10 Korean Dishes To Try in OC Besides BBQ

Here’s how you can find out if you’re in a Korean Chinese restaurant: Look for the jjamppong and the jajangmyeon. Jjamppong (spicy seafood noodle soup in a red-chile hell broth) and jajangmyeon (noodles smothered in an inky-black sauce made of...

Have you ever heard of the Korean dish called budae jjigae—better known as “army base stew”? It’s a big cauldron of broth made brick-red with gochujang, pepper flakes and kimchi—typical ingredients in a Korean soup. But when you dig in, you start...

You haven't really lived until you've sucked on raw crab. At the newest Koba Tofu Grill in Irvine, the spicy blue-crab dish called gae jang starts when the critter is hacked into pieces after it has been freshly killed. Cooks brush off the innards...

Delicious Food Corner If Siam Sunset is the most Thai place in Thai Town, and it is, then Delicious Food Corner, a breakfast place at the southern edge of Monterey Park, may be the most Hong Kong place in the San Gabriel Valley, which is saying a...

Fried and SaucedLoad up on the Korean fried chicken at the Past Memories, but watch out for the sweet soju-laced drinks and their sneaky, easy-to-drink wallop Have you ever heard of yogurt soju? It is as it sounds—a cocktail as only Koreans could...