Hankang Korean Restaurant

The boys and I were craving some good, affordable Korean food for lunch. Our friendly server quickly took our orders (my son and I ordered the BBQ beef ribs (LA kalbi) lunch special for $ 12.40; hubby had the pork bulgogi) and promptly brought our miso soups to the table. This was followed by a huge plate of kalbi, rice, vegetarian spring rolls, romaine lettuce, pickled daikon and carrots, and garlic (glass) potatoes. The BBQ sauce on the kalbi was a bit too sweet for my liking, but at least the ribs weren’t drowning in the sauce — they were tender and grilled perfectly.
Hubby and I didn’t care for the sweet yogurt drink served at the end of the meal, so our son inhaled all three yogurt drinks in a few gulps.
We will certainly return to try the other items on the menu (hot pots, seafood pancake, glass noodles, rice cakes).

This place is tucked away in a strip mall behind another strip mall, so it has zero visibility from the street. My family and I tried the lunch specials: my wife and son each ordered the BBQ short ribs and I had the pork bulgogi. The meal is served with rice, salad, and a miso-​style soup. Portion sizes were generous, and more importantly, the food was tasty and served at the right temperature. Included was a small yogurt drink, but it was so sickly sweet I couldn’t finish it. The service was warm and friendly.

Nice mom and pop shop with great authentic Korean. Would recommend!

Love this place! Their korean food is excellent. We live nearby so every time we get lazy and don’t want to cook, we would come to hankang for their dol sot bul go gi. So delicious and reasonably priced! Highly recommended to korean food lovers. What I love about their bulgogi is that the rice is nicely browned and crispy in the stone bowl and the veggies and meat are nicely flavoured. Their side dishes are great too! Service is always excellent and we never have to wait for our table. ⁵⁄₅ for sure!

This is a nice little place in NW great location near Northland mall.
Food was good over all. Great service, the servers are really attentive to your needs.

Only Korean restaurant i’ve been too in Calgary and in my opinion, I have no desire to even try any other place! The service is excellent and the food is absolutely delicious. Always come here at lunch to pick up meals for everyone at work and the owner/​waitress is always so kind and she always remembers me now and even my orders.
Great restaurant, great food & great service. 5 Stars for SURE!

Great food, nice people, and nice atmosphere.
I can’t get enough of the lunch specials, they are amazing. The service is fast. The people are nice. And the restaurant doesn’t feel cramped like many other Korean places.

Nothing gd at all …

I enjoyed my lunch combo. Was tasty.
Seems like they cater a lot to the students across the street.
Large portions.

I’ve been to Hankang a few times and its usually been quite good but the past few visits I’ve been very disappointed. The food is just painfully bland. The sides and mains are all just tasteless, even the supposed spicy ones.
Time to find a new place for my be bibimbap and japchea.

I don’t remember the last time that I had eaten Korean food. This could very well have been the first. Hankang is tucked into a strip mall out of sight from the main road. You’d either have to know about this place or be actively looking for Korean restaurants to find this gem. Having never visited before I asked the server what I should order. They pointed out a small lunch menu with beef, pork or chicken dishes for $ 10. I ordered the beef.
The meal came with a miso soup (Japanese?), rice, two lightly fried spring rolls, garlic potatoes, small salad and some sprouts. The beef portion was more than adequate. It was around 1PM and I hadn’t eaten all day yet this meal was more than enough to satisfy my hunger. The flavors were fantastic. I especially like the BBQ beef.
After reading some of the reviews on Unilocal afterwards I’ve come to realize that the remaining menu leaves a lot for me to explore. I’m looking forward to returning and trying some of the Korean hot pot.

In my humble opinion, I think that Hankang is the best Korean place in Calgary, I haven’t seen much but I’ve been to other places and they just don’t add up. Hankang is a small restaurant located across from Sir Winston Churchill High School. Its definitley a hidden gem. you wouldn’t notice the place until someone pointed it out but when you discover this place you just want to keep going back!
Whenever I go, I get the Shortribs. SOOO TASTY! The combo comes with a small miso soup to start, shortribs on a hot plate, and about 5 sides. marinated bean sprouts, potatoes, zuchinni, kimchi and their seasonal vegetable along with rice! The shortribs are tasty and hot, marinated well and all the sides are great. My favorite side is the garlic potatoes! They’re nice and crispy, covered in garlic sauce and they’re AMAZING. I usually get a container of potatoes to bring home for a snack. The shortrib combo is about 17 – 18 dollars and can feed two!
And the best thing? They have a lunch special from Monday to Friday from 11:30am to 2:30pm. The lunch special has a selection of shortribs, chicken or pork. Each plate comes with a generous amount of selected meat, rice, salad, potatoes, bean sprouts and two spring rolls… ALL on the one plate! May seem a little squishy… and it is! But the plate clears fast! :) The lunch special is a whopping ~$ 10!
Definitley worth it!

Love Hankang. I’ve been coming here for lunch for a couple of years now and have never been disappointed. The chicken and beef lunch special are very reasonably priced and always excellent. Both are approximately 10 $ each and come with potatoes, salad, a couple of spring rolls, as well as a starter soup. I highly recommend the chicken lunch special!
Atmosphere– not exactly cutting edge but very friendly and polite.

