Noryanjin Fish Market
What is Noryangjin Fish Market?
Noryangjin Fisheries Wholesale Market or shortly Noryangjin Fish Market is an extensive farmers fish market in the neighborhood of Noryangjin-dong in Dongjak-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It is located east of 63 Building, and just south of the Han River. Metro line One passes through at Noryangin station near-by. Exit the station at exit 1 and walk under the bridge.
Noryangjin Fish Market was established in 1927 as Gyeongseong Susan (경성수산) onUijuro(의주로) in Jung-gu near Seoul Station and moved to its current location in central Seoul in 1971.
I think one of the most exciting places in any city is the market. It's where you can experience the real essence of the city and its people.
I went to the Noryangjin Fish Market here in Seoul this June
to have my Czech friend experience Korean Fish Market.
Here are some pictures--we went in the late afternoon, so there wasn't much act
ion going on. The wholesale auction takes place between 1 and 6 AM, so if you want some real action, you have to either get up early or stay up the night before.
After a short tour of the market, we had to decide in which shop we EAT. Because there are so many shops along the narrow street of the market, and all of merchants talks to you to pay attention of their shop. You will know it's not easy to decide.. Every shop has similar fish and every merchant says theirs are the cheapest.
And finally we chose a good looking warm lady's shop, and we made up our mind which fish to eat. We chose the most common raw fish called "광어", it looks ugly but it tastes better than many other fish. So we ate 광어 and shrimp BBQ for our lunch. We ate a fresh raw fish and 매운탕.It was a little bit expensive for the students, though.
this is Radim from Czech Republic.
So this is the end of my fish market trip.
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ReplyDeleteWhen I entered fish market first, the smell is fishy and I was scared ... because every merchant catch us to sell their fish.. However! this fish market trip is the best! I love raw fish! Ras fish was delicious! This trip remain special trip to me!
ReplyDeleteI agree with 인영. The smell was just terrible. However after a while, I got used to it :) Eating waw fish is not very common for me as an European. I thought to my self, I like sushi, that's also raw fish, so it cannot be that bad. From other stories I heard, that people even eat living/moving squids. That would be too much for me. We had a nice fish halibut and some shrimps. We ate raw meat of the fish and then also had a soup from the other parts of the fish. I think my other friends in Europe would say I am crazy when I eat raw fish, but I have to say it was really good :)
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