Hanugin Mongolian BBQ

Very rare that i give a place 5 stars. This place deserves it. The people talking about how expensive it is are smoking drugs. Its $ 10 for a lunch bowl or $ 12 for a dinner bowl. I dont know how the one person managed to make their dinner bowl $ 17! they must be 400lbs and be the type of person who eats an entire large pizza themself. If you want good value and good food come here for lunch. you will pay a little more than mcdonalds but its fast and it taste way better. Every time im in the area i stop in. try it out you wont be disappointed.

The food is good and the taste depends on your mix of ingredients (meat, veggies, noodles) and sauces. They provide sauce pairing recommendations above the sauces section, which helps if you’re not sure what to add or what flavour you want.
Pricing depends on the weight of your bowl of ingredients. We went for lunch, and it was $ 8 for the blue line, $ 10 for the red line, $ 1 for every 100 gram over, and $ 16 for all you can eat. Meal comes with a free soup, salad, and rice.
Quantity is more than satisfying. Mine weighed at the blue line and my friend’s at the red, and the portions were filling.
Service is average, and the place looks like a casual, family-​owned restaurant.
I would have come here to eat again, but we had a terrible experience with what appeared to be the owner/​manager (middle-​aged Caucasian man). At the end of our meal, when we stepped outside, he came out accusing us of dining-​and-​dashing without even checking our table where we left the money. My friend offered to go in with him if he didn’t trust us, he said no and never came back out to apologize! Unfortunately this ruined our dining experience, and we will not be visiting anytime soon. The way the owner treated us made me lose not only my appetite, but also my respect for this restaurant operating as a business.

Great place!
Love that you have so many options, lots of veg lots of meat and sauce. Don’t know why people care complaining about the servers since they really only bring you rice and water. Love to support a family business. You can really tell the owners work very hard and take pride in their business.

Like most people here, I’ve been excited first at the fact you pick up your food and partially help preparing it. I’ve been there several times, when the restaurant opened years ago, and still something didn’t feel right…
I think I know what it is now: they use cheap ingredients (but overall not such a cheap price), fat pasta, and their final result is a bit too greasy. So: interesting experience, but not great tasty food.

This place isn’t cute, cozy or romantic. The food prep statiion is tiny and cramped. The whole place feels pretty cheap. But you know what…
I think it’s GREAT, because for $ 10, I can eat a TON of food that’s pretty tasty.
Here’s a little trick while you’re prepping your bowl:
Get your sauces first. Then, add in your meat protein: this allows the meat to marinate a bit, and more importantly, thaws the meat… which means you have more room to stuff your bowl with veggies! Sauce, then meat, then veggies, and pile some noodles on top just to make it huge.
How good the food is, is really up to you. I’m a fan of the house sauce recipe. I find that there’s always a good selection of fresh vegetables. Skip the soup and opt for the salad. And ask for tea — they serve green tea at the table for free.
This place is great for a super fast and cheap meal.

Having to downgrade due to our recent visit.
The food quality hasn’t changed much, but the care taken in cleaning the grill has. A million little burned pieces of sauce from previous orders throughout mine. Yes I ate it anyway. I was too tired and just didn’t feel like complaining. No one else noticed and it really didn’t change the taste.
There are crappy old dirty paper signs communicating warnings about bowl sizes and leftover food charges and the sauce menu above the ingredient bar. So unprofessional, such a lack of understanding that presenting your words in this way conveys a complete lack of care and attention to detail. Like really, it would cost you $ 30 to make up a bunch of prettier signs and have them laminated. Are you really that broke?
Maybe you are because the fork at my place setting had a tine bent at a ridiculous 45 degree angle– yet you chose to let your customers eat with this.
Have you no pride or shame???

Visited for the first time last night. Overpriced at 17 dollars per person when I can get the same for 12 at other places. Service was rude. Couldn’t crack a Ike or say you’re welcome. Felt like we were rushed out.
Nice selection of veggies but their sauce recipes left a lot to be desired, not much flavor

Fantastic! Great fresh food. Family run place. Will be back!

GOOD EATING — BUT NEEDS A FEW CHANGES.
Generally a good place for for fresh veggies and meet, fried up for you Mongolie Style.
1) They recently changed the RIDICULOUS SETUP of having meat at the end of line.
After MONTHS of complaining, they recently put that at the front of line — BRAVO!
2) Bowls are too small. Too much mess and cross-​contaminated items ending up in different bins.
3) NOTE TO MANAGEMENT: A decent selection of vegetables — Join every other Mongolian restaurant in this hemisphere and add Tomatoes!!!
4)NOTE TO MANAGEMENT: Today I watched in Fascination as human carnage nearly took place in the small 5×5 food selection area. With patrons carrying their hot soup in that tiny area, and other patrons filling their small bowls, it was dangerous and uncomfortable in such cramped quarters. ASK patrons if they want soup or salad and bring it to their table!!! Making it self-​serve makes no sense at all!!!

Not bad just eating freeze dried food is not really me I would rather have fresh food the quality of taste is better even when you cook it. The ambiance could be better its kinda gloomy.

Excellent and cheap! Not so excellent ambience however

Could be a lot better…
Hanugin Mongolian BBQ is a decent place to have lunch, but if you’ve been to Great Wall on Denman you realize that this place is clearly second rate.
Like all Mongolian setups you pile vegetables, meat and sauce into a bowl BUT:
The problem is the configuration and organization of the food trays…
It’s way too packed in there AND in the wrong order as meat is at the end of line not the beginning. When patrons arrive they go for the meat and sauce first and inevitablely you get chaos with as little as 5 people lining up.
Another problem is that bowls are shallow and narrow as opposed to wider and flatter. This causes an inordinate amount of spillage and mess as patrons try and fill their bowls and things drop into other bins. It can truly be a mess.
Management is telegraphing that they are just overly cheap. They give you a shallow, narrow bowl and at the end after they’ve fried up what you selected they give you a shallow, wider bowl. COME ON PEOPLE!
Also surprisingly, they offer you a bowl of soup or salad — the salad looks cross-​contaminated and disgusting during the course of lunch. The soup is always unappetizing. Why offer this at all?
They have some quality toppings such as shaved beef, chicken, lamb, mushrooms and water chestnuts, but they lack tomatoes!
Management here need to get some decent bowls — deeper and wider — yes patrons will be able to get more toppings but there will be far less wastage and frustration and mess.
Also instead of offering a communal disgusting soup bowl and a mediocre salad why not serve each customer a soup bowl from the kitchen. The offering of a side salad is also not quite right as you end up stir frying everything anyway. Why not add better items — i.e. replace croutons (who goes to Mongolie for croutons) for tomatoes…

You participate in the creation and preparation of your own delicious entrée. You select the meats, add the freshly prepared vegetables, and choose the sauces. Your special entrée is ready to be cooked right in front of you, as you watch, just tell the chef how you like it.
Not sure you are ready to create solo? Ask the chef at the grill for advice. You won’t regret it. The food is tasty and worth the price. I’ve been a few times and will go again.
Room for improvement: The restaurant layout is awkward and the vending machine in the middle of the dining room is distracting. The servers are inconsistent and generally seem inexperienced. Paying for a meal is more difficult than necessary.