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A modern Korean pub by @realchefdeblee 🍻🍗
Visit @eatmokja, our Korean market & café, around the back ☕️🍜

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One bar, two friends, and not 3 but 4 courses at YiCha in Highland Park! Sharing the yummy menu we shared while catching up: king oyster mushroom chips, grilled fish jerky, kimchee caesar salad, stonefruit salad, Chef Deb’s ktown nachos, The OG KFC, Fuji Appe eggrolls, banana milk bread pudding

#highlandpark #losangeles #foodie #lafoodie #girldinner

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For my latest story for @resy, I wrote about @realchefdeblee and her modern Korean pub @yicha_la in Highland Park. Read all about it in the link in my bio! (Big thanks to my lovely editor @jfeldmar!) 📷: @secretstan

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Mandu + lumpia = 😋 @yicha_la

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Tomorrow is our FOURTH Música y Poemas festival, and I’m feeling a little sentimental about how much this celebration has grown. One of my favorite things about this event is seeing the relationships that make it possible come together in real time.

Last month, @nelasbn cofounder @labellatini took Inglewood legend @dsmoke7 around the Fig strip of Highland Park to meet some of the incredible women behind our local businesses, including @realchefdeblee of @yicha_la (who will be giving out free yuzu lemonade and stickers for the kiddos tomorrow!). I was honored to meet him as he experienced the beauty of HLP, and now he’s coming back for a special performance at Música y Poemas tomorrow. And of course, we couldn’t celebrate Highland Park without our very own @reverielove, born and raised in HLP coming home to headline! We both attended Franklin High School so having her perform is extra special to me.

These are artists who carry their communities with them, and tomorrow we’re bringing them together to celebrate the people and neighborhoods that give LA its soul.

Tomorrow is gonna be a special one, fam. I hope I see you there.

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💫 That’s a wrap on @gyopo.us 8th Annual Chuseok Benefit! 💫

Shoutout to the best photographer @angelinewoo.vision for always capturing the VIBES 📸

On Sunday, under the full harvest moon, we gathered to support GYOPO’s mission and honor singer and songwriter EJAE (@ejae_k)! 🌕 Every year, our Chuseok Benefit is a reminder of the vitality and generosity of our community. We’re so grateful to be able to define Koreanness for ourselves and for each other. Koreanness is defined by generosity, justice, and rebelliousness. Our hearts grow fuller still, and we can‘t wait to continue engaging not only with our donor community but also with everyone here who agrees that art is our humanity and enabling the creation, study, and experience of art is among the most fulfilling work we can do.

Thank you to our presenting sponsor CJ (@cjent_usa), and our generous Community Sponsors, GYOPO Partners, Patrons, Host Committee, Corporate Sponsors, and of course our dedicated Board of Directors, Steering Committee, Volunteers, and Staff who poured so much into the event. ⭐️

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Chef @realchefdeblee is the founder of Korean pub @yicha_la and Korean market and café @eatmokja in Highland Park, and she catered @gyopo.us’ 8th Annual Chuseok Benefit this year! 👩‍🍳🌕

GYOPO is a volunteer-powered nonprofit that brings together artists, creatives, and cultural producers from the Korean diaspora through free programs, exhibitions, talks, screenings, and community events in LA and beyond. Their annual Chuseok Benefit helps fund that programming and brings the community together around one of Korea’s biggest holidays.

Follow for more videos on local Korean businesses! 🇰🇷

#KoreanAmerican #KoreanChef #KoreanBusiness #KoreanCulture #KoreanFounder

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Highland Park, Northeast Los Angeles 📍

Have you been to @yicha_la yet? 👀🍽️ This local spot on Figueroa is a modern Korean gastropub led by chef-owner Debbie Lee, serving shareable Korean-inspired dishes with her own LA influence.

Some of the food highlights include Wagyu bone marrow corn cheese, Joseon-style bossam with braised pork belly, and twice-fried chicken drumsticks 🤤🔥 The concept behind Yi Cha means “second round” — that next stop of the night for good food, drinks and conversation.

Who’s tried it already? What dish would you recommend? 👇

📍 5715 N Figueroa St, Highland Park, CA 90042
🎥 Via: @the_hangry_rider

#HighlandPark #NELA #NortheastLosAngeles #HighlandParkEats #SupportLocal

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@mirate.losangeles x @yicha_la collab dinner last night was one for the books!
Thank you @alansanz_c & @realchefdeblee

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come hit up some spots with me bc genuinely that’s my specialty 🩷

Highland Park holds such a special place in my heart 🥹 I could do 8 more videos just like this and I prolly will

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It’s no secret that my love for NELA runs deep so when @dsmoke7 called to say he was coming to town you know I had to give him the Bellatini tour!

His latest single MUJERES just dropped so seems fitting that we visit some of my favorite mujeres from York to Figueroa

Featuring @yicha_la @realchefdeblee @the_artform_studio @sherryyounge @naomitocapasto @nativohlp @eunissesh @cd1losangeles @shopmivida

Stay tuned for more DSmoke in NELA soon… plus he’s gotta come back to the ranch so I can smoke him at ping pong and yes pun intended

Thanks to @mandovizion16 the video and letting us all hang with @chulita.mia for the afternoon!

@nelasbn @friendsoverfollowersla @thenewyorkblvd @happeninginhighlandpark

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Skip the cooking tomorrow! We’re open on Labor Day with plenty of grab-and-go goodies & snacks, ready to come home with you 💙

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Summer Dump (June-Sep) 🫠🌡️

#lalife #summervibes #lafood #california #lifestyle

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