Guwol-dong sashimi restaurant with cod roe seaweed wraps: Veteran Fish

If you live in Incheon you probably know there are so many good restaurants near Incheon City Hall Station~?! Today I'm doing something special — a sashimi restaurant post!

Where Veteran General Fish Market Incheon City Hall Branch is, and what it looks like

Veteran General Fish Market is about a 5-minute walk from exit 5 of Incheon City Hall Station~! If you're driving, there's basement parking~! Apparently it's also known for its affordable lunch specials and for its shrimp and squid~!

Inside the restaurant: the self-serve bar and unlimited kimchi pancake

The inside was clean and spacious~! Would be good for a work dinner too haha. The owner seems to be a young person..!

The self-serve bar was well kept and fully stocked~

And above all, this kimchi pancake (kimchijeon)!!! You can cook as many as you want yourself! If you're really hungry, this is your moment.

The menu and our order: half-and-half red snapper and flounder platter

The menu has all kinds of sashimi plus squid tempura, blanched seafood, sea squirt, sea cucumber, abalone, spicy stew, roe soup, and other full meal options haha.

We had something specific in mind today so we went with the half-and-half platter~! Red snapper + flounder, thickness set to regular~!

What comes with it? The side-dish spread before the sashimi

Ta-da~! The sashimi is affordable but the side spread that comes out is pretty generous too~?! Nutty sesame-dressed cabbage salad, a vinegar-gochujang sashimi salad with chopped raw fish, salted cod roe with spicy cheongyang chili and sesame oil, hot seaweed soup for the stomach, plus white kimchi, seaweed, and wasabi!!

Every single side dish was fresh and delicious! The chopped-raw-fish salad and the cod roe wrapped in seaweed were especially good haha. Perfect appetizers while waiting for the main sashimi~!

How did the sashimi taste? Fresher than sashimi on the East Sea coast

Finally the sashimi arrived~! Wow, isn't it pretty? It was so tender and chewy... I've been eating a lot of sashimi lately, and this was the freshest I've had recently! I paid good money for sashimi in the East Sea before, and this was better~! Turns out flounder, red snapper, and rockfish are actually West Sea fish 😅 (from now on I'm eating sashimi from the West Sea..)

After bringing over the kimchi pancake, a grilled saury (?) also showed up?! It was so big and meaty haha. I don't usually like grilled fish, but this had no fishy smell and was delicious~! The kimchi pancake was also way better than expected?! I can never get it to taste like this at home..

Best combo 1: salted cod roe, seaweed, flounder, garlic and chili

I highly recommend the salted cod roe + seaweed + flounder + garlic + chili combo haha. The chewiness of the sashimi, the umami of the cod roe, the kick of the chili and garlic, and the nuttiness of the seaweed on top haha. It's a flavor that just keeps pulling you in 😋

Best combo 2: red snapper with aged kimchi and seaweed

Also recommend the red snapper + aged kimchi (mukeunji) + seaweed combo~! The sweetness of the red snapper and the clean tang of the aged kimchi went so well together~ And of course the classic perilla leaf wrap goes without saying haha.

Ending the meal with spicy fish-bone stew

It would've felt like something was missing to end there, so we ordered a fish-bone spicy stew (seodeori maeuntang) too~ Didn't expect much from this either, but the broth was tasty and loaded with water dropwort, bean sprouts, scallion, and garlic — nice and refreshing~~

Verdict on Veteran General Fish Market in Guwol-dong

If you're looking for a good sashimi spot near Incheon City Hall Station, one that gets the main sashimi, the side spread, and the stew all right, I recommend Veteran General Fish Market Incheon City Hall Branch~! (It's a chain, but the Incheon City Hall branch is the tastiest one 👍)

Check the origin labeling for reference~!!

Opening hours and last order

• Sun/Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu 11:30–00:30 (last order 23:30)
• Fri/Sat 11:30–01:30 (last order 00:30)