i smell something FISHY!

my friend amanda, her co-worker adam, and i traveled to busan this past weekend to participate in the busan annual international film festival. on our way to the beach, we explored the ever popular jalgalchi fish market. there were, as to be expected, a ridiculous amount of fish and other such ocean creatures.

i gave shashimi another go, but, with little success. i really wanted to like it, but, there's something about the texture of raw fish that just doesn't match with my usually fickle-less taste buds.

tanks of unidentified sea creatures:

the chef, with our "catch" of the day: flounder and yet to be identified sea creatures:

the bloody preparation:

GO FISH!

smiling for the camera, pre-taste:

realizing that i had to swallow raw flounder because there were no napkins in which to discreetly spit it out: