Hanmaru

I love the pork belly with beef ramen soup. It is delicious!!! Please try. They come with shrimp tempura, vegetables and other toppings of your choice. They also hot pot here but it comes with their ingredients. It is all about the soup here.

Terrible restaurant. Service was slow, soup utensils were not clean. Got the soup for 2 and it ended up burning the potatoes and making the whole thing taste bad. Other food there is pretty mediocre compared to other locations. Had a pretty bad restaurant experience.
To top it off my fiancé left her card on accident and when she called to ask if they could hold it for a couple hours until we could drive back that way, they said no. They would be too busy which makes absolutely no sense. It’s just handing a credit card over. So surprised at the horrendous way they treat customers here. Will never return and recommend that you don’t frequent a business that treats its customers with such disrespect.

Good spot for Gamjatang or pork neck stew. Came here with a bunch of friends after snowboarding and we were starving. We shared a Gamjatang. It is the perfect food for a cold snowy night in Boston. The broth was rich but a bit too salty and the meat was fall of the bone tender. It was delicious nonetheless. The banchan was whatever but their kimchi pancake was really good. What disappointed me was the portion. For the price we paid, I expected a lot more food. Service could be better too.

Love love love!!! Always wanted to try this place out. It was my first time here! The service was ok, the food came out pretty fast. I loveeeeeeeeee the soft tofu «hot pot» that I ordered. It was huge considering the price. My friend and I were able to finish it though because we were really hungry! It’s def a hot pot for 4 – 6 people if you want to try out other food as well. WILL DEFINITELY COME BACK

The Gamjatang is a MUST try if you like spicy stews. Went with my boyfriend (who generally eats a lot) around 4pm on Saturday. The place was almost filled with only 2 empty tables. We ordered the Gamjtang for two ($ 29) with an extra egg. We asked for a little less spicy than usual. The broth was sooooo flavorful and the pork bones had lots of very tender meat on them. I also really liked the potato and the soft tofu in soup. The portion is very generous that we couldn’t even finish it. We asked to box the remaining soup and meat and think that it would be a perfect spicy ramen broth to use at home!
The complimentary side dishes are really good too. I especially liked the mashed potato salad. It was so creamy and melts in your mouth. We finished it so quickly and asked for one more!
Parking is free and easy across the street (make sure you park at the public parking lot, not the lot for the liquor store — you could be towed).
We will be back soon!

I’ve ordered gamajatang with a group of friends and it was really delicious. It had some nice spice to it. We also ordered jokbol bokum which was also good. Both dishes are definitely shareable.

Like this place, must try their hot pot.
There is a free public parking on the other side of the road. Too many resturants there so u better be there earlier.

The pork here is good, and the Korean dishes here are worthy to try. However, the service is fair, and the environment is kind of noisy and dirty (once I went there, the table was sticky)

Great and unique cuisine of Korean food! Not like the normal Korean restaurant, the hot pot is the best recommendation! I have been here several times and marked it as my favorite one. But, there is a negative point that if you and your partners come here, you won’t be served unless your partners all come into this restaurant.

If you find yourself eating here, order the house special — gamjatang (spicy pork bone soup). On a cold night, it’s just what the doctor ordered.
The pork pieces are generous and portions do quite well to subdue a party of two.
Broth is decent, probably leaning on the spicier side.
Veggies, hard tofu, and assorted banchan are complimentary. I ordered soft tofu and enoki mushrooms as auxiliary sides.

This place is not Korean.
Soup is very bland
Kimchi pancake is very bad
I would not want to come here again I am very upset

Tried their Indonesian fried rice and bento box (spicy beef).
They were both solid.
I will try other places nearby before going back here.

The steamed pork feet is a must order!!! So tender and chewy! It tastes better than the other spicy stir fried pork feet I think.
The complimentary side dishes was just below average compared to other Korean restaurants in Allston.
As for the pork bone soup, don’t get the one person order, it’s super tiny and there is only one pork bone, one chunk of potato and several pieces of tofu. And you can’t add mushroom or vegs.
I am only giving three star is because of the side dishes. Hope they can serve better side dishes tho I know it’s complimentaryz

Okay, so it’s kind of like hotpot. But kind of not. So we decided to opt out from the pork bones, which from past experience, wasn’t so great. Now had we eaten what we ordered, with thaaat broth, it may have been a different story. We got the bulgogi soup, the one in what looks like a hotpot pot. We got the broth spicy. And we had good service. My stomach for some reason didn’t mix well afterwards, and I wasn’t the only one. Maybe we should have cooked it longer. Who knows. Regardless, it’s good winter food. And we will possibly be back.

