When you’re Korean and you want to go all out, you go to a barbecue restaurant, but when you want simple, cheap Korean food, you go to a “boonshik jip” (분식집; boonshik literally meaning minute meal and jip meaning house), a casual restaurant specializing in Korean fast food. There’s many boonshik restaurants in New Jersey, but the place my family and I visit most often is Dok Ka Bi (독깨비; goblin in Korean). MORE »

As I mentioned in my Roscoe’s post, the problem with a lot of fried chicken in New York is that the meat tends to be flavorless. The fried exterior may be well-seasoned and delicious, but when you get down to the meat, it’s complete blandsville. Not so at Bobwhite Counter, where the meat is as good as the fried breaded skin, if not better. MORE »

Supposedly, fried pizza has been around for decades in Naples. Yet, it’s only recently fried pizza has become popular in the U.S. Why it took this long, in this land of extreme excess, is beyond me. Perhaps because it’s not actually as health-debilitating as it sounds. MORE »

I wrote about the Santa Monica Farmers Market last month, but The Original Farmers Market is something else entirely. I was planning on perhaps buying some cherimoya before heading over to The Grove to buy our hostess’ son a present (Thanks Audrey for letting us crash!), but when I stepped into the market, what met my eyes was not tables of fruits and vegetables but an outdoor food court! Considering it was lunchtime, nothing could have made me happier. MORE »

Bourdain is a fan of Tacos Villa Corona, and so were the Beastie Boys (R.I.P. Adam Yauch) when they had their studio across the street, but the place isn’t all hype, it’s totally legit, especially their chicken tacos and burritos. MORE »