Mountain Cafe

Delightful Korean comfort food. The Abalone Porridge, served with 3-4 delicious sides, and the Ginseng Chicken Soup, served with a whole small chicken in the broth are both delicious. When eating in, they crack a raw egg on top of the porridge that cooks as you stir it into the steaming abalone rice. The egg makes it even better. A note to the uninitiated: the porridge is egg-less when ordered to go; the thought being that you can add your own egg at home.

Open 24 hours and, I believe, run by the same few Korean ladies (two moms and, I think, one grandma) I've seen every time I stop in. The place is small (only a handful of tables) and hard to find, tucked in the corner of a small strip mall on the south side of 8th street in Koreatown, where many of the store fronts are only in Korean. I believe they just added "Mountain Cafe" to the marquee so the honkeys could find it. And this is one honkey who is very glad they did.

Mountain Cafe / 3064 W 8TH St / Koreatown, Los Angeles, CA 90005 / 213.487.7615 / Google Map it