Korean Street Food - EXTREME SEAFOOD + Must Eat Food in Busan, South Korea!! 🇰🇷

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BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA - Welcome to Busan, a major city in southern South Korea and it happens to be one of the seafood capitals of the world! Today we’re going on an extreme street food and seafood tour in Busan - get prepared for some of the best local Korean food.
Oh wow, this is literally a party tray.
I love how everything here is just completely fast,
furious, loud, action.
Okay, let's go right off the grill in the fire.
The live octopus.
I cannot wait to start digging into that sashimi.
Today we're going on an ultimate Korean street food tour
to eat some of the best local food in Busan.
This is by far the sweatiest Korean meal I've ever had.
Starting right here at Jagalchi Market,
which is the biggest seafood market in all of South Korea.
Huge fresh catch of the day dried seafood.
I mean, you could buy everything at this market
and it's just a wonderland of seafood.
And right now we're just on the outside
kind of sprawling section of the market.
But this market just goes on and on.
And there's a huge indoor section as well
that we are making our way towards.
Oh, look at these giant cuttlefish.
But they also have a huge official section
of the Jagalchi Market, which is right here behind me.
It almost looks like a train station, it's so big.
And we're gonna step inside there
to continue with the seafood tour.
It's just a sprawl of aquariums of all things
from the sea that you can possibly imagine, and more.
The plan here is to walk around
to check out some of the seafood
to see what's local and fresh and seasonal.
Then we buy some seafood at the seafood market.
From there they have restaurants which you can go to
where they will cook the fresh catch that you bought,
cook it fresh, ultra fresh,
and you can eat right here at the market.
So we met up with market stall owner.
He's gonna be our host for the day at the seafood market.
And he has a stall selling fresh seafood,
but he also has a restaurant upstairs.
So he's gonna help us navigate,
help us get some of the seafood.
Immediately, one of the things that's in season
that's a local delicacy is called chono,
which is, I think it's a spotted sardine.
It is very seasonal, only in season right now
during this month that we're here.
So he immediately darted out to the truck
to get it fresh from the truck.
This is the process where they take it live
and then they put it into the.
Oh, okay, okay, from the truck to the basket,
to the tanks, and this is live, fresh,
freshly caught right off the boat from the truck.
This one, oh, like a, looks like a snapper.
A sea bream, okay, oh, a sea bream.
Oh, that's a good fish, that's a very good fish.
Everything is as fresh, live, as possible.
Okay, so we're gonna go for that sea bream.
What a beauty.
Swift work of that sea bream.
Oh, man, a splatter to the lens,
but he makes swift work of that sea bream.
He's so fast, he knows exactly what he's doing.
I mean, that goes from live and swimming in the tank
to sashimi within seconds.
And so clean, such a clean process.
Whoa, it's squirting.
Whoa, it's so slippery.
Oh, yeah, the live octopus.
One of the things that he specializes in
is everything is local, everything is seasonal seafood.
Oh, he's sliding out, oh.
And oh, yes, he's.
The squirters, the sea squirts.
Oh, man, he just reached in and got one of the sea squirts,
which are always hilarious.
I mean, it kind of looks like a pink hot dog.
And he immediately, I have had this before in Seoul,
immediately grabs it from the tank,
slices it up, pops it open, slices it up,
and says, want to try some sashimi with it immediately?
Okay, let's try it.
Definitely, I have had this before a couple of times.
Oh, it's so slippery.
Oh, it almost feels like leather in your fingers.
Give it another try in Busan.
Mm.
Oh.
Oh, it's crunchy and sweet.
Very good.
And that's the freshest sea hot dog
you'll ever have in your entire life, literally seconds ago.
Oh, very good, very good.
Oh, thank you, okay.
It's definitely a bit of a chewy texture.
Okay, and kind of slimy at the same time.
Oh, definitely slimy.
Yeah, it's kind of like a slimy piece of leather
that you kind of chew on.
He's doing a beautiful job with that plate
of fresh sea bream sashimi.
That is, oh man, the transparency,
the color of that fish is beautiful.
Those spotted sardines, that's just incredible.
He cleans them so well, takes out the center bone,
dries them, makes sure they're really dry with a towel,
and then he just slices them finely,
almost like a slicing machine, so thin slices.
