Hodori Korean Garden — Restaurant in Melbourne

I have been here a two times for lunch only and on both occasions the reviews which speak to inconsistent service and food quality are mostly right. But all restaurants deserve fresh reviews. We ordered four popular meals three of which are a Korean-Chinese combination that often go together:

Jajangmyeon (자장면), also called jjajangmyeon (짜장면), is a noodle dish in a black bean sauce. Along with jjampong (짬뽕, spicy seafood noodle soup) and tangsuyuk(탕수육, sweet and sour pork or beef).

The fourth was a whole Korean fried chicken. Which is served with a choice of sauces and pickled radish

Service speed was pretty quick. The guy serving was friendly, polite and attentive.

Side dishes or pan-chan were kimchi, fermented bean srouts, pickled cucumber and seaweed, and fish cake. All were tasty and fresh.

All up were very satisfied. Meal portions were slightly smaller than Kor-chi up the road on Clayton Rd. We would return and would order all this again. We were fortunate the restaurant was not...

Ohhhhh you know you're in for a treat when every other diner is Korean, and give their advice on favourite dishes! We enjoyed table BBQ beef a few different cuts, seafood, sides of japchae, cold beef noodles, KFC, kimchi pancake, mushrooms, rice, and many more! We were happy to give our dietary requirements to the owner and allow him to curate a menu to feed the 5 of us, one being vegetarian. Impeccable. Nothing we didn't like, and having travelled around South Korea it brought back fabulous memories. Do yourself a favour and give them a try! N.B. I am a chef. I also suffer with OCD and find it incredibly difficult to eat food prepared by others. The owner was so gracious in allowing me to reassure myself visiting the kitchen and talking to the chef. I know, I'm a nightmare customer, but they were so welcoming I wasn't as embarrassed as I usually would be in explaining my issues. If I could give 10...

Used to be good but was disappointed tonight. I completely understand the food might take a while to come out as the place seems understaff. We ordered a set and been told one item is not available which we also understand and didn’t mind to pay extra for substitute. However, the waiter said they don’t have the dipping sauce for bbq when we asked for refill ( seriously they only gave us 2 sets to start with when we have 4 people. Each person should have their own sauce). Also, how can a Korean bbq run out of sauce on a Saturday night. The waiter said the kitchen need to make more sauce and may take a while but we ended up with no more sauce for half of our meal. I don’t think it is that hard to make the sauce and they simply don’t care. This is unacceptable for us and sorry to say this possibly the last time we would visit...