Korean by the Bay [restaurant review]
Pacific Rim Cafe features traditional Korean home cooking. Photo All native Angelenos have had a conversation with some New England transplant who has an inexplicable nostalgia for extreme seasons. They wax lyrical about snow, which we regard as something kept properly imprisoned in a box to keep beer cold, and a phenomenon called autumn during which trees look pretty while trying not to die. Meanwhile we bask in one of the rare temperate climates in the world where the average range between summer and winter fluctuates less than ten degrees. One thing that can be said about places with a wide range of temperatures is that it can stimulate culinary creativity. Consider Korea, where it can average as low as 27 degrees in January and can top 80 in August. Farmers produce enough food during the lush, wet summers to sustain the population for the whole year, and chefs and home cooks deploy an incredible range of pickling, drying, and salting techniques to preserve it. They combine these pickles and sauces with fresh items in season to make them delicious. Korean cuisine has been growing in popularity in the last decade or two, and many suburbs are getting their first Korean…
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