Howie C.
Yelp
Tired of "waiting" at the other more well known busy Korean restaurants on Garden Grove Blvd, I ventured to Gaenali Bon Ka which is at the end of the main drag. Consistently good food and I've never waited more that 5 minutes for a table here!
They have many different dishes, like soups, mandu and rice cake soup, galbi tang, grilled fish, bossam, bokum, seafood pancake, bulgolgi, and grilled short rib and chicken.
Their panchan comes in metal tray, similar to the type of tray that you'd get in a Korean church after service lunch line. They mix it up a bit on different days but there are always five sides. Kimchi, kelp with red dipping sauces, boiled cabbage with bean paste, bean sprouts, greens, marinated radish are some of the things you might get.
Bulgolgi Dolsot - I am often here by myself so I get this stone pot rice dish. I like to mush the rice into the side of the flame hot stone bowl sides so that it can get crispy. Then after a couple minutes of sizzling, I add in the gochujang and mix the bulgolgi (marinated beef) and the veggies (carrots, mushrooms, bean sprouts, white onions, green onions, mint) with the crispy rice. The meat quality is good and the bulgolgi has good, sweet and salty flavor. It's a lot of food. Sometimes I can finish the whole bowl, other times I can't. The do a great job on this Korean standard.
The stone rice bowl also came with a side of soybean tofu soup. Steaming hot, not spicy.
Service is good and friendly, the food comes out fast. If you want satisfying Korean food without the wait, Gaenali is awesome for that! They also do to go orders and they have their own parking lot with plenty of parking at dinner time.