#Ktown LA

[formeryelpers]

Chung Choon Kitchen, 928 S Western Ave, Ste 132, Los Angeles (Koreatown), CA 90006

Chung Choon Kitchen has a stall in the Koreatown food court. They serve pizza (including Korean pizzas like bulgogi, butter garlic potato), pasta (including kimchi & rose pasta), sides, soft serve ice cream, and drinks.

They had two soft serve machines but one wasn’t on. A cup is $4 with a choice of two flavors, original milk and strawberry. I also spotted some toppings: cornflakes, waffle cone tips, marshmallows, Oreos, sprinkles, etc.

Strawberry ice cream ($4) with matcha powder: It was firm, smooth, and icy, but with enough dairy in it that I could tell that it was dairy-based. The strawberry flavor was pleasant but the iciness made it seem more like ice milk than high quality soft serve ice cream.

3 out of 5 stars.

By Lolia S.

[nikoco11]

o. if u live in LA area btw u can go see some parts of this zine in the real life!! &&gallery in ktown!

here’s me and my child

[they/them, zine work] 🐠🫧art i did for seaglass lens mag , an ocean themed zine run by a couple pals of mine :3 lots of very lovely artists involved, go check it out!!!

[davetada]

Palm trees

Koreatown, LA, CA

[crybabykiko]

This meme but I can genuinely say that I think everyone in Wind Breaker is from California

[j05u-3]

Riding my bike brings me so much joy and happiness.

If you in LA and want to ride hit me up 🤙

[freezemeansrun]

[ksoseeya]

Corn latte

[mosqitofood]

[iamdjgordon]

Exploring LA and reconnecting with family and old friends ☀️🫶🏼

[alethiometry]

LA Wildfire Relief & Unhoused/Mutual Aid Donation Info 1/10/25

Hello friends, I've made a list of some of the many, many amazing grassroots organizations and mutual aid groups here in LA that are helping out with wildfire relief, advocacy for our unhoused communities, and advocacy for our firefighters—many of whom are incarcerated individuals making slave wages with no guarantee of continued employment once freed.

We've seen an incredible outpouring of volunteers in the last couple of days, but could still use all the help we can get. Even donating just a couple bucks or helping to spread the word is super super helpful!

This is by no means a comprehensive list, but I hope it provides a starting point for anyone who is looking to help out. Feel free to reblog and add more as needed, especially if there is an organization you want to highlight!

(Note: I'm including Instagram links for all of these orgs as things here in LA have been changing rapidly and that is where I have been able to find the most up-to-date information.)

💙 MUTUAL AID LOS ANGELES NETWORK (MALAN) is an online directory for mutual aid groups across the greater Los Angeles area. They've also been maintaining a massive spreadsheet of available resources for anyone affected by the fires, as well as information for volunteers.

Website: https://malan.softr.app/groups

Donate: https://hcb.hackclub.com/donations/start/malan

Resource spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KMk34XY5dsvVJjAoD2mQUVHYU_Ib6COz6jcGH5uJWDY/edit?gid=0#gid=0

💙 ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION works to end mass incarceration in California by empowering formerly and currently incarcerated people with a support network, reentry services, and opportunities to advocate for change. This includes the 800 or so incarcerated individuals who are currently fighting the wildfires here in LA with no guarantee of continued employment once freed.

IG: https://www.instagram.com/antirecidivismcoalition/

Website: https://antirecidivism.org/

Donate: https://antirecidivism.org/donate/ (Per instructions on their homepage, you can write “firefighter fund” on your donation)

💙 IT'S BIGGER THAN US provides community spaces and services to help South Los Angeles flourish. They've converted their HQ to a distribution center where they sort necessities to be delivered to those in need all over the city.

IG: https://www.instagram.com/itsbiggerthanus_/

Website: https://www.itsbiggerthanusla.org/

Donate: https://itsbiggerthanus-bloom.kindful.com/

💙 PROJECT ANGEL FOOD prepares and delivers meals to Angelenos in need, including first responders and people and families affected or displaced by the fires. They expanded to a second temporary kitchen location earlier this year to accommodate increased demand as well as increased numbers of volunteers!

