Bon Ga Korean Restaurant

Favorite korean restaurant on buford. Excellent food and services. Oxtail soup and large beef hotpot are must have. So far haven’t found any other restaurants can beat those two.

Bonga is the perfect place for those late nights where you’re craving something warm and filling. I came here frequently with both small and large groups of people while I was in college to grab a late-​night meal, and they never disappointed. Bonga is best known to serve seolongtang, the ox bone broth, which is frequently mixed in with noodles/​rice/​green onions.
I believe I’ve tried every soup on the menu, along with some of their meat options + the large mixed meat/​tendon/​ox-​tail broth dish. All have been tasty and pretty standard to an average Korean comfort dish, but I think their best items are their seolongtang broth-​based dishes. You add in the amount of salt/​pepper to cater to your preferences, which is a good touch and they always serve a selection of kimchi, which is a perfect match to the hot soup.
Always a solid experience whenever I go. I recommend this place.

This is the best Sulung Tang (Korean broth tang (soup) made from ox bones (mostly leg bones), and brisket) restaurant ever!!!
So for lunch (12:00 pm), I had Sulung Tang and my mom had Hae Jang Guk (dried Napa cabbage, congealed ox blood (similar to blood pudding), and vegetables in a hearty beef broth).
Sulung Tang ($ 7.99)
Hae Jang Guk ($ 7.99)
This also came with various kimchi banchan (side dishes) and pickled
white radish and jalapeño (sliced). All the banchan today tasted really sweet!
Which was actually strange to me. I don’t like to eat sweet tasting kimchi
because it tasted like I was eating kimchi candy. yes. it was THAT sweet!
Bleh!
Other than that, the Sulung Tang was awesome! And I also tried some of my
mom’s Hae Jang Guk. it was delicious! Not too spicy, too! So don’t be afraid to try it
if you’re not into spicy soups! Also, did you know that Hae Jang Guk is also known as the «hang-​over cure soup»? Yep. so if you have a bad hang-​over, then I suggest
you come here and get this soup! Yep!
You won’t regret it! The soups are awesome here!
The waitresses are friendly and give great service. but if you come at lunch or any busy busy hours. then don’t expect them to have fast service. because sometimes, there’s only two of them working the floor!
When I came here for lunch, it was a full house! I had to wait a few minutes to be seated. but it didn’t take that long. So I was happy!
*Tip: Do not eat here during the evenings. It seems like they give you the leftover scraps at dinner time. So I would not recommend eating here during the evenings. Come when it gets super busy at lunch time!

This restaurant has delicious soups and i love all their food. My work eats their haejang gook and sullung tang to go all the time. It is good food for a good price. Everytime I eat there I have excellent service so I am surprised at Eric’s comment. If you have good taste in Korean food then you will like it here.

It’s Korean soup… and that is all. When it was in Norcross you walked in and knew you were getting: a chair, soup and a spoon. I think they’re trying to be a little more than a traditional Korean soup restaurant; they’ve added new items on the menu and moved into a newer location. Overall, it’s just okay.

It’s open till midnight on weeknights. The sul lung tang is really white and tastes pretty good and they give you a container of sea salt and pepper to season yourself. I’m not as big a fan of the white noodles that they use in it (not sure if that’s authentic or not) but I like the clear noodles better. There are a couple strips of beef in there and lots of green onions for you to season the soup yourself.
The banchan is plentiful and the service is pretty good (as long as you speak Korean). The one downside is they aren’t too sure about how to split the check. We had a group of 8 and they struggled to do so and took us almost 15 minutes to settle the bill, even when we had all the money ready. There was only one other customer in there at the time.
Oh, one other downside, they were wiping the floor of the restaurant down with Chlorox while we were in there so we got to inhale a lot of cleaning chemicals.

