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<figure class="wp-block-image alignnone"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oggie/7152464713/"><img alt="Yu Fu In's 25 spices Kimchi" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7063/7152464713_aef3b1e56f_b.jpg"></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Yu Fu In's 25 spices Kimchi</figcaption></figure> A Koreantown in Angeles City? We're probably too used to the concept of Chinatown that this idea seemed like a novel concept. Driving along the stretch of Friendship Highway, we passed a strip of establishments sporting signages in Korean with no English translations. Which ones are restaurants, it's hard to tell. But for a taste of kimchi (the best one here for miles, so says our guide-friend, Tin, from the Angeles City tourism office), we bypassed Koreantown and headed to Balibago for Yu Fu In. The restaurant is located in a sizable structure located across the town park. We later learned that it is in fact, the largest freestanding Japanese restaurant in the Philippines with a dining area spread across three stories -- the main dining area on the ground floor, a Yakiniku area complete with the requisite stove and exhaust fan on every table on the second, and an open-air area on the third. It's a strange curiosity to find kimchi in a Japanese restaurant but as we taste the food, we find there's more to like there.