Went here around 8:30 on a Friday night and there was no line at all. I got the ramen with shrimp tempura and beef bone broth (mild spice level), and we shared the kanpungki sweet and sour chicken dish. I like the ramen noodles a lot — thin with good texture and there was plenty of it — though I think there definitely could have been more toppings since it only came with one piece of shrimp, a couple pieces of seaweed, and a small portion of bean sprouts. The broth was pretty good with a slight kick but also pretty salty and I couldn’t drink any of it on its own towards the end. My friend got the soy sauce broth with a «spicy» spice level and it was way hot to the point that she couldn’t eat any of the ramen and had to ask for another bowl of broth, so it’s probably good to stick with a lower spice level. The sweet and sour chicken isn’t spicy at all and tastes pretty much as you would expect, although the chicken is very crispy and fried well.

I have no idea why I’m craving gamjatang right now. It is 81 degrees, so I don’t know if I just hate myself or if I like to torture myself.
Anyways, gamjatang is THE perfect stew for a chilly winter evening, especially in Boston.
My three friends and I shared the Combo B, which is meant for two-​three people, but we felt that it was more than enough for the four of us. We added more soft tofu and some more vegetables, and I just couldn’t wait to dig into the soup. Like, I was literally trying to stop myself from eating cold tofu. Luckily, they had a nice assortment of ban chan, so we were able to amuse ourselves with those while we waited for our stew to boil.
My friend also ordered the spicy ramen, and it was surprisingly good! Definitely not better than the gamjatang, but hey, not bad!

One of the best Korean restaurant in Boston. Not too many choices, but what they have are all authentic!

The first time I came here, I was an Allston n00b, and basically thought we were going for generic Americanized Chinese food, so I’m not really going to rate it on that, although it was an ok experience.
I went again this week with some friends to celebrate a long awaited end of the semester, and now that I have a little more foodie experience under my belt, I can give a more adequate review. First of all, note to self– Korean Garden is the one with beer and wine on the menu, so we were a little disappointed that our night of drinks and noodles turned into just noodles, but the noodles were good!
Everything was decent, but not amazing. Even though they say they don’t seat incomplete parties, they did seat us when we were waiting for one person since we had a wheelchair and scooter and there was really no room for us to just «hang out»
We ordered the seafood pancake as an appetizer which was perfect for 4 people to share, and the dipping sauce had a lot of flavor (without it was sort of bland)
I had the cold ramen, my friends had the hot ramen with beef and the boyfriend had the Nabeyaki Udon. Everything was good and the noodles were the perfect consistency.
the only thing that was sort of disappointing, was the banchan (or lack thereof). I don’t get what everyone is saying about how it’s so good. We had two small plates of kimchi and broccoli with some sauce. Last time I went we got at least four, and there were only three of us. I don’t know if it was because it was the end of the night (it was only like 8:30) or we were put on the naughty list because we needed to be seated with an incomplete party. Either way, it was sort of underwhelming.
I think we’ll be trying some of the other Korean places in Allston before coming back here.

Omg. The gamjatang *faint*. It’s good. Like seriously good. They’re famous for their spicy pork bone soup here and for good reason!!! Try this place if you’re a Korean foodie fanatic and want some amazing stew.
The location itself is small and average looking but the servers here are great. They’re really nice and even help you pack up your soups to go. Fast service too.
I tried the dukbokki and that was ok too. Not the best I’ve tasted but it’s pretty decent. Is probably rate it a solid 7.5÷8 out of 10. Their rice cakes are perfectly soft and chewy unlike many other places who undercook their rice cakes. And it’s SPICAYYY. Just the way I like it ^^
Banchan was just ok. Five star rating for gamjatang!!!

Seafood pancake was ok. It was a bit doughy and not crispy enough for my tastes. Give it a good coat with the sauce to improve flavor.
The good part was actually the Hanmaru Ramen with tonkasu. The pork belly was delicious and flavorful. It was juicy and was cooked well. The soup itself was not truly Japanese as I can taste a very strong Korean soup base in it, which is fine since the soup was excellent. It had a spiciness to it which wasn’t too overwhelming. The noodle was the kind I like in ramen which was curly with medium thickness and cooked to the right semi al dente style.
Also had the Omelette fried rice which was good. The egg enveloping the rice was nice and hot. The ketchup gave the right balance and obviously and very well like Japanese style dish. The fried rice inside was well flavored although I think they could make it a bit drier as fried rice goes.
The service was fast and waitress attentive and courteous. Overall, great experience and will definitely go back to try the gamja tang everyone raves about there.