Name of restaurant: Mr. Bossam. Check out the cartoon mascot, presumably Mr. Bossam himself, who’s giving you a thumbs-up as you walk in. Bossam is a boiled pork dish, traditionally eaten during ...

I never thought I would be a chef. Growing up, it wasn’t really an option. My immigrant Korean parents laid out my path already. It was typical. Study hard, play the piano, go to an Ivy League school, ...

What dish represents the restaurant, and why? As the name suggests, bossam is the signature dish. Bossam is Korean steamed sliced pork eaten with napa cabbage leaves or wrapped in lettuce or perilla ...

It’s notoriously difficult to transliterate the names of many foods or recipes from the spelling in their native languages to what we call “Roman” letters, the letters for words that you see here.

As a result, the yangbans would traditionally donate a pig to those preparing kimchi for the winter as a means of keeping them energized and motivated. They would usually then slaughter the pig and ...

Join Max and Armand as they don traditional Korean hanbok and try a classic Korean feast featuring bossam, kimchi, and ...

Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue — now out in print and online — we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. Kobawoo is one of Koreatown's older restaurants, ...

Bossam is a boiled pork dish. The meat is boiled in a flavorful brine until tender and served thinly sliced. At the table, each person wraps the meat in salted napa cabbage leaves along with radish ...

Bossam is a Korean boiled pork dish traditionally enjoyed on the day of kimjang, the annual kimchi-making event. Eating freshly made kimchi with bossam celebrates the new batch and enhances the joy of ...