{"id":57936,"date":"2025-11-18T04:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/57936\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T04:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:31:15","slug":"hwal-a-kwang-jang-review-savor-live-octopus-and-rainbow-hued-rice-bowls-at-this-koreatown-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/57936\/","title":{"rendered":"Hwal A Kwang Jang Review: Savor Live Octopus and Rainbow-Hued Rice Bowls at This Koreatown Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">There\u2019s no place in Los Angeles for a unique seafood meal quite like <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/venue\/924186\/hwal-a-kwang-jang\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hwal A Kwang Jang<\/a>. Thrill-seekers head to this longtime Western Avenue strip mall joint for wriggling pieces of live octopus (though you\u2019ll need to reserve in advance), but the real everyday draws here include affordably priced rice bowls and generous family-style seafood combinations centered around heaping platters of mixed sashimi that feature halibut, tuna, and salmon \u2014 or all halibut, a variety preferred by many within the Korean diaspora for its chewy texture. Regardless of the time of day, expect to find an older, mostly Korean-speaking regulars\u2019 crowd tucking into prismatic rice bowls topped with either vegetables and raw fish (hwedupbap) or a rainbow-hued assortment of flying fish roe (albap).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">An affordable lunch for under $40, including tax and tip, or a unique, bang-for-your-buck seafood meal that\u2019s a far cry from your average sushi restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Expect to pay for valet if you want to park on-site \u2014 the attendants normally take Zelle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no place in Los Angeles for a unique seafood meal quite like Hwal A Kwang Jang. Thrill-seekers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28829,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-57936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-dining-reports","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}