Woo Kook - March Special

WOO KOOK
3385 W. 8th St. Los Angeles CA 90005
213-385-5665

Woo Kook is a fine bbq restaurant with a little bit of higher price. Good quality of meat, nice interior, good service, etc. AND, I found their lunch special only for March on newspaper. So, ladies in my office went to see, I mean, eat. =P

Basically they advertise 2 dishes (gal-bee-tang & bibimbob) for $7.99 each. Gal-bee-tang is beef ribs soup and bibimbob is blending rice bowl with different kinds of vegetables and some meat.

Their banchan (side dishes come out before the food you ordered) was GOOD to begine with. Especially their potato salad was really good, it had squash and apple in it. We had to order 3 more of them. Banchans are free of charge & unlimited in all Korean places as long as you don't bug them too much.

Banchan~
Dawn, yeah that one... potato salad.

There were other dishes that is already marked at $7.99 in their menu.
One of them was this, Kimchi Pork hot pot. Really good. Hm~ Not THAT much spicy.

So, this one is the Gal-Bee-Tang, beef ribs soup. One of the best gal-bee-tang I've had.
Be ready to get serious with the ribs. Yeah.

Their lunch special table ads. The top one is Bibimbob.
I was busy eating, couldn't take pictures when Ana got this.

ONE THING: some of their English menu doesn't contain all information you may need.
Ask for those.
1. "Does this have meat in it?"
2. "Is this meat/fish raw?"

It gets packed during lunch time here. But there are some parking spots on the street and their valet parking is $1.

Seoul Dduk-Jip

Seoul Bakery
2897 W Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90006
(213) 382-6196



Have you been to dduk-jip? Dduk means rice cake and jip means house. So it's basically Korean bakery. If you're craving dduk or kimbob, come by this place. Not a restaurant but quick pick-up & affordable stuff are waiting for you all. Especially, this place opens from 3am 'til 7pm, so if you're leaving early for work, trip, picnic, etc, this place is open for you.

Hm~ look at that~ The round kind has filling called kkul (honey, sometimes sugar + sesame seeds) and the bottom ones are called jeol-pyun, rice cake patties.

Woooooooooow... handy size of dduk, $1 for two of them. The middle ones have black beans and other nut kinds and the yellow ones are, I think, pumpkin kind.

Look at those kimbob!!!!!

A tray I ordered, $25, supposely feeds 15~20 people, actually fed more than that.

Ah~ just like shopping in candy store!
Price varies from $3.50 and above per each.



They also do caterings for birthday, anniversary parties and wedding banquettes.



This is the place.


in this mall on Olympic Blvd.

Ecomonic Crisis? Come to K.town!

So, since the nation is going through economic crisis and a lot of us are affected by it, businesses lower the price of food, which is a great new for us! So the following is the restaurants. (information from Koreandaily.com)

Chu Poong Ryung bbq
Cold noodle $3.99
1230 S. Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90006

San Dong Won
Zza-jang-myun $3.99 ('til Feb. 09)
3606 W 6th ST , Los Angeles , CA 90020

Mom's Restaurant (24 hours, the sign looks like this)
Seol-nong-tang $3.99 (with rice & side dishes)
Shi-keum-chi kook (Spinach soup) $3.99 (with rice & side dishes)
3126 W 8th St. Los Angeles, CA 90005

Hal Me Jeep (26 hours, no English sign, the sign looks like this)
Seol-nong-tang $3.99 (with rice & side dishes)
Shi-keum-chi soup $3.99 (with rice & side dishes)
3122 W 8th St. Los Angeles, CA 90005

SEO BOO GAM JA TANG
Rice + side dishes $3.99
740 S Western Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90005

Mapo Galbi

Mapo Galbi
3090 W. OLYMPIC BLVD.
LOS ANGELES, CA 90006
(213) 487-2274

So, single lonely friends (including myself boo hoo) went to this place on New Year's day of 2009. If you know Hyobin's lie, ''it's not spicy!'', ask them to make it not spicy then you will get right amount of spice for you.

Their menu is Dak-gal-bi, which is chicken galbi with bunch of veggies & dduk (rice cake). If you know what dduk-bok-ki is, this one is way better kind of it with chicken. Hmmm~ When you have small amount of food left over & you're not done eating yet, ask for fried rice. Woo~

A great place, one of those small place with single menu, if you are craving some good spicy food, this it THE RIGHT ONE!!!!!

$19.50 (tax included) per serving, BUT if you are a big eater then order one less serving than the size of your party. So if you're 4 people, order 3 servings. That should be enough.

this picture from

http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/0uRqBRs-zWw95G8bxR78jg?select=xTdxsSovqCSYVxcymVwQzA