Shabu & Congbul

Yum! Would have never found out about this hidden little restaurant if not for my Korean friend recommending the authentic congbul here.
To be honest I didn’t know what congbul was until yesterday but it was delicious! We ordered the pork & bean sprout congbul which is essentially a mountain of bean sprouts with rolled up thin pork slices and rice cakes all mixed with their in house spicy sauce on a hot plate. Perfect amount for 2 people. Best part about this is that they have someone cooking it on the plate for you so no worries about scalding hot oil or ruining your new shirt.
The combo also comes with appetizers, seaweed soup, steamed egg and purple rice at the end to fry up in on the hot plate with the remaining congbul sauce. The seaweed they use here in their apps and soup is so silky smooth and the steamed egg was such a bonus. I was stuufffffed.
All that food I ate + beer was only $ 20 per person! Definitely bang for your buck ladies and gents.

Came here for lunch and ordered the pork tabletop combo. So it’s basically a hot plate with pork slices, bean sprouts, and other small flavourings. The side dishes are the typical ones you get at your average korean restaurants. In addition, this place gave us a seaweed soup, which was nice and bland that balanced the heavier taste from the pork. Also, there was a nice lettuce salad that helped balance everything too.
Our waiter cooked everything for us so all we needed to do was to eat. After we were done about about 60% of the dish, my friend ordered rice and the waiter added the rice into the remaining contents of the hot plate and made it into a korean fried rice dish.
Overall, this may not be the most healthy meal, but it was definitely filling (mmm carbs…). It is also pretty good and cost friendly. Everything was $ 20 ish (lunch prices), which was shared by my friend and I. I would come here again and try their other items if I’m in the area.

3.5
Foods ok but pork has lots and lots of fat. That’s why the fried rice at the end tastes so good.
Parking is good in this plaza.

I’m rating this place 5-​star because both the food and the service is terrific! It’s our first time here and we came for dinner. I’m glad I made a reservation because the place fills up after 7pm!
We ordered the pork and bean sprouts congbul (min 2 portions), a huge plate of thin sliced pork with a mountain of mung bean sprouts and Korean spicy soybean paste. A server will cook it down for you on the hotplate in the middle of the table. It was delicious. It comes with numerous sides including tasty chilled kimchi and steamed egg. I like their soft, purple rice too. We also ordered a plate of bulgogi for the kids. It was good too.
Towards the end of our meal, our server came back to ask if we want to make fried rice with our remaining congbul. Of course we would try that! He brought out a plate of purple rice with seasoned dry seaweed mixed in and made fried rice for us. It was again, delicious!
We’ll go back for sure and will also try their shabu shabu.

I LOVE SHABU CONGBUL. The thing you have to eat here is the congbul. It is perfect and when you are finished you can ask for rice with kimchi and the result is soooo nice. It has egg and sea soup, salad, spicy pork, bean sprouts and rice. It is one of my favorite meals I discoverer in Toronto. Totally recommended.

Um… no. Maybe I ordered the wrong thing — off their a la carte menu, as opposed to shabu (hot pot) — but this place was just alright for me.
Firstly, I ordered the Spicy Beef Soup — they didn’t have PBS. And instead of brisket cut beef, there were less than a dozen slices of bulgogi beef. Thank you for cheapenin’ out, but I know the difference!
The rest of the soup was literally less than a few slices of black mushroom, a few slices of onion, and bam… bean sprouts. It was pretty spicy, but watery, tasty, but $ 9.99 for a cheaper cut of meat and bean sprouts? No, I don’t think so.
Also ordered the bulgogi with rice and that was ok.
They wrote $ 12.99 for the Spicy Beef Soup on the receipt, said it was a mistake, and apologised, so I can only go on their word. So watch your receipt!
Just ok, maybe better for «shabu», but their specialty seem to consist of a whack loada bean sprouts + a few slices of shabu shabu meat + spicy sauce. Not much options if you don’t do the cooking at the table.

Really fresh and authentic food. The BBQ was different than anything I’ve had. We cooked the meat and vegetables in a big bowl of vegetable broth which gave the broth a nice flavour at the end. The server didn’t speak English very well but was very friendly.

