Our wedding anniversary came around in December 2025, and when my wife and I talked about where to eat, we had two rules: the kids came with us, and nobody wanted a long drive home afterward. That is how the four of us ended up under a bright yellow sign on Gamiljungang-ro in Gamil, Hanam, at YONEZ (요네즈), a Japanese place with rice bowls, katsu, udon and izakaya-style plates for the table. We ordered a bottle of junmai sake, tteokbokki in broth, an oden hot pot, katsu curry and katsudon. Nothing on the table disappointed us. The oden hot pot was the dish everyone kept going back to, and the quiet, tidy room let us sit over dinner as long as we liked with the kids.
- Name: 요네즈 (YONEZ), Hanam
- Address: Units 2005 to 2007, 80 Gamiljungang-ro, Hanam-si, Gyeonggi-do (경기 하남시 감일중앙로 80 2005~2007호) · Google Maps
- Hours: 12:00 to 23:30 (as listed on DiningCode)
- Visited: December 2025, dinner, my wife, our two kids and me
- What we ordered: a bottle of junmai sake, tteokbokki in broth, an oden hot pot, katsu curry and katsudon
- Bill: what we actually paid that December night is not known, as the receipt is long gone. On the menu list (checked September 2026) the katsudon is the one dish of ours with a price: 1 x 12,500 won = 12,500 won, a menu figure that may differ from our bill. The sake, tteokbokki, oden hot pot and katsu curry have no listed price, so a full total can’t be worked out
- Score: we gave this anniversary dinner 4.5 points of 5, most of them for the oden hot pot
- Info checked: October 21, 2026
Why we picked a Japanese dinner a few minutes from home
Hanam is home for us, and over the years our anniversary dinners have changed shape. Before the kids, it meant a reservation somewhere in Seoul and a late taxi. Now it means a table for four, food the children will actually eat, and a short trip back so bedtime does not fall apart. We wanted a proper sit-down meal with something a little special on the table, and a Japanese menu fit that well: the kids can have katsu and rice, and my wife and I could order a bottle of sake and a hot pot to share.
YONEZ is in the same building as Gamil Choice, the conveyor belt sushi restaurant, at 80 Gamiljungang-ro, so the address was easy for us. It was a cold December evening, the kind where the kids pull their hoods up between the car and the door, and the thought of a hot pot was a big part of why we chose this place over somewhere for grilled meat.
The yellow sign and the room inside
You can pick out the front from some way off. The sign is a solid block of yellow with YONEZ in white capital letters, set above a glass door in a wooden frame, and a covered walkway runs past the entrance. That roof over the walkway was welcome on a winter night; we could stop for a moment, take the photo above and get everyone together before going in.
Inside, the room was clean and plain, with dark wooden tables and chairs and not much on the walls. It was calm. There was no loud music to talk over, which mattered to us, since the point of the evening was to sit and talk for once instead of eating in a hurry. The kids settled in quickly, and my wife and I looked through the menu while they argued about who would get the katsu. Of everything about the evening, the quiet of that room is what we both still mention when YONEZ comes up.
Junmai sake on ice
Since it was our anniversary, the first thing we ordered was a bottle of junmai sake. It came to the table standing upright in a clear glass bowl filled with ice, which got the kids’ attention straight away; they wanted to touch the ice more than anything else on the table. The label has a drawing of a woman’s face on it, which you can see in the photo.
Junmai (純米) means “pure rice”: the sake is brewed only from rice, water, yeast and koji, without added distilled alcohol. If you see 준마이 or 純米 on a drinks list in Korea, that is what it refers to. We poured small cups for each other and made a toast while the kids raised their water glasses. For a couple who rarely get an evening drink together these days, it was a nice way to start the meal. DiningCode also tags YONEZ with corkage, so if you have a bottle of your own you would like to open, it is worth asking the staff about it when you arrive.
Tteokbokki in broth, with shrimp and cheese
The first food to arrive was tteokbokki, served in a black pan with a thick orange broth. In it were cylinders of rice cake and a single shrimp, and the top was covered with grated cheese and chopped green onion. The cheese softened into the hot broth as we ate, and the rice cakes picked it up when you lifted them out.
Tteokbokki is Korean, so it looks a little out of place on a Japanese menu, but on the table it worked. The kids went for it first, since it is a flavor they know from snack shops, and there was some friendly negotiation over who got the one shrimp. The broth version is wetter than the sticky street-stall kind, more like a stew you can spoon over rice, and it kept the children busy while we waited for the hot pot.
Oden hot pot, the dish we all reached for
Then the oden hot pot (오뎅나베) came out in a wide, shallow pan and went straight into the middle of the table. The broth was clear, and in it sat clams, fish cakes, tofu, mushrooms and vegetables, with a heap of fresh greens piled up in the center. On a cold night it was exactly what we had hoped for when we chose this place.
This was the family favorite, and you could tell by how fast the pan emptied. The kids fished out the fish cakes one by one. My wife went for the clams and the tofu, and I kept ladling the broth into small bowls, because the clams had given it a clean, savory taste that went well with the cold sake. We pushed the greens down into the hot broth to soften them as the evening went on. If you only order one dish for the table at YONEZ, our family would point you to this one.
Katsu curry and katsudon for the rice eaters
Our last two dishes were rice meals, ordered with the kids in mind. The katsu curry came on a tray: a pork cutlet cut into strips and laid over rice with Japanese curry sauce, plus a few small side dishes and a cup of soup. Japanese curry is mild and slightly sweet, and the cutlet stayed crisp on the side where the sauce had not reached it. The kids split it and dipped each piece of cutlet into the curry before eating it.
