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$1 Coffee and Tea Smoothies at Jamba Juice

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Only on Thursday, August 19: The pick-me-up meets the cool-you-down!

$1 Coffee and Tea Smoothie Day ~

Flavors: Mocha Mojo, Coffee Craze, Matcha Green Tea Blast, Chill-icious Chai

* Offer valid only on 8/19/10 at participating Jamba Juice locations towards the purchase of one sixteen size Coffee Craze™, Matcha Green Tea Blast®, Mocha Mojo™ & Chill-icious Chai™ smoothies. Limit 1 per person. Offers specifically NOT valid at Safeway, Vons or Pavilions locations. Not valid with other offers or discounts. Not valid for Jamba Juice employees.

The Koreatown location of Jamba Juice is on the ground floor of the Mercury building on the southwest corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue.

Address: 3800 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90010
Phone number: (213) 382-1497

Open until 9:00 pm today!

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Follow Koreatown Updates on Twitter!

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Stay in the loop as to what’s happening in the hottest place in Los Angeles. Follow @Koreatown on Twitter http://twitter.com/koreatown

Twitter is the hip, efficient social network where Koreatown residents, patrons and fans exchange information on what’s happening in the most diverse neighborhood in Los Angeles! English speakers, Spanish speakers, Koreans, Vietnamese, Japanese, Filipinos… all having fun together.

Registered Twitter users report updates in real time, texting in on their phones where they’re right now enjoying all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ, if there’s a line in front of the taco truck on 4th Street by Western, when the fire department shows up at Cafe Mak, for which entertainers they’re lining up at the Wiltern Theater, why the subway was shut down… If there’s a Happy Hour or a freebie giveaway in Koreatown, you’ll hear about it on Twitter.

Photos and links are posted several times a day. There’s even a contest for Koreatown Twitter Mayor! (The post of Caucasian ambassador of Koreatown has already been filled.)

Be part of it! Follow @Koreatown http://twitter.com/koreatown

Ktown’s boundaries are nebulous — arbitrarily you can say Vermont Avenue to the east, Beverly Boulevard to the north, Western Avenue or Wilton Place to the west, and Olympic Boulevard to the south. It’s 3 miles west of downtown LA, 4 miles southeast of Hollywood, 12 miles from Santa Monica Beach and 16 miles from the LAX International Airport.

It doesn’t matter where you are in the world, you can follow Koreatown on Twitter!

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31-Cent Scoop Night at Baskin Robbins

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Baskin-Robbins is having its 31 Cent Scoop Night on April 28 (Wednesday) from 5 pm to 10 pm at its Southern California locations. A 2.5-ounce ice cream scoop will be just 31 cents! The event is for the benefit of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, an organization to which Baskin Robbins has promised a $100,000 donation.

Baskin Robbins 31-Cent Scoop Night

Koreatown does have a Baskin Robbins ice cream shop on Third Street and Ardmore… Good luck getting service there. You may opt to go to another location, because there are so many in Los Angeles anyway!

The nearest one is in Larchmont Village.

230 N Larchmont Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90004

Other nearby Baskin Robbins locations in LA:
4048 W. 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90020
6104 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
7150 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046
3516 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026
1832 N. Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027
5610 San Vicente Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90019
3171 S Hoover St, Los Angeles, CA 90007
8051 W 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90048
2528 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039

If you insist on going to the Baskin Robbins serving the Koreatown area, here’s the address: 4048 W 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90020, USA

Phone number: (213) 389-5277

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Auditions for K-Town Reality Show on Saturday

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

From the Official Press Release

Transformers Star TYRESE GIBSON casting for K-TOWN REALITY SHOW

On Saturday, April 24 , from 12 pm to 6 pm, there will be an open casting call event at HQ Pictures, the production company started by Tyrese Gibson (model/musician/actor and star of Transformers, 2 Fast 2 Furious), for the highly talked about K-Town reality show. The producers will be looking for the most interesting, attractive, colorful Asian Americans to be cast in a reality show similar to JERSEY SHORE and the REAL WORLD in format.

