Koreatown’s Hangari Kalguksu dishes up hearty, hand-cut noodle soups and massive bossam platters in a bustling spot perfect for cozy, crowd-pleasing Korean comfort food.
"Hangari Kalguksu, a Koreatown stalwart known for its kinetically packed pork bossam and jowl platters and namesake hand-cut noodles, also slings a mean chicken jook (Korean rice porridge). The behemoth bowl is filled with a fall-apart-at-the-spoon half chicken, chopped zucchini, dried ruby-hued dates, and green onion. A swirl of sesame oil and smattering of sesame seeds finish the porridge and give it another layer of complex earthen flavor. This is comfort at its healing peak — and a dish whose leftovers hold well the next day to meet a runny egg for breakfast." - Cathy Chaplin, Eater Staff
"A Koreatown favorite for pork bossam, hand-cut noodles, and chicken jook, providing comforting dishes perfect for banishing a cold." - Eater Staff
"Even on weeknights, expect this classic soup shop in Koreatown to have a small crowd gathered outside queued up for hand-cut noodle soup. The chicken kalguksu is pure cold-weather comfort, but we usually go for the spicy seafood variation, loaded with clams, mussels, crab, and shrimp in a fiery anchovy broth. It’s an enormous amount of food, but we still find room to add either their chilled noodles in sweet, icy beef broth or a platter of their signature bossam (the mini size, available during weekday lunch, is plenty for two). " - sylvio martins, brant cox, nikko duren, garrett snyder
"Even on weeknights, expect this classic soup shop in Koreatown to have a small crowd gathered outside queued up for hand-cut noodle soup. The chicken kalguksu is pure cold-weather comfort, but we usually go for the spicy seafood variation, loaded with clams, mussels, crab, and shrimp in a fiery anchovy broth. It’s an enormous amount of food, but we still find room to add either their chilled noodles in sweet, icy beef broth or a platter of their signature bossam (the mini size, available during weekday lunch, is plenty for two)." - Brant Cox
"Specialties: Kalguksu Hangari is a soup spot that specializes in kalguksu, soup with knife-cut noodles, and a sign on the wall proudly proclaims that they use gluten in just about everything they make. It’s right next to Sun Nong Dan, so if you’re too hungry to wait in that line, go here instead. The noodles are so good, they even stand out in the spicy seafood soup - which is loaded with crab, mussels, shrimp, and vegetables. If you’re looking for something lighter, or it’s 95 degrees out, the cold soup with pork is also worth your time." - Brant Cox, Nikko Duren, Sylvio Martins
