Buying fish at a Korean fish market is quite an experience. If you have ever been to any Asian fish market then you know that the array of fish you can get there is exponentially bigger than anything in an American market. It really highlights how limited the American diet is. In addition to a huge array of fresh fish species (some of them quite fierce looking)and cephalopods there are long and expensive strings of fish tied together (200,000 Won, about 200 bucks) and also a whole universe of dried sea creatures of every description. It is quite wild. I passed by a fish monger on the street yesterday in the interestingly named Jogno5ga area in central Seoul who was selling all of these huge dried octopuses and other animals that I couldn't identify and can't really imagine how you eat them.

So tonight I decided to try cooking one of these fish and the local seller (after conferring with his compadre) recommended one called samchi. It was very good pan fried with garlic and some soy sauce. Most things are good pan fried with garlic and soy sauce, but this was especially good. It also happens to be a two syllable fish name that I could actually figure out off with my fresh learning of the Korean alphabet.

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