As in every city, large or small, there are "must-see" places and "must-do" things. One of those places is the
Noryangjin fish market (or the Korean site
here.) Kyle and I have been here over a year and a half now (can you believe it?) and have not been. We have heard stories, but never made the journey. It's one of those places that you are told to "bring a Korean" because they hike up the prices for westerners. That was enough for us to wait for just the right opportunity.
For 2012, we have renewed our efforts to be a tourist in our own town. Our friend Steve, and American who is founder and editor of
10 Magazine here in Seoul, has lived in Seoul for 16 years and organizes an outing to the fish market about three or four times a year. All are welcome. So we went. We had such a blast. We met new friends (and already have plans to visit the pub in the basement of the British Embassy--who knew there was a pub in the basement of the British Embassy?!--on the 24th with our new friends).
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| Guess who is super happy that I thought of taking a picture in the subway? |
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| Kyle made sure we got the sign, but not me :) |
The food was so good. And so big. Now I know why you go there as a group! One box of 50 oysters for 10,000 won: check (that's less than $10 USD). Two, 10 pound lobsters: check. Prawns longer than my hand: check. All fresh, all delicious. You buy and either take it home or take it to one of the restaurants and they prepare it for you with all the sides and beer and soju. I had my first soju bomb--or something. It was just the kind of fun we needed to encourage me to fall back into
love deep-like with Korea.
Truth be told, Kyle and I both got a bug on Monday. At first we thought it might be from Saturday's restaurant. But after hearing how the flu is surging through all the foreign schools/expat communities (and learning no one else in our group got sick), I think it maybe was just the flu. Hope you and yours are feeling well.
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| My valentine |
:)sbc
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