Exploring L.A.'s vibrant Koreatown with comedian Margaret Cho and Eater's Matthew Kang | Off Menu

Lucas meets with comedian Margaret Cho and Eater’s L.A. editor Matthew Kang to explore some different offerings in Koreatown, ranging from kimchi pancakes to spicy Korean chicken wings.
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[@lucaskwanpeterson2010]

Hey everyone, I was super psyched to get to hang out in K-Town for this episode. I especially want to thank Matthew Kang and Margaret Cho for joining me! There are just a couple of episodes left in this season of OFF MENU so remember: Every time you tell a friend to watch this show, an angel gets its wings. Thanks and see you next week!!

[@K1k05]

👼🏼👍🏽

[@defmonger]

Can't believe you poured Matthew a beer with one hand, SMH, Lucas!

[@matthewkang3731]

Mailliard.....reaction....uggghghhhhhh

[@M3_86]

this was pretty weak sauce.

[@M3_86]

high horse plus it takes years of experience to understand things. Not one interview with Margaret cho. Isn’t she Bay Area? She don’t understand ktown either! Lmao

[@7.5Mviews]

i'm just really happy that Lucas is back. Dining on a Dime was one of the best food series on KZbin.

[@SarahinLA]

Omg! I was eating at the restaurant with my friends when the shooting was happening! My friends and I made an appearance 1:42!!!

[@icelandmoon]

Are you the middle one on the right?

[@TheHuongryHippo]

for the skeptics, intestines are really delicious. imagine the fattiest, mot flavorful part of a nice juicy steak. THAT is what intestines taste like. SOOOOO good

[@sanimgurung87]

Absolutely agree, People! go and try the Nepalese recipe. Type in "Khasi ko Bhutun" which means goat's Intestine

[@KP-gq2lw]

Na they taste bitter

[@TheWutangclan1995]

If an Asian soup or dish doesn't have any of the weird ass cuts of meats in it, I don't want it. The textures of those meats enhances it and makes it taste better. If anything, it's better than sex. It's like saying yeah the beef, steak, flank was good. But this is also better! I have some friends who don't like tendon or tripe in their pho. It makes me want to scoop all those bits out and eat it for them.

[@grimeeeeey]

Yummyyyy. I love intestines!!!

[@PSS521]

no they don't. they taste like rubber. or bad seafood.

[@foontes5187]

Thank you Lucas. Love waking up to these episodes!

[@willsharecandy8375]

Your new series is more like Parts Unknown than Dining on a Dime. Good guests.

[@rogergarcia1550]

Margaret Cho! Lucas, once again great vlog!

[@JennHarris]

Great episode! Even more obsessed with Margaret Cho now.

[@philipthao8527]

whoa my favorite eater's host in one show. LOL

[@alexyang1841]

Lucas yelling at Matthew about the Maillard reaction is so good

[@chriscolazo2689]

Maillard reaction gives us umami!! Of course we should talk about it lolol

[@yadthink]

I've enjoyed every episode, so I hope this series gets extended. After all, you've barely scratched the surface of LA's food scene!

[@benjaminwilcox3902]

Fascinating and insightful - made me super hungry to try more undiluted Korean food. Thank you

[@JasonPuckettNY]

great interviews as always but especially cool to see margaret cho, she's a legend

[@alexc2649]

LOL . i love that end credit thing with "maillard reaction" . i understood that reference..

[@KennyIT]

I'm a min and half into this and giving it a thumbs up! Nice to see you in LA dude...

[@kuuipopakalolo8723]

I'm on my way to K-town this summer 🌺🌺🌺Aloha🌺🌺🌺

[@ytee2664]

Deliriously happy to have found this series Lucas! My son and I were like "what happened to dining on a dime" and now we know!

[@RayfilWong]

This was more about cultural food 🥘 history as opposed to the foods itself : Lucas rocks

[@nishaismail]

Omg I miss you Lucas!!! So good to see you after Eater!

