Pohang sashimi takeout with ice packs at Hoetjip Jin

Ordering sashimi (raw fish) takeout inside Guryongpo Market

Hoetjip Jin (횟집진) ✔️ Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 10:30–21:00 ✔️ Sat–Sun 10:30–21:30 ✔️ Closed every Wednesday 👉 Dine-in last orders 20:30–21:00 👉 Takeout available 📍 Public parking is available across the street

Where does everyone go when they visit Pohang?? A lot of you probably head toward Guryongpo to see the sea. And there’s one place you just can’t leave out on a Guryongpo trip! Guryongpo Market, of course?? It isn’t huge, but it has lots of good places to eat—sashimi restaurants, barbecue spots, dried seafood shops, snow crab sellers, and more. There are plenty of sashimi restaurants inside Guryongpo Market too. On this Guryongpo trip, we stopped by Hoetjip Jin, where we had also bought sashimi with our own money on our last trip. We ordered takeout to eat at our accommodation!

There were four adults, and we were having it with meat too, so we went with the reasonably sized Assorted Sashimi B for 3–4 people, ₩50,000. They also offer assorted sashimi takeout for 1–2 people, so it looked perfect for a couples’ date or to take away while traveling.

Lots of people come to Guryongpo to buy snow crab, and Hoetjip Jin also sells Bakdal snow crab and red snow crab for takeout, so plenty of crab lovers come looking for it too 🦀

Maybe because the owner is young, but they seem to have a great eye even for little details. The large menu signs stuck on the fish tanks stood out from far away and were easy to read haha 👍🏻

How to find Hoetjip Jin at Guryongpo Market

If you park across from Guryongpo Market, walk straight to the right from the market entrance!

Then you’ll see Hoetjip Jin, with a white sign featuring the handsome owner’s face.

If you enter the market from the Guryongpo Nonghyup Hanaro Mart side, Hoetjip Jin is immediately on the left at the entrance, so it should be easy to find!

Ice-pack packaging and the assorted sashimi set

We placed our takeout order, then took a lap around the market! When we came back, it was already all packed up. The clear bag held the sashimi, and the black bag held ingredients for maeuntang (spicy fish stew). The sashimi was packed fresh in an insulated bag with ice packs, so we didn’t have to worry about the warm weather. It also came with chojang (sweet-tangy chili sauce), ssamjang (savory dipping paste), wasabi soy sauce, chili peppers, and garlic, so we just bought a few extra wrap vegetables and headed to our accommodation.

Even after we picked it up and went to look around Guryongpo Japanese House Street, we could still eat it fresh thanks to the ice packs and insulated bag 🫢

We also bought baekgodong sea snails at Guryongpo Market haha. Maybe because we ate them with the meat and a few other things, but the sashimi felt like a lot.

What do you think of this 3–4-person assorted sashimi set?? There was plenty of it, and the thick slices looked even tastier topped with lemon and radish sprouts 😋

It was thick and chewy, and because it had stayed in the insulated bag, it arrived fresh at our accommodation—it almost felt like we were eating it right away haha. That’s how fresh it was!

Put a slice of sashimi on a perilla leaf, dip it in a mix of chojang + ssamjang + wasabi, add a clove of garlic, and it’s just made for soju.. ✨ haha