In particular, potential cast members with lively, strong and unique personalities between the ages of 18 to 30 will be sought, especially individuals who know about and/or experienced the Koreatown life.

Thousands of people have applied, and the producers have already been informed that people are traveling from Michigan, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, New York, Washington, and even Korea and France, just to audition for this reality show. From this casting session, the producers will select the final 8 cast members for the K-Town reality show.

The producers invite all press to attend and cover this event. There will be an opportunity to learn more about the project and interview the hundreds of people lined around the block.

WHAT: CASTING CALL: K-Town reality show

WHEN: Saturday, April 24, 2010 TIME: 12 pm to 6 pm

WHERE: HQ Pictures @ 1635 N. Cahuenga Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028

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The show’s producers are Tyrese Gibson, Mike Le, Eddie Kim, and Eugene Choi.

For any additional questions or to schedule interviews, contact asianrealityshow@gmail.com.

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Caketown Garden in Koreatown Closed

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Was in Koreatown north of Wilshire Boulevard tonight and noticed that the bakeshop Caketown Garden has closed.

So many stores and shops have closed in Koreatown this past year especially along Western Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard. I could probably shift to uploading photos of For Lease signs…

If you’re interested in this space located in the strip mall on the corner of Western Avenue and 6th street, call United Realty at (323) 663-3232.

Tags: 6th and Western, bakeries, business, closed, for lease, korean businesses, ktown
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2009 Korean Seafood Festival in Los Angeles

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

When they said ‘festival’ I imagined something big. This is the smallest festival I’ve ever seen — fewer than half a dozen companies from South Korea…. maybe five. I was disappointed by the paltriness so I didn’t bother being thorough. It’s a sales event with a few samples of dried myeolchi (멸치 = anchovies).

2009 LA 수산물 판촉전

Yet I’ve got to hand it to those folks staffing the tables. They were proud of their products and were really hustling in a positive way.

The most dominant item was seaweed. Stacks of giant packs from South Cholla province — Wando Island in that jurisdiction is famous for kim (김 = dried sheets of “laver”). The other kind of seaweed they had was wakame, the brown seaweed that you rehydrate to use in miyeok-guk.

Two seaweed companies: one was Jaewon GlobalNet, the other was Oyang, which was touting its unique patents for making seasoned kim — invention numbers 0455993 and 0455994. Not willing to decipher the technical details from the handout, but the first patent seems to involve a three-part process that does NOT require adding MSG, while the second patent is some sort of two-part process. Will update this later. Meanwhile, visit their website taejo.org. No, they did not give me samples, but the ajumma were very enthusiastic so I’m devoting space to them.

Onggolchan (옹골찬) was selling different seafood banchan (반찬 = side dishes). I was glad to see their very substantial tri-lingual brochure with pretty pictures and quite presentable copy in English, Korean and Japanese. Their website: onggolchan.kr

마이징어

The unique marketing angle was provided by Myzingo. Are you familiar with ojingeo (오징어), the dried squid that everyone loves gnawing on? Well, this is Myzingo, which happens to be flavored with peanut butter. Momzzang (몸짱) is the squid’s body (mom in Korean) and Darizzang (다리짱) refers to the legs (dari in Korean). Really clever branding. Website: www.myzingo.co.kr

So this “festival” runs until October 25 (Sunday) in one tiny corner of the the parking lot of Hannam Chain SuperMarket. Address: 2740 W. Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90006.

I did see a lot of Korean ajosshi and ajumma (married men and women in their forties) eagerly snapping up the gigantic packs that were on sale. And I bet Korean-American teens might get a kick out of the peanut-butter-flavored squid. If you’re in the area, might as well drop by. The LAPD is also holding their Halloween carnival about a block east with carnival rides, games, food and a haunted house until Sunday 10 pm.

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