Bob Marley and Eric Clapton may have shot the sheriff. If given the chance, Hwa Shin Kim would probably take aim as well, but with a boiling pot instead of a gun. A pig statue in a sheriff’s outfit stands sentinel at the entrance of her original home to Hamjipark on the southwestern fringe in Koreatown. Just like the rest of his porcine brethren in her renovated comfort food emporium, if Hwa Shin Kim challenged him to a Wild West gunfight, no way he stands a chance.
This doesn’t mean that Hamjipark only serves pork. They don’t, but the best Korean dishes at the O.G. location and her family’s 6th Street spinoff certainly contain pig parts and byproducts. That was definitely the case with Kimchi Spicy Stew ($10.99) a bubbling cauldron containing scallions, pungent sheets of fermented cabbage, scallions, creamy tofu slabs, and surprise, surprise, surprise, striated chunks of gochujang infused pork belly. The other white meat is rich with fat and spice in this case. It may be criminal to ingest so much pork in one meal, but don’t sweat it; the sheriff’s got other things to worry about.
Dose of Vitamin P spotlights my favorite pork dish from the previous week.








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