Haewah Dal - Long Beach

Always a great meal here. The flavors are amazing and the service was excellent. One of our favorite neighborhood spots.

Love the chicken and the appetizers. The atmosphere is very cute comfy. The place is great. Nice wine selection. Highly recommend.

We stopped here on a whime after tooling around 2nd st for a while. There was one other person having dinner but otherwise dead.The restaurant smelled of cleaner, not of food.I had the Pork Soondubu Jjigae and my companion had the Beef Bulgogi.My soup had Zero salt. Like, none. It tasted very under flavored and kinda flat.The Bulgogi was in large pieces like a flank steak and also tasted under seasoned, like it wasn't marinated for very long or with enough seasoning. It was cooked well though, and butter tender, a knife was not needed to cut it.The kimchi itself was bad. It tasted so heavily of horseradish. That is not a flavor anyone expects while eating kimchi.The dumplings were pretty clearly frozen and not house made which is surprising considering the price.The best thing I ate there was actually the green beans they brought out with the little side bites spread. Those were very very good.

There is a serious lack of representation of Korean food in Long Beach so we were excited about this place. Then we heard that this was Korean fine dining, which sounded intriguing but it sounded like people complained so they re-branded to something more casual. But now the problem is that it's just an ordinary Korean restaurant that is kinda pricey and not as good as something you could find in Garden Grove. We got the tofu soup, the oxtail soup, the bibimbop, and the cauliflower. The bibimbop was pretty boring and flavorless. Did get some good crispy rice at the bottom but nothing memorable. The tofu soup had a different taste in the broth, a little smokier than what you might find in a traditional tofu soup spot but still decent. The soup also wasn't that hot so the egg never really cooked at all. Now onto the good. The banchan (which comes with the soups or any of the main dishes) was decent but really small portions. The oxtail soup was the most flavorful and probably the best of the bunch. The fried cauliflower (we got the spicy kind) was also good. A little sweet, had a spice (but not spicy) and some crunch to it. Probably the dish with the most mass appeal. The waiter was SUPER nice although maybe not that attentive? He never offered to bring more banchan and we had to always ask for more water. At the end of the day, I'm not sure what this place is supposed to be. A neighborhood Korean joint with good home cooking? A modern Korean spot with a twist? Just not sure and I'm not sure the owners know either.

The perfect mix of flavors! Loved the glabitang meat and borth along with everything else we got.