Seor Ak San

Went with a friend for a birthday lunch and the food here is amazing, price is so reasonable and the people were sooo sweet.
I ordered the black bean noodles and pan fried beef dumplings. Noodles were a bit mild but that’s how I like it so no complaints! My friend got the beef and kimchi hot pot and seafood pancake. Gotta say, if you’re the exploding flavour loving type go for the kimchi. Seafood pancakes were delishhhh too!

The spicy chicken bibimbap and seafood pancake are amazing! The service is also fast and friendly. This has now become my go-​to spot for Korean food!

There is a surprisingly limited number of Korean options in this area but I think this is the best one in Chinatown. Came here with a group and I ordered kimchi and vegetable stew, and we shared fried dumplings and seafood pancake. I always try to order the seafood pancake here — it’s chock full of ingredients and always cooked perfectly crispy on both sides. The stew was delicious as well. A couple of my friends also ordered a stonepot udon which they raved about, so I will have to order that next time!

Came in at roughly 5:30 pm on american thanksgiving and were immediagely seated.
Service was fast, along with complimentary hot tea, which is definitely nice since it’s getting cold out, kudos to them there.
As for the food, my short rib bimbimbop was pleasant. The veggies were fresh and instead of the typical white grain rice, purple grain rice was the standard. No raw egg though so that was a little disappointing but oh well. The meat was tender and exceptionally marinaded. My friends enjoyed their dishes as well.
Solid four out of five.

Conveniently located in Chinatown. Waitress was polite and friendly and service was quick. Food came out in less than 15 minutes. It was busy on Saturday night but there was no wait. You get about 6 side dishes with your order and they were tasty. I ordered the bulgogi dol so bibimbap and it was good. Most Korean restaurants I’ve been to give you white rice instead of the red bean rice. I like the red bean rice a lot better! The only downfall to the entrée was that it didn’t come with actual pieces of beef but just ground beef which was a first for me. Meal came out to be around $ 13 with taxes.

Seor Ak San. this place is dangerously convenient for me. After stopping in one rainy Saturday evening to try their glass noodle dish, I have been lured in multiple times. It is open until 11pm throughout the week, and the portions, and prices are all very reasonable. I have yet to veer away from their glass noodle dish, or their potato pancakes. They offer friendly and fast take out service. Although I am no connoisseur by any means of Korean food I am consistently a happy costumer. I can recommend either the glass noodle, or potato pancake options. As mentioned by others, the pancake does not come with the complimentary sides as the other dishes do. The side of sweet white potato is delicious, so it is something to consider! This place is worth checking out if you are in the mood for Korean, and in the neighbourhood.

This is a take out service review– I absolutely love dine in.
Extremely disappointed with the level of service and detail to their take out. We ordered our regular seafood pancake, dukk bokki, spicy sirloin and rice. I requested the ramen noodles in the dukk bokki be replaced with glass noodles as they have always done for me during done-​in without a problem. After placing my order, I confirmed with the gentleman that I was ordering 3 items.
Upon receiving my order (someone picked up for us), the seafood pancake was a complete soggy, soy-​saturated disaster. Somehow the plastic sauce container melted and all the soy sauce, and I mean the ENTIRE thing leaked into the container and was absorbed by the pancake. Please see photos. The plastic was melted to a smooth finish, the grids on the container aren’t even visible anymore! A waste of $ 9! We couldn’t eat the pancake, it was too salty.
The dukk bokki– my most anticipated dish (I was famished)! It was with ramen! I hate ramen because it absorbs all the sauce and ends up bloats and starchy. Thoroughly disappointed.
The sirloin was okay.
I called to express my concerns and luckily got the same gentleman who took my order. He was apologetic but definitely didn’t extend any courtesy. I will not be ordering take out again from this place. They are great with eat-​ins but I am not sure if it is a communication, assembly line issue or something but our order sucked!

The place is a hole in the wall. I had passed by so many times without coming in, and finally want to give it a try after reading the positive review here. Tried their stew, and while their stew taste good and portion is decent, but nothing special or distinctive. It also lacks the depth as some of my favour places. So does banchan, it tastes ok but not as flavourful. The pancake is good tho, and they use purple rice. The service is friendly, no complaint here. Price is reasonable. Overall a good place to visit when I’m in the area and crave for hangover meal. 3.5÷5

LOVE the food here!
Always amazing friendly service. The atmosphere is good it’s a very simple place inside out but the food is killer! I always come here when I need my Korean food fix!
The pork bone soup is awesome the meat basically falls of the bone! (Perfection)
The Bibimbap is always my go to dish! It tastes like the best mothers home cooked meal!
I love how they are always attentive to make sure you get your pickles and such at the beginning and how friendly and welcoming they are. Great place to go with a family, group, as a couple or alone!