I am glad i tried this restaurant without even understanding what CONGBUL means.
thanks to other reviewers who wrote interesting reviews.
I tried their seafood and pork congbul, and it was spicy and yummy.
banchan was not what you get typically but egg soup and salad and seaweed soup made good compliment to the Congbul.
the server made nice fried rice after finishing about half of the Congbul. Its a must if you ever try Congbul.
price was cheap, but food didn’t feel like cheap at all.
I will definitely go back

Restaurant: Shabu & Congbul
Cuisine: Korean
Location: Vaughan
Address: 390 Steeles Ave W
Price Range: $ 10~
1: Poor 2: OK 3: Good 4: Very Good 5: Excellent
Food: 3
Service: 3
Ambiance: 3
Overall: 3
Extra information:
* Vegetarian friendly
* Minimum 2 order for Congbul
For those of you who love Korean table top cooking style, you will love this restaurant. Shabu & Congbul specialize in Korean table top cooking and Shabu Shabu. Honestly, I don’t really care for Korean Hot Pot so there was no doubt I wanted to try CongBul. CongBul is a short term for Cong-​Na-​Mul (beansprout) & Bul-​Go-​Gi (Korean BBQ) and I ordered OhSamCongBul which comes with Squid, Pork and Bean Sprout
It is unfortunately minimum 2 order for this specific dish so make sure to go with a friend or be prepared to stuff your face. They have difference price for lunch and dinner so keep that in mind plus you can order regular or extra spicy.
I went with 2 friends and we order 3 servings of CongBul, regular spicy and it comes with the main dish, steamed egg soup, seaweed soup, 3 side dishes and rice. The main dish consists of squid, thinly sliced pork, rice cake, beansprout and other veggies.
My friends and I love meat so we decided to add on 2 sides of sliced pork and 1 side of rice cake on top of everything.
I personally don’t really like seaweed soup to begin with but their seaweed soup tasted a little too instant for me but it was nice to have some mild soup since the main dish does get pretty spicy
Steamed egg soup is a nice palette cleanser in between to give your mouth some rest from spicy food
Everything comes in a flat square pan uncooked and the servers will help you– Pork is sliced very thin so it does cook pretty fast
Just like every Korean table top cooking, you can order rice at the end and they will make fried rice for you with the left over sauce.
The rice comes with seaweed, kimchi and sesame oil and they will cook it for you
Summary: Another Korean table top cooking restaurant for you to try if you like Joons. It is not a large restaurant and it does fill up during dinner time so make sure to get there early. The restaurant is hidden inside the plaza North of Steeles so watch out for it if you decide to drop by.

I’ve been to this restaurant for a couple times within a month with my different friends. We’ve tried both shabu shabu and congbul!
I can’t take spicy foods, so congbul is not my number 1 choice.
Really love their shabu shabu~ after finish all the beefs and vegetables, followed with noodles, and then congee~ Congee is the best, as it has all the favours from the beginning :-D
This is a very busy restaurant, however, their waiters /​waitress try their best to serve everyone in the restaurant. It’ll be a better experience if they can hire one or two person to help during the prime time!

I absolutely love trying out new foods. Just when I thought I had tried everything Korean food has to offer, I find this place.
Shabu means Shabu Shabu (or hot pot). Congbul () means bean sprout cooking. Shabu Shabu is not hard to find in the GTA, but this is the ONLY place to get Congbul so that’s what we got. Looking at what other tables got, we were pretty happy we found this place.
Congbul is basically lots of bean sprouts+ your choice of toppings. You can have bean sprouts + pork, or bean sprouts + seafood. We went with the pork. When the order comes, you’ll notice that it looks really big, but don’t worry, bean sprout is mostly made of water. It’ll shrink as it gets cooked. If you don’t know how to cook, don’t worry, one of the severs will help you.
In terms of taste, this is a spicy dish (looks red). I like it. Price wise, it was about $ 10 per serving + tax and tip so it ended up under $ 30 for 2 people. Pretty good as we were full afterwards. The best part is that this is a very healthy way of cooking. Bean sprouts are healthy and you’re cooking without oil.
I looked at their menu. If you want more mainstream Korean foods like stone pot rice or cold noodles, they have those too. But if you come to this place for the first time, I insist that you try congbul as it’s the ONLY restaurant I know that serves this.

Shabu & Congbul?
The name of this Korean Restaurant making me a little worry…
I am not sure what is Congbul? And I know most place would not have serve me Shabu Shabu if I dine alone. since most of the places I went you need to order at least 2 portions…
Congbul is a mixture of vegetables especially bean sprouts, pork or squid, served on a flat iron plate. mixed with noodles and rice? Sadly you need to order at least 2 portions. so I just watch others eating that or a Shabu Shabu, while I slurping on
Korean Seafood Noodle ($ 6.99)
— Extra Spicy Please… the waiter asked me twice if I am sure… Yes Please
— The menu said it is «Home Made» Noodle… but did they make it here? or they get in from somewhere… the noodle is surprising cooked al dente with a great bite!
— The broth was spiced with Thai Chili… and this really reminds me of Tom Yum Soup with a little sourness
— Squid, Shrimp, Bay Scallops and mussels, the squids tasted the best!
The banchan is a little disappointing! They don’t even give me any Kimchi??! No Kimchi in a Korean Restaurant!!!
Lunch Specials for their Shabu and Congbul. Most of the other items starts from $ 6.99… pricing are quite reasonable.
They accepts Visa and Master Card.