Wonderful and delicious experience! Great marinated crab and more. Arriving/planning: Takes reservations online which is very convenient! Parking in K-Town is usually challenging but there's an underground parking area clearly marked for Ondal Crab House and there's some street parking too. We went as a table of 4 and booked a couple days in advance and we're seated immediately. Menu/food/beverage: We were there for the uni rice and raw marinated crab but the interesting and varied menu meant we ordered more. Uni rice (large size, HUGE urchins) is a must, served to the brim and drizzled with some sauce before mixing gently and self scooped. Sweet, fresh, luxurious. The addition of soy marinated shrimp is a great value too. The raw marinated female crab came with two and were meaty and eggy, be sure to order portions of rice to stuff the shell and get all the flavors. The dough soup seafood stew is excellent and kept hot at your table on the stovetop. The seafood pancake is crispy, hot, and packed with chunks of fresh seafood, one of the best we've had. The banchan is fresh and well seasoned too, not too sweet. Service: The whole time the lady helping us was wonderful. Helpful with the menu, providing us gloves for eating, laughing as we reacted to the beautiful platters of food, hand-tearing fresh dough for the dough seafood stew, cutting every bit of the marinated crab for easy access. Instant favorite spot in Koreatown. Wonderful and already making plans to bring friends here next time they're in town. read more

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Friendly servers greet you when you walk in. We got our barley tea and panjan. We ordered mung bean pancakes as well as the seafood stew. It's a barebones location. Tables clean but half filled when we came in. Food arrived hot and our server was good about getting our dish easy to serve. read more

Ondal Crab House - Seafood stew - Korean Near Me - Los Angeles, California

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We used to go the now closed Ondal in Washington and I've been literally craving their spicy beef stew. Parking is hard to find in this side of town but we decided to go anyway. The stew is still as good as I remember it but the disappointment is the banchan. It was so much better in the other Ondal. Overall, I'll comeback to get the crab stew next time. read more

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Im giving 2 stars because the worker was nice, that's it. Definitely look at other options for seafood ESPECIALLY for the soy sauce marinated crab and uni bowl the marinated crabs were sooo salty me and my friends had a headache, and it also had a bitter aftertaste. The uni bowl was bad, definitely not fresh. It had an outer brown shell, which means it wasn't fresh it was supposed to be dark purple/black, and the uni itself was so slimy :( also it was really expensive like 4 thin pieces of short ribs were $47, like it wasn't even enough for 1 person. To add, there was so music playing, and nobody else was there. Talk about awkward. Sorry I wish I had nicer things to say I really do but we were all just disappointed. read more

Very delicious Whenever I want to eat crab soup, I only come to this restaurant. I've been eating at this restaurant for about 10 years and the taste is always the same. I love this place read more

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Great steamed and soup seafood options! Restaurant is clean and the staff are very nice. Best place to get spicy steamed monkfish! read more

Ondal Crab House - Steamed monk fish - Korean Near Me - Los Angeles, California

Sweet pear dessert soup Very nice service No uni urchin bowl unfortunately Got the marinated crab and shrimp The beef stew was very flavorful- full of carrots, beef and ttoek rice cakes We were the only ones there around 6-7 pm read more

Ondal Crab House - Stew - Korean Near Me - Los Angeles, California

A legacy place for korean spicy crab stew. Always hits the spot and love always coming back. Friendly service as always and always hits tasty. read more

Ondal Crab House - Korean Near Me - Los Angeles, California

Ondal is my go-to place for soy sauce marinated crab. The best part about their crab is that you get the high quality crab for a reasonable price, unlike some other more popular establishments in the same area. I've been here twice and the food is consistent. Along with the marinated crab, the monk fish stew is also a great choice. The small portion is plenty for 2 people to share with leftovers if you order more than 1 dish. Don't forget that you also get banchan! At lunchtime on either weekday or weekend, the restaurant is quiet, so you are guaranteed a table. Service is smooth and the lady who serves is so sweet. Can't wait to come back. I definitely consider this a nice lowkey gem of ktown! read more

One of my favorite restaurants in K-town LA. Loved since 2006. BEST CRAB place in LA!!!!! read more

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It used to be truly delicious, but lately, I find myself disappointed every time I visit. It seems the freshness has really declined.

