I got the chance to visit this sort-of-new restau­rant in Rich­mond, Hong Mi, located on No. 3 Road. I actu­ally vis­ited twice, once for lunch once for din­ner. I totally for­got the prices for these, and they don’t have a restau­rant web­site, but I remem­ber that it wasn’t very expen­sive. The restau­rant is quite big and had comfy seats. They have a BBQ sec­tion and non-BBQ at the restaurant.

Appe­tiz­ers

The appe­tiz­ers we had included kim­chi, bean sprouts, sweet soy sauce with sea­weed (great with rice), and a jello-like slice with soy sauce (don’t know what it is called).

Beef Rib Soup

This was part of the lunch we had, sliced beef in a beef broth and it comes with steamed rice. The swirly things float­ing on top are the red dates and sliced pan-fried eggs. The beef broth was rich and tasty.

Bibim­bap

They have the Bibim­bap (mixed rice) with or with­out the hot stone bowl, I had the one with­out the heated bowl. Of course it was served with the sweet chili sauce. I liked that there was a gen­er­ous amount of top­pings, espe­cially veggies.

Seafood Pan­cake

This was our one of our din­ner dishes. The seafood pan­cake was crispy on both sides with a good amount of seafood top­pings and was served with the pan­cake soy sauce. It had a lot of scal­lions which I liked. I was also sur­prised that it wasn’t too oily, I’ve this else­where and it looked like it was almost deep fried.

Gin­seng Chicken Soup

This is another pop­u­lar Korean dishes. It had a small chicken stuffed with gin­seng, gar­lic, dates etc. braised in a rich chicken broth with rice. The soup was like con­gee except it had a very tasty broth. The chicken was also ten­der. It was served in a hot bowl so it was still bub­bling hot when it was brought to our table — a very warm­ing dish.

The restau­rant had good ser­vice in addi­tion to the tasty food. I would love to go back for other dishes.

Con­clu­sion:

Ambi­ence: 3.5/5
Food: 4/5
Ser­vice: 3.5/5
Value: 4/5