The past couple weeks have been a whirlwind with two weddings, travel, family in town from Korea, etc! I've been snapping photos along the way though (of course!) and will be updating/back-posting very soon!
Giant crumbs cupcake the tiny one next to it! Haha, so cute! April's parents came up from LA and brought these great cupcakes up for us! Moist and delish! :) The assorted minis all look amazing!
I got pomegranate chocolate swirl with a bunch of random toppings. :) It was a nice pre-flight before heading back to SFO.
Traditional onion and black bean paste side dishes for (짜장면) jjajang-myun. 
튀김만두. Everything fried is tasty and these were no exception. They were soo yummy. You don't find fried pot-stickers often in Korean restaurants, but, again, this was Korean style Chinese food! They were divine. 
소고기 탕수욱. This is the Korean version of sweet and sour pork. We got it with beef and apparently this place is known for doing this dish well. The batter was amazingly light had a nice, soft chew to it. While the batter was impressive, the sauce wasn't very flavorful, which you really need to make the dish good! It was still nice though. 
짜장면 / Jjajang-myun. This is a $2 dish in Korea, but it's hard to find a really good bowl of it anywhere else! It was really good here though (another dish they are known for) with lots of freshly diced veggies. I can never finish a whole bowl though! 
So many amazing plants in LA! It seems like every yard has fruit trees! So great.
Big, bright, beautiful flowers were everywhere, too. :) I don't think I could stand having that nice of weather all the time, but the flowers sure do make you smile. 
My brother's awesome backyard, where we had a Korean BBQ with the wedding party. 
Table setting. :)
Daddy, manning the grill. :) My mom and dad are too funny--they made the kalbi in Spokane, with my aunt, froze it and flew it down for this BBQ. My parents rock. :)
Korean taco set up: salad mixed with sesame-ginger dressing, cilantro, sesame salsa, sesame seeds. My brother put this together and it was excellent! I guess for the sesame salsa you just mix salsa with sesame oil--easy!
A light yummy salad one of the bridesmaids brought.
상추 traditional lettuce wrap for the kalbi, with red pepper paste sauce. 
Yummy!
My taco was amazing. Although, I don't like tortillas.. Hahah. So the next one I had was sans-tortilla, but with some rice, more like a naked burrito. It was scrumptious. I'm definitely going to make these at home. :)
OMG why have I never been here before?! Haha. Sorry the photos are all slanted--it was busy!
I love all of the different flavor options! I think they had something like 10 or 12 flavors of yogurt and then soooo many options for toppings! Love!
Ben doesn't like mixing flavors. He got one fruity flavor with lots of fruit. :) I got two fruity flavors and two sweet flavors. Then I got fruit toppings as well as Butterfinger and cookie dough bits! Haha. It was a hot mess of yummy. :)
There's my daddy, outside the restaurant. It's a bit tucked away, and I guess there are two locations, but this one is the better one! Ed and Jess only took us to the best places. :) 
I loved the "water kimchi" 물김치 (bottom left). Their spicy crab (2nd up from the right) is a specialty ban-chan, but I just thought it was too much effort for too little reward to eat! I'm not so much a crab person, I guess. Haha. Oh, and the eggs aren't hard-boiled--they are for the soon-doo-boo!
Cracking the egg into the seafood soon-doo-boo (해물 순두부). Yum yum yum.
I don't like getting stews as my whole meal so I got the spicy pork bulgogi (돼지 불고기) which is my favorite kind of bulgogi. :) This one was really nice with lots of veggies, including flavorful mushrooms. I stole some of my mom's soon-doo-boo, of course. :) Both were very nice. 
Scoops! Ed and Jess really wanted to take us here and I'm so glad they did! They are known for having unique flavors, but nothing was as unique tonight as Humphry Slocombe always is. I may be biased, but I think SF does ice cream best. LA definitely wins for frozen yogurt though!:)
This guy was soo friendly and gave us such wonderful service. It really does make a difference. 
Pear blueberry pomegranate sorbet. The pear in it was soo lovely. I stole a few bites from my brother! 
I got the chocolate peanut butter and the toffee cheesecake, on top. I should have gotten a sample of the toffee cheesecake--I thought it would be a sure win, but wasn't very flavorful. The chocolate peanut butter was yummy though. :) 
We have a wonderful Jitlada Thai restaurant in SF (no affiliation), too, but this was cooler because of their special Souther Thai menu. :)
Morning glory salad. Fried morning glory flowers. Seriously yummy. They had a fried spinach salad on their menu, too. I wonder if it's anything like the amazing palak chaat from Rasika in DC!?
They are the biggest mussels I've seen! They were very good too, with a delicious, fragrant lemongrass broth. There was a spicy sauce for the mussels, too--excellent! 
Basil eggplant. Not the best I've had, but I always love a good, soft eggplant. :)
Phad see-ew. My father looooves the big flat noodles, so I knew he'd like this dish! It was very good. 
Duck fried rice. I really wanted some duck. Whenever I get Thai I want eggplant and duck--they just do both so well! The duck is always hit or miss though and here it was a bit of a miss. The dish wasn't bad, but it certainly wasn't necessary. I was too full to have much of it by the time it came out. 
We love Yu-chun!
The banchan. The moo-kimchi was nice, but other than that everything was just eh. 
김치 왕만두! Kimchi king dumplings. Yummy. I loooove Korean dumplings! 
냉면 / naeng-myun.
비빔냉면 / spicy mixed naeng-myun.
순두부 / Soon-doo-boo spicy tofu soup. 
SFO to LAX. LA is soooooo flat! And gigantic! Yay super Korean family weekend! :) We're mainly in town for big brother's pre-wedding logistics: venues, wedding party, caterers, etc. ;) Here's my brother's fiance's wedding blog! 
I had an hour to kill before my parents arrived, and of course was hungry so I decided to be very LA and get some Mexican! ;) 
