Takeout sashimi restaurant in Sokcho, best of three we tried: Hoega

Hoega, Sokcho / Visit date: July 2026

Why we went with sashimi takeout on this Sokcho trip

If you're traveling to a coastal city, eating seafood for at least one meal is pretty much the rule, right haha? I recently went on a 2-night, 3-day trip to Sokcho, and since it's a coastal city too, seafood kept coming to mind. So I looked up some famous sashimi restaurants, but since our schedule was packed, sitting down to eat at a restaurant wasn't going to work! While looking for a good alternative, I found a sashimi place doing business right in a neighborhood where locals actually live. It's also known as a great value takeout spot, so this trip's 'hoe' (raw fish) ended up coming from here :)

Hoega's location and pickup parking

Hoega is located in a residential area within downtown Sokcho where local residents actually live.

It's fairly close to the city center where the tourist spots and hotels are clustered, so dining in is fine too, but personally I think it's an even better spot for takeout or delivery. If you're picking up in person, you can just park briefly on the street in front of the shop.

The shop is on the small side. Yet even though we arrived before 6pm, two tables were already eating. Watching orders keep coming in and customers and delivery riders picking up packed food nonstop, it felt like I'd finally discovered a hidden gem I never knew about.

The small mixed sashimi is takeout/delivery only

The overall menu is a pretty standard sashimi restaurant lineup, but the reason Hoega gets so much word-of-mouth attention is its value menu, the 'small mixed sashimi.' The catch is you can't order it dine-in — it's takeout or delivery only — so if you want to enjoy this already budget-friendly restaurant for even better value, ordering takeout is the way to go. And since eating just sashimi alone can feel a bit lacking, and to cool off from the hot weather, we also ordered the mixed mulhoe.

Setting up the Hoega takeout spread at the hotel

We grabbed the order and hustled back to the hotel. Time to set everything up for dinner.

The food consisted of the main sashimi and mulhoe, plus sides to go with it — sushi rice, baek-kimchi, seaweed, lettuce wraps, wasabi, pickled radish — basically everything you'd need was included.

Personally, what I liked most about the basic side dishes was the generous amount of garlic — sashimi tastes great without garlic too, but eating it with garlic cuts the richness and boosts the flavor, so I tend to eat a lot of it. I especially love makjang (fermented soybean paste sauce) with garlic, chili and sesame oil mixed in, and they gave plenty of garlic and chili for that too, which was really satisfying. Other items included broth for the mulhoe and thin wheat noodles.

Time to remove all the packaging and get into the real meal.

Mixed mulhoe with abalone and sea squirt

Starting with Hoega's mixed mulhoe — it's loaded with various vegetables and raw fish, but the real highlight is that it even includes abalone and sea squirt, a surprisingly generous mix of seafood for the price.

You eat the mulhoe by pouring the included broth over it. Another thing I liked here was that the broth wasn't just simple chojang (vinegar-chili sauce)-based broth, which gave the mulhoe an even richer flavor.

Mix it well and taste it — you get that sweet, tangy, refreshingly cool flavor that makes mulhoe so appealing.

After enjoying the cool mulhoe for a while, adding in the noodles makes for an even more filling meal. There was plenty of broth left, so I think warming up some instant rice like Hetbahn ahead of time, letting it cool, and mixing it in would work great too.

The small mixed sashimi: flounder, rockfish, turbot, baby yellowtail

Now onto the mixed sashimi. On the day I visited, Hoega's platter had four types — flounder, rockfish, turbot, and ibaegi. I'd never heard of ibaegi before, so I looked it up: it's a young yellowtail under 2kg.

Anyway, I tried it dipped in soy sauce, dipped in chojang, with wasabi, and every other way I could think of — and in the end, it was delicious sashimi with a chewy, nutty flavor that really came through.

Making it into little sushi bites was ridiculously good too.

My #1 pick out of three sashimi takeouts tried in Sokcho

I've introduced Hoega, a great Sokcho sashimi takeout spot where you can enjoy sashimi comfortably and affordably. Out of three times I've had sashimi via takeout or delivery during trips to Sokcho, Hoega was by far the most satisfying this time around. Since this post is going up during vacation season, I imagine a lot of you are traveling to Sokcho right now — and with the heat being this intense, going back out again after returning to your hotel from swimming or playing at the beach probably feels exhausting. In that case, ordering takeout or delivery from Hoega is really the way to go, so keep it in mind as a great spot for your trip 😊