52020 Tue Nov 05 04:17:38 -0800 2002 9 2 Los Angeles Area 0 265162 Hi everyone I'm going to be in LA this weekend and I'm looking for THE BEST korean restaurant in LA. Any neighborhood is fine. Suggestions? I've eaten a lot of korean food and love it HOT! thanks much jb Tue Nov 05 04:17:38 -0800 2002 0 JB 1 265169 What kind of Korean food you like? Noodles? Shabu shabu? BBQ? Tue Nov 05 11:02:17 -0800 2002 265162 0 tissue 2 265242 Is the hotpot/shabu shabu the same as the ShinSulRo? The only place I've found with it (you know, the tower and the bubbles and all) is in a strip mall at 8th and Western, NW corner. Can't remember the name. They have the picture of the set-up in the window. Anyone here know it? Tue Nov 05 19:29:32 -0800 2002 265169 0 jerome 3 265264 I've been to 2 hotpot places, both on Olympic. Seoul Garden and JinSang. JinSang is a little fancier and service is much much better but it is also more costly... www.jinsang.com Tue Nov 05 22:21:44 -0800 2002 265242 0 tissue 1 265202 For BBQ, the best is Soot Bull Jeep on 8th Street. Also excellent is Safety Zone, on Harvard just south of Wilshire. For soon tofu chigae, the best is Beberly (sic) Soon Tofu, on Olympic one block west of Vermont. Tue Nov 05 14:53:07 -0800 2002 265162 0 Mr. Chairman 1 265209 There is an excelllent Korean restaurant in the S.F. Valley in the Korean shopping center at Sherman Way and White Oak--don't remember the name but it is the only one in the center--not the noodle place. It has 3 varieties of Korean food--spicy tofu soup, barbeque and Korean stew type dishes, all of which are excellent. Tue Nov 05 15:30:32 -0800 2002 265162 0 brwencino 1 265222 Yongsusan in Korea Town is very authentic. Woo Lae Oak in Beverly HIlls and Korea Town is more westernized; great bbq, but expensive. Tue Nov 05 18:07:17 -0800 2002 265162 0 ferdlisky 2 265281 Absolutely not on Woo Lae Oak. Anyone who knows Korean food would not go there. There are perhaps fifty places better, make that a hundred. Woo Lae Oak comes from the era when Korean food was a novelty in LA. Now it's a staple. Wed Nov 06 08:40:30 -0800 2002 265222 0 Lord Lipitor 1 265282 Run a search on the homepage of Chowhound. There have been huge threads on this subject on here and I can tell by your lack of serious responses that few want to go over the territory again. The LA Times has also done thorough surveys of Koreatown (on their site). THis is a big subject here and not for easy pop answers. Wed Nov 06 08:43:49 -0800 2002 265162 0 Lord Lipitor 1 265289 Here are the links for some recent discussions of Koreatown. http://www.chowhound.com/california/boards/losangeles7/messages/30277.html http://www.chowhound.com/california/boards/losangeles7/messages/30629.html http://www.chowhound.com/california/boards/losangeles7/messages/32039.html http://www.chowhound.com/california/boards/losangeles7/messages/32910.html The chowhound team has done something weird that has caused many of my bookmarked thread links to break, but those links should be a start anyway. Wed Nov 06 11:41:38 -0800 2002 265162 0 Stan