Steamed Monk fish and seafood pancake is very delicious! Service is very nice and restaurant is very clean. read more

Worth the drive to LA for this Korean seafood pot! Everything was fresh and full of flavor -- the broth, the seafood, and all the extras hit the spot. Always fun to make a little trip out of it, enjoy great food, and have a good time read more

Ondal Crab House - Korean Near Me - Los Angeles, California

Food was pretty decent but they'll complain and ask to be tipped more because apparently $20 tips wasn't good enough.

Did this place level up, or did my taste buds finally get it? Pulled up here four years ago, and it was just alright--fresh seafood but nothing crazy. Recently gave it another shot with their spicy crab soup, and wow... they popped off. The broth was deep and flavorful, and the crab was next level. A few weeks later, I went back for the seafood hot pot, and yeah... they understood the assignment. Spicy, refreshing broth with fresh shrimp, squid, and mussels? Absolute win. Either they upgraded, or I finally know what's good--but either way, I'm coming back read more

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My favorite seafood restaurant for 20 years! Always consistent, fresh and delicious. Staff is very friendly too! Super casual dinner spot in Ktown. read more

I've been this place twice. I known this place long time but never try before. I wanted give this place 2.5 star. One of my other favorite restaurant closed early than this place so I went to this place eat spicy crab soup with soojebi. We ordered before went to here because kitchen closed 9pm. Emo's were very accommodating even it's close to closing time. They never push to us and made feel us while eat but I worried that only left 50mins for close restaurant and it automatically made us eating faster lol. We didn't want to they over worked for us. Spicy crab soup(3/5) - emo cutting crab for us. It little salty for us but it was fine. Soojebi wasn't great than I expected. I would like to eat fried rice which's popular here. Second visit this place I took my friend who visit from Dallas. We ordered spicy seafood soup. Spicy seafood soup(3/5)-nothing special. Tasted similar crab soup but fried rice was amazing. If you going to this place must try fried rice!! But you can't order one, minimum order from 2. Banchan was ok and sikhye was amazing They sell sikhye. I bought twice here. I bought sikhye also my friend bought sikhye. read more

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I took out steamed crab today (11/23/25), but the crab was so mushy and spoiled that I threw it all away. I will never go to this restaurant again, and you all should never order crab from here!!! read more

Took my mom for her bday and we have different opinions! My mom preferred the spicy raw crab because she didn't enjoy the unusual flavoring of the soy! I personally really enjoyed the soy marinated crab because it tastes like they used star anise in the marinade! I feel that it added an extra depth of flavor and probably helped with any fishy smell. The stew was amazing as well, crab meat was very soft! Highly recommend! read more

Ondal Crab House - Soy marinated crab - Korean Near Me - Los Angeles, California

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I love their food, especially the beef stew. I've been to 2 locations in LA and one location in Garden Grove. Food quality is always superb! The portion is huge. We ordered the regular size beef stew, which they said was good for only 2 people. Thought it wouldn't be enough so we ordered a seafood pancake too. Turn out four of us couldn't finish it. The leftovers were good for another breakfast and dinner haha. Their beef stew is a MUST! I've been to many Korean restaurants, and have only seen this dish in another restaurant in Rowland Highs. Also, when you are done with white rice, ask for ramen. And if you're still hungry afterwards, ask for their fried rice, they will make fried rice with whatever left in your pot. The server ladies are very nice and attentive. The only one downside is the parking :(. They have free valet parking right under the restaurant, but there aren't many spots. Your best luck is street parking but also very hard to find. We had to walk 10 mins to park. The food was good and worth it though. read more

Ondal Crab House - Banchan - Korean Near Me - Los Angeles, California

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Soup are really good and delicious Nice service Have sooo many appetite dishes with chives pancakes, All are very delicious ! read more

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The crab dishes at this place are amazing!! They got hands down the best spicy marinated crab in town. The crab soup is super flavorful. If you are a crab lover, you gotta come to this place. The Korean auntie was very friendly and taught us the traditional way of eating the dishes. read more

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Awesome seafood soup! Highly recommend on cold winter days to go with soju. Service is best! read more

Ondal Crab House - Awesome seafood soup on cold days. Awesome north to go with soju. Highly recommend! - Korean Near Me - Los Angeles, California

Good 간장게장 and 꽃게탕 with 수제비. 식혜 for dessert. Small parking garage $3 valet in the evening read more

