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Youngsun Lee

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    March 8, 2011

    Kimchi Taco Truck's Tofu Edamame Falafel Tacos Have Some Impressive Balls

    Rebecca Marx​ When we wrote Our 10 Best Vegetarian Street Foods round-up last week, we hadn't yet been able to make it to the Kimchi Taco Truck. But now that we have, we'd like to make its tofu edamame falafel tacos an honorary member of the canon.

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    January 18, 2011

    The Kimchi Taco Truck Will Supposedly Open This Week

    ​ Three months after we first reported that the Kimchi Taco Truck was coming, it's almost here: Per Diner's Journal, the truck will hit the streets today -- assuming, of course, that the less than ideal road conditions don't foil its plans. A collaboration between Phil Lee and Persimmon's Youn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    Posts of the Week

    Friday afternoon is here, and so is our look back on the week that was. We ranked Our 10 Best 100 Dishes to Eat Now. Jin Fong and Very Tong vie for dim sum supremacy. Pumpkin ale taste-off!

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    The Kimchi Taco Truck Is Coming, With Youngsun Lee as Its Chef

    egg/FlickrKimchi, sans taco.​"When people talk about Korean food," Phil Lee says, "it's about kimchi or Korean barbecue." In two to three weeks' time, he hopes people will be buying both at the Kimchi Taco Truck. Lee, a longtime general manager for BR Guest, is launching the truck with Youngsu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2010

    The Asian Feastival Comes to Queens This Monday

    Robert SietsemaM&T's sautéed pine nuts and corn.​If you don't have any Labor Day plans, consider yourself lucky: that means you'll have the opportunity attend the Asian Feastival, a culinary fantasia taking place in Queens.

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    August 3, 2010

    Asian Feastival Comes to Queens for Labor Day

    Robert SietsemaM&T's pepper with bean curd sheets.​Food nerds still hemming and hawing about making Labor Day plans, take note: September 6 witnesses the first "Asian Feastival," a smorgasbord of eats in Queens.

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    Persimmon's Website, Phone Are Kaput

    Has Persimmon closed? The website is down and the phone is off the hook at the seasonal, prix-fixe Korean restaurant, which won a voracious following after Momofuku alum Youngsun Lee opened it in May 2008. In his one-star review of the East Village restaurant last August, Frank Bruni wrote that it " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2008

    Fork in the Road Reviews Persimmon

    Has Persimmon closed? The website is down and the phone is off the hook at the seasonal, prix-fixe Korean restaurant, which won a voracious following after Momofuku alum Youngsun Lee opened it in May 2008. In his one-star review of the East Village restaurant last August, Frank Bruni wrote that it " ... More >>

  • Dining

    July 9, 2008

    Can't Get into Ko? You'd Like Persimmon Better Anyway

    Has Persimmon closed? The website is down and the phone is off the hook at the seasonal, prix-fixe Korean restaurant, which won a voracious following after Momofuku alum Youngsun Lee opened it in May 2008. In his one-star review of the East Village restaurant last August, Frank Bruni wrote that it " ... More >>

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