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Mcdonald's. and if it was a birthday and a special celebration, you wanted to kick it up a notch and go a little bit more special, then it was sizzler. >> anthony: this is a judgment-free zone, where there are no mistakes, a world to explore incongruous combinations without shame or guilt, free of criticism from snarkologists, because there are no snarkologists at sizzler. >> david: obviously here's all the accouterments for making a nice nacho, taco salad. and here is -- >> anthony: right. >> david: all the stuff for the -- >> anthony: pasta. >> david: pasta, spaghetti, whatever. the move is ...

>> anthony: here at sawada, step right in to some curried goat, samosas, tandoori chicken. oh, yeah, and this -- lahori fish curry, with no small amount of chilies. >> anthony: it's such fragrant, aromatic, delicious food. >> roy choi: this is really good. >> anthony: what good food are you likely to find within the confines of koreatown? >> roy choi: we have el salvadoran and guatemalan all around. koreans all throughout. pakistani and bangladesh food. yeah, oaxaca takes over all of eighth street. >> anthony: why oaxaca? just that's the way it worked out? >> roy choi: mm-hm. you know how it g...

>> anthony: a few blocks over, the iconic filipino fast food chain, jollibee's. laugh all you want, but ask any filipino. they love this drive-through mutation for specialties like this fried spam sandwich thing. but it's the desserts where it gets really crazy. >> anthony: decisions, decisions. >> roy choi: here we go. uh, we'll take one aloha burger and then one spam little big bite. >> cashier: all right. anything else? >> roy choi: uh, let's do a halo halo, and that's it. all right. >> anthony: oh, look at that. what is, what, what is that? >> roy choi: that's a halo halo. >> anthony: oh, ...

This is what we're known -- it's thinly sliced rib-eye, marbled rib-eye. >> anthony: oh, it's beautiful. roast gui. thin-sliced rib-eye. and bulgogi. thinly-sliced, fat-marbled beef, barbecued table-side. >> roy choi: for us koreans, it's kind of funny that barbecue has become the gateway to our food, though. >> anthony: hey, it could be worse, i mean -- >> roy choi: it could be worse, yeah. >> anthony: at least it's delicious. >> roy choi: it's delicious and we're like, "okay, this is the, this is the portal." we're cool with that. >> anthony: then there's kimchi bulgogi bokkeumbap. basically...

>> anthony: did cops come at all? >> roy choi: i was here all three days. i didn't see any cops. >> anthony: well, where did they set up their front line? >> roy choi: rodeo drive. >> anthony: where did the forces of law and order set up their perimeter? not here. koreatown was left to its own devices. the official borders are third street on the north end, olympic boulevard to the south, vermont avenue on the east, and western avenue to the west. that's three square miles left pretty much to burn or fend for itself. this rooftop quickly became the command post for rapidly improvised korean de...