Hong Ban Jang
Palisades Park New Jersey, USA
Ain't nothing winning my heart over this one. I have been here so many times, it's more than the fingers on my two hands. Everything is perfect here. The place. The service. The food. I actually forgot, they have one flaw: the bathroom. The bathroom is almost always in not the best condition. But that also does show the sort of "realness" that you get out of a place like Hong Ban Jang. Only Korean people come here. I'm almost always the only white person. The food is just so immaculate I mean, everything I've gotten has tasted splendid. The jajangmyeon, the japchae, the kimchi fried rice, the wings, the kimchi fried rice with squid, the gunandu, the tangsuyuk—I'm not lying I can go a lot longer. Really, the last thing I have yet to truly deep dive here is the jjamppong. I know some of y'all will call me a fake one for not giving that a true deep dive since that's one of the things they're mainly known for. But hate all you want, I'm enjoying their food!
| food | service | aesthetics | bathroom |
| 4.9 | 5 | 4.9 | 3 |