SEAFOOOOOOOOOOD!!

Wednesday September 9, 2009

Last night, a few of us ventured away from the mainstream restaurants and went out to a very local seafood restaurant in Bupyeong. The menu was only in Korean (which really isn’t that uncommon over here), but there weren’t many pictures for us to point to! So communicating and knowing what we were ordering was extremely difficult. In fact, we really had no idea what we ended up ordering—the “waitress” simply counted out 5 on her hands (for 5 people), smiled and left. And that was our ordering.

Food started coming out in like 2 minutes (no lie), and we weren’t exactly sure what to do with a lot of it, hah. There were some snails, some shrimp (with their heads still on, of course), some sea-flower thing type of deal, and some other random small bowls. Oh yes, quail eggs and some sort of tasty omelet with squid in it. And then they brought out a whole fish, Asian style. The WHOLE fish! See pictures. And then they finally brought out the raw fish for us to make our lettuce wraps with. It was almost like making our own sushi. Extremely tasty, extremely fresh, and extremely local. It was awesome, and despite not knowing exactly what we ate, I’d do it again in a heartbeat (I didn’t even get sick afterwards, haha). In fact, I’ve yet to have any stomach problems over here. Knock on wood.

We ended the meal by going to Baskin Robbins and having good ol’ American ice-cream! Classic.