Noryangjin Fish Market: Fish Mongers at Work Noryangjin Fish Market: Shot from above Noryangjin Fish Market: Octopus in Waiting Noryangjin Fish Market: Shellfish of Doom Noryangjin Fish Market: Bright-eyed Snapper Noryangjin Fish Market: Miso Skate Noryangjin Fish Market: Jelly Fish Noodles Noryanjin Fish Market: Mackerel: Ready for Grilling Noryangjin Fish Market: Byeong-oh or Butterfish, by either name, delicious Noryangjin Fish Market: Swordfish sans Sword Noryangjin Fish Market: Fresh catch by the man wearing eye shadow Noryangjin Fish Market: Alive Breakfast  This post is part of my "Seoul Tourist" articles written for visitors to Korea. If you are looking to visit Seoul on vacation and are interested in exploring the city. If you are looking to do a tour of the market, feel free to contact me at seouleats at gmail dot com. This is of the Old Fish Market, the new fish market will open in August 2015. The Noryangin Fish...

Here is the fish market at 2am. I went there with one of my food tour guests. The auctions are pretty busy and the market is still open. If you are craving fish at 2am, this is the the place to go in Seoul.

Chef Hyejin If you don't like salmon then you should leave my blog. Please just go, I don't care who you might be or why you dislike it, just disconnect your computer and go. I love salmon. I love it even more when I can get a lot of it. The other day after a fish market tour, I stopped over to talk with a vendor and enquired about buying some. So after some haggling, I got a whole half of a salmon - enough to make about 6 good fillets. The good thing was that they already deboned it and put it on a nice fake plank (it's faux styrofoam) for taking it back home. But I didn't go home. I went to my cooking school where Chef Hyejin lovingly prepared it for lunch. The first day we just had some sashimi with sliced onions and lemon. The next day we pan-fried some with some orange miso sauce. The rest we froze for another day. The salmon came out to be about 60,000 won but some times you have to splurge, right? Dan Salmon Salmon Belly Sashimi

I was asked by KTO to write a few articles on the topic of Korean food for their website, Koreataste.org . Here is my latest on the culinary tour for the LSG Sky Chefs. I was lucky enough to be invited to the culinary tour for the  LSG Sky Chefs . These chefs were to getting a 36 hour crash course on Korean cuisine by attending cooking classes and then travel to a fish market, a kimchi factory, a soy bean farm, and to do a restaurant tour. These chefs manage the food for most of the major Airlines such as: Lufthansa, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Asiana Airlines, Swiss International Airlines, United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Korean Air, and Aeroflot. The company manages about 30% of the worldwide airline catering market. This is a true boon for Korean food since these chefs handle the meals of millions of people flying around the world. 15 chefs from the company that handle different aspects of Korean food such as menu planning, frozen foods, localization, and product...

It was a good food weekend. Despite the rain, we had several food tours  and I think everyone had a great time. Yesterday morning, I got to take a family to the Noryrangjin Fish Market and we ate the ocean's worth of fish. We even got a steamed king crab and mixed the top shell that had the delicious juices of the crab with rice and ate that. The family said it was a delicacy they never had before. Of course, we did raw fish, abalone, live octopus and finished the meal with some fish soup. It was great to meet the Knight family. After the fish tour I went to see the play Suicides in Vegas. Great play with incredible actors. It was a very well written play that was well paced, humorous and compelling. The play will be touring the Canadian Fringe Festival. I recommend you check it out if you are there. Hopefully they will do another run of the play in Seoul. For Sunday dinner, I went out with my friends Danya and James to Craftworks where we ordered some burgers with their famous b...

Seoul Fish Market I got a question the other day from a reader of Seoul Eats: "Dan, is there any place that I can get fresh salmon or salmon sashimi?" Yes! The Noryrangjin Fish Market. As you probably know my company does a regular fish market tour.  These days, I have noticed that more and more vendors have salmon for sale. They have it sliced up for sashimi with the vinegared red chili paste (cho-gochujang) and they even have fillets for sale. The vendors will debone the salmon for you- which is a plus, so all you have to do it go home and cook. There are smoked salmon in the cases (no...not really smoked, but chemically smoked) and you can get lots of salmon for cheap there. Not bad on a bagel with cream cheese, a squeeze of lemon, sliced white onion and capers...yum. The guy in the picture there is a hoot. He's a natural born salesman and he won't let you go until you buy something from him. He'll have salmon for sale- just ask him for a discount or ...

