Lucas meets with comedian Margaret Cho and Eater’s L.A. editor Matthew Kang to explore some different offerings in Koreatown, ranging from kimchi pancakes to spicy Korean chicken wings.
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Hey everyone, I was super psyched to get to hang out in K-Town for this episode. I especially want to thank Matthew Kang and Margaret Cho for joining me! There are just a couple of episodes left in this season of OFF MENU so remember: Every time you tell a friend to watch this show, an angel gets its wings. Thanks and see you next week!!
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the product placing of that beer was spotted from miles away
I'm half Korean and Mexican
I have been eating Korean all my life
It's not new sorry
if youre from La and live in ktown never leave ktown lol
Hope k-town doesn’t change in LA. It’s like a bastion of culture and AMAZING food 🤤
There are several gripes i have with America but right now i can only think of 2 that i think would make this country so much better. 1. national high speed train system (for another topic) 2. Foreign neighborhoods with American architecture – – – I wished we built our Oriental communities with Oriental buildings. that would be so amazing. Iv eseen videos of how many of these communities arn't being visited by tourist like they used to and are doing economicly poor. I bet if they were built with Asian style architecture not only in buildings but layout they would be jam packed with tourists.
this half Korean (I presume) Lucas is really off putting by acting he is "discovering" these Korean customs he should recognize immediately if he was brought up right. This dummy probably tried to disassociate from his Korean heritage and now all of a sudden is sorta exploring his heritage in half baked way only because it helping his career.
What's Psy doing in this video???
Poor Matt was being totally earnest talking about browning meat, and Lucas is just over there memeing lol. Next, they'll start referring to things as the "platonic ideal."
Matthew x Lucas is legendary
That is one stunningly beautiful bar. (Wow!) Gotta get to the Prince!
The main reason why Korean food is starting to be main stream is because…it taste so good….and my wife is Korean who introduced me to the best of the best in Korean foods….! I am addicted to lettuce wraps.
They just speak Korean too. Little sketchy but not bad
Matthew Kang did not really give proper credit to the question of why Korean food is so popular. I have a theory where every culture has it's unique genius in certain things … to that extent, I think, when it comes to food, I think Korean food is genius … the richness of flavor and healthiness of its vegetable and herbal side dishes is simply genius … personally, it is addictive to a point where I can't live without consuming it.
Move to the Inland Empire dear restauranteers. It needs good food and more diversity of foods. Badly. Though I am a pale skin granny, I love East Asian entertainment. And not just Kpop. I did want to learn about Korean food because watching everybody eat in their movies and dramas had me drooling. Language barrier was the problem from the get go when I went to the couple of Korean restaurants I found. So when a large oriental market opened near me I got a cookbook then went to the store. Not a single employee knew American so I could not even ask if they had most of the ingredients I was looking for. Rancho Cucamonga has a lot of diversity but I am not aware of many who are literate in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean so I wonder if the market survived. I moved across the country to a place that is even more of a food wasteland because my son-in-law has a brain injury. He is now very sensitive to smells and textures. Severely limits what we can cook. Darn it. But the Inland Empire needs something other than chains. A lot of what they had that was good did not survive the 2008 crash. Temecula, Rancho Cucamonga, Murrieta, some parts of Riverside, are good places to research.
Korean needs veggie food
Too much carnivores food.
Trend is veggie food.
Tofu spinach kimchi
The squid thing really hit home. My mom would pack spicy dried squid in my lunchbox everyday.
I wish more Indian restaurant owners had more similar thought process like Matthew Chang. Watch @5:55. Hope Indians show more pride and ownership of there culture.
Being Indian American I can relate to so much there saying about culture and representation.
Being Indian American I can relate to so much there saying about culture and representation.
Being Indian American I can relate to so much there saying about culture and representation.
Maillard reaction gives us umami!! Of course we should talk about it lolol
Play on “Young Money”?
She's such a sell out and two faced !
Deliriously happy to have found this series Lucas! My son and I were like "what happened to dining on a dime" and now we know!
Love her
Would of been nice if you went to a few restaurants, disappointing video .
That was awkward at the end when the host tried to put the guest "in his place" with the attractive waitress observing to the side.
The whole thing about communal-ness is incorrect. The traditional Korean way was to eat on your own individual table called "soban." The communal-ness is a modern development because having to prepare banchan individually for everyone is quite inefficient.
Also, Korean BBQ in Korea is much better and premium than Korean BBQ in LA. Is LA Korean BBQ a better value? Probably. Is it better? No.
sadly, margaret cho's rise to fame in the 80's and 90's was due to the fact that she would do extremely bad korean stereotype skits bordering racist, that her hollywood masters loved cos they couldn't do it themselves. it filled a demand mostly by non-asians, cos asians NEVER watched her. her audience were mostly white. she was basically a circus act to them.
You and Lucas are both sellouts and no one should be watching yours or Lucas's content anymore.
LA Times is trash.
It’s amazing how some country’s follow our American ways it’s so cool
Margaret talking about 7up isn't that odd. Koreans make kimchi with sprite instead of seafood like mini shrimps, for those allergic. But it only lasts 3 days. So it's not the fermented kind. I did learn on a Korean history food show that the original kimchi's did not have seafood in them. It was salt for salty but in modern times they changed it to add various things, and it's one reason there's regional diff kimchi w cabbage as well as by house/family. It's kinda like hamburger helper. Toss a variety of things in.
Which is also similar to a lot of soups and bibimbap rice bowls since Korean War
Also since 1950 Coca-Cola tried to get everyone to drink coke so they came up with a recipe book to cook w coke but it was really just a sugar replacement lol. There was all kinds of odd stuff they came up with several times. And today you'll see people on foreign TV surprised at someone using coke in a recipe like it's new lol it was from 50s
Korean barbecue in Korea not that good according to him… Korean American do like to downplay Korean as if they are the upper ones… Like I mean all this ingredients that they are getting are all from Korea… Jst because u are living in LA does not mean Korea food is the best… Motherlands Korean food is the best…