Red Duck

From the first moment Red Duck opened to serve Korean-Chinese street foods, we were fascinated by the menu. We arrived at a Fullerton plaza to find a small industrial space that had previously hosted chain restaurants (including Daphne’s), now simply but nicely decorated with Chinese and Korean pop art posters.

The choices included one of the most unusual items we’ve ever tried – fried milk, served as small tablet-shaped blocks of reduced-down condensed milk with batter on the outside, and about as tasty as one might imagine from that description. Other dishes varied from good (sweet and sour pork spare ribs) to oddly compelling (green tea buckwheat cold noodles) to fine (bulgogi mushroom buns, garlic green beats, honey garlic cucumber salad). Red Duck also served Korean rice cakes, fried rice, and lettuce wraps, though not much else.