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| Jumunjin Harbor |
(continued-Part 2)
After my wife and I went back to our AirBnB apartment, we took the sand off our feet, took a shower, and got ready. After we got ready, we took a taxi to Jumunjin Harbor and Fish Market. We saw some boats docked and many people selling all kinds of seafood as we got closer to the market. The whole area was pretty huge. From what I could see, restaurants and fish markets added up to at least two blocks parallel to the beach and there were various streets off of the main road along the beach that sold raw fish, dried seafood, or souvenirs related to the fish market. There were also plenty of restaurants competing with each other to sell seafood soup, sashimi, crab, shrimp, and other things for lunch.
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| Jumunjin Harbor |
You could order whatever seafood you wanted that was alive and they would cut it, cook it, and serve it for you. Here are a couple shots of the market as we were walking through it...
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| Jumunjin Fish Market |
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| Jumunjin Fish Market |
My wife loves seafood and so she started getting hungry after seeing all of the fish before our eyes. Trying to be a wise husband, I thought should find a place to eat at as soon as possible. However, my stomach was also talking to me. We sat down next to these people in the picture below...
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| Time for some raw fish! |
Before we arrived at our place to sit at, Eunhee (my wife) selected the fish that we should eat. The merchant then had us pay for our fish. Next, a high school boy escorted us to the restaurant where they would serve us our meal. He was really friendly, asked me my name, said it was nice to meet me, and asked where I was from. He then told us he would bring our food back to us. Five minutes later, he came back and asked to take a picture with him. I said "Of course!" and then he asked to be my Facebook friend. And yes, we are now Facebook friends! Haha! Here he is...
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| My new friend |
Then he helped bring us our meal. My wife is pretty adventurous and likes all kinds of seafood but I'm not quite as adventurous as her. Here's an example in the picture below. I liked the two kinds of white raw fish on the left, but couldn't eat the slimy stuff on the right. My wife ate pretty much all of that. Eunhee was very happy!
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| Our meal |
After that, we headed to one of the most popular beaches in Gangneung towards the evening:
Jumunjin Beach. We found out later that this beach was packed during the day, so we were thankful that the beach we went to during the day wasn't crowded at all. And once when we got to Jumunjin Beach, it was very quiet.
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| Jumunjin Beach |
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| Jumunjin Beach |
We wanted to have some coffee, so we stopped off at a cafe right next the beach. It was in the shape of a train and we noticed that they had a patio deck with a pool. We weren't allowed to swim in the pool but we could drink our coffee there. We had a great view of the ocean and we felt so relaxed at that moment.
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| Not a bad view! |
My wife wanted a red bean dessert (patbingsu) and I got an iced cafe latte because it was still warm that evening...
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| My wife is about to dive into her patbingsu |
Here's another look at the beach from the pool area....
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| Jumunjin Beach |
There was a beach bar that served hot dogs, some grilled meat, and beer. I got a hot dog that was barely edible but I still loved the atmosphere. Next to the beach bar were two filipina ladies singing some old Korean and American songs. I wanted to take a picture of them, but I didn't want them to be offended, so I decided just to take a picture of the scene around them at night.
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| A beach bar with the cafe behind it |
Finally, we reluctantly decided to head back to our apartment after such a wonderful day and evening. The next day, we would head off to Gyeongpodae! To be continued......
Scott Worden (The L.A./Seoul Guy)
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