My first experience with Don Dae Gam revealed a dynamic Korean restaurant from Park’s Bar-B-Q owner Jenee Kim. The restaurant anchors a strip mall on the sound end of Koreatown, specializes in pork and costs much less than Kim’s beefy flagship. We devoured charcoal-grilled neck meat, short rib, belly and diaphragm. This time, we resorted to two dishes listed under the “Chef’s Special” section, including one that wasn’t available in September: Spicy Pork with Rice Cakes ($9).

The sizzling platter was loaded with rice cakes shaped like both cylinders and marbles, sheets of thin-shaved pork, scallions and pungent kimchi, everything slathered in spicy chile paste. The longer the ingredients remained on the metal, the more the sauce caramelized and fused with the cakes. At the bottom of the platter, we found an oily pool of pork fat and chile paste that featured explosive flavor and practically melted into the dish of nutty purple rice.

Dose of Vitamin P spotlights my favorite pork dish from the previous week.

12/11/13 Update: Don Dae Gam is no longer in business.