Every Thursday my friends and I get together for Thirsty Thursday, we try to do dinner and drinks in every area around Seoul. This past thursday we decided to head to the Noryangjin Fish Market for some fresh fish and eat some live octopus for the first time. Let me tell ya, it was quite the experience.
When you get the the Noryangjin fish market, it's packed with fish vendors trying to sell customers what they have. You can buy live snapper, salmon, flounder, scallops, king crab, shrimp, octopus, etc. My girlfriend Haley and I ended up wondering around drooling over king crab while our friends who were a bit fluent in Korean were bargaining with the vendor about what type of fish we wanted and how much it was going to cost. We ended up getting a big flounder, big snapper, two small fish that were kinda like tuna, 9 jumbo shrimps, 5 baby octopus' and scallops for 110,000 won. That was split between 9 people so it came to 12,000 won each ($11.00 CAD).
After we had purchased our fresh fish, there's a guy who takes you upstairs to a restaurant where you have your fish pre-pared and served to you at no cost. Our fish was served sashimi style, our shrimp and scallops were grilled and the fish remains are made into a delicious spicy stew.
Our appetizer was live baby octopus, it was served freshly cut and still moving around on the plate (like worms squirming around) seasoned with seasame oil. It was so weird and kind of freaky seeing my live baby octopus appetizer moving around on my plate. I found it difficult to pick up with my chopsticks cause it was moving and sticking to the plate. After I put it in my mouth, all I can feel was the tentical moving around and sticking to my cheek and tongue, you really have to make sure you chew it well before you swallow. It actually wasn't that bad, it was delicious
Elly, that was definitely one for the books.
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