Restaurant Review: HAAN Korean BBQ

By Sherman Chan,
Special to The Post

We ordered two Short Plates and one Beef Rib. For the amount of meat that we got, the price was fair. The meat quality had plenty of marbling. Since it was sliced thin, the beef cooked quickly, but it wasn't as tender as we had hoped for. The beef short rib was buttery tender and since it took longer to cook, developed a smokier char. Served with our meals was the usual condiments of romaine lettuce and Banchan. Of those, we found pickled daikon, potato salad, bean sprouts, spicy pickled turnip and kimichi. Nothing particularly amiss about these as the kimchi was spicy and full-of-depth. I would've liked to see stewed potato though.

The Gamjatang Hot Pot was served on its own burner. This was loaded with meaty and tender pork bones. The broth itself had a good spice with perilla seeds, giving it good aromatics and depth as well. Inside the pot were some vegetables and tender nuggets of potato. To top it all off, we had the Bossam. It was also well-executed with buttery and meaty slices of pork belly complete with spicy radish and a curiously small amount of cabbage. Overall, we found the food at Haan to be quite good and fairly priced. Korean BBQ is never a cheap proposition, but this was okay comparatively.

HAAN Korean BBQ

3025 Lougheed Hwy, Coquitlam, BC  

The Good:

• Fairly good eats

• Fair pricing

• Service was decent for us

The Bad:

• The regular beef was not as tender as it appeared

Sherman Chan is the #1 ranked food blogger on the Vancouver portal of Urbanspoon.com. Read more of his reviews at www.shermansfoodadventures.com.