Korea: Day 4 - Busan
Korea: Day 4 - Busan
After a good night's sleep at the Marriott we took the interminable underground to the centre, this time ending up at Jalgachi fish market. Food markets are infinitely more fascinating than clothes markets. And fish markets are particularly interesting for the weird and wonderful sealife on offer. Massive mussels, semi-open with their fleshy parts poking out, looking bizarrely obscene. Octopi suckering against the glass walls of a tank. Strange dried sea animals. Dried silvery tiny fish in a range of tininess and silveriness (Fatt's fave). Colourful plastic tubs full of shellfish. Water sloshing everywhere as vendors push past in sensible wellies.
OK, don't read the next paragraph if you are at all squeamish. Eels, being of a seafood nature, were naturally present - alive and slithering about. Usually next to them would be a very fleshy pink variety. So fleshy and pink in fact that one had to conclude they were actually skinned eels. They were still wriggling around.
End of gross part. Outside the fish market were boats and trawlers proudly waving the Korean flag. It's great to be near the sea.
Inside on the second floor, we were hungry. Once more we partook of raw fish. It was nice! Though Fatt particularly liked the grilled mackeral side dish which was probably a tenth of the price of the sashimi.
Later, my mum wrote to me not to eat too much raw fish - there could be bacteria. Raw liver, raw fish - huh! one has to eat, you know!
In the evening we went back to Lotte Department Store, to the top floor. There are a range of restaurants there and so we picked one and ate bulgogi which was very tasty indeed. We had beef and vegetable soup which came with rice. It was a little spicy but in a good, sinus-clearing way. Yum.
Then we hit 'Youth Street' - parallel roads chock-a-block with neon lights, bars, internet gaming facilities, restaurants, food stalls...like Sinchon in Seoul but perhaps a little more organised. Anyhow, another Bladerunner-isque pic for you.
After a good night's sleep at the Marriott we took the interminable underground to the centre, this time ending up at Jalgachi fish market. Food markets are infinitely more fascinating than clothes markets. And fish markets are particularly interesting for the weird and wonderful sealife on offer. Massive mussels, semi-open with their fleshy parts poking out, looking bizarrely obscene. Octopi suckering against the glass walls of a tank. Strange dried sea animals. Dried silvery tiny fish in a range of tininess and silveriness (Fatt's fave). Colourful plastic tubs full of shellfish. Water sloshing everywhere as vendors push past in sensible wellies.
OK, don't read the next paragraph if you are at all squeamish. Eels, being of a seafood nature, were naturally present - alive and slithering about. Usually next to them would be a very fleshy pink variety. So fleshy and pink in fact that one had to conclude they were actually skinned eels. They were still wriggling around.
End of gross part. Outside the fish market were boats and trawlers proudly waving the Korean flag. It's great to be near the sea.
Inside on the second floor, we were hungry. Once more we partook of raw fish. It was nice! Though Fatt particularly liked the grilled mackeral side dish which was probably a tenth of the price of the sashimi.
Later, my mum wrote to me not to eat too much raw fish - there could be bacteria. Raw liver, raw fish - huh! one has to eat, you know!
In the evening we went back to Lotte Department Store, to the top floor. There are a range of restaurants there and so we picked one and ate bulgogi which was very tasty indeed. We had beef and vegetable soup which came with rice. It was a little spicy but in a good, sinus-clearing way. Yum.
Then we hit 'Youth Street' - parallel roads chock-a-block with neon lights, bars, internet gaming facilities, restaurants, food stalls...like Sinchon in Seoul but perhaps a little more organised. Anyhow, another Bladerunner-isque pic for you.
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