Hankki House — Restaurant in San Jose

Small cute place in a shopping area with nice people, seemed like a family run restaurant. They do mark vegetarian items on the menu with a small leaf sign. Please, be careful as their Soft tofu soup is made with beef bone broth, and if you’re ordering mushroom like I did make sure to inform them that you’re a vegetarian/vegan.

Slightly disappointing was that vegetarian soup is made with water and in the beginning tasted like peppery water with soft tofu but after throwing banchan (side salads) to the soup it became very delicious and flavorful! My husband had stone bowl rice dish Bibimbap with tofu which was priced the same as the ones with meat etc and was a little small for him.

They refilled our banchan for free and it was delicious: cucumber one had sweetness to it, and radish one was amazing and differently marinated — not the standard spicy cubed radish kimchi but something with plum extract maybe (not sure but it had deep and I want to say a little smoky maybe fruity flavor).

They gave us complimentary small cookies at the end,...

This family run Korean spot is minimalist in its offerings but everything you get, and I mean EVERYTHING is right on the money.

It’s like the best version of anything you’d go to a different restaurant for but all rolled into this humble restaurant!

It’s all homemade and SO VERY FRESH.

Be prepared to wait 20 mins because they’re literally making it to order and it’s not sitting around getting stale.

I’ve gotten: Tteobbokki (both spicy and non, the non spicy variant is like seasoned like how you’d imagine japchae is usually seasoned with sesame oil and veggies) is fire btw. Tonkatsu/chicken katsu AMAZINGLY CRISPY FRIED KATSU, homemade katsu sauce which is INCREDIBLE served with 2 homemade side dishes that .. honestly you should just get them all.

Kimchi, fish cake, cucumber, radish, all so fresh and crisp.

Galbi - sweet and Smokey griddled - high quality beef. Japchae- fragrant not too oily Bulgolgi - decent!

Boiled dumplings definitely hit.

Anyway this place is bomb. Try it. Worth the price to support a...

So the food is good but the service could use some improvements, for example the server has changed now and is not understanding what are the proper to go containers. He gave us very small containers meant for toppings or small items when he is supposed to give us a normal sized to go container for the meat,rice,salad. And then we had to kind of argue with him and so he asked the owner and even the owner was confused at him on why he was giving us the wrong containers. At first he was saying "this is all we can give" but he can't make that call. Also as for the atmosphere, the music is too loud we can't talk on our phones or hear each other talk sometimes. And finally we miss the dressing for the lettuce, that was a really good dressing and the owner said not enough people bought it....