Oh man, that's gonna be so good,
and that's what we're gonna eat for sashimi.
Oh, and he's doing a variety of techniques,
some cross, some to the side, some juliennes,
and I love all sorts of fish,
but sometimes small fish are some of the tastiest,
best fish that you can possibly eat,
so I'm really excited to try this.
Oh, we're finished with all of the prep work.
We're heading upstairs for the meal.
Oh, and you can see, there's all just
kind of like food court stalls.
It's almost a seafood, sea market, aquarium food court.
Okay, and she's getting started on the abalone.
Oh, and for the abalone, we're getting them grilled, right?
Grilled abalone.
Oh man, she does it so fast
and just scores the abalone perfectly.
Oh, ready.
The abalone are gonna be sauteed down with some butter.
Oh, nice.
Kamsahamnida.
Here we are, beginning this Busan food tour,
ultra-fresh seafood.
I cannot wait to start digging into that sashimi.
And look at the way he made this floral formation
of the sashimi, of the bream.
Oh, transparent slices.
So white.
Transparent, actually.
And then it is called hoi, which is the raw form of fish
or raw form of ingredients.
This would be the bean sauce that you could dip into
with garlic, looks like there's some green chilies
in there as well.
Maybe a little dab in this.
Oh, wow.
Oh, that's fresh.
The texture, the muscle.
It melts in your mouth
and it has a little bit of chew at the same time.
What a just ultra-clean fish.
I mean, I do love sea bream.
That is delicious.
And then dipped with that bean paste,
that gives it that burst of saltiness, umami,
garlic, fresh garlic, fresh chilies.
Wow, that's good.
And we also have the seasonal specialty,
which are the spotted sardines, a delicacy.
And he sliced it three different ways.
Let's try the cross-section first.
Because it has little bones in it,
it has this little bit of a crunch to it.
But the way he sliced it,
you can just crunch through the bones,
giving it extra texture.
Almost has a little buttery feel to it with that crunch.
Oh, that's so good.
I'll add some soy sauce to the wasabi.
Let's try another slice, maybe this larger slice.
And for this piece,
I think I'll dip it into the soy sauce and wasabi.
Even the way he slices it gives it a different texture.
That one even has more of a crunch to it.
I think you got more of a cross-section
of that bone structure, but it goes down so easily.
I love the texture.
That diversity of buttery fish plus crunchy bone altogether.
And then he gave us an octopus to try.
This is the famous Korean nakji, which is the octopus,
which is then just completely sliced up.
Oh yeah, wait, let me grab a little.
Oh yeah.
Oh, the little suction.
The texture.
It's a little bit slimy, a little bit chewy.
I love the flavor of the sesame oil.
Okay, for the next bite of sashimi,
I'm gonna do a Korean-style wrap.
So you take a piece of lettuce,
take a massive perilla leaf,
then we go garlic, raw garlic,
dip into the bean paste, into the center,
and then a piece of the bream.
And I think that's good.
Wrap it up.
Oh, that combination.
The licorice-y flavor of the perilla leaf.
Oh, that garlic is great.
The licorice-y flavor of the perilla leaf
goes so well together with that raw fish.
Oh man.
What another just incredible combination in your mouth.
Next up, I'm gonna try the grilled spotted sardine,
or actually, she fried them in oil.
Kinda shallow fried them so they're crispy on the outside.
Oh man, and if you look inside that fish,
you can see how buttery, how oily it is.
The texture, the fattiness of it,
the oils, the fish oils.
Oh, it's so good.
Just totally melts in your mouth,
and the skin is crispy from being fried in that oil.
I think they made this from the head.
This is our sea bream head and the bones.
They made a soup, which also comes with your meal.
You can see the bones in here.
A lot of scallions in here.
Oh, it smells really good, the garlic.
Cool.
So hot, sitting over the burner,
like a hot pot of fish head soup.
That's like one of the greatest usages of bones and head.
Bring out that flavor, then you get to nibble on the bones,
get all of the meat off that you weren't able to get
for the sashimi.
And then it also just provides such a unique,
delicious flavor, because everything we have,
we have a lot of sashimi, we have a lot of rassi food.
Just so comforting to have a hot scallion bone soup.
Salty, lots of scallions in there, really good.
