Koreatown Excursion

Last weekend D and I crossed one item off of our summer to do list: visit Koreatown. We parked at the Koreatown Galleria (3 hours free). It was good that we got there relatively early (11:15 a.m.) because it was packed by the time we left. There's a fairly big grocery store on the bottom. Check out their kim chee selection:

There is also a bakery called Cake House. I picked up a couple of red bean donuts (one for my mom), which I had read about in a recent LA Times article. There was too much red bean and not enough dough for my taste. D spotted these cute desserts in their display case:

We were planning to leave the mall to eat bim bim bap but once we started walking down Olympic we realized it was too far/hot, so we backtracked to the mall and ate at the food court. They had a nice big screen and everyone was watching soccer. D had short ribs, but the portion size was kind of small. I wasn't too hungry so I just ordered kim bap (Korean sushi) and had some of D's side of cold noodles. There aren't too many stores but we did purchase a pleasant smelling citrus thingy for D's car (Korean store, Japanese brand, made in China).

Then we walked a couple of blocks to the older Koreatown Plaza. We went to Nicole's, a cute coffee shop, and shared a bing su:

I ordered it with green tea ice cream, but they gave us coffee ice cream instead. D didn't care too much for the red beans, but he managed to eat around them :) There weren't really any interesting stores here, either. I guess if I was Korean and lived close by I could see coming here, but since I'm not and I don't, it will probably be a while before we return.