Celebrity chef Bobby Flay at a live cooking demonstraton. - Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images For all but the most experienced or merely cavalier among us, octopus can be pretty tricky to make at home.

Thrill-seekers head to this longtime Western Avenue strip mall joint for wriggling pieces of live octopus (though you’ll need to reserve in advance), but the real everyday draws here include ...

The first thing you probably should know about chef Ji Kang is that once he ate squiggling octopus tentacles in Korea. That’s hard-core dedication to local cuisine, even though he swears he’ll never ...