I'm gonna try next up the sauteed abalone.
Oh, she kinda like scored it, but then she kept them whole.
Sauteed them in a little bit of butter.
Wow.
Oh, the freshness, the texture of that,
it's not rubbery at all.
So soft and tender, sweet.
Oh man, that's good.
I'm gonna circle back around to the chono kueh,
the sashimi spotted, gotta go with the garlic,
loaded up with that bean sauce with the green chilies,
the garlic slices.
And again, the wrap.
I love perilla leaves.
Man, that flavor goes so well with fish.
It's just a total match.
Then with that fermented bean paste
that gives it extra flavor, the pungency of the garlic.
Oh, the green chili.
Oh yeah.
The white kimchi, the grilled sardines.
Awesome meal.
Oh man, that's buttery.
That was an incredible seafood meal in Busan,
and now that we're leaving, it's pretty full.
Lots and lots of people.
I mean, this is where you come for an ultimate seafood feast.
We're gonna continue eating.
We have another place to eat
that's actually at the fish market,
and it's extremely popular locally,
but it's not seafood at all.
The next place we're going is down this alley.
Look at that, there's so many signs on this alley.
So many colors.
Oh, hey.
Oh wow, this place is incredible.
And like I was mentioning,
it's one of the most popular places to eat
in the entire fish market area,
and that's especially for local people selling fish.
I mean, when you sell fish, when you work with fish,
when you work with seafood all your day and day night,
I mean, sometimes the last thing you wanna do
is eat seafood, and so this is a famous place
for old school for their intestines barbecue
as well as their tripe hot pot.
Ah, okay, okay.
Oh, we have aprons.
Oh, no doubt, no doubt I'm gonna put on the apron, yes.
Okay, so tripe hot pot intestines barbecue.
This place has been here since 1952, extremely popular.
I love this style.
It's just straight up bar counter seating.
They cook, the griddle's in front of you,
all the banchan are already laid out and the condiments.
I can't wait to see,
oh, she's slicing up some tripe in the back there.
She has some massive blankets of tripe.
This is such a cool experience.
Kamsahamnida.
Whoa, that's the intestine?
Wow, that's a whole coil.
Oh, and on the grill, now with the griddle,
we have the heart, okay.
The heart goes on.
The origin of this place,
the roots come back all the way from the Korean War.
Oh, wow, okay.
And this is all one restaurant?
Or is it different stalls all within one restaurant?
It's all different stalls within one restaurant, yeah.
It's almost like a food court.
Exactly, it's a food court of intestines, yeah.
Of intestines.
And Auntie said that she's the fourth generation
cooking intestines here.
So much history.
Gotta try the beef heart.
Beef heart is ready first.
She said to eat it immediately.
You dip it into this sauce with garlic.
No, I want that garlic, okay.
And you eat it with some of the salad?
And you eat it with some of the,
oh, some of the salad.
Okay, first bite.
Oh, wow.
The texture is incredible.
And so much flavor.
Next course is the first layer of the stomach.
Auntie did tell me that I over-sauced on my first bite.
I added a bit too much sauce,
so this time she said just a little dip
to really taste the flavor of the stomach.
Oh, wow.
That texture, it like springs back at you.
It jumps in your mouth a little bit.
Oh, that's a little rubbery,
but really unique texture.
Mm, flavor keeps on coming.
A little bit chewy, definitely, but good.
Okay, another heart.
This time I might go in for some of those green chilies.
Man, the heart is so good.
So sweet.
And as we were eating that,
she brought over the hot plate of the intestines
that have been sizzling in their own fat.
Oh, man, they're squirting.
Oh, so oily.
Oh, oh, so it's first griddle-fried
and then onto the hot grill.
So it's a two-step cooking process.
Oh, it squirts and sprays.
Okay, now we're moving into the small intestines.
This is when things are really getting excited,
the intestines.
Oh, intestines are always just slightly hilarious
and delicious delicacy.
And I mean, just the way they look
and the way they're so fatty,
they're just spewing with juices
and as she adds it to the fire,
they just erupt with flame.
Another dip into the sauce.
Oh, wow.
Oh, that's so good.
