When we came to Seoul in 2013, we had a wonderful tour of markets with a guy named Daniel Gray, who publishes a blog on Korean food.  We enjoyed him so much that Debra looked him up and booked a full day “foodie tour” for 14 friends from the ship who love exploring food like she does.

We started out at the fish market, where Daniel picked out a number of large live fish and other sea creatures for our breakfast.  Much of it was raw, including cut octopus whose arms were still squirming like worms and hung on to the plate with their suction cups like they knew their fate.  Of course, I had to try it for the video.  Don’t view this before morning coffee.

We sampled food all day.  Mung bean pancakes as cooked in North Korea (yum), lamb kabobs, liver and stomach (no thanks), shaved ice with milk and red beans (surprisingly good).  Everyone tried most everything and ate until 4:30 pm, even though the Canadians in the group had their Thanksgiving turkey dinner ahead of them that night!

Debra is now the food queen, and hard at work organizing a similar event for Singapore in December.