[@englishlessons5700]

That is one stunningly beautiful bar. (Wow!) Gotta get to the Prince!

[@kathyerickson9402]

Loved both guests! Why not do a complete episode with each? It kind of felt like things were super edited for time. Thanks for the surprise shot of the cocktail at the end, as well as the "maillard reaction" reaction...ha ha!

[@jonahgoldstein5811]

Lucas your the man! Love your videos! Keep it up

[@armandoestrada5663]

Another awesome off the menu, always wanted to see Lucas and Matt Kang together in an episode

[@1313sp]

Good to see Lucas back on KZbin

[@dadeats]

I'm a regular at yangmani.... It made me proud they covered it and broke my heart the restaurant will probably be more popularized and thus busier.... Goodbye yangmani my love!

[@voisin24cooking50]

love these!!!! Lucas keep these gems coming

[@smooshjen]

I really like Rick Bayless... and hey... Matthew Kang can be the Rick Bayless Korean food. I have really enjoyed his videos in the past, and he is an excellent host. On a side note: Came here for the Margaret Cho and Matthew Kang... stayed here for the Lucas!!

[@Dgills]

Hope k-town doesn’t change in LA. It’s like a bastion of culture and AMAZING food 🤤

[@raymcmahan5080]

It will. Neighborhoods always change. It could be gone in a generation for all we know so go visit it while it exists.

[@Augustchica814]

K-town has SO. MUCH. food. Every if you think you tried everything...you definitely haven't.

[@ilovedtspilovedtsp573]

I wish more Indian restaurant owners had more similar thought process like Matthew Chang. Watch @5:55. Hope Indians show more pride and ownership of there culture.

[@brozors]

I don't know if they still have it, but if you tell the Prince staff that it's your birthday they have a pretty cool surprise. Tell them after you've ordered your food and drinks.

[@mannyperez28]

It’s amazing how some country’s follow our American ways it’s so cool

[@suzie5813]

Love her

[@seoulstice85]

Seriously tho, Yangmani is bomb. The lines are crazy long during dinner time and the meat is amazing but the main point of their restaurant is their banchan. Most other Korean restaurants don't really focus on their banchan. It's always just a side dish that's required to be given on a Korean spread. This place does it right by really making fresh, flavorful sides and don't skimp on the ingredients. Also, i'm a fat ass and love that they refill if you ask for it on most of the banchan.

[@ilovedtspilovedtsp573]

Being Indian American I can relate to so much there saying about culture and representation.

[@daiiahi3403]

The main reason why Korean food is starting to be main stream is because...it taste so good....and my wife is Korean who introduced me to the best of the best in Korean foods....! I am addicted to lettuce wraps.

[@vidacromatica]

the product placing of that beer was spotted from miles away

[@misterkiller89]

I'm happy to see Margaret Cho's story, growing up as a Korean-American, it was difficult to understand. Today, in retrospect, it all makes sense. Please keep this series going.

[@harukikurosawa3906]

Matthew x Lucas is legendary

[@MsHunterRRHS]

GD, Margaret Cho looks fantastic.

[@chfrankc]

The squid thing really hit home. My mom would pack spicy dried squid in my lunchbox everyday.

[@tubulartuber]

good episode. background music could be quieter or less distracting

[@theodorecarr6988]

What's with the bell ringing every couple of seconds? Just curious

[@latimesfood]

We had to cut it out of the show, but at every table at The Prince, there are bells to ring the servers to your table. It's a really fun dynamic that allows both privacy and attentiveness from the wait staff.

[@sushinori30]

pls make a show called comedians in cars getting korean food thank u

[@estebargus83]

You guys deserve a checkmark right next to ur name

[@stevechoi6491]

Shout out to El Taurino for taking 1 hour to fill my 3 taco order.

