Lee Family Restaurant on Vermont

Lee Ga


Address: 698 S Vermont Ave, Ste 106, Los Angeles, CA 90005
Phone: (213) 674-7288

Korean restaurant specializing in seolleongtang and naengmyeon.

Korean Chinese restaurant LA

Young King Restaurant


Address: 3100 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90006
Phone: (213) 487-6154

Young King serves classic Korean-Chinese dishes like tangsuyuk (sweet-and-sour pork) and jajangmyeon (noodles with black bean sauce).

A vegetarian jajangmyeon can be ordered if desired.

This restaurant’s name is pronounced “Yeong Gyeong” in Korean.

Myeongdong Gyoja

MyungDong Kyoja (MDK)


Address: 3630 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90010
Phone: (213) 385-7789

Korean restaurant known for noodles and dumplings

Pao Jao Dumpling House


Address: 928 S Western Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90006
Phone: (213) 385-1881

Chinese-inspired food stall in Koreatown Plaza’s food court that serves dumplings and affordable bowls of jajangmyeon (noodles with black-bean sauce)

Yuchun Restaurant

Yu Chun Chic Naengmyun


Address: 3185 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90006
Phone: (213) 382-3815

Yoocheon is Korean restaurant whose specialty is chik naeng-myeon (cold noodles with the main ingredient being arrowroot, not the usual buckwheat).

Mandarin Chinese Restaurant Koreatown

Mandarin Garden


Address: 1001 Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90006
Phone: (213) 380-0075

Small eatery on the southwest corner of Olympic & Vermont.

Koreanized Chinese food for takeout and delivery.

Dumpling House in L.A.

Dumpling House


Address: 3525 W 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90020
Phone: (213) 389-3899

包子之家

JinHeungGak (Mandarin House)


Address: 928 S Western Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90006
Phone: (213) 386-4588

This location of the Chinese restaurant chain inside Koreatown Plaza is now independent of the others. Among the notable items of the menu are the Sino-Korean dish jajangmyeon (noodles in black-bean sauce), dumplings, fried rice, shark’s fin soup, and kung pao chicken.

Wool Um Ma


Address: 124 N Western Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90004
Phone: (323) 465-2200

A small Korean eatery inside the HK Supermarket on Western Avenue for eat-in and to-go.

Kimbap, dumplings, mandoo, bulgogi over rice…