Koreatown, Part 2

I spent one whole day wandering the streets of Koreatown. Some reviewers have labeled it as "ghetto" but I disagree. It certainly isn't fancy and it's not very touristy either. It is a small bit of Los Angeles where Korean culture is king. There is a museum but I didn't go there. Instead I went shopping.

There are at least two shopping malls and they are withing walking distance from each other. I completely explored the smaller of the two before meeting up with Dude-Man. We ate a late lunch at the food court in the Koreatown Galleria -

There were so many yummy things to try so I ordered enough food feed a good-sized family. Dude-man was amazed when the food kept coming. I was beside myself with gluttonous joy -

My new favorite drink is a passionfruit smoothie with tapioca balls.  It's called bubble tea or Boba and it is total heaven!

Normally I would have shunned the drink since the thought of sucking up chewy tapioca balls while drinking a smoothie does not sound appealing to my American taste buds but the Super Junior boys kept raving about it while they were in Taiwan so I thought I'd give it a try. Dude-Man did not try it. His loss!

We ate so much food and I bought so much stuff that we had to go back to the hotel. And so off we waddled to the subway.

Later that night we were back for some Korean Barbecue -

Holy cow! It was delicious! And it was all you can eat! We rolled back to the car and drove around taking more pictures and remarking on how we felt like we were actually traveling in a far distant country -

The next day I got to go to E3 with Dude-Man. He worked hard telling people about the Cars 2 game and showing them how awesome it is -

And I wandered around wishing I was back in Koreatown. I know, lame. As soon as he was done my wish became reality and we were back in the blink of an eye. And of course we ate MORE yummy food -

All in all it was a great little vacation. And surprisingly enough, even though we ate sooo much food we both lost a bit of weight (which was another plus). So if you ever find yourself in Los Angeles but wish you were in an exotic place head over to Koreatown and eat yourself silly. Yum. Yum. Yum!