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What looks like bell peppers and asparagus are not traditional at all. There are regional variations in the ingredients. The most "famous" bibimbap is from Jeon Ju where my mother is from and it's also considered the best region for food in South Korea. And yes, my mother's cooking is very pretty like those photos. In Korea there are restaurants that specialize in bibimbap that adhere to regional presentations which means using local ingredients. There are also restaurants more general restaurants that add whatever. Generally the idea is to go for a range of colors, flavors and textures. Some sauteed vegetables, some naemul, etc.. I prefer to eat at Korean restaurants that specialize in just a few dishes, rather than more general ones. At home people add whatever they want, even stuff like spam. In my mother's home unless it has at least 5-6 vegetables it's not bibimbap, it 's "bab bi byuh mugh uh" Seoul is not considered to have a regional style of cooking. It's a city of people from allover Korea. There's a joke that Seoul home cooking is basically buying premade/packaged stuff and ordering in. One of my favorite versions is yukwe bibimbap with Korean steak tartare with a raw egg yolk as shown in the link.

So, if I'm understanding correctly, the rice is served hot and the vegetables are cold? What about the beef? Another question - about the rice. What kind of rice should I use and what's the preferred method of cooking it? The only rice I have in the house is basmati, and risotto rice - I presume I need something else for this ← The vegetables are room temp, the beef should be hot.

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Something to do with the water, flour , butter and the fact that there are more French in France than elsewhere. Where are these best French pastry chefs? In New york? There not in LA. I've been to NY, ate my way around lots of times.

What do you mean? Don't all Asians use chopsticks? ← I hear "Asia" is really diverse not just in the use of cutlery.

French pastries for instance are much better in France then they are in the States.

Interesting and honest thread. I was beginning to believe (not) that Americans had a global grasp of all things culinary. For instance how Koreans eat rice.

The full French translations will be done in audio, possibly for broadcast. Eventually it will be translated in Arabic, possibly other languages.

Slap of a hand? That's nothing compared to Ramsay.

It's used for sik hye, a sweet non-alcohloic drink with rice in it. It's also used for Mak-kul-le and other boozy drinks. I'd have to see the package though.

Yup, yup, yup.

Really? That's not bibimbap, that's bap with stuff mixed in, delicious to be sure, but not bibimbap.

Don't know how we missed getting hooked up. Ya should've PM ed me with dates!!!! Next time PM me and I'll tell my mom, she loves to have guests for dinner. I'll take you around K-town if you want.

That's fantastic!!! I'll join NOW.

If that's true I'd take that over a phantom restaurant built on a set. Although I don't have the temperment for all that yelling and screaming. I'd start laughing. As for the pushing and shoving, yeah right.

Let's see...hmmm... a restaurant worth 2 million dollars or working for Ramsay? I still don't believe it was ever really a prize or if it was there were probably so many strings attached to make it wholly unappealing. Does anyone have the address? Somewhere in Hollywood, I can drive by to take a photo of it and see who the new occupants are.

I never believed there was a real restaurant available as a prize. I know someone who audtioned and is absolutely qualified to run a restaurant of that caliber. The casting agents told him "we love you, you look fabulous on camera" There was something odd about the whole premise, even though we didn't really know who Ramsay was at the time. We joked, "The real prize is probably going to work for Ramsay" Does anyone know the address of that restaurant? I'd like to drive by.

It sounds like you might want the Inn of the Seventh Ray: Inn of the Seventh Ray 128 Old Topanga Cyn Rd Topanga, CA 90290 310.455.1311 ← A friend of mine had her wedding at the Inn of the New Age Ray. The food, yeah, um, the food Btw, these "LA" places are for non-natives.

I love your site!! Purple Lebowski was a tourist. I'll compile a list of the places where the man might go.

Wholefoods Santa Monica and the park a few blocks east you'll see celebrities, but there's no guarantee on any given day at any given hour. Generally restaurants on the Westside is where you'll see them, lots of them some days, none on others. The latest hot clubs attract them, but they usually show up with an entourage. As for LA style bizzare trendy, Silverlake/Los Feliz has some, Venice too.

I love that forum Picque-nique!

I have too many shopping choices to bother with wholefoods. There's a weekly farmer's market which I do not purchase from weekly and I feel no guilt about that. I buy the bulk of my produce from Middle Eastern, Korean and Mexican supermarkets at very good to ridiculously cheap prices, sometimes organic too. I'll do a little research on this but I suspect these stores do some purchasing from smaller farmers. The produce oftentimes resembles what would be at farmer's markets and not the big chain stores. The savings is tremendous for us it's not just a few bucks. If we shopped exclusively at WF and National chains we'd starve. Another thing I like to do is support minority owned businesses. The only supermarkets I've seen that can compete with the huge chains are those that cater to a Middle Eastern, Asian or Latin Ameircan clientele and these places have lots of cross over appeal with other ethnic groups. And it's in these stores that I see alot of customers buying things that have to trimmed, cut, washed, cooked...

I want to add that K-Town has a great selection of Mexican and Central American restaurants from hole in the wall mom and pop to larger 'fancier' places representing multiple waves of immigration.

What are you saying about your parents? ← That it's not because they got degrees or a title that they're distinguished and brilliant. In all seriousness, I'm very proud of my parents. But that's more than I could say for some other tenured full professors I've known. ← Reminds me of a post-modern criticism class I took. The professor was related to some famous European philospher. He kept giving us definitions of post-modern terms, all the while telling us it was "so difficult to understand, constantly shifting, no center" he wished there were a book, a dictionary "but impossible really, here are mine, I'm trying to make some sense of it all for you stupid sophomores" He was reading definitions from a post-modern dictionary that I had a copy of. I showed it to him one day. He reacted like a bad off broadway acting teacher.

What are you saying about your parents?