Daeheung Station sashimi spot: 2kg sea bream matsukawa, Mapo Bada

My boyfriend and I had only ever talked about going for sashimi (raw fish) in autumn. Then a new sashimi restaurant opened near Daeheung Station, so last Wednesday I booked in a hurry and we went!

The place we visited is Jaecheoldameun Mapo Bada (제철담은 마포바다)! For the price, the table was piled so high with so many kinds of food that we were really happy with it!

Is Jaecheoldameun Mapo Bada good for a group dinner in Mapo?

Jaecheoldameun Mapo Bada is close to Daeheung Station, so it's a great spot for office workers around Mapo to have a company dinner with a set course! There are lots of indoor seats and group tables too, so it's perfectly suited to company dinners, family gatherings, club meetups and dates!

The address is 1F Bonghwa Building, 104 Baekbeom-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea.

Live seafood in the tank

There's a fish tank outside Jaecheoldameun Mapo Bada with live creatures in it, which gave me a lot of confidence that they use fresh, good ingredients! Now, let me introduce the menu first!

Jaecheoldameun Mapo Bada menu and the set for two price

You can order single dishes at Jaecheoldameun Mapo Bada, but we wanted a big spread, so we ordered the Mapo Bada Hearty Set for 2 (₩79,000)! That's delicious sashimi and grilled shrimp for about ₩30,000-something per person!

Wine and sake: 50% off from the second bottle

There's a wide range of drinks to suit your taste, and if you order 1 bottle of wine or sake, the 2nd and 3rd bottles are a whopping 50% off, which is amazingly cheap! Keep the drinks promotion in mind!

Sea bream over 2kg and Wando flounder sashimi

Ta-da! The table was swapped out and a huge amount of seafood filled it up!

The sea bream in the set for two is a big one over 2kg, prepared as maseukkawa (sea bream blanched with hot water so the skin stays on), which gives it a deeper flavor. They also said the top-grade Wando flounder, over 1.5kg, has a distinctive texture and a clean, mild taste!

The savory flavor of autumn white fish

Need I even talk about the freshness and tenderness? You have to try it! No fishy smell at all, super soft and very fresh, and it melts in your mouth the moment it goes in!

My boyfriend raved about how delicious it was too! I was totally satisfied as well! It really feels like this is the season for sashimi!

Lots of side dishes and sauces

There were plenty of side dishes to go with the sashimi,

and I like it just dipped in ssamjang (seasoned soybean paste) like this!

When my boyfriend wrapped it into a ssam (leaf wrap) for me, it tasted even better! Love you! My cutie haha ♥️

What comes in the set for two besides sashimi?

Fluffy steamed egg

And fluffy steamed egg too! A proper protein boost! It was full of dishes everyone loves, so the set for two at Jaecheoldameun Mapo Bada was so generous it could almost feed three people!

Sushi and autumn grilled gizzard shad

It's not just sashimi, there's sushi like this too! And grilled gizzard shad (jeoneo), the autumn fish so tasty that, as the saying goes, even a daughter-in-law who ran away from home comes back for it! One each is just right!

A salad came out too, so we could enjoy a hearty and tasty meal!

Abalone porridge and seaweed soup

We didn't order rice separately! Because sushi comes with it, and a rich, thick abalone porridge too!

I recommend eating it while it's hot! My boyfriend kept saying he'd eat it later, missed the hot window, and I ended up enjoying it all by myself haha

The kicker at Jaecheoldameun Mapo Bada: salt-grilled shrimp

This time the kicker at Jaecheoldameun Mapo Bada is the salt-grilled shrimp! It was my first salt-grilled shrimp this year!

Live shrimp, grilled as they are

Live shrimp were flapping around as they went in, and now they're grilling up nicely! They ask you to save the heads separately, so once the shrimp are cooked, set the heads aside!

Shrimp grilled over coarse salt

Ta-da! When they turn red, they're done! The delicious smell of shrimp is wafting up~!

A truly generous dinner near Daeheung Station

A proper Mapo group-dinner course! If this isn't a Mapo group-dinner course, what is? My boyfriend peeled the shrimp one by one for me, and eating while chatting made me feel like our love was getting deeper!

Grilled shrimp peeled by my boyfriend

Dip the nicely grilled shrimp in chojang (sweet and tangy chili sauce)!

Saved shrimp heads turn into butter-grilled heads, a great beer snack

At Jaecheoldameun Mapo Bada they grill the shrimp heads you saved in butter and bring them out like this, and I couldn't not want a beer! I held back since I had work the next day, though!

With such good service, this is a sashimi place near Mapo's Daeheung Station that I'll definitely think of again! The staff at Jaecheoldameun Mapo Bada were so kind and the food was truly good, so we left happy! If you're looking for a great sashimi restaurant near Daeheung Station, definitely visit!