Ooh Ooh YEAH… Looks like the SK Mac+Cheese (+BACON) was well received last night, and guess what… we’re still making it better too!!! So come to SK Din Dins (6-9p) and enjoy yourself some SKMC (as some people have already coined it)… or get some other grub.. such.. AS:
NEBRASKA ANGUS JAPANESE MEATBALL CURRY (Dinner only, and the LAST day before we REALLY rotate it OUT)
SWEET GINGER GLAZED CHICKEN WINGS
Oh yeah, and if you want them DINE LA Roundtable tix.. suckas… show us some LOVE!
After 3 months of rotating ALL new dishes, we have FINALLY decided to rotate stuff back in! And this was a big fave for a lot of people too (and actually, we find that a LOT of you belong to MANY different camps of favorites… which is cool with us!)
Well, time is awastin’ (aka I’m running late AGAIN this AM.. doh!) so here’s the quick summary:
“HI-HI” DISHES:
NEBRASKA ANGUS JAPANESE MEATBALL CURRY (is back… as you should know by now)
KOREAN GLASS NOODLES
COCONUT RICE
“BYE-BYE” (AT THE END OF THE WEEK):
After much trial and tribulation (aka debating while listing to Lady Gaga in the car):
BRAISED COCONUT JACKFRUIT
It seems like short time to have this dish… but the decision as been made by the Kitchen Ninja! (but that also means we’re accelerating the return of another VERY beloved dish also know by the acronym of CTB)
FREE SOFT DRINKS… AGAIN!
If you read this far, you MUST be bored… but YES, we’re offering FREE SOFT DRINKS again because FRIDAY was our BEST day! So to keep my promise to the internet (that maybe only 3 of you saw), we’re celebrating (‘cause life’s short and finite… so why not?) by giving everyone FREE drinks today.
There you go, and here I go… see ya soon!
Xoxo,
TEAM SK
PS - I’m changing up the menu link on the left to just link to the BIG pic above. Hopefully everyone can see it now. Let me know… SUCKAS!
WHOOPSEE UPDATE: Forgot to mention that today is ALSO the last day for KOREAN GLASS NOODLES (Japchae) AND the PINEAPPLE FRIED RICE! We’re changing a whole LOTTA stuff next week (but it’ll be tasty… we promise ^_^)
An Ode to Crispy Tofu Balls
(aka Please don’t hurt us friends cause we might bruise easily emotionally and physically ^_^)
As many of you already know, today is the last day (prolly only for a lil bit) for the Crispy Tofu Balls AND the Korean Short-Ribs (everyone talks about the tofu, but no one remembers lil ol’ Mr. “K/Galbi” LOL), and will be the beginning of our attempt to rotate the menu and see… just SEE if Cal Plaza can take this kind of change that we experimented with back in the “old days” of our humble apartment beginnings. ^_^
If you’re around, stop by… today we made a whole LOTTA Crispy Tofu Balls… it’s gonna be a CRISPY TOFU BALL BLOWOUT, so we shouldn’t run out too early (hopefully ;D)
So in honor of some people being very vocal about us taking away the tofu balls, here’s a short montage of pics above that we’d like to share with you… next time we’ll add a lil music (maybe some nice Journey, Air Supply or even… Lady GAGA!) , some nice lighting… and of course top it off with some more spicy mayo for good and tasty measure (damn I’m drooling just typing this up!)
And I KNOW some of you guys are like,
“Is the Starry Kitchen couple CRAZY?!?! Why are they taking them Crispy Tofu Balls away from me? WHHHHHHHHHHHHHY?”
(ducking punches, kicks in the balls and possible tofu balls being thrown at me… but I know you wouldn’t waste our precious lil green babies like that, would you? ^^)
Well first off, it’s because we’ve already started prepping for next weeks dishes. We’d love to have the tofu balls AND what we’re making next week (the dish is not totally a secret if you read the LA Times Daily Food Blog, link below ^_^), but if you wouldn’t believe it we still stay at SKDT until like 10p or 11p every night prepping all the food! We’re still getting the hang of it, but making fresh food to be served FAST is no joke (but we are having a lot of fun doing it though :D)
Also because… well, we have around 50 dishes in our repertoire (I just love using that word for some reason, makes me sound distinguished!) and just maybe… MAYBE… you might like some of the other ones too. Can you blame us for wanting to shed a lil bit of light on some of the other culinary creations the Kitchen Ninja’s crazy mind has come up with? (Maybe I should finally get to that post about ALL the dishes we’ve done, huh?)
Plus if you’ve been by SKDT, then you’ve possibly heard my spiel about how we’re “Hot Shit” right now, but we’ll be “Not Shit” in “5 minutes” because… well, you/everyone gets bored after a while. We gots to spice it up in Cal Plaza and see what happens.
I will say if you guys are continually vocal about it after we rotate dishes once or twice… it could come back faster than you think! (wink wink)
WHOA the press!
