Sunday 11 August 2013

Korean raw seafood - 회

A korean cuisine which is not very popular amongst foreigners as it includes raw fish. It is most popular in busan due to it overlooking the sea. 

In this particular place, the fish market is found of the bottom floor with the restaurants on the floor above. The fish market is so huge, I have no idea how people pick which shop to actually buy the fish in!  

Fish is first bought from the market and they prepare it in front of you - its quite grim to watch them skin the fish, so I couldn't really take a picture of it. But here is the basic view of the market. 



Prepared fish which is eaten in the restaurant - you know its completely fresh because you just bought it from the market. 

산낙지 (Sannakji)
Small octopus is also eaten raw. The legs of the octopus still moves so it can be quite gross at first, but if you try it and not think about it too much it's actually quite fun to eat! 
This was actually part of a task in 'Amazing Race 4'.