Hanok Korean Restaurant Review #2 ON Sunday, July 7, 2013 AT 12:50 AM
My friends and I now come pretty often for their lunch specials which is such a goooooood deal. Its 8.99 for one of their main dishes and you get to pick a side dish to come with it. And they also give you refillable banchan.
I was on the other side, so here's some wall art.
Some of the main dishes:
Bibimbap (dolsot) - This is the stone bibimbap with veggies, beef and rice. And a fried egg on top. I didn't try this yet, but it looks yummy!
Bulgogi in an Earthenware Pot - I remember thinking 'earthenware' is a weird name until I saw this youtube vlog where they were in Korea, and they actually named it like that. Anyways, this is just like the galbitang where the soup is sweet (reminds me of mirin and soysauce). And they had a nice amount of beefs with the potatoe noodles.
Beef Spicy Hot Tofu Soup - I had this on another day, and maybe its just me but I didn't really like it. There weren't that many beef, but I like how there's a lot of tofu hence soondubu. But I don't know, the soup didn't taste that great to me, felt oily or maybe its my taste preference.
Here are some sides:
Korean Rolls/Gimbap - I think there was like 5 and I ate one in the photo below. I like it, I feel like you can't go wrong with gimbap! Easy to make at home too~.
Tempura - My friend got this, and it looks like a bunch of different tempura items to try. The last one (black) was mushroom I think.
Japchae - I tried this, it was sweet and the portion for a side dish was nice and good amount of ingredients in there.
This was one of their banchan on a different day that I came. I suppose they didn't have the seaweed so they replaced it with this which I really like! It had brocolli and apple with this fruity sweet sauce on top and I felt it was really refreshing and new to taste. I want more of it.
Rating
Food: 3.5/5
Atmosphere: 4/5
Service: 3.5/5 We were on the other side which has less people, but they still come back to check so its alright.
Price: 4.5/5 Yep, reallly like it *FOR LUNCH SPECIAL THOUGH*
Overall: I love coming here for their lunch specials, and even though the portions might seem small, its enough. With the refillable banchan and the side dish, its enough (lol). And I really like the brocolli side dish.
Labels: banchan, beef, bibimbap, earthenware, hanok, japchae, korean, lunch special, tempura, tofu
Hanok Korean Restaurant ON Sunday, March 31, 2013 AT 5:56 PM
Helllooo, its sushicat here. I went to some food places in the last few days but I haven't been blogging about it (LOL, already given up on this?).
So, firstly on Tuesday - March 26, I went with a friend to Hanok Korean Restaurant. From the outside, it looked small but there were more rooms than I expected upon entering. It has a traditional setting with wooden furniture and walls. We went around 4pm so there wasn't the lunch special that I've been hearing about, but oh well.
Of course, we are greeted with the usual banchan but particularly with sweet potatoes, bean sprouts, kimchi and the seaweed. For some reason, I really like these white plates they were served in. And they are refillable.
Without the lunch special, the items were pricey with individual meals such as the bibimbap, the soups, or the noodles at ~$13. I was pretty sure the bibimbap would taste good, so I wanted to try something different and got the Flying Fish Roe with Vegetables, Rice. As presented here, it looks really colorful and I especially love how they added bonito flakes on top.
After I stirred it all up, the different flavors between the fish roe and the vegetables created a nice flavor that I enjoyed. Some of the vegetables were sweet and there was the sour radish or pickle?
My friend ordered the Kimchi Stew Pot. It was a bit bigger than we had thought which was cool and it had the usual vermicelli noodles inside, the kimchi vegetables, the enoki mushrooms, etc. However, my friend and I both agreed that it wasn't as spicy as we would have liked it or maybe there was a lack of spiciness in it (perhaps we could've asked for it to be more spicy?). It came with a bowl of rice too, but overall it was still filling.
When the bill arrived, they gave us these oranges as a treat. I wonder how they had cut it, you can't see it but underneath the oranges, the peels were kind of in a spiral (LOL and who has time to do that). Anyways, it was a nice touch and I love the plate too~!
Rating
Food: 4/5
Atmosphere: 5/5
Service: 5/5 - BUT, there was only one other table around and there was only one waiter so I suppose the service was more attentive than usual.
Price: 3/5
Overall: I want to come back for the lunch special ~! Otherwise it is pricey (for me at least) but the food was good.
Labels: banchan, fish roe, hanok, kimchi, korean, rice, spicy