The work-​lunch escape is an important concept — you want to get away from your office/​cube/​job-​site, you want good food, you don’t want to be concerned about time, you want good food, you don’t want to spend the entire day’s earnings, and the food should be good. Lunch at Hankang fits my bill.
First thing’s first — I’m reviewing the lunch specials. I’m assuming that the dinner items are as good at they sound from perusing the options during my lunch-​hour, but this is a lunch special review.
$ 12 gets you a varied, and amazing plate of food. Choose from beef spare ribs, chicken bulgogi or pork bulgogi — all flavours I crave beforehand, and debate between while ordering. Each main is complimented with a starter miso, and a number of sides that trigger all the basic flavours: sweet, spice, sour and savoury. Lunch at Hankang fills me up, but with enough veg and variety to keep me awake upon returning to my office. And the staff are wonderful, even after I managed to break their toothpick dispenser, spilling the contents over my table.
The biggest issue I have with a work-​lunch escape at Hankang is going back to work.

Food: ⁴⁄₅
Atmosphere: ⁴⁄₅
Service: ⁴⁄₅
Overall experience: 3.5÷5
(1– Terrible; 3– decent; 5– Fantastic)
Overall, check this place out since this is one of the best Korean places in Calgary for authentic Korean food.
Hankang is one of the best Korean places in Calgary to go for authentic Korean food; owned by Koreans. I suggest you check this place out if you are craving Korean and in the area (it’s right across from Sir Winston Churchill High School). I only gave it an ‘overall experience’ a 3.5 because among my favourite Korean restaurants in Calgary this one is kind of on the bottom and will only pay another visit if I’m in the area. However, it’s still a great place for terrific food.
I stumbled upon this place after my bf was craving Korean and I happened to have a discount card to Hankang. Most items on the menu come with (miso) soup, rice, and side dishes (kimchi, garlic potatos — my fav, zucchini, bean sprouts and sometimes deep fried tofu). If you want more, you have to pay an extra $ 2 which is one thing I don’t like about this Korean restaurant.
Tried the Beef Jeon Gol hot pot stew for two ($ 29.95) which is a Korean style beef soup with mushrooms and vegetables. As I mentioned in one of my other reviews, I don’t really like Korean hotpot as much as Chinese because it already comes prepared and you just have to turn on the burner and wait. It’s also not worth the money. Thus, if you do come here I highly suggest you try their meat BBQ. The last couple of times my bf and I came here, we almost always got the BBQ beef because it’s super flavourful (one of the best places to have it at) and the portion was enough to feed both of us. I suggest you try their beef bulgogi ($ 15.95), or if you like spicy their Jeyuk Bokum ($ 16.95 spicy marinated pork with vegetables), or Osam Bulgogi ($ 17.95 spicy marinated side pork and squid with vegetables). They are all equally tasty! The meat comes out sizzling on a hot plate and the aroma gets your taste buds going. Our meal ended with a cool lychee served in its juices which is refreshing and cleansing to the palate.
Just to mention, you can also do your own BBQing here, but might end up smelling like it since there is no ventilation. Either way, the restaurant will have an amazing aroma!
If you’re looking to pair the BBQ meat with something, then try the Chap Chae which is seasoned glass noodles with beef, mushroom and assorted vegetables (Sm-​$ 10.95; Lg-​$ 13.95). You can’t go wrong with Korean glass noodles especially if you’re looking for something non-​spicy. It’s been very good at almost all the Korean restaurants I’ve been to.
HanKang also offers lunch specials which I got the chance to try with a couple friends after class. Their lunch specials ($ 9.53) consists of a choice between short beef ribs or chicken bulgogi with steamed rice, two pieces of spring rolls, a salad and soup. I got the chicken bulgogi lunch special which had a good portion of meat but the chicken bulgogi was was kind of disappointing because it was under seasoned. Don’t let this tiny detail deter you from the rest of the BBQ meat though! Overall, it’s an OK deal and I was definitely full by the end. However, I still consider Sura Korean Restaurant’s lunch special top notch and well worth the money (see my other review).
The atmosphere is really nice, kind of old fashioned/​traditional but still warm and inviting. The owner is always there and he is a really nice and friendly person. Although he and some of the servers don’t speak a lot of English, the service is still good. Since the restaurant is small, a quick glance around the room by the servers is just needed to make sure your cups are topped off or if you need anything else. It’s a tad bit more expensive (maybe a dollar or two more) than some other places but the food and environment makes up for it.

Real Korean food in the NW! I’ve always wanted to try this restaurant and finally had a chance this evening. Restaurant is actually a little tough to find, opposite Winston Churchill High School on 52 Ave NW, behind Yamato Japanese Restaurant.
The dishes we ordered were:
— Appetizer: Seafood pancake — Delicious fluffy & spongy omelette with fresh seafood like squid and shrimp, green onions and comes with a vinegar dipping sauce. The «spongy» part is like a tapioca-​flour mixed with the egg.
— Note — all entrees come with side dishes — KimChee, Garlic Potatoes, Zucchini, Bean Sprouts and Tofu. If you ask for more, it will cost you $ 2 each. Also, a bowl of miso soup was served to each person.
— 2 orders of Bulgogi — Marinated beef in a sweet sauce, with some onion on a hot plate — comes with a bowl of rice
— Wanted to order the OxTail Soup but it was not available — opted for Bulgogi instead.
— 2 orders of Hot Stone Rice or the proper name is Dolsot Bibimbap — Hot Stone Bowl with rice, vegetables, black fungus, seaweed and a dousing of hot bean paste. Mix it all up with your silver spoon.
— Dessert — little pineapple-​stuffed rambutans (like lychees); eat with toothpicks provided.
Ambience of the restaurant: Small family-​style restaurant. Furniture possibly needs an update. Needs more ventilation ‘cos there’s Korean BBQ and Hot Pot.
Price: about $ 15/​person for dinner
There is also lunch specials at this restaurant for $ 9.53 — beef or chicken, steamed rice, 2 spring rolls & soup. Will try this out next time.