Myung In Dumplings

This Koreatown strip mall mandu specialist, once featured on the late Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown, delights to this day with its puffy, baseball-sized steamed buns and a broader array of Korean-style dumplings. Other L.A. County locations in Northridge and Diamond Bar offer the same array of freshly made, tightly wrapped creations stuffed with variations of pork, shrimp and vegetables, plus a sweet red bean option for dessert. There’s also fried rice and a decent galbitang (beef rib soup), but the reason to go out of the way, of course, is in Myung In’s name.