Japanese cuisine is full of many different types of foods. Watch Food Network one day when they’re highlighting Japanese food, or flip on the Travel Channel during Bizarre Foods with Anthony Zimmern and you’ll see that the range of Japanese cuisine spans much farther than in some others. Being a relatively small country, you’d expect foods to all be the same, but whether you’re eating an entire course of turtle (from raw to soup), live baby octopus, or tender kobe steak, what most people think of when they think of Japanese food is sushi.

Ah, the smell of BBQ is in the air - luckily, I live in Los Angeles, the city with probably the largest Korean population out side of Korea, and with it comes the cuisine. Koreatown has an abundance of food, and what better to showcase it than Korean BBQ. Nothing beats grilling your own meat on a grill while eating kim chee and other side dishes.