- This week on K-Town, we're gonna to go to this place
in Carrollton, Texas, which is a little bit north of Dallas
and it's considered the new Korea Town here.
And there's these two brothers
that actually grew up in L.A.'s Korea Town.
They're gonna do their spin on the all-American burger.
That means things like bulgogi on their burgers,
it means kimchi on their fries,
it means like basically how can we make this stuff
as Korean as possible?
- [Matthew] So you guys were in the Air Force,
what was that like?
- It was a huge culture shock for us,
being in a small bubble, Korea Town,
and then getting stationed,
I was stationed in Dyess, Abilene.
All we had was a Chinese buffet, but it wasn't enough,
it definitely needed a little bit more authentic Korean,
so I had to come to Dallas on the weekends.
- Yeah.
- That's how I discovered Dallas
and after our four years I kinda told my brother
like "We should definitely move and make Dallas our home."
We wanted to introduce the Korean flavors that we grew up on
and incorporate that into L.A. burger.
- Tell me about this K-Town burger,
it seems like it, is it your signature burger?
- It definitely is.
- What makes it K-Town?
- [Jon] The main ingredients that makes
the burger stand out is the kimchi.
We use for all our burgers certified Angus beef,
for that burger in particular we glaze it in teriyaki sauce,
we add jalapenos as well as the kimchi.
- [Matthew] Right, that's K-Town right there.
- [Jon] That's K-Town right there, exactly.
- So you get fries of your choice,
so we've got regular fries, curly fries, et cetera,
and we top it with shredded cheese
and then we do our housemade kimchi diced,
and then we saute it on the grill.
We do bulgogi beef, which is a sliced rib-eye
that's double-marinated, and then we do diced onion,
chopped cilantro, and then a sriracha mayo on top, yeah.
- [Matthew] That sounds so--
- Really, really good.
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- This is nice, this is a legit burger.
The use of this bun is definitely curious
because it is not a traditional burger bun.
It's got enough to really hold it and keep it together,
unlike let's say an In-N-Out burger,
which tends to dissipate the more that you eat it.
There's something on my face?
- [Woman] You got a lot of egg on you.
- Alright.
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This is a damn good burger.
So he said it was a teriyaki sauce,
but I guess the intention behind that kind of sweet glaze
is that it would resemble bulgogi,
and I think it really does that.
Now we're talking.
The beef is excellent quality,
really nice grind, well seared, so juicy,
like there's a little pink on the inside.
I mean, kind of the first impression is
that you get the sort of teriyaki burger thing going on
with the bulgogi glaze, but I like the kimchi.
I mean kimchi, you know, is a useful flavor component
in a lot of really fatty things because of its acidic
and also funky punch, it works in this.
Just around, like well under $10,
this is gonna fill you up.
A Cali burger, or a California style burger
is gonna have iceberg lettuce, tomato,
maybe some Thousand Island type dressing,
that's what comprises a signature California burger.
So yes, how does this taste like K-Town?
I mean, definitely the bulgogi seasoning,
the kimchi, it's a good sit-down burger.
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Let's go onto their K-style onion rings,
this looks spectacular.
Cilantro and onion, that's sort of like an L.A. thing
because that's like a taco.
Yeah, they really dice up this kimchi.
It is battered.
It's fried.
It's thick.
I mean it's good, and the kimchi does a nice job
like trying to foil the richness of the onion ring,
which is so hefty, I mean this thing is really beefy.
Let's just, I like to do this test.
(laughs)
This is just the batter.
Instead of something meaty or even like carne asada
over your carbs, you get bulgogi, solid move.
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You know, I can see that,
especially if you're Korean-American
and you leave the confines of your Korean community,
you want something that's gonna be comforting,
that's gonna remind you of home.
And for people that grew up in L.A.'s K-Town,
a burger, tacos, bulgogi on the most random things,
is what's gonna remind you of home.
And I love that these brothers have taken the things
that they like to eat, burgers, fries, tacos,
they've Koreanized it just a little bit,
just to kinda give it something different.
Yeah, so this is a really solid L.A. burger,
a really solid California-style burger.
They did a really, really nice job with the meat.
This is Texas, they better do their meat right.
What's not to love?
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