On a quicky note, SCHNIKES it’s pretty crazy that we’ve been open almost two weeks now, and we’ve had more write-ups (Eater LA, Grub Street LA, LA Times Daily Food Blog+Print) and foodie blog reviews (MidTownLunch, The Minty) than we thought we’d have, get or even see… but it’s pretty cool and we’ll take it! LOL
On that note, here’s a lil song I’d like to dedicate to… CRISPY TOFU BALLS by your and my friend… USHER w/ this USHER-riffic classic… oh YES! Just imagine singing this song to the tofu balls… and HEY, if someone were to organize doing like an a capella version of this for the tofu balls, how could we say “No” to bringing it back then!?!?! LOL
Welcome back from Memorial Day weekend… this is the LAST week for the CRISPY TOFU BALLS!
(great way to wake you up, right??)
So rather than “dilly-dally” (i.e. I’m running out of time again this AM to write any banter to bore you to death), here’s what’s going on:
BYE-BYE (at the end o’ the week):
The much beloved and written about…
CRISPY TOFU BALLS
If you want to try ‘em, now’s the time. When will they be back? Not sure! It could be sooner than we all expect, but until then you might as well get off yer lazy arse and give ‘em a shot! :)
And they’re not the only one going away!
KOREAN GLASS NOODLES (“japchae”)
HI-HI:
The return of…
CHINESE HOISIN HAMBURGER
For those that have eaten with us long enough, it MIGHT seem we’re in a pattern here (we followed the Japanese Meatball Curry with these last time too) I can assure you we are NOT! :) We wanted to do a new beef dish, but unfortunately aren’t quite ready considering we had to make sure to get dinner going (as it is now… YAY!)
DINNER?!?!? (aka DIN DINS!!!)
Yup, itza REALLY happening. We’ll need to post better parking directions as it SEEMS people aren’t reading ‘em all, but yes dinner (THURS+FRI/6-9p) is most DEFINITELY on.. at least for most of the foreseeable summer.
DINE LA ROUNDTABLE TICKETS?!?!?
Last note, for any of you foodie fans that tried to get into DINE LA ROUNDTABLE event (that we happened to be catering ^_^), we’ve received TWO tickets to giveaway. Still trying to figure out what to do, but the most popular answers on our Facebook Fan Page are: a dance-off OR drink-off!
Not sure how we would do either one, but it would be fun and hilarious if we did!!! Details to come out soon on how we do this, but Facebook’s probably the best place to check if you want updates. :)
Okay, that’s it today… gotta get some bread and make some grub for lunchie munchies.
OMG, we’ve been around a month… a MONTH! We’re STILL in awe about all this, and it’s pretty cool anyway you look at it. I know I keep saying this, but think about it: we started in May outta the back of our apartment, at the time ONLY once a week and then we expanded to only twice a week… and then less than a year we have our own diggs in DTLA. Whatever happens, HOLY CRAP we accomplished a lot, right?
But since we’re still going, please continue to spread the word! We ain’t “THERE” yet, but we we’d like to be “THERE” or “ANYWHERE” that keeps us doing what we’re doing.. and allows us to come up/experiment with even more Pan-Asian comfort food too. ^_^
Otherwise, I hope everyone had a great and incredible weekend (for us it might have been the most relaxing weekend SINCE we’ve opened…NICE!)
SO the rotation continues! Two items coming back ESPECIALLY a very popular and highly requested KOREAN GLASS NOODLES. (see, we listen… sometimes ^_^)
LAST WEEK (*tear*) for:
NEBRASKA ANGUS JAPANESE MEATBALL CURRY
Newbie of the week:
LEMONGRASS TOFU
*nom nom nom*
Oldie (in the sense that we’ve only been open a month) but goodie SIDES:
KOREAN GLASS NOODLES (aka “japchae”)
You wanted it, and you got it ;)
PINEAPPLE FRIED RICE
And in honor of our rotation/substitution concept (i.e. I’ve come up with a lame reason to play a music vid from one of RADDEST groups around ^_^), I dedicate this video from the SILVERSUN PICKUPS entitled…umm.. SUBSTITUTION (;p)
Have a great week everyone, continue spreading the word and if you’ve read this far… keep on the lookout. We might have a special surprise for ya this week!
Here’s what we got for your Sunday FOOD service (not to be mixed up with any religious affiliation… even though some of you come religiously ^_^) tomorrow from 12-3p:
Meat: KALBI CHIM (braised Korean short-ribs) and in the burrito you’ll get KIMCHI FRIED RICE inside w/ the KALBI CHIM instead of just plain ol’ (and yet tasty) sushi rice
Veggie-licious entree: stir-fried and a delish-ified (yeah, you could get a huge score if you used that word in a game of Scrabble) KIMCHI + KING OYSTER MUSHROOMS
All dishes served w/ a side of LOVE… and JAP CHAE (Korean glass noodles)
Don’t forget that we’ve upped the ante on the banh mi/sandwiches w/ the homemade sweetly creamy french-like mayo (and let me tell you NOW it makes a HUGE difference… every bite was like heaven: so light and fluffy (ummmm YEAH, don’t forget we like to eat our own food too).
If you’re going to come, but don’t know when… you can always call or email your order ahead of time and we’ll hold it for ya.
