Han Du Korean Tofu

 

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qirk z.

Los Gatos, CA

Had dinner here. The food is good, average. i hear the lunch buffet is good.

I had the whole chicken with ginseng rice soup. It was good, and the chicken is a whole chicken, not like the little bird I get at another Korean place I've frequented in Santa Clara.

The short ribs were good too.

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Tak K.

Livermore, CA

I found this place when I was organizing business cards left in the business card cases at the lobby of A Perfect Day Spa (I know, I was bored while waiting for my turn).  When I searched this place within Yelp search engine, I couldn't find it, so decided to try this place myself.

The restaurant itself is next to Ajisen Ramen that open a few weeks ago.  Once inside, a waitress greeted me if I wanted buffet lunch.  Since I didn't feel like pigging out and wanted to try their tofu soup, I asked for a menu.  Later, I found out that the lunch buffet was $7.50.  Not a bad deal.

I ordered seafood tofu soup, and the waitress got me appetizers out of buffet tables.  Appetizers were ordinary, with kim-chee being overly fermented thus being sour and not much else.  I was a little surprised to find that the tofu soup didn't have any seafood, but instead grains of what looked like beef.  And the taste is... well, like a spicy tofu miso soup.  It did not look or taste like chige (hope I spelled correctly).  There is no depth in the soup typical to chige.  

For this kind of food and service, I had to pay $8.99.  That's expensive, borderline rip-off.  If there was 1-1/2 star, I would assign that.  People who are more into Korean food might give harsher ratings, and rightfully so.  Now I see why other Yelpers haven't tried this place...  They probably got words-of-mouth info that this place wasn't good.

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Rachel W.

Milpitas, CA

First, you won't realize it is there. Their sign has chinese and korean on it, but no english. However, I think this place is wonderful, for $7.99 you can have an all you can eat Lunch buffet everyday (including weekends). There is a decent selection of the typical small dishes, their chapchae is pretty good, and their bbq ribs are awesome. Its not too oily and really tasty. They have on the side(in a rice warmer) ginseng chicken porridge. If you like porridge, you'll like it! They  have cut up fruit for dessert and punch too.

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