My first experience with Don Dae Gam revealed a dynamic restaurant from Park’s BBQ owner Jenee Kim, one of L.A.’s most influential Korean chefs. Her latest restaurant anchors a strip mall on the southwest end of Koreatown, specializes in pork and costs much less than Kim’s beefy flagship. To be clear, I’m still a big believer in Park’s BBQ, but sometimes I prefer pork to beef, especially when it comes at a lower premium. This time, we devoured charcoal-grilled neck meat, short rib, belly and diaphragm. We also 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).

Don Dae Gam loaded their sizzling platter 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 assorted rice 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.