Almost has a nutty creaminess to it
with a chewy wrapper and the smokiness
grilled in its own fat on the griddle,
then the smokiness from the grill
to char off all of that excess oil and grease.
Intestines is fantastic, yes.
And then we also have those,
they look like sausages,
but they're the big intestines.
Sometimes I've heard them called flower intestines
because when you chop them open,
they just kind of spew with fat
and juices into a floral, floral crystals almost.
And then we got the garlic
and the intestines fat.
Oh, wow.
And the intestines taste like so clean.
They're not irony at all, just like nutty.
This bite of intestines is to go
into the sesame oil garlic, she said.
Nutty intestines, nutty sesame oil.
Oh, it's so good.
Chased with some of the salad.
And then we also have a kimchi here.
Oh, there's radish in it, it's soup.
So there might be radish water
in this kimchi as well.
That's really refreshing.
That's gonna cleanse you
from all the oily bits and parts.
Okay, here we go.
Let's try the flower intestine.
Oh, that's like fat on fire.
Oh, that totally melts in your mouth.
Oh man, it liquefies.
And then with that kind of stretchy skin
around it, flour fat on the inside
just totally dissolves on your tongue.
Wow, you need to chase that with kimchi.
That's without a doubt,
because it's so rich.
Oh man, and then with that fire,
it's amazingly neutral tasting.
Just fat.
Wow.
So each individual part has different textures
and feelings.
Definitely.
What is your favorite part so far?
I really like the small intestine.
I'm gonna go for the small intestines.
I think the small intestine is my highlight.
That's my favorite.
Dip it.
Oh, that's hot.
Okay, I wanna taste it with the chili.
I think you can dip the chili in the bean paste.
Oh yeah.
That went up their nose a little bit.
Oh, it's good.
Oh yeah.
Oh man.
That is so rich.
You almost immediately have to chase it with kimchi
to cut that grease.
Wow, it's tasty though.
Calorie rich.
Gochujang?
Is there rice already in there?
No rice yet.
Okay.
As we continue snacking on all the organs,
some carbs would be nice
and they have the perfect solution.
Oh.
So these are all of that tripe.
That tripe?
Or the intestine.
The remaining tripe.
Or some of that first stomach
with sauces and gochujang and lots of onions
that they sizzled on the hot griddle until cooked.
And now they're just slicing it
into tiny bite-sized pieces with scissors.
Scissor cut.
Oh, and here comes the rice.
Oh wow.
Oh, what a move.
Girl.
Very hot.
Very hot?
Ha ha ha ha ha.
You gotta put it when you put it.
Ha ha ha ha.
Oh wow.
Oh, that is rich and flavorful.
The rice has just absorbed everything,
just stretching the flavor
with little chewy bits of tripe in it as well.
The onion.
Oh, that's on fire still too.
Oh, what a move to make use of all of the juices,
all of the oils, everything.
And to complete your meal.
So good.
That intestine's rice might be my favorite part
of the entire experience.
It's so good.
All the oils from the intestines seeped out,
just completely absorbed into every single grain of rice
with gochujang, with onions.
Wrapped in seaweed.
Oh, it's so tasty.
Wow.
And finally, at the end of your meal,
you're gonna wanna take a drink of that kimchi water.
And just wash it all down.
Just cleanse it, cleanse it going down.
Oh, that was satisfying.
That was a textural playground in your mouth.
And I just absolutely love the history here and the culture.
Next up on this food tour of Busan,
we drove a little bit outside of town,
about 15, 20 minutes,
and we are at a legendary place
to eat one of the signature noodles
that originates right here in Busan.
I love Korean noodles.
I'm very excited.
Okay, nice.
We got the floor seating here in the back.
Oh, I love it.
And we came here specifically,
I mean, this entire restaurant specializes
in something called milmyeon,
which is Busan's special noodle.
Man, you step in here,
you can immediately smell the aroma of beef.
Like, there's just beef bones filling the air.
And another thing is that they gave you water,
and I think, oh, it is hot.
This is the broth in a tea kettle.
You can start with the broth.
You want mine?
It smells so good and warm.
Oh, yes.
This is a beautiful noodle dish.
And you can see that the noodles are yellow in color.
They're made from wheat flour.
And two different versions.
One is, I think the original one is with ice water soup,
which I have grown to absolutely love.
