How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Randall Park

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

“I see myself a tiny municipality idiosyncratic who happened to beryllium calved successful the 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 amusive things to bash and truly large radical here.”

In Sunday Funday, L.A. radical springiness america a play-by-play of their perfect Sunday astir town. Find ideas and inspiration connected wherever to go, what to devour and however to bask beingness connected the weekends.

The lad of Korean immigrants, Park grew up successful the South Robertson area, “a portion of L.A. that was highly diverse,” helium says. “My friends, increasing up and to this day, are each antithetic backgrounds, races and religions. We were similar a clump of punk kids moving astir the city.”

Park is known for his roles arsenic Agent Jimmy Woo successful the Marvel Cinematic Universe, FBI Special Agent Edwin Park successful the Netflix bid “The Residence” and Taiwanese American patriarch Louis Huang successful the ABC sitcom “Fresh Off the 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 determination backmost to the 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 acceptable it each successful 1 day. So, instrumentality his docket with 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.

This interrogation has been lightly edited for magnitude and clarity.

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

I’d slumber in, past spell for a tally to the formation and tally astir Venice. Sometimes my daughter’s up earlier. She’s connected the autism spectrum, and truly loves creation and making stuff. We person a small creation country 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 precise old-school diner, and we truly emotion it there. They bash these biscuits and gravy that are truly good. They’re astir apt not that bully for you, but I conscionable ran, truthful it’s OK. There’s besides a large bakery-cafe that we similar 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 wherefore I ran successful the morning.

11 a.m.: Stroll the farmers’ market

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

Noon: Shopping, with much eating on the way

Then I’d spell shopping, and would either resistance my household with me, oregon I’d spell unsocial portion they did their thing. First, there’s a tiny store called General Quarters connected La Brea. I cognize the proprietor there, Blair Lucio, and they ever transportation the coolest stuff. They specialize successful California heritage-style covering for men. Another store I emotion is Sid Mashburn successful the Brentwood Country Mart. They bash suits and truly chill 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 amusive with truthful galore large stores. The Giant Robot store determination has a batch of popular culture, Japanese and Asian popular culture, a batch of art, graphic novels. There’s besides a large grounds store called We Share Records. It’s mostly vinyl and a batch of it is from Japan. They’ll adjacent person American artists, but the Japanese editions of their records, truthful it’s truly chill to spot the Japanese versions of a Whitney Houston album. The past happening I bought determination was a Hall & Oates grounds from Japan.

For lunch, I’ve been truly into a spot called Sun Nong Dan connected Sawtelle. They person a fewer locations, but the newer 1 successful Sawtelle is the lone 1 that I spell to since I’m connected the Westside. I usually get either the Galbi-tang, which is simply a abbreviated rib soup, oregon the Tta Roh Guk Bap, which is simply a brisket and dried cabbage soup, oregon the 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 instrumentality maine to. It’s precise homestyle Mexican food, and I would get their Hollenbeck burrito, which is beauteous epic.

6 p.m.: Baseball oregon meal out

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

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

For thing much low-key, there’s this edifice successful Koreatown called Kobawoo House. They specialize successful bosam, which are wraps with [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 the 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 with vino oregon conscionable bid cocktails. I usually conscionable bid an Old Fashioned, which is truly 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 person Richie Glaser has a jazz set [the Richard Glaser Quartet] and they play astatine the Barkley each Sunday night. We’d get a cocktail, perceive to the set and bent out.

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

We’d travel home, unbend and ticker 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 the time is precise low-key and quiet. Every Sunday is different, but my perfect Sunday would beryllium 1 of food, family, friends and frolicking passim the city.