Bong Yi

one of the best Korean soup! Satisfied fast service and nice crew.

Awsome! !I found a good korean restaurant in Cerritos.. I am so happy and I was looking for good korean food. Hell ya !!! I am coming back tomorrow

Seriously the BEST bossam in LA. Butter like.
I was a big fan of Kobawoo in LA till I found this place.

Best service and great food. Good service good price. Bo-​ssam and everything good!!!

Fantastic service! Staffs are super friendly. Great food. Best beef bone soup ever. Must try!

Bong Yi is a quiet, unassuming Korean restaurant on the corner of Bloomfield and Carson/​Lincoln. It’s in the same plaza as BBQ Night.
Seafood noodle soup ($ 8.99) — this was the best item of the meal. We ordered this for my kids so they could eat the noodles, but I ended up enjoying this dish the most. The broth was excellent. It was refined, flavorful, and delicious. It was somehow light and rich simultaneously. It reminded me of Vietnamese phở broth. It had a nice balance of sweet and salty. This really impressed me. I would recommend it to anyone trying Bong Yi.
Dish I don’t know the name of ($?) — the dish that came with pork, lettuce, tofu, veggies, and kimchi strips was very good. My cousin’s husband, who is Korean, ordered for the table, and I forgot to ask him the name of this plate. The pork reminded me of chashu that is used in ramen. Apparently the difference though, is that this pork was steamed, whereas ramen pork is typically roasted. Nevertheless, we assembled all the ingredients into the lettuce, making lettuce wraps. The kimchi strips added a textual crunch, which contrasted nicely against the tofu and veggies. The pork was tender, fatty, and wonderful.
Seafood pancake ($ 14.99) — IMO, this was overpriced. There wasn’t much quality seafood inside. We basically paid 14.99 for a big omelette with a few basic seafood ingredients.
Bulgogi bibimbap ($ 10.99) — it’s listed as «rice mixed with bulgogi in the hot stone pot» which is basically bulgogi bibimbap. This dish was good. We mixed together all of the ingredients – crispy rice, bulgogi, and various veggies. I added a little hot sauce to kick up the flavor a notch.
I recommend coming here if you want to experience traditional Korean dishes, versus the more commonplace ayce kbbq’s that seem to be sprouting up everywhere these days (I love those too!)

I was toay for to go in the afternoon .They were not busy there .(just one customer) when i went inside they ignored even did not say ‘HI ´ also when i called for to go before the restaurant , waitress was unkind. nerved. when i wait the pay my order the food , she just did organize card receipt and she just did get her tips at the desk. when i was focus to her, she passed over everything except tips. Foods are good taste there but not good service.

Great service! Love their pork feet! I guess this one is the best Korean restaurant in OC. I’m definately comimg back!

Nice and cheap food. Tastes decent for the price and usually has plenty of room. The gamja tang is pretty good here but most people come to eat the sulungtang. Parking lot is usually pretty packed because of the market next door.

Went to this mom and pop restaurant for lunch with the in-​laws, who are Chinese, and my kids. We had Dolsot Bibimbap, seolleongtang with brisket, and bulgogi on rice. Everybody loved their dishes, including the kids! Pretty reliable dishes, just right ripeness of the kimchi and gakdugi. But WTH — No banchan!?! Place got an «A» rating during its last health and sanitation inspection.

The name of this place changed… it used to be bogle wagle or something like that. The food is pretty good, terrific prices. Normally, Korean restaurants the servers leave you alone but have doorbells on the tables or walk around looking for hands raised to help. These ladies kept their eyes on the floor so you also have to speak up to get their attention (just so you know). I don’t like their spicy pork as much as I do from BBQ Night or a couple other joints we visit for our BBQ fix. The barley tea here is really, really good! The bulgogi is really good as well! All in all you will get good food and good value here.

The servers are always very pleasant. It opens very early so I can come in here after my AM walk. Their soups are very tasty. Bibimbap may be more toasted… just request it.

