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Where To Eat This Weekend: Bulgogi Pupusas, Hemp Seed Guacamole, ‘Sticky Rice Sticks,’ and Korean Street Food In Venice

Plus an Roman chef veteran in a Hollywood apartment, chocolate Cuba Libres, Uzbeki plov with lazer rice, and cochinita melts in a Silver Lake yard. Here are the best things to eat around Los Angeles (and San Juan Capistrano!) this weekend.

12:22 PM PDT on April 26, 2024

VENICE

Owner Ken Lee at Assa in Venice. Photo by Hadley Tomicki for L.A. TACO.

We can't recall seeing a street stand devoted to Korean food in L.A. But now there's Assa (which they tell us is like the Korean version of "¡vamanos!"), setting up on Lincoln on the sidewalk in front of Whole Foods in Venice. The stand comes from husband-and-wife team Ken and Savannah Lee, who together prepare gimbap, cup-bap, bulgogi with noodles, bulgogi and pork tacos, bulgogi burgers, and a variety of packaged ramen from Korea.