Simon: So we are here in K-town in LA and we keep on hearing about how good the food is
But we've been living in Korea for 7 years now, eating Korean food every single day
We want to see how this compares to food in Seoul
Martina: This is like the K-town Korea Food Showdown!
Simon: We're here with Jen from Head to Toe and she says that this stuff is actually better - I think she's drunk
Jen: Yu Chun is one of my favorite Korean Restaurants in K-town, period
an it's basically, if you want to get a mul neng myeon, this is the only real legit awesome place to get it
You can get it at other restaurants but it's just not the same
The broth, here, is so good.
Martina: I don't know, we'll see. Simon: I don't believe ya
Martina: This might be different, but it could be like really good different
Simon: Let's check it out. Martina: Let's check this out man
Simon: These noodles... They look like they're nicely separated
Yeah, they're not clumping together too much... This is - that's the the right kind of bowl
Okay... Lemme see... it's an egg......That's an egg!
We do have the mu, that's all right - the radish
Looks about right...
That is really good! Hold on, I got these noodles
It's perfectly cooked
Yeah, that's legit. You gotta come here. This is lovely
Simon: So right here we have the exact same kind of pot broth you get in a Korean ramyun place
And I can already tell from the color that it looks significantly lighter. While what we usually get is a lot darker than this
This has the right flavor but it is a little bit watered down
Simon and Martina: Round two! Simon: We're going to Hodori based off of David Choi's suggestion
Supposedly he goes here when he has something to drink and we're going to see how legit this place is
David: It's not like high-end but it's like place where it's affordable and sometimes when you know when you have to be drinking for 24 hours
Martina: David, you drink alcohol?
David: No I drink like uh...pop - soda
Martina: I literally can only think of Hodor. Hodor! Simon: Hodor! Martina: Hodor! Simon: Hodor
Martina: I'm already pretty skeptical about this place because... 11 dollars and 70 cents for dolsot of bibimbap!?
Simon: Plus tip and tax! Martina: It better be good or we're killing David
Martina: That's okay... That's alright... Oh! That's quite nice. Oh, is that fresh kimchi? Mmmm
Martina: You see my eyebrow? There's some things to say about this.
Is this potato salad? What is this doing here? What is this all about? Simon: Try it! Martina: It better be delicious
Simon: Better taste like Korea. Martina: There's an apple in my potato salad. This is American!
I have some suspect feelings about this. I ordered the dolsot bibimbap which is like bibimbap in a stone bowl
And so the key is - with the good one - they coat the bottom of the bowl with a sesame oil
So when you mix it up, you don't scrape it all up and then if you let it sit by the time you get to the bottom
You're gonna have this delicious, crispy - almost like a rice cracker
However, I see lettuce and kim - lettuce and seaweed
Ohh, it's down in the middle - there's my egg! Simon: It's just egg yolk as well? Martina: So this is just egg and salad... Where's anything?
Martina: Oh that's - I've never seen that before in my life
I literally just paid 12 dollars for a bowl of rice. There's no carrots, there's no bean sprouts, there's no beef. Simon: isn't it in the bottom? Martina: No, that's it
Simon: So I got ddook baegi bulgogi and I can already tell the mushrooms seem a lot cleaner and thinner than the Korean mushrooms
Martina: This looks very similar to be honest. yeah. This looks almost exactly the same. Simon: Seems about right..
Not sweet enough. It's still good but the pork has a very different taste here. Martina: There's something... Simon: It's the sweetness, it needs sweetness to it
Martina: The world's largest tonkatsu on the entire planet. Simon: We've got like 3 cutlets there. If you order tonkatsu in Korea they give you one
the 'MERICA
So the sauce looks right and they've got shredded cabbage. we have got a little bit extra here David: If you're drunk... Simon: It would be delicious if I was drunk.
Martina: How do you feel, David? David: It's not the best but when you're drunk everything tastes good. Martina: It does the job... Simon: Time for round 3!
Martina: David knew what to do, Simon didn't know what to do
We just came from the club, Feria. It's like a Korean club. We are all really super bae gopa hungry. So we came for BCD Sundubu Jjigae!
I'm going to be getting mandu soup and Simon is getting the ham, cheese, and should be spam technically
We're going to see how it compares.
Simon: This is legit
Maritina: They are tiny baby eggs! Simon: I thought this was suppsed to be American eggs, shouldn't they be huge?
This is very important, this was the first meal I ever had in Korea. I wanna see if this is anything like what I had in Korea. Is this legit?
It's totally different. Martina: Is it? Simon: It's spicy, there's not a lot of cheese in there. The sauce is just totally different
They've got hotdogs instead of spam - and spam is gourmet in Korea - this ain't the same
Those are huge! Look at the size of those dumplings
Martina: I actually like the mandu soup better at this place than at home. Simon: Oh, is that right? Martina: Yeah.
But it's because it is pretty spicy. It's spicier than the Korean one—and you know I love spicy food.
Simon: This is spicier than Korea? Martina: However, the dumplings, the meat in it is tougher. So when I bite into the meat, I kind of taste the tendon-y… fattiness.
But the broth itself, I like the spiciness much better.
Simon: Still good! Just very different. Very different.