Ondal Crab House - Soy sauce marinated raw crab and spicy crab stew - Korean Near Me - Los Angeles, California

Sorry one photo only, just go try it fam. My Childhood Fooodddddd It's always so gooodddd They never missss and they continueee to hit Guys, guys. Feb - March crab season Today way came back. They start you off with sides of banchan + a freshly pan fried Korea squash pancake Next, we ordered the spicy crab stew in Korean 꼿게탕. COME ON NOW Lastly, and my personal favorite, hand pulled noods with fried rice made with the crab stew. Can't get any better then this fam. read more

I came to this Korean restaurant with my friends for the first time, I was come from far away, driving for three hours, very disappointed, the first time to eat such a bad crab soup, very fishy, bad taste ，It tastes like dead crab from the supermarket ，and three quarters of the soup is bean sprouts，Don't waste money read more

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Valet parking: $2 I Ordered the seafood soup (party of 5) Size large - perfect size and with zero leftovers Soup came out and my server went ahead and cut the seafood into bite size pieces Once we we were done eating the seafood, we asked for "soo jae bee" - the server came with dough and ripped it into small bite size pieces... so good! You must ask for it!!! At the end, ask for rice and they make fried rice with seaweed, sesame oil, and some other items I can't remember... it was so good!!!!!!!!! When the bill came out, the server gave each of us "shikae" - sweet rice drink - perfect way to end the meal! There was no wait when I went I saw several people order food Togo read more

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Bad food and expensive. Be prepared to be charged More than $100/person if you order raw crabs and other pots. The food quantity is bad and not fresh. The service is also bad. Probably my worst meal experience with my friends this year. I feel bad for taking my friends there too read more

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The SPOT to come if you're craving bomb korean style raw crab and or korean food!! As of late my favorite items here are:: -spicy marinated raw crab -soy sauce marinated raw crab (SOO good!!) -spicy galbi jim- comes in a size small or medium but it's a big portion so great to share. -also order the fried rice that they make for you when you order the spicy galbi jjim. Its delicious and they will make it on the side to eat alongside everything! Everything is so good and I love coming with my family! read more

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It's such a misleading advertisement (I started following them on IG several months ago, because they seemed so good). I traveled all the way from Colorado to take my sister here for her belated birthday celebration because she loves uni and crab. The first disappointment was being informed that uni was unavailable; next, the crab we ordered was nothing like what was shown in the video--it was extremely small, so I ordered another one and they turned out to be overly salty. The agoo chim (아구찜) we ordered contained only a few pieces of fish and mostly bean sprouts. Even their side dishes (반찬) were excessively salty, with the salad being the only decent item. I wish I had taken photos of what we were actually served. Ironically, I did enjoy their rice, likely because we usually eat brown and grain rice at home for health reasons, and I was also very hungry. I don't mind spending money or even paying significantly more when the food quality is excellent and tasty (especially on this special occasion once a year for her b-day), but I feel deeply disappointed and deceived. It's disheartening to take your favorite sister out for her birthday, filled with anticipation, only to end up disappointing her. read more

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY AND TIME HERE. If I could, I would rate this place for under zero star for the service over here. All people will know Korean foods that are always served with white rice or brown rice. Yesterday I ordered octopus with short rib and JUST BY ITSELF. No rices at all. I have been coming here several times and it went down day by day. There was a few customer for 5 or 6 servers so the working load was light. They were supposed to go around and check if customer was ok or not. No-one walked to my table and asked that. Most importantly, DEMANDING TIPS. I paid by card and tip by cash. I put 1 bill of $5 and 3 bills of $1. The lady pulled my friend back and asked for more tips. That was very SHAMEFUL, DIRTY and DISGUSTING behavior. Guys! Tip is a compliment for your service not customers have to pay that for you. I have the rights not to tip you if i am not happy with the service. I think $8 was too much for your dirty behavior. However, the food is still good. read more

Amazingly tasty seafood stew. We ate seafood stew and marinated crabs...delicious! This restaurant has been in business for 20 years!!!

