Sharing A Koreatown Meal Is My Family’s Special Bonding Ritual

Critiquing our cuisine is just a part of the experience

Lisa Kwon
ZORA
Published in
8 min readAug 13, 2019

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When my parents critique kimchi at restaurants, they look at two things:

  1. The color: It tells you everything about the life and health of the cabbage. Kimchi should boast a speckled ruby red on its surface without looking as if it was doused…

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Lisa Kwon
ZORA
Writer for

luxury is for the people…heaven’s gate is a butterfly door • writer based in Los Angeles