Hankki — Restaurant in Melbourne

Probably one of my worst dine-in experience so far. I came here with my partner at 7 pm, and we ordered beef bulgogi & chicken katsu. At first the waitress told us that the chicken katsu is not available, so we changed it to pork katsu instead. Around 30 minutes later they served me the bulgogi, but it turned out to be spicy. I asked them to change as i ordered the none spicy one, they came back few minutes later only to tell us that the beef is not available anymore, also that the chicken katsu is actually still available so we ended up ordering chicken katsu instead of pork, while i changed the beef bulgogi to soy garlic chicken. They apologized and gave us free Bon-bon drinks. I appreciate their gesture, however the chicken katsu turns out to be over-cooked (slightly burned) and the soy garlic chicken takes forever to be served. We were too hungry to wait anymore so we just ate the burnt chicken katsu and cancelled the soy garlic chicken after I saw them serving 2 chicken to other customer, who came later than me while I had been waiting for around 45 mins since i first...

Do yourself a favour and try their Cheese Chicken Karaage—Hankki has stolen the crown for best cheese-KFC as far as I'm concerned (sorry, CJ Lunchbar!). It is sweet, savoury, spicy, has soft juicy meat coated in a batter that has wonderfully surprising crispy moments despite the sauce and melted cheese covering it, and ahhhhh—just yum!

Haven't tried many other dishes here yet, but the menu doesn't really offer surprises, which isn't a bad thing; if you have a craving for comfy, delicious Korean-Japanese fusion (admittedly, far more Korean than Japanese~), Hankki should sate your needs! It's going to join my regular rotation of Carnegie Korean food, beside Bon...

July 2018 ** It’s been a year since I last ate here. This time was in need of hot soup on a wintery night. Ordered the seafood soup. Pretty darn good. Comes with rice and the usual Korean side kimchi condiments. All were flavourful and reaaaaally hit the spot on taste heartiness and overall satisfaction. The soup seemed endless quite good size. I just looove Korean soup in rice on a cold night!

June 2017 ** A ok all rounder... but if Korean fried chicken is ur thing... there are other places worthy of $$. soups here pretty good. the bulgolgi beef?? .... um u better off getting beef ur self and buying a bottle of bulgolgi sauce from ur local...