If you have a craving for crab. This is it. If you're getting the soup, ask for the fried rice afterwards. I prefer the spicy sweet raw crab over the soy. Haven't tried anything else but will next time. The eemo's are super nice and helpful. PS - hook yourself up with a bib esp if you're wearing anything white. read more

Ondal Crab House - Kkohtgyetang - crab soup, yangnyum - spicy sweet raw crab, gahnjang - soy sauce raw crab. - Korean Near Me - Los Angeles, California

DELICIOUS crab soup. I was a little hesitant because of the number of bad reviews here but we had an amazing meal. We ordered the crab soup for two and the crab was so tender and soft, Melt in your mouth. They also give you a bunch of side dishes. You can also add soojaebi and fried rice at the end as additional options/charges. The peeling is street parking. You can't park in the hotel lot unfortunately. We got lucky with parking in the neighborhood. The ladies who were serving us were so sweet and nice. We will certainly come back next time we're craving a hot, clean, spicy soup. read more

NEVER COME IN THIS PLACE!!! The crab is not fresh, but they said it's fresh. When you were eating, they just stood behind you, watching you eating all the time. The beef is ok but not so good. It only contained just a little bit of meat. Do not come to this place!!!! read more

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First time here, SO GOOD. First of all, the crab is huge and packed with meat. The soup is super refreshing, you can also choose the level of spiciness to your liking. I personally think this place tastes better than a lot of the places in Korea that sell the same menus. I can't wait to come try all the other menus in the near future. Highly recommended. P.S. The staff were super sweet and accommodated our needs very well. read more

Ondal Crab House - Spicy Crab Stew - Korean Near Me - Los Angeles, California

Food is not fresh. Very bad. For the crab soup，too much bean sprouts，only one small crab inside. read more

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I've been craving spicy haemuljjim(assorted seafood steam/boil)for awhile and this is the only place I go to whenever I come to LA. Yesterday I got take out and the service was awesome. I tried to call to place an order for pick up but the line was busy so I just decided to do a walk-in order. There weren't any customers which made ordering quick. After you order they tell you to park in the hotel parking lot so they could bring the food out to you once it's ready. I ordered the large haemuljjim(which never disappoints), their flavor is always consistent and on point especially when it comes to salt level to how much spicer I want it. For that reason I continue to come here and order the same thing. I'm also not a big fan of Korean crabs(because they are too small!) and in soup versions. So there was another reviewer who posted about not having their crab cut in a certain manner, well if you got scissors at home then you can do it yourself. The reason I brought this up was because in the haemuljjim it comes with an assorted array of seafood: a whole Korean crab(similar to the blue crab), a lot of big shrimps, a few mussels, scallops and monk fish, a whole squid and a whole nakji[I guess a teenage octopus--it's not the those big octopus or the baby ones either it's a medium sized one], along with these small weird looking things that are of the sea squirt family called miduhduk, and of a lot of bean sprouts. My squid and octopus came whole which I don't mind because it was a take out(I have two capable hands, a scissor and tongs to cut them to however size at home)and usually when you dine at the restaurant they cut it for you. Along with the take out they gave us a bottle of iced shikhye which I did not expect cause they usually give it to you at the end when dining in. That made my 1hr and half drive back to Santa Barbara awesome. I will admit I've never tried their crab soup all these other people seem to be disappointed about. That's mostly because their haemuljjim is a lot superior when it come to sheer size and flavor. Ooooh aside for coming with assorted banchans, it also came with kimchijeon(kimchi pancake). It was sooo good I ALMOST did not give any to my wife. A lot of the times when other Korean restaurants give you some sort of pancake along with their banchan it is usually lacking in flavor or bland. Coming here several times their pancake whether it be the veggie kind or kimich(which actually had a lot of kimichi in it, other places just use the juice and add about two slices) has always been on point. Their fried rice after the main course is my favorite even after being full of sea creatures, it's so addicting. Since it was a take out it would end up being DIY, which is not hard(just use the seafood and veggies you couldn't finish, add rice and other accoutrements to your liking and TADAAA!) Too bad being in Santa Barbara I can't get this kinda seafood I want here so whenever I need to go to the Korean I stop by here whenever I crave haemuljjim. read more

Ondal Crab House - Large haemuljjim(assorted variety of seafood boil) with assorted banchan. - Korean Near Me - Los Angeles, California

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Good and tasty Korean food My family love it a lot. If you like sea food, you should be here. read more

Used to come here when it was a lot cheaper before covid but none the less this place is so so good. Unfortunately I can only afford it like once every six months lolll read more