How To Have The Best Sunday In L.a., According To Randall Park

When it comes to exploring Los Angeles, location are 3 things that character and comedian Randall Park loves to do: shop, eat and run. Park, a autochthonal Angeleno, grew up connected nan Westside, attended UCLA, chose a profession present and can’t ideate surviving anyplace else.

“I see myself a mini municipality personification who happened to beryllium calved successful nan large city,” Park says. “I’ve traveled a batch for work, and person gotten a greater appreciation for L.A. There’s a small portion of everyplace here. There’s truthful overmuch bully nutrient successful L.A., truthful galore nosy things to do and really awesome group here.”

In Sunday Funday, L.A. group springiness america a play-by-play of their perfect Sunday astir town. Find ideas and inspiration connected wherever to go, what to eat and really to bask life connected nan weekends.

The boy of Korean immigrants, Park grew up successful nan South Robertson area, “a portion of L.A. that was highly diverse,” he says. “My friends, increasing up and to this day, are each different backgrounds, races and religions. We were for illustration a bunch of punk kids moving astir nan city.”

Park is known for his roles arsenic Agent Jimmy Woo successful nan Marvel Cinematic Universe, FBI Special Agent Edwin Park successful nan Netflix bid “The Residence” and Taiwanese American patriarch Louis Huang successful nan ABC sitcom “Fresh Off nan Boat.”

Recently, Park, his woman (actor Jae Suh Park) and their 13-year-old girl Ruby near Studio City, wherever they had lived for 15 years, to move backmost to nan Westside. When asked what his perfect Sunday would include, Park’s reply was jam-packed. It was truthful jam-packed that it would beryllium intolerable to fresh it each successful 1 day. So, return his schedule pinch a atom of salt. This is his magical Sunday wherever clip bends, L.A. postulation doesn’t beryllium and bellies are ne'er excessively full.

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9 a.m.: Go for a tally earlier a time of delicious eats

I’d slumber in, past spell for a tally to nan formation and tally astir Venice. Sometimes my daughter’s up earlier. She’s connected nan autism spectrum, and really loves creation and making stuff. We person a small creation room that’s dedicated to her. She’s ever painting, drawing, making small sculptures, conscionable ever creating.

10 a.m.: Breakfast and past pastries

Rae’s successful Santa Monica is simply a very old-school diner, and we really emotion it there. They do these biscuits and gravy that are really good. They’re astir apt not that bully for you, but I conscionable ran, truthful it’s OK. There’s besides a awesome bakery-cafe that we for illustration to spell to called Röckenwagner. So meal astatine Rae’s, past a java and pastry astatine Röckenwagner. We’ll beryllium eating each day, which is why I ran successful nan morning.

11 a.m.: Stroll nan farmers’ market

Next, we’d deed up nan farmers’ marketplace successful Mar Vista. We’ll get fruits and vegetables for later successful nan week. There’s a hummus guidelines that I really love. There’s ever a set playing, truthful we conscionable soak it each in. It’s a really bully walk.

Noon: Shopping, pinch much eating on nan way

Then I’d spell shopping, and would either resistance my family pinch me, aliases I’d spell unsocial while they did their thing. First, there’s a mini shop called General Quarters connected La Brea. I cognize nan proprietor there, Blair Lucio, and they ever transportation nan coolest stuff. They specialize successful California heritage-style clothing for men. Another shop I emotion is Sid Mashburn successful nan Brentwood Country Mart. They do suits and really cool menswear. I discovered it successful Atlanta erstwhile I was moving connected a occupation and loved it truthful overmuch that each clip I’d beryllium successful Atlanta, I’d spell to it. Then I discovered they had 1 successful L.A.

Or, I’d spell to Sawtelle Boulevard. That full thoroughfare is nosy pinch truthful galore awesome stores. The Giant Robot shop location has a batch of popular culture, Japanese and Asian popular culture, a batch of art, schematic novels. There’s besides a awesome grounds shop called We Share Records. It’s mostly vinyl and a batch of it is from Japan. They’ll moreover person American artists, but nan Japanese editions of their records, truthful it’s really cool to spot nan Japanese versions of a Whitney Houston album. The past point I bought location was a Hall & Oates grounds from Japan.

For lunch, I’ve been really into a spot called Sun Nong Dan connected Sawtelle. They person a fewer locations, but nan newer 1 successful Sawtelle is nan only 1 that I spell to since I’m connected nan Westside. I usually get either nan Galbi-tang, which is simply a short rib soup, aliases nan Tta Roh Guk Bap, which is simply a brisket and dried cabbage soup, aliases nan Dduk Mandu Guk, which is simply a atom barroom and dumpling soup. Very overmuch Korean comfortableness food. Plus, they’re unfastened 24 hours, which sometimes comes successful handy.

If not there, I’d spell to El Tepeyac Cafe successful Boyle Heights, which is 1 of my all-time favorites arsenic a kid that my dada would return maine to. It’s very homestyle Mexican food, and I would get their Hollenbeck burrito, which is beautiful epic.

6 p.m.: Baseball aliases meal out

If there’s a Dodgers game, I’d spell to nan game. Growing up successful L.A., there’s a batch of nostalgia pinch nan Dodgers for me. I’ve ever been a fan. My woman and I will spell to nan games and eat Dodger Dogs and nachos.

If not, we’d spell to Musso & Frank Grill to get a shrimp cocktail and steak dinner. It’s very Old Hollywood, and you tin consciousness nan history successful there. A batch of nan leather booths person a story. I emotion erstwhile L.A. preserves its landmarks. Getting a consciousness of nan history of nan metropolis done these restaurants is really fun.

For thing much low-key, there’s this edifice successful Koreatown called Kobawoo House. They specialize successful bosam, which are wraps pinch [fillings like] pork. They besides specialize successful Korean seafood pancakes that are truthful good.

If we’re going to spell fancy, which we don’t often do, there’s a edifice called Kato astatine nan Row, adjacent downtown. It’s a Michelin-starred Taiwanese omakase-style edifice that’s truthful good. You don’t order. They conscionable springiness you courses, and you tin brace it pinch vino aliases conscionable bid cocktails. I usually conscionable bid an Old Fashioned, which is really bully there. The nutrient is conscionable retired of this world.

8 p.m.: A small nighttime jazz

After dinner, we’d thrust down to South Pasadena wherever there’s a barroom and grill called the Barkley. My puerility friend Richie Glaser has a jazz set [the Richard Glaser Quartet] and they play astatine nan Barkley each Sunday night. We’d get a cocktail, perceive to nan set and bent out.

9:30 p.m.: Winding down for bedtime

We’d travel home, relax and watch TV, astir apt aged episodes of “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” My girl would spell to furniture earlier us, and would beryllium dormant earlier we officially spell to sleep. The extremity of nan time is very low-key and quiet. Every Sunday is different, but my perfect Sunday would beryllium 1 of food, family, friends and frolicking passim nan city.