# Seoul fish market shop for September gizzard shad: Yeongjae Susan - By Dawon (https://superchart.com/en/@everyday-seoul-meals/) - Written Sep 13, 2026 - Local places › Restaurants › Songpa, Seoul - Sponsored: This post was written as part of a paid store visit sponsorship. - English edition: https://superchart.com/en/@everyday-seoul-meals/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/ - Also in: [한국어](https://superchart.com/ko/@everyday-seoul-meals/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/index.md) ## In short Yeongjae Susan is a sashimi and seafood takeout shop on the first floor of Garak Mall's sales building at Garak Market in Songpa, Seoul. For September's peak season the writer took home a mini Jeon-gwang-cham sashimi set (gizzard shad, flounder and red sea bream) plus 1kg of live shrimp for 31,000 won, and the shrimp was so generous that two people spent 30 minutes peeling it. For two adults eating sashimi as well, 500g of live shrimp at Yeongjae Susan is already enough. ## Good to know - **Location**: 1F C-10, Garak Mall Sales Building, 932 Yangjae-daero, Songpa-gu, Seoul - **Hours**: Daily 07:00–22:00 - **Parking**: Available, parking voucher provided - **What we ordered**: Jeon-gwang-cham sashimi set (gizzard shad, flounder, red sea bream), mini size; 1kg live shrimp - **Live shrimp price**: 31,000 won per 1kg - **Takeout wait**: About 10 minutes, packed in an insulated bag - **Getting there**: 58m from Garak Market Station Exit 2 - **Price reference**: ₩31,000 ≈ $23 (2026-09-16) *as written by the visitor on Sep 13, 2026* If you live in a country with four distinct seasons, you can't skip seasonal food, right? haha To eat the gizzard shad and live shrimp that are absolutely in season right now, I headed to Garak Market — specifically to Yeongjae Susan (영재수산), which I've now visited more times than I can count :) ![Front of Yeongjae Susan on the 1st floor of the Garak Mall sales building](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-01-8ccv0-1200.webp) ![Entrance to Yeongjae Susan](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-02-w6ycf-900.webp) - Yeongjae Susan - Address: 1F C-10, Garak Mall Sales Building, 932 Yangjae-daero, Songpa-gu, Seoul, South Korea - Hours: Daily 07:00 – 22:00 - Parking: Available ## Where Yeongjae Susan is and how to park at Garak Mall Yeongjae Susan is at 1F C-10 in the Garak Mall sales building, just 58m from Exit 2 of Garak Market Station. If you're coming by public transit, it's right at your doorstep — you can find it the moment you step off :) I drove today. Enter through the South Gate 1 parking lot, park near pillars E09–E10 on B3, then take the escalator up — Yeongjae Susan is right there on your right! ![Parking route through B3 of Garak Mall's South Gate 1 lot](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-03-1xgw2-900.webp) ![View of Yeongjae Susan's direction after the escalator](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-04-1rqfn-802.webp) They also gave us a parking voucher, so we didn't have to worry about parking at all :) ![Parking voucher support sign](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-05-1ees7-900.webp) ## Seasonal seafood on display inside Yeongjae Susan Walking into Yeongjae Susan, live shrimp, crab, and gizzard shad were laid out right in front of me — just the sight of it made my mouth water. ![Seasonal seafood display with live shrimp, crab, and gizzard shad](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-06-nqqil-900.webp) The tanks were packed full of flounder, sea bream, octopus, clams — all kinds of things! ![Tank with flounder, sea bream, and octopus](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-07-qqslv-731.webp) ## Yeongjae Susan's menu and what we ordered in September The menu at Yeongjae Susan is genuinely huge! From mixed sashimi platters to bluefin tuna, flatfish, mullet, jack mackerel, sea bass, flounder, sea bream, gizzard shad, croaker, salmon — pretty much every kind of sashimi you can think of is here :) ![Yeongjae Susan's sashimi menu board](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-08-1lhxe-900.webp) We ordered the mini gizzard shad-flounder-sea bream sashimi set and 1kg of live shrimp! ![The mini sashimi set and live shrimp we ordered](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-09-1tyo5-632.webp) The 1kg live shrimp was ₩31,000, which is definitely cheaper compared to other shops! Being right in Garak Market gives it that straight-from-the-source freshness, and having both freshness and price competitiveness is probably why I keep coming back to Yeongjae Susan :) ![Weighing out 1kg of live shrimp](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-10-qk872-900.webp) It took about 10 minutes from ordering to getting our takeout, and browsing the shop during that time made it fly by. They also packed everything in a nice insulated