Try the pan-fried jeon at L.A. Koreatown gastropub 'HanEuem'

At Koreatown's new HanEuem, zero in on the comforting stews and jeon (savory flatcakes) .
Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • September 30, 2021
The shapes of HanEuem’s modeum jeon — a platter of various meat, seafood and vegetable flatcakes — are soothing and striking in their unevenness: rough circles, tapering oblongs and wobbly rectangles, browned like diner omelets but with the...
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