California Market (CLOSED)

California Market serves both its nearby Latino and Korean population on the Koreatown-Hollywood border. At this stand-alone market, you’ll find your most common Korean produce like daikon or green onion, but you’ll also notice stacks of cilantro, avocados and papayas, too. The best part of getting your groceries here is the tiny juice stand nestled near the entrance. They press everything from your run-of-the-mill orange juice to your fancy kale/spinach/ginger green juice to guzzle while getting your weekly grocery shopping done. And if you’re still hungry, you can reverse all the beneficial effects of that juice at the attached jjambong shop: Spicy seafood noodle soup with so much MSG that you’d be hard pressed not to fall asleep at the counter. But you had the green juice so it doesn’t count, right?