bag, so it was easy to carry and I didn't have to worry about it staying cold at all :) ![Sashimi packed in an insulated bag for takeout](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-11-jn5ie-900.webp) ## Eating the mini sashimi set and 1kg live shrimp at home We took the mini sashimi set and 1kg live shrimp home and enjoyed them comfortably there! ![Mini sashimi set spread out at home](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-12-65txj-900.webp) ![Plate of gizzard shad, flounder, and sea bream sashimi](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-13-krtc0-900.webp) ### What September gizzard shad tastes like September gizzard shad is genuinely different! The moment you put a piece in your mouth, that savory oil bursts and fills your whole mouth. There's a Korean saying that "even a daughter-in-law who ran away from home comes back for the smell of grilling gizzard shad" — and that saying didn't come from nowhere :) ![A piece of September gizzard shad sashimi](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-14-ioz4i-966.webp) The flesh itself is firm yet tender, and the savoriness keeps building the more you chew — that rich, oily flavor of blue-backed fish felt like it was at its absolute peak this season! Any fishiness was completely tamed, leaving only that savory taste — a genuinely perfect combination :) ![Close-up of oily, in-season gizzard shad sashimi](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-15-atq90-900.webp) ### Flounder and red sea bream in the set The flounder had a chewy, clean texture that cleared the palate between bites of the rich gizzard shad! Even at the mini size, the set was generous enough to include the fin meat. ![Flounder sashimi including fin meat](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-16-lhogt-900.webp) The sea bream got sweeter the more I chewed it, with a springy texture that stayed alive — switching back and forth between it and the gizzard shad, I never got tired of it :) ![Springy sea bream sashimi](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-17-12odg-900.webp) ### Peeling 1kg of live shrimp: 30 minutes for two As you can probably tell from the photos, the amount of live shrimp was genuinely enormous! My partner and I spent almost 30 minutes fighting our way through peeling them all ourselves at home. Prepping shrimp that are still moving once you get home is no easy task :) But the moment I saw the plate piled high with peeled shrimp, all that effort was forgotten! ![Peeled live shrimp piled on a plate](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-18-miqxo-820.webp) Peel one, pop it in your mouth, and you first get that springy, crisp texture, followed by a sweet, fresh flavor spreading out — this is what live shrimp is supposed to taste like! ![Shelled live shrimp meat](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-19-ib7az-900.webp) That clear, moist sweetness unique to live shrimp — something you can never get from cooked shrimp — combined with the springy bite, is genuinely addictive :) It's even better dipped in vinegar-chili sauce; the sweet shrimp flavor meeting the tangy sauce kept my hand reaching back for more. We also made a spicy buldak-mayo sauce that's trending right now and tried it with the shrimp — that turned out to be another treat! ![Live shrimp served with vinegar-chili sauce and buldak-mayo sauce](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-20-13n0n-900.webp) We saved the shrimp heads separately and finished them off pan-fried in butter — perfect :) ![Shrimp heads pan-fried in butter](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-21-1wv7d-900.webp) ![Plate of butter-fried shrimp heads](https://img.superchart.com/images/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout-22-1315k-812.webp) ## How much live shrimp should two people order? I thought 1kg would already be a lot, and it turned out to be true — even though we both love sashimi and seafood, eating sashimi plus 1kg of shrimp on top was genuinely too much. For two adults eating it alongside sashimi, 500g would probably be plenty. ## Is Yeongjae Susan worth a Garak Market trip? If you want to eat in-season seafood at Garak Market, I genuinely recommend Yeongjae Susan! It hits all three — freshness, price, and accessibility — which is probably why I keep leaving satisfied even after countless visits :) Make sure to go before gizzard shad season ends! ## Where it is - Yeongjae Susan (영재수산) - 1F C-10, Garak Mall Sales Building, 932 Yangjae-daero, Songpa-gu, Seoul, South Korea - 서울특별시 송파구 양재대로 932 가락몰 판매동 1층 C-10호 - 37.4932794, 127.1168508 - Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/search/%EC%98%81%EC%9E%AC%EC%88%98%EC%82%B0/@37.4932794,127.1168508,17z --- Superchart · https://superchart.com/en/@everyday-seoul-meals/garak-market-gizzard-shad-raw-shrimp-takeout/ · https://superchart.com/llms.txt