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In a way, the whole fried fish represents much of the experience at BCD Tofu House. When inebriated, the fried fish is both a challenge and a reward: Eat the head? Just the tender flesh? Try to eat the eyeball? Some customers will eat the entire fish, the bones a mere obstacle, without a moment of hesitation. Newcomers, especially those new to Korean food, may gasp when a waitress places a whole fried fish in front of each person, bones and all.

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Here, they are served first with plates full of banchan, small side dishes, like fish cakes, pickles and kimchi. After a concert at the nearby Wiltern, or a big party night, crowds will file in after everything else has closed. Somehow, at all hours of the day, it’s busy. Koreatown has not one but two locations of the popular chain BCD Tofu House, which primarily serves stone pots full of soondubu as well as other Korean classics like bibimbap and bulgogi. In many ways, Koreatown feels like a daring rebel against the sleeping city.Īnd, while I’ll never turn down an opportunity to sit around a hot grill with mountains of bulgogi and galbi, I am more often sitting in front of a bubbling pot of soondubu jjigae, or kimchi and tofu stew, at a tofu house. Karaoke bars and nightclubs flood with soju, snacks and drunk patrons, all eager to extend the night until the early morning. Korean barbecue joints are more full at 1 a.m. At some point - maybe due to its culture, maybe due to its location - Koreatown has become a premier late-night food spot. In my pursuit of midnight meals, I have found myself in one part of the city over and over again: Koreatown. Some of the best food is delegated to the nightcrawlers, the college students, the graveyard shift workers - all hiding under the guise of a 2 a.m. Instead, I gravitate toward the late-night diners, the taco trucks, the street hot dogs consumed past midnight in a glittery, uninhabited city.

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on a Saturday, and my low-lit dinners are bowls of mac and cheese eaten in the blue glow of my laptop.

My weekend brunches are leftover slices of pizza eaten at 2 p.m. While I love a lavish weekend brunch at Sqirl or Gjusta, or a low-lit dinner at Bavel or Majordomo, I frankly do not have the budget or the time to pursue L.A.’s upper-crust cuisine.

BCD Tofu House Restaurant Employees' Lawsuit, website explaining a 2015 class action lawsuit and settlement, in English, Spanish, and Korean.BCD Tofu House, located in Koreatown, serves up tasty Korean cuisine classics such as bulogi, bibimbap and beef tofu soup (above).'Hee Sook Lee, Founder of Koreatown's Iconic 24-Hour Soondubu Jjigae Spot BCD Tofu House, Has Died'. 'BCD Tofu House Founder Hee Sook Lee, Who Helped Put Korean Food on the Map, Has Died'. 'Korean Immigrant's Soft Tofu Soup Drew Long Lines'. 'Hee Sook Lee, Founder of BCD Tofu House, Dies at 61'. Her son Eddie Lee became interim executive of the family's restaurant business. Lee died in Los Angeles in July 2020, aged 61 years, from ovarian cancer. Hee Sook Hong married lawyer and restaurant owner Tae Ro Lee in 1983. Lee served as president of Global Children Foundation, a Christian charity founded by Korean-American women. The restaurant stayed open 24 hours for take-out orders, and donated soup to needy elderly people and essential workers, during the COVID-19 pandemic. In early 2020, when Parasite won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, director Bong Joon-ho and other members of the film's cast and crew went to BCD Tofu House on Wilshire Boulevard, after the awards ceremony. Kits for making her signature soup were sold in Korean-American supermarkets.

Her chain expanded to include more than a dozen locations, including restaurants in Dallas and New York's Koreatown. The house specialty, soondubu-jjigae, was made from her own secret recipe. Her first restaurant opened in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles in April 1996. She was founder of the popular BCD Tofu House chain of Korean restaurants, named for the Buk Chang Dong neighborhood of Seoul, where her husband's mother had a restaurant. Lee moved to the United States in 1989, with her husband and children. A BCD Tofu House location in Irvine, California.

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