With the help of this guidebook, you don’t need be a Korean to eat at all the delicious Korean restaurants that all Koreans go to. Turn to this book to check out the Korean restaurants or order the dishes that you would have if only you knew about it. Let’s expand your knowledge of Korean food. You know, it’s not all just All You Can Eats and kimchi. There’s a whole variety of Korean dishes that will amaze you.
The Korean Food Foundation (KFF) with the expert guide of Barbara Hansen, a longtime and credible food writer, has brought to Southern California the answers to all the “What, If and How” questions to dining in Korean restaurants in the form of a guidebook. This Korean and English bilingual guidebook introduces the top 40 Korean restaurants in LA County, Orange County, Pasadena, Los Feliz and Marina Del Rey areas. The guidebooks are not for sale and are part of KFF’s effort in spreading Korean culture through its help of the promotion of Korean cuisine and development of Korean food industry. In correspondence to the 2013 Korean Restaurant Guide: Los Angeles, mobile apps of this guidebook will be shortly available.
All the answers to the questions that non-Koreans were too shy to ask or wish they had a Korean companion to ask are found in this guidebook. It will be an even more help to well-renown food experts and bloggers of Los Angeles that want to expand their experiences of restaurants in Koreatown. “Barbara Hansen knows more about Korean food and she is a trusted expert in the city. She’s somebody who’s voice is somebody that I can trust,” says Hadley Tomicki, food blogger on Grub Street. “Koreatown is so dense with restaurants that some of them can be hard to approach as an English speaker. Sometimes you don’t know if it is a restaurant or a lawyer’s office because the sign is in Korean. The guidebook is a huge help. I know that this guidebook will point me to new restaurants and new experiences.”
Pat Saperstein, food blogger of EatingLA.com, is not able to dine in Koreatown as often as she would like due a limited knowledge on the whereabouts of Korean restaurants. “This book will actually help you with that. Sometimes I want to come (out to Koreatown) but I’m not sure of where to go. There’s a few places I like to go but I just don’t know about a lot of different places,“ says Pat Saperstein.
Readers will also find this guidebook easy to read and understand. The restaurants are first put into the category by the county it is located at and then are listed off alphabetically. Bill Esparza, food blogger of StreetGourmetLA and writer for Los Angeles Daily, comments on this guidebook as “one of the better guidebooks [he has ever] seen. (K Herald: “Even YELP?”) It’s better than YELP! It’s attractive and compact. This is great for those that don’t know Korean food because it has a lot of pictures.”
FOR MORE INFORMATION: The Korean Food Foundation (KFF) is the leading non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting the development and marketing of contents covering Korean food.
Barbara Hansen Barbara Hansen was the food and wine writer for the Los Angeles Times. She is a food critic for LA Weekly, an avid food blogger, ethnic food writer for Table Conversation, Squid Ink freelancer and a cookbook author. Barbara Hansen twitter page @foodandwinegal Los Angeles · http://www.tableconversation.com
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Top 40 Korean Restaurants Guidebook Published
