Under the Sea

This weekend we ventured out to see Korea's largest seafood market. After having seen it on Andrew Zimmern's bizarre foods and Anthony Bourdain's no reservations I felt as if i was required to see it. The 66,000 sq meter market was diverse to say the least but oddly repetitive. It was made up of rows upon rows of stands selling anything that lives in the sea, you name it and you can find it alive or dead but more likely alive with options on how you would take it home: alive, freshly killed whole, or cut to your specifications.







The market was divided into sections: live fish, bottom dwelling creatures (snails, slugs, oysters, muscles, and a bunch of stuff that I didn't exactly know what it was), octopus, crabs, dried fish, shark, frozen fish, fish being prepared for extremely fresh sashimi, eels etc etc. When we were there there was also a whole other section that was not open which I think was the commercial section where they have auctions in the mornings.












yes that is the head of a shark








monk fish showing off their livers

With intentions of going there and trying live octopus (like Andrew Zimmern did) we failed as it did not seem like anyone was going to give us one to try. I think it helps when you have people who are locals and a giant camera crew following you around. While we did not eat live octopus (we decided we would find a restaurant to try it in) we did have raw squid which was interesting (the little white guys below). Never the less, as always in Korea, it was a colorful, fun, and freezing adventure.


tasted like the ocean