Jagalchi Fish Market Part 3: A world of fish

Walking the wet aisles of Korea’s largest fish market and seeing all the live seafood wiggling hopelessly in tanks is an amazing experience. The smell wasn’t as bad as we’d been told and all my concentration was taken up by the sights around me. There were fish big and small, mounds of shellfish, and all [...]

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Jagalchi Fish Market Part 2: The Shrimp That Season Themselves

Photo by Anna Waigand. Coming from the Midwest, I didn’t always get the freshest of seafood (except for whitefish livers in Bayfield, Wisc.). But the ring of restaurants around the towering Jagalchi Fish Market in Busan offered many opportunities to get fresh seafood whether you wanted it caught that morning, raw or still alive. After [...]

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Jagalchi Fish Market Part 1: Slime eels

Photo by Anna Waigand When I first saw them they were just tubes of raw, pink flesh frantically writhing in a shallow red bowl. No skin, no scales, no head. Just a line of pink flesh with a white lattice of fat woven into it. In a couple of seconds, the slithering turned into an [...]

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Drink, Drank, K-Drunk: Magic Soju

Photo by Anna Waigand Most foreigners don’t particularly like soju. Koreans drink it for any and all occasions and often when even people from Wisconsin would question whether it’s time for a drink. The national liquor just tastes like watered down vodka, but not watered down enough to not burn. So when we heard from [...]

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Busan and PIFF: A few quick thoughts

I know we’ve kept you waiting for awhile for our posts from Busan and the Pusan International Film Festival. Anna developed a case of bronchitis after we got back and I was down for a day too so we’ve been laying low this week trying to recuperate. Here are some quick thoughts from our whirlwind [...]

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