It’s the New Year and there’s a lot of new roads up ahead. To clear the way for the new paths, I’m doing some housecleaning and in the digital world, that means trying to get through the backlog of photos I have on my computer and putting them up online. Right now I’m working on May.
In late May, Greg and I went to visit Sokcho, a seaside town in Gangwon-do. We checked out the markets and it was the first time that we went to eat raw fish from the market by ourselves. I’ve got lots of experience doing it, but always with a Korean to help.
It was fun and pretty tasty. We also got to eat a tasty tasty dish called ojinga sundae – stuffed squid. Man oh man was it ever tasty. We tried going to an outdoor spa/waterpark that’s quite famous but the spa part was closed. We ended up at a hot springs bathhouse nearby. It was nice, but nothing special. The hotel we stayed at, on the other hand, was positively ridiculous.
The next day we went to Sokcho beach, ate ojinga bokkum – stirfried squid. Usually it’s overcooked and chewy. Often tasty but very chewy. This time, however, wow. Delicious.
And we got to eat it all while looking out at the sea.
All the pictures from this trip can be viewed on Flicker in the Sokcho 2009 set.
(Also, all these pictures will link back to their Flickr pages)