Seor Ak San is one of the few positive things that comes to mind whenever people ask me about Chinatown in Toronto. The place itself is very simple with a «homey» vibe.
I had ordered the Gam-​Ja-​Tang, which was enough to share between two people. The side dishes provided were very generous and delicious! Being someone who is nervous when eating in Chinatown, my mind was put at ease after tasting the pork bone soup. The broth was very rich and flavourful and the meat was very tender and moist.
A very enjoyable experience; however, the food was not exceptional enough to differentiate itself among other Korean restaurants. Will definitely come back again to try the other dishes!

Love this place went here for the first time today! I came at 4 pm after a lengthy struggle with physics so I was ready for some good food!
Good food is actually precisely what I got. I ordered the deokbokki mildly spicy and a bibimbap. They came pretty quickly considering there was no one in the restaurant. The bibimbap was massive, lots of vegetables and some bulgogi as well as a fried egg. I mixed in some of the soy sauce and hot sauce that they place on the table and stirred it around careful not to disturb the bottom layer which would then turn into a crispy section of deliciousness. After the first bite I was in love and I ended up finishing the whole thing.
The deokbokki was also really good, it came mildly spicy as I asked and the rice cakes were chewy and pleasant and the fish cakes were plentiful and they all sat on a bed of perfectly cooked ramyeon noodles. My only
Complaint is that I wish there were more of the rice cakes cause they are excellent.
Finally are the side dishes. They were plentiful and I think there are 6, Some kelp, bean sprouts, glass noodles, a pancake, sweet potato and finally some kimchi. The pancake and the kimchi definitely are the better ones. The variety makes it amazing though!
The entire restaurant was really clean. Floor was pristine and tables were set up nicely. Lots of seats so unless it’s very busy you’ll probably get one. No special decorations but that’s completely fine.
The service was also really great (I mean I was the only person in the restaurant) the manager/​owner was really kind and checked up on me. It concluded the dining experience very cordially.
Tl;Dr excellent food, kind waiters and manager and clean environment what is there not to love!

Ooooh my god, Seor Ak San, where do I even begin.
Honestly, this place is my go-​to for Korean food whenever I’m downtown. The food is excellent, cheap, and massive in portion. The banchan are various and refilled at request. The place is clean, if a bit spare in decoration. The service is fast and the servers nice and helpful. It’s rare to ever come in to a completely empty restaurant.
My faves are the japchae, gamjatang, and tofu bibimbap in a stone pot. Fair warning, come on a very, very empty stomach.

the pork bone soup was really good. friendly wait staff, and clean. no frills.

I had gam ja tang here the other night and at the risk of getting my Unilocal card taken away… I liked the one at Ka Chi better.
The version here had a very low «water level» — the pot was only half full. I was able to finish it, which is great, but I was used to getting a bigger portion somewhere else, you know?
The second main issue was that there was less meat and the meat was less accessible. By that I mean at Ka Chi, the meat was practically melting off the bones — the tendons and everything were all gooey and delicious. At Seor Ak San, the bones clearly weren’t boiled as long so I really had to wrestle with the bones to get to the meat — and I often lost. :P It could be that I came here earlier in the day than I went to Ka Chi… but the difference was huge. The Ka Chi bones could easily be lifted away and the meat was SO tender.
The version here was good — I was relieved that it wasn’t too spicey for a wimp like me (there was no mild option). Plus the prices were very, very reasonable. Service was alright. No air conditioning in the restaurant kind of took away from the experience. I will say though, that I had the best japchae banchan I’d ever had here!

First meal in Canada for us (from New York), Food was quite good. The rice cake like we requested to not be too spicy. The sauce was different from other Korean places in New York, We order the Beef Dduk Boki and Pork Bone Soup Hot pot (Gamjatang Jungol), both tasted very good. The pork bone soup was a big portion. We shared it amount four people.
When we came it was not busy and the service was good. The employees was very friendly.

