You know when you stumble upon a hole-in-the-wall that surprises and delights you? Keep walking; this ain't it.
We're immediately suspicious because the haemul pahjun (seafood pancake, sort of) is oval. An oval mass of glutinous and overfried abomination. The banchan is underwhelming, even though we're famished and could have eaten dirt at that point. There's haemul dubbap (mixed rice with seafood) and bibimbap (another type of mixed rice, this time with meat), but they won't make me a haemul bibimbap. So I order the regular bibimbap, minus the meat, but instead of the symphony of tastes I expect, the ingredients present a sum that is so much less than its parts.
Diclaimer: I have no first-hand knowledge of the eponoymous dish. I hear it's decent, hence the second star.