Comments on: Profile: Sushi Bar b/w Essence Coffee

By: My Third Fever Dream

My Third Fever Dream — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:58:40 +0000

[...] Verbila draws a card and lays down a bust. Or so I assume. Is that Koffea? Was that Sushi Bar? And who cares anymore. She’s out of the game. [...]

By: the Dude

the Dude — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:32:37 +0000

I have wondered about alot of the places in Koreatown, but that place specifically for awhile (ever since I moved in with my fiance in Los Feliz and have dabbled with Normandie). Totally in my neighborhood now (ah little Armenia, you’re filled with all the crazy, unhappy immigrants!)

It is now offically on my list of places to try. Need the good cheap sushi and friday is coming!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 18:34:58 +0000

Nice work. Makes one wonder how widespread the practice of dual-meaning signage runs in the Ktown. This place, for example, used to sport signage written only in Hangul. Jgold called it the Wang Simri Noodle House in Feb '04. Very recently, they've added an English phrase to the sign: "Oh Yea!"

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:46:37 +0000

The name used in this piece reminds me of a wonderful Korean place at 3rd and Hobart. It has an English sign that says “My Secret Recipe,” but evidently in han’gul it reads “Squid Town.”

Ah, Koreatown. I was giving my new roommate (as of April) and his girlfriend a mini-tour of Los Angeles (well, west of La Brea, anyway) as we did drive-by viewings of duplexes and houses we’re looking to rent. The girl, who’s from a dreadful suburb of Salt Lake, was all giddy and “I love Los Angeles!” as we drove through the tile-roofed Ramona theme park that is Mid-Wilshire. I should have taken her to my old haunts in K-Town to disabuse her of such foolishness. Maybe I could have taken her to the spot on San Marino where a couple of cholos jumped me and robbed me of $11 (but not my phone or PDA–WTF?), or to my old building on Magnolia where the parking area had a spike-topped fence wrapped in concertina razor wire. Ah, Koreatown, you neighborhood with a mattress on every sidewalk, a “DIECEOCHO” or “MS-13 dominaciÃ³n” tag on every flat surface, and the best damn sushi bars and noodle shops on the whole damn continent.