Edmonds Restaurant Guide

Welcomed to our Hosoonyi Korean Restaurant, HKR.
Since the day of its opening at this location in 1996, HKR has been serving gourmet Korean food keeping the sustainability of the genuine old Korean flavor its tradition. The Seattle Times' naming HKR as one of the oldest and famous Korean restaurant in town is a testimonial of the fact that HKR is trying hard to maintain this tradition of serving delicious authentic Korean food. HKR considers serving mouth watering Korean food is very important. However, HKR also wants to give every customer a delectable dining experience in friendly and comfortable atmosphere of the frugal dinner at home.

Diners want to enjoy good food and a wonderful time, but there is a notable benefit they can not overlook when dining at HKR.

Three main sauces HKR use come from fermented and matured soy beans. They are hot pepper & soybean paste, soybean paste, and seasoned & aged sauce. When it comes to soy sauce very few restaurants makes them in-house. Unlike off-the-shelf sauces other ethnic restaurants use, these sauces are meticulously made and aged with traditional recipes by HKR. This aging process give sauces lingering deep tastes and "craving for more" characteristic, which means "your body knows that you need this".For instance, the Duen-jaang HKR makes in house is known to have more conjugated linoleic acid, genistein, and other substances that are effective in preventing cancer, and this cancer preventing property of Duen-Jaang is being officially recognized by more and more health institutions and experts over the world. Substance found in duen-jaang have some other beneficial properties; they help prevent osteoporosis, suppress AIDS virus, restore and detoxify liver, alleviate headaches, lower blood pressure, reduce cholesterol, and etc.