This week, I was lucky enough to take the chef of PF Chang's and the winner of the PF Chang's Blogging Contest, Alice Shin, on a crazy, custom food tour around the city of Seoul. We must have eating at tons of different places in just 2 days. We had everything from Korean barbecue, raw fish, street food, and much more.  In this video you can see the beautiful Alice Shin eating a whole, live octopus. You can follow Alice's Adventures at www.peiweiblog.com as she and Chef Eric eat all of Asia. Come take a cooking class or take a Culinary Tour in Seoul! http://www.ongofood.com Pictures are taken either with my Panasonic DMC-G2 Camera with 20mm Lens or with my iPhone 4G Join the Seoul Eats Facebook Group Page to keep to date with the latest events.

NYC Foodies Eric and Mehera came to Korea to eat. Eric had contacted me and asked me to accompany them to Noryrangjin Fish Market and this is what we saw and ate. Dan

My name is Dan and you might have seen me on the Bizarre foods episode. I'm with Andrew while eats Turtle, Eel, and Blowfish. To be honest with you, I haven't seen the episode yet. They haven't aired it in Korea yet. I just wanted to welcome you to my site and introduce you to some of the bizarre things I've eaten (or been eaten by) lately. The first picture is of my hand and feet in a pool of water as little fish eat the dead skin off the bottom of my feet. It's a pretty popular thing in Korea and it does wonders for exfoliation. Then there is kamja tang. It's a potato soup with slowly roasted pig back. The potatoes here are fluffy when cooked and they have an elusive sweetness. Next is Jokbal. Jokbal is slowly braised pig trotters that melt like butter in your mouth. Then there is a fish with a cataract kissing a Korean upside down fish. The cataract is believed to improve stamina in men. JUST KIDDING. It was a fish that I saw at Noryrangjin: the largest comme...

I am going to the fish market tonight with a couple of friends and some readers. If a couple of people would like to join us, I think it would be fun. We will go around 7pm to look around and eat some 회 and 생낚지. Four people can come and join us, so the first 4 get to come and eat with us. You can e-mail me at seouleats@gmail.com if you are interested. Dan UPDATE at 8am 3 OPENINGS LEFT! UPDATE at 8:11am 2 OPENINGS LEFT UPDATE at 5:38 NO SPOTS LEFT

The Noryangin Fish Market is Seoul's largest marine products market. Covering over 66,000 square meters the warehouse is a teeming wonderland of all that swims in the sea. There are over 700 small shops, and several bigger ones, that sell everything from shrimp, flounder, and live octopus to the exotic spoon worm, sea cucumber, and sea Ray. If you can’t find your aquatic friend here, it probably doesn’t exist in Korea. The market is open 24 hours. If you are up around 3am (except on Sundays and holidays), you can witness the wholesale auction. At the auction they sell everything from very high-grade fish to low-grade bulk products. Just don’t yawn, because you might accidently buy a couple hundred kilograms of fresh fish. The Toro and the giant squid tentacles fetch hundreds of thousands of won (equivalent to hundreds of dollars) each. And when these items go on the auction block, the room becomes very exciting because these fishmongers don’t like to lose. When you enter the market...

I recently took my first trip to Noryangjin Fish Market (노량진역/Noryangjin Station, Line 1). It's similar to most other fish markets in the country - rows and rows of fresh sea creatures straight off the boat - cleaned, sliced, and diced in front of your very eyes. You can pretty much find anything here - small shrimp, medium shrimp, big shrimp, ginormous shrimp (or prawns?), crabs, stingrays, octopus, mussels, clams, and a wide range of unidentifiable squirmy looking things. The fun part, however, is buying your fish and having it sashimi-ed on the spot, or alternatively, taken to a restaurant in the vicinity to have your just-purchased meal prepared right then and there. (Noryangjin also has a handful of these places, located on the 2nd floor.) A word of caution: enough time spent walking around the market will make you VERY fishy... you just might not smell it till you get home! We opted out of trying Noryangjin's selection this time around, but I thought I'd share some o...