IG: https://www.instagram.com/projectangelfood/

Website: https://www.angelfood.org/

Donate: https://support.angelfood.org/site/Donation2;jsessionid=00000000.app325a?df_id=1375&1375.donation=form1&NONCE_TOKEN=751E7A72FA9BA7D5CDB60B13E42E86F4#.WyASqdVKjDc

💙 LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK supports those experiencing food insecurity all over Los Angeles, and are continuing to do so in addition to providing food to first responders and people and families affected or displaced by the fires.

IG: https://instagram.com/lafoodbank/

Website: https://www.lafoodbank.org/

Donate: https://secure.lafoodbank.org/site/Donation2?df_id=5160&mfc_pref=T&5160.donation=form1

💙 PALMS UNHOUSED MUTUAL AID does weekly outreach and rapid response across West LA where they check in with residents, offer supplies, and connect folks to services. They also partner with street medicine teams for wound care, medical consultation, and other community needs.

IG: https://instagram.com/palmsunhousedmutualaid

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/PUMA_LA

Donate: https://hcb.hackclub.com/donations/start/palms-unhoused-mutual-aid

💙 KTOWN FOR ALL aims to make Koreatown a more inclusive and vibrant community by working with their unhoused neighbors, and by advocating for policies that respect the rights, dignity, and needs of the unhoused.

IG: http://instagram.com/ktownforall

Website: https://www.ktownforall.org/

Donate: https://www.ktownforall.org/donate

💙 THE SIDEWALK PROJECT aids unhoused, drug-using, and sex worker populations including residents of Skid Row. Their services include medical care, housing linkages, and assistance with system/bureaucracy navigation. Their street team provides direct services including crisis response, system advocacy, wound care, job placement, medication-assisted treatment (MAT), and creative community resources for mental health.

IG: https://www.instagram.com/thesidewalkprojectla

Website: https://www.thesidewalkproject.org/

Donate: https://givebutter.com/embed/c/the-sidewalk-project

💙 BABY2BABY provides children living in poverty across the country with diapers, clothing and all the basic necessities that every child deserves.

IG: https://www.instagram.com/baby2baby/

Website / Donate: https://baby2baby.org/ (clicking Donate opens a pop-up on the homepage)

💙 PASADENA HUMANE has been working tirelessly to help animals displaced by fires, whether that means providing food and shelter, reuniting pets with their families, or arranging foster care for pets while trying to get in contact with their families.

IG: https://www.instagram.com/pasadenahumane/

Website / Donate: https://pasadenahumane.org/ (clicking Donate opens a pop-up on the homepage)

💙 GOFUNDMES:

Wildfire Relief Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/wildfire-relief-fund-2025

Verified fundraisers for people and families affected by the wildfires: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/wildfire-relief/california#/

Fundraisers for displaced Black families in Altadena: https://bit.ly/rebuildAD

💙 CHARITYNAVIGATOR LIST OF CHARITIES RESPONDING TO THE FIRES: https://www.charitynavigator.org/discover-charities/where-to-give/palisades-fire-2025/ (To clarify: the URL here says Palisades fire because that was the first really big one on Tuesday morning—the Eaton and Hurst fires didn't spring up until later that day. But the groups listed do provide services across all of LA to Angelenos affected by all the fires.)

💙 RENT-LOWERING GUNSHOTS (aka Zionists, TERFs, cops, and bigots can all go fuck yourselves):

Operation Olive Branch spreadsheet for resources in aiding Palestine: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1vtMLLOzuc6GpkFySyVtKQOY2j-Vvg0UsChMCFst_WLA/htmlview

Global Action for Trans Equality: https://gate.ngo/

[formeryelpers]

Koreatown Plaza, 928 S Western Ave, Los Angeles (Koreatown), 90006

Koreatown Plaza is an indoor mall in Ktown. There are three levels and most of the spaces are occupied by Korean businesses. Even the bank is Korean. Tenants include H Mart, spas, vitamin store, photography studio, luggage store, jewelry store, furniture stores, 15 clothing retailers, toy stores, and kiosks too. I’ve never heard of any of the clothing retailers (they’re targeting Koreans) but the clothing is mostly for women.

