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The Parents Service and Fried Sauce Noodles

October 18, 2011 eating out

I wish my parents will just move to the west coast already. They were only visiting for four days, but I almost got used to coming back home from school and discovering my apartment sparkling clean. Only parents would do something like that. Fatigued by jet lag and three weeks of missionary work, and yet [...]

Tagged as: beef, chili, chinese, cilantro, dumplings, edamame, fried, noodles, pork, pumpkin, San Gabriel Valley, shrimp, soup, tofu

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What’s that stink?

October 12, 2011 eating out

I once made the faux pas of telling someone that I think Mexican food is messy-looking on a plate. “It’s just goops and dumps and sludges,” I said oh-so-articulately. The person whom I said this to looked at me with an expression that snapped, “Yo mama! As if Korean food is any better-looking!” Oops. I [...]

Tagged as: anchovies, cheonggukjang, kalguksoo, kimchi, kongguksoo, Korean, koreatown, lunch, noodles, soy, spicy, stew

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Yujean Kang’s: A 10-course, 5-hour gastronomical extravaganza

August 13, 2011 blog meet-up

I called my mother almost every night this week, half-singing with glee. “Guess what I did today!” I would yelp happily. I think I really need to be in a Glee Club, because these days there are so many instances when I just want to break out into a song and start dancing. And most [...]

Tagged as: adzuki, alcohol, Asian, beer, cabbage, cheesecake, chicken, chinese, dessert, dinner, fish, fried, ice-cream, lamb, mushrooms, noodles, pancake, Pasadena, seafood, sorbet, soup, spinach, squash, tofu

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I’m a legit Lady now!

August 9, 2011 Los Angeles

I went to the hair salon yesterday. And I felt like a barbarian entering a cosmopolitan, civilized world. Okay, visiting a hair salon probably is a regular thing for some of you, but it was the first time I visited a professional hair salon by myself without my mom or aunt to decide everything for [...]

Tagged as: Asian, chicken, chinese, noodles, rice, soup

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This is Not a Chinaman Dish

August 2, 2011 Los Angeles

I was watching the movie Crash yesterday. (Picture source) I received the DVD via Netflix and it had been sitting on my dresser for two weeks. I somehow forgot that I had actually watched it once before; I rented it because apparently it was a good glimpse into the Los Angeles ethnic scene and I [...]

Tagged as: cucumbers, gochugaru, Korean, miso, noodles, rice, sesame seeds, spicy, summer, tofu

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Humble Stew

June 21, 2011 God

A few days ago, I went out to Woodland Hills to interview a family for my summer camp story. I drove the nearly 2-hour drive cursing and slapping myself awake because it was damn hot and the traffic was at a snail’s pace. But I drove back mute and contemplative. The family I interviewed that [...]

Tagged as: journalism, kimchi, Korean, noodles, ramen, SPAM, stew

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