4 Restaurants to Try This Weekend in Los Angeles: April 5 - Eater LA
"If there’s a dish that will bring complete silence to a table of half-buzzed Korean barbecue eaters, it’s this doenjang jjageuli, a thicker-than-jjigae stew that frankly goes far beyond expectations. The hit comes with the first bite — a deep umami resonance and almost unbearable funk from the cheonggukjang, or fermented soybeans, which gives the stew a profound complexity. While the intensity doesn’t quite reach the pure cheonggukjang of a standalone stew from the likes of Olympic Cheonggukjang, this one is on that road, albeit with spicy chiles and silken tofu. Before the jjageuli (pronounced like tcha-gu-rhee) lands, K-TEAM BBQ serves thin frozen pork belly that crisps up into a bacon-like satisfaction, with fresh minari cooked on the tabletop grill as an herbaceous contrast. Everything about K-TEAM feels plucked out of a busy Gangnam block, with office workers toasting soju and oldies Korean pop music resonating through the speakers." - Eater Staff
