The other day I had the opportunity to visit the famous fish market in Seoul with Dennis and some of his co-workers. It was a very interesting experience especially when you get off the subway and you are over powered with the smell of fish. At least you know that you have gotten off at the right stop. You enter this 66,000 square foot warehouse that is filled vendor booths with tanks containing all types of sea life. We saw everything from flounder, squid, eel, crabs, and even some sting rays and sharks. It was the biggest assortment of live fish that I have ever seen besides going to an aquiraum. So after we recovered from the shock and awe we picked out a booth to haggle and buy some fresh fish from. We ended up buying a flounder, some sort of sea bass (i think), a gigantic crab, and some shrimp and prawns. You then have them take your freshly killed fish to one of the local restaurants where they cook it up for you. They first served us the fish that they just cut up in the back and you can choose to eat it like sashimi or roll it up with some seaweed and rice like sushi. It was so fresh, since it was recently killed, and had no fishy taste at all. After the meat from the fish is gone they take the bones and make a stew called Maeuntang. When you eat this you have to be very careful since there are fish bones and those can be pretty rough going down if you accidentally swallow them. We also had them boil up our enormous crab which was so delicious and then they grilled up our shrimp and prawns. I wouldn't necessarily just call this a meal but it was also a cultural experience and I am glad that Dennis and I were able to partake in.
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| Fish Market from Above |
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| One of the many booths with shrimps, prawns, etc... |
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| Live crabs |
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| Sting ray...I wonder how that tastes? |
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| Weighing our Monster Crab that we picked |
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| Our fish alive |
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| Our Fish dead |
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| Shrimp and Giant Prawns |
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Fish Stew
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The other day I had the opportunity to visit the famous fish market in Seoul with Dennis and some of his co-workers. It was a very interesting experience especially when you get off the subway and you are over powered with the smell of fish. At least you know that you have gotten off at the right stop. You enter this 66,000 square foot warehouse that is filled vendor booths with tanks containing all types of sea life. We saw everything from flounder, squid, eel, crabs, and even some sting rays and sharks. It was the biggest assortment of live fish that I have ever seen besides going to an aquiraum. So after we recovered from the shock and awe we picked out a booth to haggle and buy some fresh fish from. We ended up buying a flounder, some sort of sea bass (i think), a gigantic crab, and some shrimp and prawns. You then have them take your freshly killed fish to one of the local restaurants where they cook it up for you. They first served us the fish that they just cut up in the back and you can choose to eat it like sashimi or roll it up with some seaweed and rice like sushi. It was so fresh, since it was recently killed, and had no fishy taste at all. After the meat from the fish is gone they take the bones and make a stew called Maeuntang. When you eat this you have to be very careful since there are fish bones and those can be pretty rough going down if you accidentally swallow them. We also had them boil up our enormous crab which was so delicious and then they grilled up our shrimp and prawns. I wouldn't necessarily just call this a meal but it was also a cultural experience and I am glad that Dennis and I were able to partake in. 
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