Adventures in Food: Koreatown Plaza, Los Angeles

Nothing's better than meeting your friend that you haven't seen in a reaaaaally long time. Well, actually, meeting your friend over a container of ddeokbokki is better. And that's exactly what Happycake and I did this past weekend. We met up at the Koreatown Plaza in the heart of Los Angeles–I'd actually been several times before, but this was Happycake's first time and I was especially excited to introduce her to this amazing place. ~BeanSprout

Neither of us had had breakfast...

Sprout: I was extremely excited to bring Happycake to this neat bakery in the Plaza called Bosco's Bakery, which is your standard Asian coffee shop with all sorts of delicious pastries and cakes. My mom also recommends their ground grain latte (also known as misugaru - I might put up a recipe someday). The crumbs above were supposed to be "mammoth bread", a pastry with butter and jam sandwiched between two golden slices of crisp oval-shaped bread, but our stomachs won out over our blogger hearts.

Heh heh heh ddeokbokki 

Sizzling Bibimbap mmm

Everything together, starring:
BeanSprout's fashionable bag and my random dot of sauce I dropped onto the table!

Sprout: We bought our lunch above from the Plaza food court, which has a broad range of cuisine, from Korean porridge to bibimbap to cold noodles and everything in between. It's a great place to recover from the Music Plaza store chill out after a day of shopping.

Boba from It's Boba Time!

Taro Milk Tea

Coconut Milk Tea

Sprout: It's Boba Time is (sadly) not in the Plaza but a short drive away on 6th Street. After living in Irvine for a few years I'd thought the boba places there were the height of awesomeness - and then I came to this place. I can't really express how amazing this place is - the coconut milk tea alone is rich and sweet and is my absolute favorite drink (I really should branch out and try something different but it's SO GOOD).

Cake: WAHHHHHH so it was sadly, yes sadly, my very first time discovering the Plaza. I seriously should have discovered it much earlier along with BeanSprout because wow did I die in there. BeanSprout even had to drag me into the Music-Plaza store because I was in utter shock and stuck in my fangirl state just looking at what was on display in the windows. We ended up spending probably a good 45 minutes in there, and it's not even that big of a store now! They have a lot of things. And when I say a lot, I mean a lot. Including gigantic hand-sized EXO pins and even hand creams with the members' faces on them omfg. Plus they sell albums and a bunch of posters and pillows and mouse pads too and shirts and bracelets and coffee mugs and wow Happycake look at you with your brilliant grammar skills. BUT. THERE. ARE. SO. MANY. THINGS.
You guys should go check it out if you're in the area. It's a little more on the pricey side, but I'd say it's definitely worth just stepping in there, or at least being rooted outside and staring dreamily into it like I ended doing for a minute or two. Plus the food at the food court afterwards is the bomb diggity. If you choose to go spend some time there with some friends or even by yourself, plan AT LEAST 3 hours because I guarantee you will be sucked into the merchandise stores plus the food court, and after that you can go explore the three floors worth of stores! And to top everything off, one of the stores had some magazines on display and I was flipping through some of them and look who pops up!

Omfg Jungkook on the very right

BUT WHY. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO KOOKIE'S HAIR. OHMYGAHDDD I could not help myself and laughed so hard when my eyes landed on that jumble of unnecessary curly hair pushed to the back LIKE PLEASE, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING TT TT

Sprout: Los Angeles is definitely a great place to get to the heart of this amazing culture, through both food and music. But don't take our word for it - check out these amazing places with your friends too!

Until the next adventure!

~BeanSprout and Happycake