Category: Korean

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Posted by The Glutster
August 19, 2011

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MoKo (Culver City): The Inevitable Post

Why “inevitable” you ask? Well, this is the first comped (partially) meal review piece I decided to happily write since that whole LA Weekly “Meet your Blogger” drama that happened more than a year ago. I like to think as that experience as my personal christening celebration into mature, realistic food writing actually. It opened…
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Posted by The Glutster
April 18, 2011

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The “Glutster” Burger Now Available in New Menu at Biergarten Tonight! Eat Me Now!

I present to you The Glutster: Eight juicy ounces of 100% pure charred ground pork loin, stratified with oregano-spiked, crisp-pickled onions, a thick and creamy Epazote-scented Aioli, a spread of Chipotle-laced black beans, two slices of fried green seasoned tomato and to finish the 2nd generation Mexification of it–a scoop of chunky, fresh Guacamole. All sandwiched between two toasted, soft, sweet and King’s Hawaiian burger buns.

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Posted by The Glutster
February 20, 2011

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Korean Clay Roasted Stuffed Golden Duck Has Arrived to Los Angeles: Dha Rae Oak (Koreatown)

he best preparation of duck I have ever had in my life might be at the newly revamped Dha Rae Oak in Koreatown. It is stuffed with things like chewy Ogokbap (Five-Grain/beans “purple” Rice), whole meaty walnuts, chopped chestnuts, nutty pumpkin seeds, cooked sweet potatoes, Chinese herbs, dried fruit and probably crack. It just might make you forget Thanksgiving even existed.

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Posted by The Glutster
July 17, 2010

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BierGarten: International Brew and Bites Moving Koreatown Forward

All Of A Sudden I Have A Green ThumbSo I’ve been finding myself in the same place out in K-Town every single day for the last two weeks–a surprising first for my usually attachment-free self. And no, I wasn’t eating seasonal banchan over at Mapo nor getting my Oaxacan fill at Guelaguetza but instead…sipping on…
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Posted by The Glutster
June 10, 2010

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Mapo Kak Du Gee Jip: Seoul Food For The Soul

It was a lazy ass Wednesday evening and I had been in bed for the most part of it. I had gotten up in the wee hours of the morning with a throbbing fever. It had been a long day consisting of early rising farmers markets and a heavy, unpleasant lunch. But where I would…
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Posted by The Glutster
December 20, 2007

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Not What You'd Think: On Dal 2

Your hands, tainted with this unforgettable funk of the sweet–but burdensome–struggle. Your clothes, poka-dotted with these little specks of that deep, thick, uncongealed liquid. Your mouth, still chewing over the offal remains after sucking at the carcass….relax, i haven’t stooped that low yet, this was only my hot pot Spicy Crab Soup yesterday at On…
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