Jonny M.
Yelp
Met up with friends in town to try a new Korean spot, Hanbo Korean Noodle. They specialize in knife cut noodles. They're located next to Ishtar Restaurant and Seoul Korean BBQ.
We dropped in on a packed Wednesday (12:00pm). All the tables were full. Wait time was about 25 minutes with a continuous lineup of customers. Service was excellent as they came by several times to offer banchan refills.
The one page menu consists of kalguksu, mandu, appetizers and jeon. Love a small, tight menu.
- Banchan - kimchi and pickled onion/cucumber/celery. Kimchi was fantastic; fresh, crunchy and a good spice level. Pickled mix of vegetables was enjoyable, my favourite was the cucumbers.
- Mini kimbab ($4.50 for 3) - tiny but quality was good.
- Kimchi jeon ($13.90) - thin and perfectly crispy. Surprisingly, no dipping sauce but the jeon was well executed.
- Pork & kimchi mandu ($17.50) - plump, good bite to the wrapping. Filling was generous but bland.
- Beef kalguksu ($16.90) - beef broth was homey and comforting. Decent amount of beef. Good portion of noodles and for a Korean style noodle, good elasticity but I prefer it a little firmer.
- Pork bone kalguksu ($17.90) - broth tasted similar, slightly less flavourful compared to the beef broth. Pork meat was excellent.
Would happily come back to HKN for more kalguksu.