Best Korean restaurant in Chinatown !!! Food were all delicious and authentic, the price was very reasonable.
Side dishes were all very flavourful. We ordered one Korea style hot pot, fried vegetable noodles and grilled sea eel over rice. The food were all a little sweet and fresh. Yummy! Really worth visiting because its cheap and good food. Staff was nice although not very good in english. But we can order food by our fingers and numbers on menu~ hahaha

Excellent, flavorful food at a great price! I don’t eat Korean food very often, so my standard for it may not compare to others. But I thought it was good compared to what I’ve tried so far. My family ordered various noodle dishes, including noodles with meat sauce, a noodle soup w/​kimchi & spices, and a glass noodle soup — none were bland, all full of their respective flavors. I got a hot pot bulgogi bibimbap, which was probably the best I’ve ever had. The rice was crispy, the mix of vegetables and proteins just right. I liked that the meat was minced so that when I mixed the contents of the pot, the meaty flavor was dispersed evenly throughout the dish. Add some dashes of the spicy sauce and it was perfect.
The complimentary appetizers were delicious as well. My favorites were the sweet pickled cabbage and the glass noodles flavored with some sort of aromatic oil. We received a scallion pancake at well, which just tasted amazing — very crispy exterior and soft, chewy interior, packed full of scallion and fried yumminess.
Service was also prompt, and I liked that we were given some water to serve ourselves from the start, saving us the hassle of asking for refills.

This was our first time visiting this Korean restaurant. I’d seen photos of the food on other social media sites and thought it looked really good, so we decided to give it a try.
In order to get into the restaurant, you have to go downstairs to the basement level of the building. It’s fairly large inside with lots of tables. We were surprised that at almost noon on a Saturday, we were the first customers and worried that might be a bad sign. Our fears were unfounded though as the food was really good.
I ordered the soon dubu jjigea (tofu stew with pork and kimchi) and it arrived sizzling and bubbling, garnished with watercress and enoki mushrooms. It was absolutely delicious with just the perfect amount of heat.
My husband ordered the ox-​knee soup, which also came sizzling and bubbling. It wasn’t as tasty as mine and he felt it needed soya sauce and sambal oelek to make it more flavourful. However, it had lots of well-​cooked tendon and sweet potato (glass) noodles.
The restaurant was clean, the service was prompt and the server was friendly. The washrooms were also well-​maintained although they had signs warning that toilet paper wasn’t to be flushed down the toilets. We’ve seen this in other Korean restaurants and we assume it’s because that’s the way it’s done in Korea.
The prices were very reasonable for the portions served.
We were very happy with our meals and definitely plan to return to this location to try some other menu items.

Flavourful broth, melt in your mouth meat, it was fantastic!
Service was quick and exceptionally polite.
Restaurant was impeccably clean.
Prices are reasonable and even affordable, $ 7.95 for pork bone soup and $ 6 for beef dumplings.
I’m gonna go home and crash on this food coma…

I do not know what is going on… or perhaps I do.
This place has been going down in quality for some reason. I mean, it is far from bad and more consistent than places with a more Canadian flavour bias like Ka Chi, specially if you consider their new K-​Town location.
Still, I am not sure if my PBS taste has gotten more picky/​refined/​better/​worse? but I find the soup at SAS to be not as good as it used to be.
Perhaps is the fact that Unilocalers were obsessed about this venue but pretty much no one else? Perhaps SAS may be cutting back on expenses? Because aside running into the odd Unilocaler here, SAS seems to always be practically devoid of customers when I am there. Generally it will be my party and another table, maybe two at most. At first I did not mind, it is awesome to have a run of the place but I also don’t want them to go out of business.
As some of you may know, my friend Reggie and I were on a Pork Bone Soup Quest and found a really good place in K-​Town to satiate our PBS and ban chan obsession, unfortunately after finding out that place, we both find SAS a bit lackluster.
I have noticed the broth to be a bit weaker and I feel bad about it since I really like Seor Ak San — not to mention convenient for me to get to.
I always request my PBS to be «extra, extra spicy» and even with all that spice the broth always managed to come through strong.
However the last two instances I was there the soup tasted somewhat watery and the main flavour that stood out came from the chili, not so much from the broth.
Furthermore I find that seaweed is a ban chan not all places like to offer often, possibly due to cost (most Korean restaurants do not fly in cirrus-​high margins after all) and although I have no issue with places rotating their ban chan offerings, when you start focusing on the cheaper options, then we have a problem. Few people like oiled bean sprouts! Don’t offer them as much.
Also, FYI, we can tell how old Kimchi is by colour and consistency and sometimes it does not look good to give poor looking veggies. I am well aware it is still quite edible but most people do not come for extra fermented Kimchi.
However, all being said and done, SAS is still one of the better, if not the best place for PBS in Chinatown, but the Unilocaler darling it once was? I am not so sure anymore.