Vivian Lau
One of the few places in Los Angeles where you can get a good meal for less than $10. Their rice balls are delicious and hot – made to order. I love the pork and the eel. I love the way they package them to go, seaweed on the side so as not to get soggy. Their rolls are good too. A great quick spot to pickup lunch or a snack.
… morePiper Lastrapes
i go here nearly every week to get a cheap lunch. a full meal is under $10, which is rare for LA! not to mention the food is genuinely delicious. a great option if you’re on the go or if you just want a quick lunch. the service is amazingly fast; i almost always get my food in 5 mins or less. there’s no dining allowed in the establishment, but there are a bunch of public tables that are a 1 minute walk away. just walk straight through the arch and past benjamin franklin. thank you gam tu bop! i hope you never close! i’m your biggest fan.
… moreDee Arellano
I travel from Orange County to Glendale for this once a month, I live for the the rice balls. Would take that hour drive every time no regrets. Food is always hot, high quality and delicious. I order the spicy pork and beef and it is always delicious, never fails. Employees are always friendly and willing to help if you have any questions. Keep in mind that parking is not available, you have to park on a busy street which to me is not a problem and it is take out only again not a problem for me.
… moreIris Curls
Wow, the rice balls are incredibly delicious! The beef one was by far my favorite one. Rich in flavor. Spicy shrimp was second best and I’d probably substitute the crab meat for a different flavor next time. 10/10
Cheap and well packaged. Loved the salted seaweed.
… moreCc
I’ve had my share of rice balls. And, this place makes them strangely! They give you a separate sheet of roasted seaweed, which is normally wrapped around the rice ball at other places. Here, you have to wrap it yourself. I didn’t like the fact that it was “fussy” to eat it, and I found the beef to be too salty! They really should improve their packaging, too, as the plastic wrap didn’t seem appropriate for hot food.
… moreKristy AKI Oshiro
Tasty affordable rice balls with generous amounts of various Japanese and Korean fillings! This place is so good it’s literally always my first stop when I drive in from Sacramento.
My favorites are spicy shrimp, beef bulgogi, unagi (eel), spicy pork and kim chee. I love that the rice balls are individually wrapped and labeled and the nori (seaweed) to wrap them in is packaged separately. I love that it’s Korean nori too.
Great for takeout, travels well, fast friendly service. To go orders only. If you can’t find parking out front there is a parking structure just around the corner that gives you free parking for the first 90 minutes.
… moreDavid Echeverria
I just got an order had to pay additional for spicy mayo and half of it is gone? Crazy
… moreTV Head
I’ve been going to Gam Tu Bop for like 6 years now and I really like them! Their food is affordable and they have a pretty good selection. Everything from beef to mushroom rice balls and I really like their shrimp rice rolls. Just be sure to double check your order to make sure you have enough seaweed wraps. Everyone I’ve taken here really likes it and I usually comes here every time I go to Glendale Galleria
… moreGina Tiffany Badie
The food was good, but what made bad was the fact that I was asked to leave because I sat down to eat my rice ball. There is no Dine In. As a 7 month pregnant woman I would have expected more. But I get it. I’m just simply not going back there.
… more龔振勝
I mean, pretty straight-forward. Stuff wrapped in rice, then all that wrapped in dried seaweed. The way they give it to you is interesting. To fit all sorts of flavor palettes, they give you not just white rice, but a choice of brown rice. Then there’s all sorts of different fillings to choose from. And Rather than simply just giving them to you all wrapped up in the dried seaweed, because the place is just designed for takeout, they know you’re going to take this elsewhere, and not necessarily know when you’re going to eat it. So to prevent the food from getting cold, or touching the rice with the moisture ruining the seaweed, they wrap the seaweed separately, and each individual portion you ordered is also wrapped. Then, it’s just a matter of taking out the seaweed, and then dumping the rice with fillings on top, and folding the seaweed to wrap the rice yourself. Voila!
Really straightforward, no fuss. I like it! The only thing is, I did ask for napkins in my order, but I should’ve asked for some before I stepped out.
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