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Can’t wait for tofu fest? Got a new mortgage and are looking for cunning, cost-savings? Then like me, you’re excited about the Pre-sale Tofu Festival Package:, it’s a $47 value for $30!!
Offer ends Wednesday, August 10 at 5pm
Pre-sale package includes:
• 2 General Admission Tickets
• 2 Raffle Tickets
• 15 [...]

This Saturday and Sunday is the 2005 Lotus Festival in Echo Park. And yeah, yeah, “Asian culture this” and “Lotus Flower that” I’ve only gone for the food. What’s nice about the fest actually, is the clubby, neighborhood feeling of it, the whole thing is very low-key and upbeat; with not much [...]

Lunch at Tahoe Galbi feels very Koreatown chic, if, a little like eating in Donald Trump’s idea of a spacious bathroom. But it’s quiet and cool — a tasty and sophisticated escape from the office. Frosted and etched glass partitions, floor-to-ceiling marble, personal stoves and lots of ice water, dishware, utensils [...]

A long time ago, in Ohio, mind you, I started making a chopstick perch whenever we went to Chinese restaurants (back then, Cincinnati didn’t have much else in the way of Asian). It’s become now my own personal ritual before I eat any food with chopsticks. A little bit of origami while I wait for [...]

This Memorial Day weekend, it’s likely you’re going to find yourself at a barbecue. Maybe two. If you’re lucky enough, you might host one yourself. Try something new - Korean barbecue! It might be a refreshing break from an overdose of beer and bratwurst, or fajitas and margaritas, or burgers and coleslaw. (Not that those [...]

When I first started working in downtown LA, my friends took me to 7th and Fig, the plaza located at, well… 7th and Figueroa. 7th and Fig houses various retailers (Robinsons May) and service providers (optometrists and shoe repair). You can also find a Gold’s Gym there. This [...]

One of my friends is rather fond of Korean food so the other night, we went to Tofu House. A Google search reveals that it is a chain with locations in California and South Korea!
We shared Original Soon Tofu with Pork, Seafood Soon Tofu and Bibimbab Soon Tofu Combo requesting mild spice level. [...]

Making the rounds at the LA farmers markets, I ended up with a lot of produce. So much that I might not have known what to do with it before they go bad. Bibimbahp is a good way to use them all up.
Bibim-bahp is a Korean dish - a serving of rice with any number [...]