[@tatid6743]

Um I’m an idiot but i live on 7th street in k town and never knew what the prince was..I pass it all the time and now I needs ta go

[@GummyRiches]

I use to go there since the 90s

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

There are several gripes i have with America but right now i can only think of 2 that i think would make this country so much better. 1. national high speed train system (for another topic) 2. Foreign neighborhoods with American architecture - - - I wished we built our Oriental communities with Oriental buildings. that would be so amazing. Iv eseen videos of how many of these communities arn't being visited by tourist like they used to and are doing economicly poor. I bet if they were built with Asian style architecture not only in buildings but layout they would be jam packed with tourists.

[@HiThereHeyThere]

Margaret talking about 7up isn't that odd. Koreans make kimchi with sprite instead of seafood like mini shrimps, for those allergic. But it only lasts 3 days. So it's not the fermented kind. I did learn on a Korean history food show that the original kimchi's did not have seafood in them. It was salt for salty but in modern times they changed it to add various things, and it's one reason there's regional diff kimchi w cabbage as well as by house/family. It's kinda like hamburger helper. Toss a variety of things in. Which is also similar to a lot of soups and bibimbap rice bowls since Korean War Also since 1950 Coca-Cola tried to get everyone to drink coke so they came up with a recipe book to cook w coke but it was really just a sugar replacement lol. There was all kinds of odd stuff they came up with several times. And today you'll see people on foreign TV surprised at someone using coke in a recipe like it's new lol it was from 50s

[@Xyz-gf5op]

Lucas reminds me of Late Anthony Bourdain with his story telling and conversational style.

[@THE_BLACKGUY_ALWAYS_DIES_FIRST]

Play on “Young Money”?

[@tianzi49]

Matthew Kang did not really give proper credit to the question of why Korean food is so popular. I have a theory where every culture has it's unique genius in certain things ... to that extent, I think, when it comes to food, I think Korean food is genius ... the richness of flavor and healthiness of its vegetable and herbal side dishes is simply genius ... personally, it is addictive to a point where I can't live without consuming it.

[@kidyuki1]

Poor Matt was being totally earnest talking about browning meat, and Lucas is just over there memeing lol. Next, they'll start referring to things as the "platonic ideal."

[@richardkim7788]

PSY knows his Koreatown

[@jvera828]

Shout out to the Carl's jr. on 5th.

[@tianzi49]

and Western.

[@andremarin5012]

Oh shoot it’s this guy! ...Lucas! Why you on this channel now bro?

[@jaekoh670]

What's Psy doing in this video???

[@Antbeast23]

They just speak Korean too. Little sketchy but not bad

[@conniead5206]

Move to the Inland Empire dear restauranteers. It needs good food and more diversity of foods. Badly. Though I am a pale skin granny, I love East Asian entertainment. And not just Kpop. I did want to learn about Korean food because watching everybody eat in their movies and dramas had me drooling. Language barrier was the problem from the get go when I went to the couple of Korean restaurants I found. So when a large oriental market opened near me I got a cookbook then went to the store. Not a single employee knew American so I could not even ask if they had most of the ingredients I was looking for. Rancho Cucamonga has a lot of diversity but I am not aware of many who are literate in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean so I wonder if the market survived. I moved across the country to a place that is even more of a food wasteland because my son-in-law has a brain injury. He is now very sensitive to smells and textures. Severely limits what we can cook. Darn it. But the Inland Empire needs something other than chains. A lot of what they had that was good did not survive the 2008 crash. Temecula, Rancho Cucamonga, Murrieta, some parts of Riverside, are good places to research.

[@raymcmahan5080]

That was awkward at the end when the host tried to put the guest "in his place" with the attractive waitress observing to the side.

[@jamesren4665]

It's an inside joke from their Eater days lolol.

