Chunju Han-il Kwan

Technically, Chunji Han-il Kwan isn’t a hot pot specialist in the cook-your-own sense of the word, but the Koreatown restaurant serves one of the city’s best cauldrons of budae jjigae, also known as military stew. Stacked with ramen noodles, Spam, sausages, rice cakes, veggies, the kimchi-based soup is just too delicious to ignore and does, in fact, come to the table boiling hot. Each order easily feeds two to three people, and pairs beautifully with the banchan assortment, and maybe one of the restaurant’s delicious seafood pancakes.