Hanwoori revisited (Seafood? I don’t see food)

The girls and I were craving Korean food again even though we’ve been having our share of Korean lately. Originally we were going to go to Burquitlam to go to Jong Ga, my go to Korean place at the moment, we decided to stay in Burnaby and go to Hanwoori instead. Hanwoori is located along Kingsway by a car shop. It’s a little hard to find so you might need to use a map.

Gom Tang

★

A soup with slow simmered beef and bone marrow broth with noodles and briskets. We decided to share this and it wasn’t very memorable, hence the lack of photo. They actually forgot about their order and we had to remind them a good three times before it was brought to them. Yes, it was a busy evening for them but having to ask 3x for it was unacceptable.

Haeml Pajeon

★★

This was a seafood pancake with spring onion, minced shrimp, mussels, imitation crab. I liked the one I had at Royal Seoul House better but it was enjoyable nevertheless. Grayson said that the pancake was nicely golden brown on the outside which left the exterior crispy. After a while, the pancake became quite filling.

Yukgaejang

★★

This was finely shredded beef stew with mushrooms and vegetables in a spicy beef broth. There could have been more beef in it because it wasn’t very filling but there was a good amount of heat.

Ggorigom Tang

★★

A slow simmered oxtail and bone marrow broth with noodles and brisket. They actually forgot to put the noodles into it when they gave it to us at first. Then, when we asked for the noodles, the waitress didn’t even know the dish came with noodles! They brought the noodles to us in a bowl afterwards though. With that being said, there also wasn’t very much meat in the soup.

Soontofu jijgae

★★

A tofu stew with baby clams, shrimp and pork in spicy broth. The soup came with a raw egg on the side so I could crack it in the soup on my own. Since it took so long to come, I was excited to dive right into it but I was extremely disappointed to find that my soup had barely any contents inside.

In fact, for a seafood tofu soup, there was NO seafood inside! Actually, there was so little seafood in my soup that I could literally put everything onto my spoon. Mind you this was AFTER I told them they forgot to put seafood in my soup and they took it back to actually put some in there.

The pieces of mussels were diced up and the shrimp were definitely shrimpy (pun intended). Definitely NOT impressed.

We were not very satisfied with our meal and we left unsatisfied and still wanting more food. Yes we had a bunch of food, but we weren’t exactly full because we were stuffing ourselves full with rice and soup. So we were more bloated than full if anything. We actually went to grab bubble tea after…

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