[@wayneduff3699]

Now this Canadian wants to go to Ktown to eat

[@berbeque]

Yakiniku!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@davidbenitez5876]

OHH you mean like the 98% of "SUSHI" restaurants that are owned by KOREANS!!!! cmon listen to what you say

[@calidreams5379]

Actually, Korean royalty and aristocrats did not share their dishes, each individual got their own main dishes with their own banchan dishes as well. Communal eating/sharing dishes was necessary for poor peasants who did not have the money or servants needed to have such lavish meals.

[@plantreez1]

if youre from La and live in ktown never leave ktown lol

[@katieluv8422]

The stinky squid!

[@ahjushi87]

The whole thing about communal-ness is incorrect. The traditional Korean way was to eat on your own individual table called "soban." The communal-ness is a modern development because having to prepare banchan individually for everyone is quite inefficient. Also, Korean BBQ in Korea is much better and premium than Korean BBQ in LA. Is LA Korean BBQ a better value? Probably. Is it better? No.

[@ilhamsahin3295]

Unfortunately this Korean American like to claim that all their Korean foods are better than the motherland. My question is how often do they go there? And I'm pretty sure they only go to Seoul, there's a lot of places besides Seoul in Korea...

[@arielle007]

Such a weird question: Why are intestines so popular? .....um cuz it’s good Kind of like asking....Why do ppl like burgers? Unfortunate, that the interviewer has to question the popularity of food that is foreign and strange to him.

[@trollmaster5668]

I'm half Korean and Mexican I have been eating Korean all my life It's not new sorry

[@kylelee3277]

😴😴😴

[@sampak7739]

Korean needs veggie food Too much carnivores food. Trend is veggie food. Tofu spinach kimchi

[@jameschampaco1273]

Was about to watch until I remembered Lucas is on here. Passed.

[@ilhamsahin3295]

Korean barbecue in Korea not that good according to him... Korean American do like to downplay Korean as if they are the upper ones... Like I mean all this ingredients that they are getting are all from Korea... Jst because u are living in LA does not mean Korea food is the best... Motherlands Korean food is the best...

[@HappyHourGirlKola]

Intestines 🤢

[@PSS521]

sadly, margaret cho's rise to fame in the 80's and 90's was due to the fact that she would do extremely bad korean stereotype skits bordering racist, that her hollywood masters loved cos they couldn't do it themselves. it filled a demand mostly by non-asians, cos asians NEVER watched her. her audience were mostly white. she was basically a circus act to them.

[@jonsl2000]

this half Korean (I presume) Lucas is really off putting by acting he is "discovering" these Korean customs he should recognize immediately if he was brought up right. This dummy probably tried to disassociate from his Korean heritage and now all of a sudden is sorta exploring his heritage in half baked way only because it helping his career.

[@MsHunterRRHS]

I like the premise of this feature, but this was so difficult to watch. This dude's inability to articulate questions was just beyond. I don't know if he was winging it/was woefully unprepared or what, but dude, get it together. Also, his chopstick skills are TERRIBLE.

[@psychotherapistmft7927]

Would of been nice if you went to a few restaurants, disappointing video .

[@penelopeplimsoul3617]

Like like like like. Ugh. I kind of wish people knew how to speak

[@kidultstudios]

Can food shows be food shows, not interview these famous people lol

[@dooodooodooo555]

please discuss the actual food more!! yes its about culture we get that. do not only talk about culture!!! !!!!!!!!!!! but please discuss more about what you are eating specifically!!!

[@M3_86]

dude this video was weak. went to some no name place and prince (guessing based on decor)......this isn't vibrant lol

[@markettruth6973]

Kangs the worst

[@dooodooodooo555]

i like Lucas but the way he talks sometimes is so annoying...just spit it out man

[@defmonger]

He thinks before he speaks...

[@dietlamp]

We still talking about Korean food? Meh

[@ilovedtspilovedtsp573]

Being Indian American I can relate to so much there saying about culture and representation.

[@ilovedtspilovedtsp573]

Being Indian American I can relate to so much there saying about culture and representation.