Gangseo seafood restaurant, stone-plated sashimi: Eochongye 1beonji

I visited Eochongye 1beonji (어촌계1번지), a popular sashimi restaurant near Hwagok Station known for thick, fresh live-fish sashimi and generous side dishes ••🤤

Dine-in / pickup orders

A neat interior in warm wood tones

The interior is so cleanly done in warm wood tones, with comfortable stainless-steel tables, that it hardly feels like a sashimi restaurant!!! It is great for couples, family meals, or company dinners alike 👍🏻👍🏻

A receipt-review event that grows with your group

Here is a tip you absolutely should not miss at Eochongye 1beonji ✨ The receipt-review event is especially clever because the benefit gets bigger as more people take part, haha

• 1 participant: complimentary drink
• 2 participants: 3 pieces of fish cutlet
• 3 participants: jumbo pork loin cutlet
• 4 participants: complimentary spicy fish-bone stew

With four participants, you get a whole spicy fish-bone stew, so definitely give it a try when you visit ><

A wide menu, from live-fish sashimi to stews

The menu has a really wide range, from good-value live-fish sashimi sets to seasonal seafood, fried dishes, and stews! Seasonal assorted sashimi, flatfish sashimi, salmon sashimi, red seabream sashimi, and more start at ₩32,000 for a mini. The Eochongye fresh shrimp festival set is ₩96,000 for medium or ₩126,000 for large. It includes salt-grilled shrimp, butter-grilled shrimp heads, fried shrimp, shrimp ramen, and gizzard shad sashimi; there is also ₩10,000 spicy fish-bone stew, ₩28,000 fish roe stew, and house-made fried dishes.

🧾 What we ordered ▪️ Seasonal assorted sashimi (medium) ▪️ Spicy fish-bone stew

Side dishes that are perfect for wrapping with sashimi

After ordering, the neatly arranged side dishes arrived~ From seaweed soup with a wonderfully hot, deep broth to seasoned seaweed stems that whet the appetite, rich and soft corn salad, edamame, garlic, and white kimchi, it was a perfect spread for pairing and wrapping with sashimi.. 🖤🖤

The corn salad and edamame especially were so moreish... I kept going back for them again and again!! haha..

Seasonal assorted sashimi on chilled stone

Seasonal assorted sashimi (medium)

Our main dish, the assorted sashimi, arrived!!! We chose the seasonal assorted sashimi because we wanted to try a variety, haha. Each piece was carefully set atop a chilled stone pillar, so it stayed fresh and delightfully springy right through the meal, haha. Thick, glossy slices of flatfish, salmon, mullet, and more 🖤..

Along with cho-gochujang (sweet vinegared chili sauce) and soy sauce, three more sauces came for pairing! The makjang, a savory soybean-chili paste loaded with garlic and Cheongyang chili peppers, was especially sooo good!!

Everyone, say ahhh—here comes the sashimi.. The more you chew, the nuttier and chewier it gets! Pick up a thick slice with a little wasabi, then dip it in white kimchi or makjang, and the rich oiliness and savory flavor fill your mouth.. ><

Spicy fish-bone stew with a rich, deep broth

The perfect finish to sashimi is of course maeuntang (spicy fish stew)! This bubbling stew was generously filled with crown daisy, enoki mushrooms, and bean sprouts, making it wonderfully refreshing and spicy!!! There was quite a lot of meat still on the bones too, haha. Its spicy, deep broth makes it ideal with soju, and it was the perfect finale that had us finishing a whole bowl of rice in no time,,🤤

From thick aged sashimi bursting with freshness and beautiful chilled-stone plating to the generous event benefits!!! The staff were also incredibly kind, making Eochongye 1beonji near Hwagok Station even more satisfying. If you are looking for a great-value sashimi restaurant in Hwagok-dong, or somewhere to enjoy soju with spicy fish stew, I really recommend stopping by ❤️