thing about communal-ness is incorrect. The traditional Korean way was to eat on your own individual table called "soban." The communal-ness is a modern development because having to prepare banchan individually for everyone is quite inefficient.
Also, Korean BBQ in Korea is much better and premium than Korean BBQ in LA. Is LA Korean BBQ a better value? Probably. Is it better? No.
Unfortunately this Korean American like to claim that all their Korean foods are better than the motherland. My question is how often do they go there? And I'm pretty sure they only go to Seoul, there's a lot of places besides Seoul in Korea...
I like the premise of this feature, but this was so difficult to watch. This dude's inability to articulate questions was just beyond. I don't know if he was winging it/was woefully unprepared or what, but dude, get it together. Also, his chopstick skills are TERRIBLE.
Korean barbecue in Korea not that good according to him... Korean American do like to downplay Korean as if they are the upper ones... Like I mean all this ingredients that they are getting are all from Korea... Jst because u are living in LA does not mean Korea food is the best... Motherlands Korean food is the best...
Korean needs veggie food
Too much carnivores food.
Trend is veggie food.
Tofu spinach kimchi
Would of been nice if you went to a few restaurants, disappointing video .
this half Korean (I presume) Lucas is really off putting by acting he is "discovering" these Korean customs he should recognize immediately if he was brought up right. This dummy probably tried to disassociate from his Korean heritage and now all of a sudden is sorta exploring his heritage in half baked way only because it helping his career.
Like like like like. Ugh. I kind of wish people knew how to speak
please discuss the actual food more!! yes its about culture we get that. do not only talk about culture!!!
!!!!!!!!!!! but please discuss more about what you are eating specifically!!!
dude this video was weak. went to some no name place and prince (guessing based on decor)......this isn't vibrant lol
Can food shows be food shows, not interview these famous people lol
Was about to watch until I remembered Lucas is on here. Passed.
Kangs the worst
We still talking about Korean food? Meh
i like Lucas but the way he talks sometimes is so annoying...just spit it out man
He thinks before he speaks...
Being Indian American I can relate to so much there saying about culture and representation.
Being Indian American I can relate to so much there saying about culture and representation.