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When it comes to exploring Los Angeles, there are three things that actor and comedian Randall Park loves to do: shop, eat and run. Park, a native Angeleno, grew up on the Westside, attended UCLA, chose a career here and can\u2019t imagine living anywhere else.<\/p>\n
\u201cI consider myself a small town person who happened to be born in the big city,\u201d Park says. \u201cI\u2019ve traveled a lot for work, and have gotten a greater appreciation for L.A. There\u2019s a little part of everywhere here. There\u2019s so much good food in L.A., so many fun things to do and really great people here.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Sunday Funday, L.A. people give us a play-by-play of their ideal Sunday around town. Find ideas and inspiration on where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on the weekends.<\/p>\n The son of Korean immigrants, Park grew up in the South Robertson area, \u201ca part of L.A. that was extremely diverse,\u201d he says. \u201cMy friends, growing up and to this day, are all different backgrounds, races and religions. We were like a bunch of punk kids running around the city.\u201d<\/p>\n Park is known for his roles as Agent Jimmy Woo in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, FBI Special Agent Edwin Park in the Netflix series \u201cThe Residence\u201d and Taiwanese American patriarch Louis Huang in the ABC sitcom \u201cFresh Off the Boat.\u201d<\/p>\n Recently, Park, his wife (actor Jae Suh Park) and their 13-year-old daughter Ruby left Studio City, where they had lived for 15 years, to move back to the Westside. When asked what his ideal Sunday would include, Park\u2019s answer was jam-packed. It was so jam-packed that it would be impossible to fit it all in one day. So, take his schedule with a grain of salt. This is his magical Sunday where time bends, L.A. traffic doesn\u2019t exist and bellies are never too full.<\/p>\n This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.<\/p>\n 9 a.m.: Go for a run before a day of delicious eats<\/p>\n I\u2019d sleep in, then go for a run to the beach and run around Venice. Sometimes my daughter\u2019s up earlier. She\u2019s on the autism spectrum, and really loves art and making stuff. We have a little art room that\u2019s dedicated to her. She\u2019s always painting, drawing, making little sculptures, just always creating.<\/p>\n 10 a.m.: Breakfast and then pastries<\/p>\n Rae\u2019s<\/a> in Santa Monica is a very old-school diner, and we really love it there. They do these biscuits and gravy that are really good. They\u2019re probably not that good for you, but I just ran, so it\u2019s OK. There\u2019s also a great bakery-cafe that we like to go to called R\u00f6ckenwagner<\/a>. So breakfast at Rae\u2019s, then a coffee and pastry at R\u00f6ckenwagner. We\u2019ll be eating all day, which is why I ran in the morning.<\/p>\n 11 a.m.: Stroll the farmers\u2019 market<\/p>\n Next, we\u2019d hit up the farmers\u2019 market in Mar Vista<\/a>. We\u2019ll get fruits and vegetables for later in the week. There\u2019s a hummus stand that I really love. There\u2019s always a band playing, so we just soak it all in. It\u2019s a really nice walk.<\/p>\n Noon: Shopping, with more eating along the way<\/p>\n Then I\u2019d go shopping, and would either drag my family with me, or I\u2019d go alone while they did their thing. First, there\u2019s a small shop called General Quarters<\/a> on La Brea. I know the owner there, Blair Lucio, and they always carry the coolest stuff. They specialize in California heritage-style clothing for men. Another store I love is Sid Mashburn<\/a> in the Brentwood Country Mart. They do suits and really cool menswear. I discovered it in Atlanta when I was working on a job and loved it so much that every time I\u2019d be in Atlanta, I\u2019d go to it. Then I discovered they had one in L.A.<\/p>\n Or, I\u2019d go to Sawtelle Boulevard. That whole street is fun with so many great stores. The Giant Robot<\/a> store there has a lot of pop culture, Japanese and Asian pop culture, a lot of art, graphic novels. There\u2019s also a great record store called We Share Records<\/a>. It\u2019s mostly vinyl and a lot of it is from Japan. They\u2019ll even have American artists, but the Japanese editions of their records, so it\u2019s really cool to see the Japanese versions of a Whitney Houston album. The last thing I bought there was a Hall & Oates record from Japan.<\/p>\n For lunch, I\u2019ve been really into a place called Sun Nong Dan<\/a> on Sawtelle. They have a few locations, but the newer one in Sawtelle is the only one that I go to since I\u2019m on the Westside. I usually get either the Galbi-tang, which is a short rib soup, or the Tta Roh Guk Bap, which is a brisket and dried cabbage soup, or the Dduk Mandu Guk, which is a rice cake and dumpling soup. Very much Korean comfort food. Plus, they\u2019re open 24 hours, which sometimes comes in handy.<\/p>\n If not there, I\u2019d go to El Tepeyac Cafe in Boyle Heights, which is one of my all-time favorites as a kid that my dad would take me to. It\u2019s very homestyle Mexican food, and I would get their Hollenbeck burrito, which is pretty epic.<\/p>\n 6 p.m.: Baseball or dinner out<\/p>\n If there\u2019s a Dodgers game, I\u2019d go to the game. Growing up in L.A., there\u2019s a lot of nostalgia with the Dodgers for me. I\u2019ve always been a fan. My wife and I will go to the games and eat Dodger Dogs and nachos.<\/p>\n If not, we\u2019d go to Musso & Frank Grill<\/a> to get a shrimp cocktail and steak dinner. It\u2019s very Old Hollywood, and you can feel the history in there. A lot of the leather booths have a story. I love when L.A. preserves its landmarks. Getting a sense of the history of the city through these restaurants is really fun.<\/p>\n For something more low-key, there\u2019s this restaurant in Koreatown called Kobawoo House<\/a>. They specialize in bosam, which are wraps with [fillings like] pork. They also specialize in Korean seafood pancakes that are so good.<\/p>\n If we\u2019re going to go fancy, which we don\u2019t often do, there\u2019s a restaurant called Kato<\/a> at the Row, near downtown. It\u2019s a Michelin-starred Taiwanese omakase-style restaurant that\u2019s so good. You don\u2019t order. They just give you courses, and you can pair it with wine or just order cocktails. I usually just order an Old Fashioned, which is really good there. The food is just out of this world.<\/p>\n 8 p.m.: A little night jazz<\/p>\n After dinner, we\u2019d drive down to South Pasadena where there\u2019s a bar and grill called the Barkley<\/a>. My childhood friend Richie Glaser has a jazz band [the Richard Glaser Quartet] and they play at the Barkley every Sunday night. We\u2019d get a cocktail, listen to the band and hang out.<\/p>\n 9:30 p.m.: Winding down for bedtime<\/p>\n We\u2019d come home, relax and watch TV, probably old episodes of \u201cThe Dick Van Dyke Show.\u201d My daughter would go to bed before us, and would be asleep before we officially go to sleep. The end of the day is very low-key and quiet. Every Sunday is different, but my ideal Sunday would be one of food, family, friends and frolicking throughout the city.<\/p>\n ![\"Sunday](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768564629_350_.png\")
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