Great Gam-​ja-​tang (potato, pork neck-​bone stew). It’s semi-​spicy, hot, and filled to the brim with pork bones and a quarter of a mid sized potato and some greens, perilla leaves. There’s only so much you can fit in a bowl. All you need is a side of rice and you’re good to go.
Great for dinner on a cold winter’s night. This place is pretty busy because it’s a good spot. They make traditional Korean food, properly. The service suffers a little at times but its all good, nothing too crazy.
They have quite the menu and don’t really specialize in any one thing. But the Gam-​ja-​tang is pretty popular here. Also, they don’t give you all the ban-​chans (side dishes) that you might be used to getting, just good kimchi, thats it.

Hubby likes the donkatsu here. You get two huge pieces for $ 9.99. More than enough for two ppl to share if you ask me. Their dolsot bibimbab is not bad. It comes in a shallow/​extra-​wide stone bowl to maximize amount of crispy rice at the bottom. You’ll def like it if you like your dolsot with lots of nooroongji.

Bong Yi is our go-​to restaurant for good wholesome Korean soups and pork tonkatsu. For a place that is as busy as it is, they’re pretty efficient juggling the in-​house guests as well as the multitude of take-​out orders. Parking can be hard to find on the weekends because you’re competing for space with the Zion Market shoppers. Once you’re in the door, you can pretty much seat yourself.
There are no additional side dishes other than kimchi. There is a place mat that also serves as your menu. Most of the popular dishes are around $ 6.99 (sulungtang) to $ 8.99 (pork tonkatsu). I highly recommend the «potato soup,» which is basically one large piece of potato in a perilla leaf stew. However, the pork pieces are plentiful and deliciously juicy.
I love how the food comes out quickly, where wait times won’t be longer than say, 5 minutes. Most likely because most of the soups are ready to go, boiling in a large vat. The portion sizes for the soups and friend dishes are extremely generous. The only thing I wished was that they served a bigger portion of rice, which to me at least, I can finish in a few bites. Like all Korean restaurants, the waitresses will ignore you once your food is out, unless you call them out. The bathroom out back is unisex, and could use a bit more attention in terms of cleanliness. Please remember that there is a $ 10 minimum for credit card purchases.

This place definitely deserves 4 star. Food is cheap (can’t beat 5.99) and beef soup comes with more meat than any other comparable restaurants. Good food, good service, great price. Will be back.

good food. terrible everything else. Unless you are a full blooded Korean. Then they are nice to you.
They wouldn’t even sell me some extra gakduki kimchi to go with my solangtang when I asked nicely to BUY some. Not because they didn’t have any… they told me they had some, just refused to sell it to me! I am only half Korean… is that not enough to buy some gakduki kimchi??! Booooo!
My mom was a regular here, but now we go to the place off of La Palma and Moody. Never again Bong Yi! Never again!!!
La Palma/Moody’s solangtang is bomb and they are nice even to us half-​breeds.

This place is probably known for their Sulungtang (beef soup) but with at lunch time with the temperature nearing 100 degrees, I opted to get their Yulmoogooksoo (spicy cold noodles). The side dishes they gave out were minimal with only kimchi and kkakdugi but can’t really complain since they were both very good. The gave out less noodles than I had anticipated but at $ 7, the amount of food was good enough.
Next time around, I’d probably get the Sulungtang since that’s their main thing, but only if I’m not willing to wait 30 minutes at Hanyang.

This place DISCRIMINATES non-​Koreans!!! We waited 15mins, called the server but were ignored. However every Korean that walked in after us immediately got served. We’ve gone to this place twice in the past month, and loved the food! But this is the first that we’ve been mistreated!!! We walked out and went to another K restaurant! I will give them 1 star for the food. But they have just lost a customer!

New owner has taken over the management and change the name and interior.
Their beef soup is really good.
Napa cabbage kimchi and radish kimchi are both excellent!