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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Internal Organs: It’s What’s for Dinner

Photo by Anna Waigand We were feeling good until we noticed that our meat had come in tubes. There are plenty of meats that come in cylinders, like the common sausage sizzlers in Korea, that are undaunting to eat. But if you just hollow out that cylinder, they become much more unusual. Photo by Anna [...]

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