Hidden gem, incredible value for money. Very welcoming

Small restaurant which looks like nothing at first glance but the food is amazing and the owner very sweet. Taste like authentic Korean home made food.

The old lady that runs the place is rather cantankerous and stubborn, but she sure knows how to cook. Also expect a LOT before you go

Korean restaurant with best cost-performance in Tokyo.

【Amabi YELL recommended restaurant】 A dazzling array of delicious food & glorious drinks Cool breezes and a bright moon & carefree ease It's very delicious. Thank you for the meal. Thank you. I'll come again. The kanji “漢” plus “陽,” meaning sun Written “漢陽” and pronounced “Hanyang” The former name of what is now Seoul Special City This is Hanyang, a Korean home-cooking restaurant in Okachimachi The nearest stations are a 5〜6-minute walk away on the various Okachimachi rail lines (Okachimachi, Naka-Okachimachi, Shin-Okachimachi, Ueno-Okachimachi) In Taito 3-chome, almost right in the middle of a quiet residential neighborhood Surrounded by Showa-dori, Kiyosubashi-dori, Kasuga-dori, and Kuramaebashi-dori Almost directly opposite Kotohira Shrine According to reviews, without a reservation Unless you're exceptionally lucky, with few customers including reservations And Omoni in a good mood, apparently you'll be turned away Reservations are by phone for 3 or more people Since Omoni speaks almost no Japanese Booking is extremely difficult unless the person calling speaks Korean Even if a reservation for 2 is accepted (by mistake?) Apparently some have been turned away on the day In any case, the difficulty level is extremely high Judging by traces of menu photos posted on the wall They probably served lunch before the COVID-19 upheaval But now it's dinner only, with Omoni running everything alone The menu is almost exclusively samgyeopsal too Apparently she occasionally agrees to other dishes But in most cases Omoni turns people down with “Don't have it” Not that many restaurants even put gamjatang, Which requires laborious preparation, on their menus And at lunchtime the hurdle is even higher Needless to say, the number serving it drops sharply According to reviews, gamjatang may sometimes be available But having it alongside the mountain of samgyeopsal seems very difficult in terms of quantity Banchan refills And drinks from the refrigerator are self-service Leave the empty bottles and cans on the table To be counted later, like plates at conveyor-belt sushi restaurants I called in a colleague and their spouse, who boast that meat is a drink, as reinforcements And made my first dinner visit on 2025年07月06日 We arrived a little before our reservation at 18:00 After paying our respects at Kotohira Shrine through the fence We waited outside the restaurant, chatting Omoni came out and asked, “Do you need something?” We answered, “We have a reservation for 18:00,” and were allowed in a little early Without being asked for our order, banchan, a stove, And an astonishingly enormous mountain of raw samgyeopsal appeared on the table Apparently she hadn't prepared much garlic So she tried to insist we didn't need any, saying, “You don't need garlic, right?” But we asked, “We do need garlic,” “Please give us some garlic” After that, it was simply an endless battle of grilling and eating The shaved-ice-like mountain of meat, as though removing pieces from a pile of shogi tiles After us, a group of 3 young people without a reservation luckily got in Saying “Lucky,” but struggled with the mountain of meat Once things settled down, Omoni started prepping garlic by peeling it For rice orders, she microwaved Sato no Gohan Looking at my face, with my ancestors being naturalized immigrants Who came from the peninsula in the Yayoi period as rice-farming specialists To Kinchakuda on the Koma River in Musashi Province Omoni seemed to be in a good mood Smiling, she repeatedly said, “We've met somewhere before” But this was unquestionably our first meeting Do my features look like they're from the peninsula? We finished 2 bottles of fresh makgeolli and had other drinks too But when it came time to pay, however I calculated it, the bill was far lower than expected and didn't add up Was it a rough estimate depending on Omoni's mood? A calculation error? I felt the fresh makgeolli was priced only slightly above cost There's no avoiding the nervous suspense over Omoni's mood A thrilling restaurant with overwhelming portions and extraordinary value For future visits, I'll need enough people who love Korean food & meat But I feel I've successfully recruited 2 couples who love Korean food So I'm eagerly looking forward to putting together a plan when everything is ready 【Visit history: 1 visit total】 ✪Dinner 1 time 1st visit 2025年07月06日 (phone reservation) 【Our personal Korean food rankings】 《Individual dishes: rank −−／23 restaurants》 《Hot pot and soup: rank −−／20 restaurants》 《Meat dishes: rank 01／16 restaurants》 《Comfort: rank 15／25 restaurants》 《Overall total: rank 14／25 restaurants》 As of 2026年06月09日

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