Ansan sashimi restaurant with grilled shrimp: Eochongye 1beonji

Eochongye 1beonji on a corner spot on Bandal Island

Eochongye 1beonji, the Bandal Island sashimi restaurant that satisfied me on taste, freshness, and price ✨ It is on the first floor of The Hound (the Mom’s Touch building), and you can find it straight away on the corner as you head between Paris Baguette and Chodang Kongmasil!

Maybe because they manage the fish tanks so thoroughly, the tanks were clean, and seeing the lively fresh fish made me trust the place even more haha.

A spacious, pleasant interior

The interior was spacious and pleasant, with high chairs available, so it would be great for a family meal or a group gathering. The pretty, tidy interior was impressive too.

The menu and what we ordered

There are more than 100 varied choices, from live-fish sashimi and seafood to dressed dishes, mulhoe (cold raw-fish soup), fried dishes, grilled dishes, steamed dishes, and soups. You can eat in the clean, pleasant dining room, and every menu item is available for takeaway and delivery too! Better yet, the prices are not too high and the value is good, so you can enjoy fresh live-fish sashimi without feeling burdened.

You can choose mini, small, medium, or large sashimi, and since the extra-delicious-in-season salt-grilled fresh shrimp could be ordered in 500g or 1kg portions, we finished ordering the mini salmon assorted sashimi and 500g of salt-grilled fresh shrimp haha.

Different ways to enjoy live-fish sashimi

Eochongye’s Bandal Island branch says it serves only fresh live fish brought in the same day from Yeonan Pier in Incheon.

• Dip it generously in ceviche sauce.
• Dip it in wasabi soy sauce.
• Top it with shiitake wasabi.
• Dip it in chojang (sweet-and-tangy chili sauce).
• Dip it in the house makjang (fermented soybean-chili paste).
• Top it with the house galchi sokjeot (salt-fermented hairtail innards).

The complimentary side dishes were served nicely too, making them great to eat alongside everything. Above all, there were several sauces for the sashimi, so it was quite fun mixing and matching them using the suggested ways.

The mini salmon assorted sashimi was perfect for two! It came with salmon, flounder, olive flounder, and yellowtail, and the thick slices had the best springy, chewy texture.

Having salmon assorted sashimi with sauces

The salmon assorted sashimi includes salmon, flounder, and two seasonal fish varieties.

I usually only dip sashimi in chojang and soy sauce, but having it with ceviche sauce, shiitake wasabi, house makjang, and salted hairtail innards gave it a whole new feel! The ceviche sauce went especially well with flounder and salmon.

Salt-grilled fresh shrimp and butter-grilled shrimp heads

Bouncy, fresh salt-grilled shrimp are not easy to make at home because of the bothersome cleanup and smell, but here I could eat them comfortably and deliciously without those worries—just happy haha.

Put the shrimp heads in a separate bowl and give them to a staff member, and they turn them into butter-grilled shrimp heads right away. This was seriously incredibly delicious ,,,, 🤤🤤🤤

In the past, I hesitated because I wanted sashimi and grilled shrimp together but thought it would be too much food,, At Eochongye 1beonji, I loved that we could order a mini assorted sashimi and 500g of grilled shrimp and enjoy several dishes together.

One bite of shrimp~ one bite of sashimi~ truly full of happiness ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

Hot, spicy blue crab seafood ramyeon

As we ate, I started craving a hot broth, so we ordered the blue crab seafood ramyeon too. It was loaded with seafood including blue crab, shrimp, and mussels, with bean sprouts and green onion added for a refreshing yet spicy kick. This would definitely cure a hangover, so you have to try it!!!

The plump, meaty blue crab was a real treat for the mouth. I highly recommend this Bandal Island sashimi restaurant lineup: assorted sashimi, salt-grilled fresh shrimp, and blue crab seafood ramyeon 🥹🥹🥹