Shiku review: fun Korean food at L.A. Grand Central Market

Baroo's wildly creative chef returns with Korean comfort food at Grand Central Market.
Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • June 24, 2021
Kwang Uh practices what you might call reverse alchemy on corn: He takes a food that’s gold by nature and transforms it through fermentation and fire into a dense, delicious new compound. The process starts by steeping kernels in the elixir that...
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