Han Kook Meat Trading Ltd. — Local services in Vancouver

They have fresh meat and are reasonable with pricing. Good place for hotpot meat and marinated short ribs .Most of the time employees are great but today in encounter and really unfriendly employee that was really rude and did not want to serve me. I am a regular customer that probably visits Hankook every week if not definitely every other week. Every visit I spend an average of $100-200. My family loves to hotpot and do BBQs in the summer. I recommend all friends and family to Hankook for their meat. I usually bring my puppy along with me to get meat never had a problem. But today employee shouted at me saying "no no no get out" with very limited English trying to tell me I am not welcome. I am not ignorant and totally understand that if animals are not allowed so I asked if I could leash it outside and purchase my needs. Employee did not want to serve me even after leashing my dog outside. As a regular customer for the past 5 years I'm am very disappointed. I then was offered by another customer behind me in line if I wanted them to help me purchase what I needed. Then the worker over heard and told me to come in. I took less than 1 minute to get what I need and paid and left. I usually take less than 5 minutes in the store because I know exactly what they have and what I need. In the 1 minute interaction the employee gave me weird looks and was rushing to get me out of the store . I don't know if I want to come back after the way I was treated today. Would've been a 5 star review if I was treated with respect. But will not be giving a 1 start review as their quality of meat is good.

TLDR: products are great , not the friendliest people you will encounter. Don't bring your pets because even leashing them outside you're...

Word of mouth really works. Got referred here from a friend who said you gotta check this place out specifically if you want to do hot pot or Korean BBQ at home.

As other people have noted, lineups can get super crazy. There is a one customer/family limit in the store so that is where the bottle neck occurs. I went at 230 on a sunday and was 5th in line, took 10 minutes. But 5 minutes later, it was 15 families deep. Basically it's safe to say it's generally busy so be prepared to wait.

Ordered two marinated meats and they are stored in these pre sealed containers. Korean BBQ ribs and tenderized pork. Both were super good and tender. Very satisfied. No bone shards like you might get once in awhile if you go T&T. Prices are reasonable and competitive with those major stores.

The service was good. They were super nice as I had never been there before and explained where everything was. They also threw in some beef bones for free for spending a certain amount.

My only beef (pardon the pun) with this places is that the complex can be pretty chaotic during any times and I can't imagine rush hour time being very fun. So parking can be a challenge.

Would definitely come back and stock up for...

Great place to get some good quality meat! I don’t think other big markets like TNT or save on food can beat their price - Tried to get some hot pot meat from TNT but decided to go HK meat store because they can give you at least x2 the amount for the same price.

I see some say this place put bad meat on the bottom but seriously? You try other market because at least they give you “edible” meat at the bottom! I think it’s also depends what meat you get. Hot pot meat is good as well as pork (called Sam gyup sal) and beef (gal beet sal) which can give you the best quality for your money.

I do agree they have horrible, horrible parking spaces - limited, narrow parking - I’m just glad I haven’t got into any...