Wooga (우가) at Buena Park

An all you can eat Korean BBQ restaurant in Buena Park, $19.99 per person. It opens till late. Like most all you can eat place, you can't take away leftover food. There are many kind of meat to choose from. A decent place to come when you are hungry!

Gyu-Kaku (牛角) Japanese BBQ in Tustin

This restaurant has some good reviews in Yelp, so we came here to try out. We ordered a few of their signature dishes, e.g. Harami miso, prime ribeye ribs, shrimp garlic and chicken garlic noodle. My wife liked the spicy cold tofu and harami skirt steak miso. Garlic mushroom and garlic chicken noodle were both a bit too salty.

They do happy hour all day on Monday, and 11:30-6:30 & 8:30-Closing everyday, food are almost half price. This restaurant has 9 other branches across LA and Orange County.

Overall food was not bad and service was pretty good, but this place was rather noisy, kind of a mood killer, maybe other branches are different. $46 for two people.

Anjin (燒肉) Japanese Restaurant in Costa Mesa

A Japanese BBQ restaurant in Costa Mesa that opens till 1am. The marinated beef was very nice. That also came with corn as side dish. We also ordered seafood dishes, which served inside tin foil, included salmon, scallop, prawn, enoki and onion. We enjoyed our food here. The only problem was a bit smoky inside.

Palsaik (팔색 삼겹살) Korean BBQ in Koreatown

This restaurant is famous for serving pork dishes. We ordered set dinner which came with BBQ pork and seafood soup. Pork were marinated in 8 different flavor: wine, original, ginseng, garlic, herb, curry, miso paste and red pepper paste (hot). They were cook on a titling grill where fat and oil got filtered out to drain. The only minus point was that chairs had no back support.

This is the best place to eat BBQ pork. Parking may be an issue as there are many other shops within this complex.

Sagan (사긴) Korean Restaurant in Buena Park

A Korean and Japanese cuisine restaurant. They have sushi bar at the front and Korean BBQ at the back. The restaurant was big in size and look kind of posh. We turned up at the restaurant around 9-ish but they closed at 10pm, so we were one of the few remaining tables. We spent just a little less than 100 dollar on dinner for 3 people, which include BBQ meat and beer. Food was okay, nothing spectcular, not worth the amount we paid for. The waitresses were so keen to go home and close down, they hurried us to pay the bill and asked us to wait at the door when my wife went to restroom. Definitely poor service!

Koba Tofu Grill in Irvine

This restaurant locates in the Heritage Plaza, off 5 freeway. The plaza's undergoing renovation at the time of our visit. We ordered a seafood combo to share, it came with fish, BBQ beef, seafood tofu, stone pot rice. It is same style as BCD Tofu House. The beef smell really good. Other than that, nothing special about this place. They have 3 other branches, one in south Irvine (UCI campus), one in Fullerton and one in Diamond Bar.

Korea House BBQ Restaurant in Irvine

As we are not too happy with the service we got last time at Arirang  and Shik Do Rak always has a long queue, we decided to try a new Korean BBQ restaurant in Irvine today. This restaurant is closed to the University of Irvine, with many tables and private rooms. I was immediately attracted to the unlimited BBQ for $19.99 per person - choice of 5 types of meat (chicken, pork and beef). The quality of meat wasn't good (not nicely cut) and the small Korean side dishes weren't freshed. Plus on occassion I could smell odor coming from the restroom. The only good point about this restaurant - great friendly customer service! Doubt we will return though.

Sam Han (三漢) Korean BBQ & Buffet in Rowland Heights

For a buffet restaurant, this place was surprisingly good. Quite a lot of choices for meat and seafood, price was affordable too.

Aria (아리아) Korean BBQ Sushi Bar in Buena Park

Tried this Korean BBQ restaurant in Buena Park today. Loads of side dishes and $60 for 2 people, managed to have some left over to take home. Service was slow though. Food was okay, nothing spectacular. Not sure whether we will come back for more though.

Shilla Restaurant in Gardena

Both service and food were good at this Korean BBQ restaurant. My wife loved one of the BBQ beef. There were 9 of us and we had the private room. Apparently, a number of sportsmen and sportswomen, e.g. tennis star Maria Sharapova, came to this restaurant before, pictures of their signed autographs were hanged on the wall at the entrance. Dinner was $240 altogether.

Cocary BBQ Restaurant (可加麗) in Monterey Park

Cocary is a Taiwanese hotpot/BBQ place. They serve hotpot/BBQ on a table for 4 peopl as well as on the rolling-belt at the bar individually (as seen in picture). You just grab the meat plates ($2.99/dish) and veggie plates ($1.99/dish) from the fridge, and cook that yourself. Tea, rice and sweet potatoes congee are all included. There is currently a 20% off for lunch. Only $20 for 3 of us, that's a bargain. There was also a railway train going around the rolling-belt, but no food was on those small plates on the day. Recommended.

Byul Daepo (Star BBQ) Korean Restaurant in Garden Grove

This Korean BBQ restaurant has a all-you-can-eat menu. The menu contained two choices: $15pp or $19pp. The difference was the choices of meat on offer. We ended up having 4 dishes of meat to share among 3 people. After the meat feast, we each had a bowl of hot noodles (as seen in the picture), that's actually my favourite dish. It's a great place if you're seriously hungry.

Surah Korean BBQ in Buena Park

A nice Korean BBQ restaurant. Loads of side dishes and meat were tasty. The cold noodles were great and the peaches compliment well with it. Maybe a bit pricey but worth the money I guess. Service was good. The restaurant has a TV showing my favourite channel - Gol TV! There is a Korean supermarket in the same complex, handy if you want to stock up some groceries on the way home.

Arirang BBQ Resturant in Irvine

We like this place. More authentic than yesterday's Shik Do Rak restaurant. We ordered BBQ set A, that came with 4 types of meat, pot of steamed egg and a bottle of my favourite Korean beer - OB. Price is slightly more expensive - around $70 (included 10% discount voucher), but there were plenty leftover to take home. We will definitely go back. Very friendly and welcoming, good service.

Shik Do Rak Korean BBQ in Irvine

A busy Korean BBQ restaurant, always seems to have a long queue outside. Today we came here earlier, around 5:30pm and managed to get ourselves seats without any waiting. We ordered a combo set #2 - a mixture of beef including two types of beef, dinner was about $55 for 3 people. Meat's good and we were all full. Queue was building up by the time we finished our dinner. We were given the bill even before we asked for it, tried to get rid of us asap. Anyhow, I guess it is one of the good Korean restaurants in Irvine, still prefer restaurants in K-town though.