The katsudon (カツ丼, 12,500 won on DiningCode’s list) arrived in a covered bowl. Under the lid was a pork cutlet simmered with egg and onion and laid over rice, and the tray again had soup and pickles next to it. Lifting the lid is part of the fun with a dish like this, so I set it to one side and took the photo below before anyone started eating. The egg was just set, and the sauce had soaked down into the rice. My wife and I shared it between bites of hot pot.
By the end the pan was empty, the rice bowls were scraped clean and the ice around the sake bottle had mostly melted. There was no weak dish in the order. With the quiet room around us, it felt like an anniversary dinner, even with two kids at the table.
Adding up what we know about the bill
The receipt from that evening did not survive, so the closest I can get is the menu list DiningCode showed in September 2026, nine months after our visit. Of our five orders, the katsudon is the only one with a price there:
- Katsudon at the September 2026 menu price: 1 x 12,500 won = 12,500 won
- Junmai sake, tteokbokki in broth, oden hot pot, katsu curry: no listed price
That 12,500 won is a partial sum from today’s menu, not a line from our December bill, and the real total we paid for the five orders is unconfirmed. I would rather say so plainly than guess. If you are planning a budget, the table below gives you the prices for the rest of the menu.
The menu
I did not take a photo of the menu that night. DiningCode lists part of it with prices (as of September 2026), copied below, and prices may have moved since our December visit.
| Dish | Korean | Price (won) |
|---|---|---|
| Katsudon | 카츠동 | 12,500 |
| Pork loin cutlet | 로스카츠 | 12,000 |
| Green onion rolled cutlet | 네기카츠 | 14,000 |
| Karaage rice bowl | 카라아게동 | 12,500 |
| Chicken nanban | 치킨난반 | 13,000 |
| Salmon rice bowl / seared salmon rice bowl | 사케동 / 아부리사케동 | 14,000 / 14,500 |
| Tiger prawn tempura rice bowl | 블랙타이거 에비동 | 13,500 |
| Udon set (chicken or beef topping) | 지도리우동 / 니꾸우동 정식 | 11,500 |
| Curry udon set | 카레우동 정식 | 12,500 |
| Nagasaki seafood noodle soup | 나가사키해물짬뽕 | 24,000 |
| Beef intestine hot pot | 모츠나베 | 27,000 |
| Pork cutlet hot pot | 돈카츠나베 | 15,000 |
| Chicken karaage | 치킨카라아게 | 18,000 |
| Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki | 히로시마풍 오꼬노미야끼 | 24,000 |
| Takoyaki (8 pieces) | 타코야키 | 8,000 |
| Hanwoo beef tataki | 한우타다키 | 32,000 |
Our tteokbokki, oden hot pot and katsu curry are not in the part of the menu DiningCode shows, which is why they have no price in this post. Reading down the list, the rice bowls and cutlets sit between 12,000 and 14,500 won, the udon sets at 11,500 and 12,500 won, and the dishes meant for sharing, such as the Nagasaki seafood noodle soup, the okonomiyaki, the beef intestine hot pot and the hanwoo tataki, run from 24,000 to 32,000 won. The takoyaki, eight pieces for 8,000 won, is the cheapest thing on it.
As an example from the list: a family that orders two katsudon, one chicken karaage and one takoyaki would pay 2 x 12,500 won + 18,000 won + 8,000 won = 51,000 won, before any drinks. If we go again with the kids, the takoyaki and the karaage are what they have already asked about.
What other visitors say
When I looked in September 2026, YONEZ had just two reviews on DiningCode, with an average of 4.6 out of 5. Both reviewers called the service friendly and tagged the room as clean. Two reviews is a small sample, but it lines up with the calm, tidy room we found on our anniversary.
Words on a Japanese menu in Korea
Japanese restaurants in Korea write their dishes in Korean letters, so the names can look unfamiliar even if you know the food. These are the words that came up on the YONEZ menu:
- 동 (-dong): from Japanese don, a rice bowl, as in 카츠동 and 사케동.
- 나베 (nabe): a hot pot cooked in one pan for the table, as in 오뎅나베 and 모츠나베.
- 정식 (jeongsik): a set meal with side dishes.
- 사케 (sake): on a rice bowl, this means salmon; on the drinks list, it means rice wine.
- 카츠 (katsu): breaded, fried cutlet, usually pork.
The 사케 one caught us out for a second when we were reading the menu. The kids were very amused that the same word covered my wife’s salmon bowl idea and the bottle we had just ordered.
Practical notes
- Hours: DiningCode lists noon to 11:30 p.m., so both a late lunch and a late dinner are possible.
- Parking and extras: DiningCode tags it with free parking, delivery, a bar table and corkage.
- Location: units 2005 to 2007 at 80 Gamiljungang-ro, the same building as Gamil Choice. Look for the yellow sign along the covered walkway.
- With kids: the rice bowls and katsu dishes are an easy order for children, and the tteokbokki is a familiar taste for Korean kids.
One tip from our evening: order the dishes for sharing first and the rice meals after. The tteokbokki and hot pot take the edge off the kids’ hunger, and when the trays arrive, everyone still has room for them. We did it that way more by luck than planning, and it gave the dinner a slow, easy pace that suited the occasion.
Would we go back?
Yes. The oden hot pot alone is reason enough, and the quiet room made a family dinner feel like a celebration. When we want Japanese food in Gamil and don’t feel like heading into Seoul, this is where we will go. For our anniversary night at YONEZ, my score is 4.5 out of 5, with most of that earned by the hot pot.
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Three more Gamil dinners from our family table:
- Gamil Choice, conveyor belt sushi and seafood
- Damga Hwaro Grill, where we go in Gamil on the nights the family votes for grilled meat over a hot pot
- Pocha Cheonguk, another warm pick for a cold evening, with gopdori-tang to share and a drink on the side