raw fish

These are some pictures of Ruthie and Ara's little raw fish extravaganza in Pohang.
1. These are all of the side dishes before the arrival of the main course, sliced pumpkin, sea urchin, roe, cold octopus and shrimp, sea cucumber paste, dishes of garlic and chillies and piles of gochojong, spiced Korean paste that you dip the raw fish in after you wrap it in either sesame leaves or lettuce.
2. The main course.
3. Before they are chosen the fish live a fairly idyllic life in there basket.


For some strange reason I really cant stand cooked fish. I love shellfish, squid, octopus, and almost every other sea creature that there is but I cannot for the life of me stand cooked fish, unless it is either tuna, mahi mahi, or fish and chips.
On the flip side however I absolutely love raw fish. The whole process here is amazing. You pick the fish, which is alive, that you want to eat out of a tank, the man, or woman, clubs it to death with an aluminum bat and then proceeds to slice and dice it into many pieces, finally presenting it on a plate as piles of cold slivers of slimy sea creatures, awesome.