The best parts are the large International Food Court (mostly Korean food but they do have a pho and sushi place) and H Mart. There are also 4 bakeries, a Chinese Korean restaurant, and a coffeehouse.

The mall looks its age (it was built in 1988). They added plants and trees but the place still looks dated. It has its own parking (free parking for three hours with validation) and multiple security guards. The air conditioning doesn’t seem to reach to top levels.

The food court looks old too, but it’s popular and every stall is occupied. They recently added a Pinkberry vending machine!

4 out of 5 stars

By Lolia S.

[davetada]

Helicopter and palm trees

Koreatown, LA, CA

[thrdplanet]

looking for a plus sized woman/femme who lost their wardrobe in the Altadena or palisades fires who wants a closet jumpstart! If you’re in the LA area I can bring them to you, or you can pick them up from me if you can come to general ktown area. Included are shirts, skirts, shorts, pants, dresses, a jacket, and two pairs of size 8 boots if you want them. Everything is about a size 2X from f21 or slightly smaller, all barely or only lightly worn. Please DM me if interested!

[catboyjunhyung]

so I haven’t posted much here but i ended up not being able to go to the LA show which was absolutely devastating but because of that i decided to enter the ktown encore event and i won and it was my best call experience thus far!!! here is a short clip from it!

nine was waiting for me to finish speaking so he could ask about my tattoo which i was kind of surprised they all recognized it from zurui onna promo and asked who it was

when i revealed to nine it was junji he goes “junji lips so thin…so thin” 😭😭😭

[littleladymab]

FebruarOC - Quin

My other brand new character, along with Horatio, created with the express purpose of having some pining fae prince + bodyguard content. However I know even less about Quin than I do about Horatio. The problem with creating characters 1) out of spite 2) just to play around with in a sandbox is that it makes it real hard to force yourself to sit down and figure something out. At least for me -- there's less of a motivation since it's not for anything except my own amusement. 

SO! Let's uh, make some stuff up I guess! 

The most important thing to make up is: HOW DID THEY MEET and WHY IS THEY LIKE THIS? 

Easiest answer is that like, Quin's family is just one of the vassals of the seelie king, and Quin got the lucky job of being assigned as bodyguard to the prince. (What does being a vassal of the seelie king based out of LA mean? are you in charge of like, San Fernando Valley? Do the dukes of Fashion District, Flower District, and Jewelry district all duke (🥁) it out because their neighborhoods are so close together and bleed into one another??? Are Chinatown, Little Tokyo, KTown, Historic Filipinotown etc etc run by delegates of their own respective countries? Or is it done based on lines of governmental districts?? oh bOY) SO MAYBE NOT A VASSAL, that's too loaded a question for me to figure out. 

Quin's parents working as part of the king's court. Okay, easy. 

So what is it that makes Quin get picked? There's the possibility that there was like, a contest and he won? Or it was used as a punishment for his parents? It could even have been a punishment for Quin, if I want to rip the bodyguard plot from my SignetEcho fic LMAO He was caught doing A Crime and was given the opportunity to do fae jail time or serve as the prince's bodyguard? Either of those two brings in tension -- though I think that his parents being punished is the better option because it can bring on the difficulties of Quin having been lied to about the reason is there and blaming Horatio -- even if Horatio was unaware. We'll go with that! 

Quin, under the impression that he was chosen for idk like good grades and and performance at school or whatever the fuck the other kids in his generation were doing, was assigned to be the prince's bodyguard in secret punishment to his parents by sending away their eldest son for something they did. I'll figure that out later, it's not important right now. 

I think generally, he does enjoy working with Horatio, even if sometimes the prince (and the political scene in general) can be exasperating. 

His drabble is also part of OC Kiss Week, so you'll find that in a separate post! 

PS: full disclosure, when i'm plotting his relationship with Horatio, I may or may not be rotating this post in my head at WARP SPEED. 

[pinene]

If any of you want to move to LA you have to ask me first so I can assign you a neighborhood. I am really tired of sexy gayboys moving to DTLA or KTown