Hwajeong Station Japanese restaurant salmon bowl set: Min Cook Dasima

Apple Cookie here ~ 🍎🍪 I had somewhere to be today, and since it's been a while since I ate out, I went looking for a Hwajeong restaurant and found this place. It's a Japanese restaurant that's held its spot in Hwajeong for a whopping 25 years. It's even got the "Hundred-Year Store" title.

Hwajeong Station restaurant, Hwajeong lunch spot: Min Cook Dasima (민쿡다시마)

37 Hwasin-ro 260beon-gil, Deogyang-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. *Group seating available, takeout, delivery, reservations, Wi-Fi, separate men's/women's restrooms, waitlist available, corkage fee applies, parking.

Daily 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM / Break time 3:00 PM – 4:50 PM / Last order 2:30 PM and 8:30 PM.

Where is Min Cook Dasima, and where do you park?

Min Cook Dasima is located across from the Hwajeong E-mart, and you can see the shop on the 2nd floor. Since the 1st and 2nd floor shops have similar names, I guess it's the same owner!

If you park at E-mart, you get 1 hour supported. We were 1 minute over... and paid an extra ₩1,000 fee🥲

At the 2nd floor entrance, there are phrases that make you feel their pride in taste and ingredients. There are three rice principles too, and apparently they only make sushi for 100 servings a day.

Goyang Pay and government subsidies are accepted too. It's a restaurant that received the Blue Ribbon award in 2024 and 2025. Seems like there's a waitlist sometimes. I got in right away, lucky me 👍

Inside Min Cook Dasima: seating and how to order by QR code

The restaurant was bigger than I expected? They have everything from 2-person tables to large group tables, so it seems great for couples, friends, or families to visit😆

At the self-serve bar you can grab whatever you need — small plates, forks, and so on. Isn't the view outside so pretty?! The little decor pieces were so cute I had to take a photo💜

You can check the menu by scanning a QR code. You order through this and pay when you leave — a post-payment system. There were a lot of menu items, but looking at it via QR made it convenient.

What we ordered: salmon bowl set meal, Korean pork cutlet and flounder sushi

• Sake-don set meal
• Korean pork sirloin cutlet
• Aged flounder sushi (3 pcs)
• Zero-sugar cola

As an appetizer, egg porridge. It kept going down with a savory oil smell! It's been a while since I had this, and it was delicious😍

Oh, I was surprised by how good the quality was!! The cutlet quality was really good too 👍 I really made the right call ordering the set meal, hahaha

The sake-don salmon bowl: thick slices with no fishy taste

They cut the salmon into big chunks, and it had zero fishy taste — the more you chewed, the more savory it got 👍 the salmon quality was high.

Can you see how thick the salmon is?! There was also an egg pudding? That was soft too and just slid right down, hahaha

Korean pork (Handon) sirloin cutlet and three pieces of aged flounder sushi

Crispy outside, juicy inside, no pork smell at all, it was delicious. It paired perfectly with the sauce too 👍

The sushi tastes different from other places. It's definitely free of that fishy taste and has a savory depth. The quality was clearly different 😆

The set meal sides: cabbage in fruit sauce, clear soup and tempura

They put fruit sauce on top of the cabbage and this was genuinely delicious 👍 It didn't taste like a store-bought sauce. I honestly wanted to ask for the recipe, hahaha. The soup was savory and hit the spot too😍

The tempura had sweet pumpkin, shrimp, and okra? I think. The batter outside was extremely crispy, so the texture was great 👍 I think it tasted even better because it was warm, hahaha