Note: After over one year, Unilocal finally closed the old business listing for Bön Ga Korean Restaurant in Norcross and correctly shows the business as moved to its current location in Doraville. I don’t know why it took them so long to verify the change of address, but the information is accurate now. I’ve moved my review and pictures to this listing since it’s the location I originally reviewed. I’ve also added some updates to my review since I’ve been back to the restaurant and have tried additional menu items.
A great thing about Bön Ga is it’s open late: Monday through Saturday from 7am to 2am. They’re closed Sundays.
I like this place and think it easily stands up to the more popular casual Korean restaurants on Buford Highway, such as So Kong Dong and Cho Dang Tofu House. Compared to the other places, Bön Ga is newer, nicer, cleaner, and feels more modern.
Service is fantastic. The restaurant is easily able to accommodate large groups. Food comes out in a timely fashion. The middle-​aged Korean lady servers are friendly and attentive, which isn’t always the case at Korean restaurants.
The menu is simple and the prices are affordable. There are six soups/​stews priced between $ 7.55 and $ 11.99. These soups/​stews are their specialties. They have $ 7.55 bibimbap (Korean mixed rice), which is a steal. They also have standard Korean BBQ items such as galbi (short ribs), daeji bulgogi (spicy BBQ pork), regular bulgogi (BBQ beef), and other items like the seafood pancake. BBQ is in the $ 14 – 15 range. I’ve tried the following:
Soondae — Korean blood sausage
Soondaeguk — pork soup mixed with sliced soondae (blood sausage)
Sulung Tang — rich beef bone broth with sliced beef and noodles
Dogani Tang — beef tendon soup
Ddukguk — Korean rice cake and beef bone soup
Soondae Juhpshi — Korean-​style pork sausage with rice noodles
Soondae is made out of pig intestines which are stuffed with cellophane noodles, barley, and congealed pork blood. It’s savory and delicious. One glistening order is good enough to share as an appetizer among a small group. It comes with salt and chili pepper flake seasoning and shrimp paste on the side. I think the sausage tastes just fine by itself. Its consistency is softer and more «tendony» than the typical pork sausage.
You can also have the sausage in soup form (Soondaeguk), which is one of many tasty soups here. The blood sausage soup comes with other pork parts including meat and tendon on the bone. If you’re looking for a hearty soup, I suggest the Soondaeguk. Another place that makes good Soondae is Café Todahmgol in Duluth.
The Sulung Tang is one of the restaurant’s most popular dishes. This is a simple soup. Bön Ga’s version consists of a milky white broth with slices of beef and thin, slippery (presumably rice) noodles. Sulung Tang is served bland. You season the broth yourself with the provided sea salt and scallions at the table. You can also add black pepper and whatever else you’d like, such as the banchan (Korean sides). This is traditional Korean comfort food and I think people who are not used to it could get thrown off by the lack of flavor.
The Dogani Tang and Ddukguk are more flavorful. The Dogani Tang comes with a lot of beef tendon in bite-​sized chunks. From what I was told, this is a very traditional Korean soup. The Ddukguk is one of my favorite soups here. It’s quite flavorful on its own (no additional seasoning required) and it comes loaded with several ingredients including seaweed, egg, and appetizingly chewy Korean rice cake.
Banchan (Korean side dishes) can include dishes such as spicy and pickled greens (watercress?), cucumber, radishes, and kimchi. Compared to other Korean restaurants, the banchan selection is not very good here. What is served is fresh and sufficient. This is value Korean dining after all.
Receipts print out in both English and Korean and are organized/​itemized well. It’s very clear and easy to read.
In the end, I’m a fan of Bön Ga thanks to their tasty and authentic food, inexpensive pricing, clean and casual atmosphere, and friendly and attentive service. It’s a place I’ll keep coming back to.

I have been visiting this restaurant almost once every two weeks since it was in Norcross. Despite their lack of service, they had good Korean Tang and foods. Even though their health permit was suspended by Gwinnett County routine restaurant inspections on 1÷29÷2013, I continued to eat bi-​weekly at their new place at 7130 Buford Highway, Doraville.
Yesterday, I had dinner here with 7 others. Food was second to none, but service was non-​existent. At the end, our waitress even asked me «You … don’t … tib. No tib,» and while I was trying to understand what she said. She found out we left tip in cash on the table. She didn’t even say sorry and just left with the money.
I wish I could put different ratings for food and service. My one star rating is for their service.