Lukshon chicken pops
Sang Yoon has been feeding Westside hipsters burgers and sweet potato fries at Father’s Office for years, but now he’s opened Lukshon, an upscale, minimalistically slick Asian eatery in the Helms Bakery District, where devotees devour dishes including chicken pops spiced with Sichuan salt and garlic, and tongue-tingling dan dan noodles with Kurobuta pork, sesame, mustard greens, peppercorns and peanuts. We’d begin our meal with the creamy foie gras ganache with carob, cinnamon, puffed rice and tamarind gastrique. Actually, we’d start with a sip from the intriguing (and heavily Central European) wine list Eduardo Porto Carreiro manages, or the Fujian Cure cocktail with Isle of Skye Scotch whisky, lemon, galangal and lapsang souchong black tea—preferably on the front patio. 3239 Helms Ave., Culver City
