$280 Korean BBQ, How to Eat Properly?!

Hi guys! So this is my LA vlog but we didn't get a lot of chance to talk through on the camera during the vlog as much as we should, we want. So I'm here voice-overing and explain to you guys what's going on here. Ok, so we went to LA last 4th of July weekend and we had so much good food. The first stop is Mapo Galmaegi aka Magal. I met Kevin, the food Instagrammer at KCON New York and he is local here and he is nice enough to volunteer to showing us around LA where to eat. Hi, I'm Kevin. I'm on Instagram at foodwithkevin and I love to eat and I'm going to show you guys some really good delicious restaurants around LA. Magal serves lots of side dishes for a Korean BBQ restaurant. They have kimchi, pickled cabbage and jalapeno, macaroni salad, Korean pickled radish, Muchae, Korean potato salad, cilantro salad, lots of salad because Korean BBQ is amazing with different types of fresh veggies, cucumber kimchi, romaine lettuce salad with house-made black sesame dressing, green onion salad with colpache, and finally stir-fried fish cake. Of course, got to have some soju when you're eating Korean BBQ, it's a must. Always ask ice cold soju, colder is better. In Korea, we never pour shots for ourselves, we have to pour for someone else and they have to pour for you. Using two hands to pour and receive the shots to be polite. When you become good friends like Jacob and I, or you guys agree to using only one hand to be casual, then you can go ahead and have fun. Usually the waiters and the servers will come to your table and help you cook your meat on the table. But if you like to do it by yourself, then go ahead and tell your server, it's not rude or anything, it's just your preference. I love the server doing it for me because I don't have to do all that work because I cook enough at my house. You know my favorite part is this thing, so you don't want to overcook the meat or don't want to burn, you just put it on here. Every Korean BBQ restaurant has different style dipping sauces. In Magao, they have salt and sesame oil dipping sauce, which is Jacob's favorite, and sweet and sour soy dipping sauce with onion and chili, and this is my favorite. Around the grill, there is steamed eggs and corn cheese. They cook by the heat from the grill, and when they look like it's ready, then you can just start digging. This is definitely new style of Korean BBQ and old fashion way, the steamed egg got to be served separately. I like both in a different ways. When you are done with the meat, Magao has something special menu for you to finish the meal heavenly, totally heavenly. So make sure you still have some room in your tummy for this menu. It's Volcano Fried Rice. It's minimum 2 order per table. First, your server will bring a wok lookalike pan with spicy pork looking sauce with lots of onions. When it starts simmering, then the server will add some rice and start the performance, the art of the Volcano Fried Rice. Flatten the rice like this on the pan will create delicious crispy bites, so good. After few minutes, they will add some Kim, Korean seasoned and roasted seaweed, and gather all the rice together like a mountain. Then there is the magma of the volcano, wait, it's lava, since it's outside already, I guess They scramble the eggs so it will evenly cook. This dish is definitely Instagram worthy, so don't forget to take some pictures, okay? When the eggs are settled, you can start to eat. Since it's Volcano Fried Rice, gotta eat when it's piping hot. It's really hot right now. It's like really hot right now. It's Volcano Fried Rice. It's a volcano. Oh, it's so good right now. That's spicy. We also ordered the beef sushi. It's the same thing as regular sushi, but thinly sliced beef instead of fish. They bring it out to the table and towards the front view and drizzle some sauce. He said we have to eat while it's hot. A1 sauce? Yeah, I was like that's familiar. I thought it was like, I thought it was like homemade sauce. The performance was amazing, but I won't order it again to be honest with you. After having a food baby from Korean barbecue, we still needed some sweet bites. So we went to grab some Korean shaved ice, bingsu. The place Kevin wanted to take us was already closed because it was late Sunday night. So we went to his second choice, Anko. We ordered black sesame bingsu and strawberry bingsu. We thought the bowl was part of ice because it is a perfect round looking, but it's a bowl, so don't eat it, okay? Black sesame bingsu has, of course, lots of grind black sesame seeds all around, sweet red bean paste on top, and some chapssaltteok, which is a similar thing as mochi, and some pine nuts. The black sesame seeds will actually will get on your teeth while you're eating it. So don't order this if you are dating with someone. And instead, just order the strawberry one. The ice is a little bit pink color, which is super cute. And the fresh strawberry syrup is all over, just dripping down. And of course, it has some fresh strawberry slices and served with condensed milk. So pour condensed milk as much as you like, and be quick about taking pictures because you don't want them to melt down too quick. What makes Korean shaved ice so special is the texture of the ice. It's like snow. I mean like literally snow. It's ridiculous. It feels like you're eating fresh snow from Alps. After the Korean barbecue and perfect dessert, Kevin took us to the public art, Urban Light. It was so beautiful. We took so many pictures. I mean, it's just gorgeous. If you want to visit here as well and take beautiful pictures, just google Urban Light in LA, and it will just pop up. It was a beautiful first night of LA. Special thanks to Kevin. Thank you for watching!