Bada Hansang, Jeju: A Full Seafood Spread the Locals Fill Up

Mak-hoe — chopped raw fish, eaten Korean-style — plus grilled fish, braised hairtail and eight more dishes. Open till 1am, and the small set feeds two easily.

By Amy · Food

• Heat🌶🌶 2/5
• Per person[VERIFY: set price]
• Hours16:00–01:00 · closed Wednesdays
• Getting thereJeju City, near the provincial government offices · [VERIFY: parking]
• Order sizeSmall set feeds 2

The menu

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The small (소) mak-hoe set is enough for two people. Booking through Naver and leaving a review gets you a free grilled sea bream.

• Sets막회한상The full spread — chopped raw fish plus nine or so dishes. Comes in small / medium / large🌶🌶
• What's on the tray막회Mak-hoe — raw fish chopped rather than sliced, over a sweet-sour vegetable salad. Not sashimi; a different dish entirely🌶🌶
• What's on the tray홍합탕Mussel soup, served first. Clean and faintly sharp🌶
• What's on the tray돔베고기Boiled pork belly on a board. Unexpectedly good for a fish restaurant
• What's on the tray순살갈치조림Braised hairtail, deboned. Normally an expensive dish ordered on its own🌶🌶
• What's on the tray조기구이Grilled croaker — large enough to fill the plate and share
• What's on the tray대하구이Grilled prawns
• What's on the tray오징어숙회Blanched squid with a vinegared dip🌶
• What's on the tray생선가스Breaded fried fish. The kids' safety net
• What's on the tray콘치즈Sweetcorn baked with cheese. A Korean pub staple, and better than it sounds
• What's on the tray초대리밥Vinegared rice, served alongside — use it to turn the mak-hoe into a rice bowl

Checked September 2026 · prices change

If you're coming from Japan, set your expectations sideways. Mak-hoe (막회) is raw fish, but it is not sashimi. The fish is chopped rather than sliced, piled over a sweet-and-sour vegetable salad, and eaten mixed — wrapped in seaweed, folded into a lettuce leaf, or spooned over vinegared rice. The dressing is as much the dish as the fish is.

That's the Korean approach to raw fish and it's worth trying on its own terms rather than measuring it against sashimi.

What a hansang is

Hansang (한상) means "one full table" — a set where the dishes keep arriving until the table is covered. At most Jeju raw fish places that comes at a price that makes you think twice. This one does it cheaply enough that locals treat it as a normal night out.

We arrived about an hour after opening. The room was already full of local residents, not tourists — which on Jeju is the signal you want.

The order it arrives in

First a mussel soup, clean and faintly sharp. Then the starters: blanched squid, sliced boiled pork, corn cheese, breaded fish.

The dombe-gogi (돔베고기) — boiled pork belly sliced onto a wooden board — was the surprise. Thick-cut, no off smell, properly tender. With a dab of ssamjang and a slice of garlic it's good enough that you briefly forget you're in a fish restaurant.

The breaded fried fish is crisp outside and moist inside, and is the reason you can bring children here.

Then the tray

The mak-hoe set arrives all at once and genuinely fills the table — mak-hoe, grilled croaker, deboned braised hairtail, vinegared rice, grilled prawns, ssamjang, aged kimchi, and the starters still there.

The fish is cut thick, so it holds its texture. But the thing underneath is what makes it: the sweet-sour vegetable dressing the fish sits on. Mix it through and it's sharp, bright and hard to stop eating.

Four ways to eat it

This is the part that's fun, and the part nobody explains to visitors:

• Straight, with the dressing mixed through
• Wrapped in gim (dried seaweed sheets)
• With white kimchi — non-spicy, crisp, cuts the richness
• Spooned onto the vinegared rice — effectively making your own sushi, or mixed together as a hoedeopbap rice bowl

The one nobody expects

Braised hairtail (갈치조림) comes as part of the set. Ordered on its own this is one of Jeju's pricier dishes, and here it's included — deboned, so you can spoon it straight over rice without picking through bones. The radish underneath, soft and soaked in the sauce, is arguably better than the fish.

How much to order

The small (소) mak-hoe set was more than enough for two people. Don't over-order — the table physically runs out of space.

Getting there & what to know

Search 바다한상 제주 in Naver Map or Kakao Map.

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