Hansang Korean Dining & Pub

Significant competition is one of the reasons Korean food tends to be good to great throughout Orange County, especially in Korean restaurant-packed cities such as Buena Park and places like The Source. Somehow, Hansang – also known as Hansang Korean Dining & Pub – is an exception to this rule, missing the mark on entree flavors despite offering reasonable portion sizes and banchan side dishes. (A neighboring sister restaurant focused on those items, The Banchan, has closed but still has outside signage up, a growing issue across both The Source and its website.)

Hansang’s menu overlaps too many of its Source neighbors to count by offering a handful of KBBQ items, naengmyun buckwheat noodles, and bibimbap rice dishes alongside a collection of soups and stews – largely soft tofu, dumpling, beef, and fish variants. The main attraction here is pricing: While some of Hansang’s neighbors are charging $30 per entree and/or requiring each person to order multiple meat servings to hit pricing minimums, Hansang’s soups and naengmyuns are in the $18 to $25 range, with bibimbaps from $18 to $33, and KBBQ from $27 to $34. Meals come with seven pretty good banchan dishes including particularly good soaked tofu and japchae, plus fine kimchi and fishcake.