Ice water Korean noodles.
And not just water, but I mean, that's like a broth.
That's like a broth that could be
mixed with other things as well.
Sometimes could be radish and kimchi,
water inside of it.
And then you can see pieces of beef,
the ball of wheat noodles.
There's slices of cucumber,
some, definitely some radish on there,
gochujang, and an egg.
And then the other one is just called the bibim milmyeon,
which is the same noodle, but without the broth.
Oh, man, but we gotta start with that broth.
So actually, they don't serve you any spoons.
There were no spoons in the little case.
So I think you're supposed to drink the broth.
Oh.
Oh, wow, the initial first taste is a little bit sweet.
Not too salty.
And then you get this slushy,
this like beefy slushy in your mouth all at the same time.
Oh, that's so refreshing.
Oh, I love it.
So you're gonna mix it up first.
Mix up the ball of noodles.
Oh, that's a nice, tight wad of noodles.
And you can see all that gochujang
mixing into the icy broth.
Cucumbers, daikon radish, pieces of slices of beef, ice.
Let's try those noodles.
Mm.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, yes.
The texture of those noodles is incredible.
Slightly chewy.
So clean, so pure tasting.
The sweetness from the gochujang,
the icy coldness, the beefiness.
Man, those are quality noodles.
You can taste that they're just like real deal,
handmade noodles.
I love that.
And actually, before I do,
there are some seasonings that you're supposed to add,
but before I do that,
I'm gonna mix up the bibim
because I've already learned a lesson.
When you eat two bowls of noodles,
you wanna mix them up fast
because if you wait too long to mix it up,
it will get too hard to mix it up
and kinda like dried out.
So you wanna mix it up now.
Let's do it.
The mix.
I love how they make such a tight wad of noodles.
The sesame seeds.
Definitely an art to the bibim in Korea.
Stirring things up and mixing them evenly,
coating them all evenly with the sauce.
While we're at it, let's go ahead and try this.
That's a huge tangle of noodles.
I love the quality and texture of the noodles.
This one, you can taste more of the sweetness
from the gochujang
and a really nice sesame oil flavor as well.
Okay, but after tasting that,
I'm gonna move back over to icy noodles and season.
So you do one swirl of vinegar,
one swirl of the, kind of like a horseradish dressing,
and then you stir that around.
That's gonna slightly alter the flavor of the broth,
give it a little bit more of a bite.
Oh, actually, let me try that broth.
Yes, I love it with that extra bite of that,
that horseradishy bite that just kind of,
just gives it a little bit more of a kick.
So refreshing.
I like them both,
but I really like the one with the icy water.
And then really good shreds of beef,
radish, julienned cucumbers,
all with those tangly, chewy noodles.
Let's try that egg.
That was excellent, especially, again,
love the one with the icy cold noodles, the slushy.
From here, we are heading back to the center of Busan,
where we're gonna go to another market
and try some street food snacks.
We are at Gukje Sijang Market.
This is one of the extremely popular market areas,
and actually connected,
I mean, basically, this whole central area of Busan
is a market connected to the fish market
where we were at this morning.
But there's a lot of things you could buy here,
lots of fashion accessories,
but there is some street food to be found,
including a couple of famous things
that we gotta try when we're here.
So another one of the popular street foods
that you have to try when you come to Busan
is called Busan Omuk,
and they have some really packed stalls
in the center of the market,
and then we found this stall,
where she has a nice selection of the,
it's fish cake, boiling on sticks,
and what's awesome is it's self-service.
You can grab your own.
Well, let's do it.
For some of the sauce, there's sesame seeds,
there's big scallions in here.
I'm gonna put that sauce into my bowl.
Okay, and then they have all the skewers,
giant skewer sticks.
This one is, I think, the most classic,
huge sheet of fish cake skewered,
boiling in the juice.
Okay, dip.
Oh, that looks extremely spongy.
Oh yeah.
Almost feels like fish tofu.
A little bit, well, really spongy,
just absorbs all of that broth as it soaks,
boils, remains hot, nice texture.
And then also probably one of the coolest moves of all,
you grab a red cup, and it's a scooper cup,
then you can just dip into that broth.
Just no double dipping.
A little bit salty, not overly powerful in flavor,
kind of mild, watery, salty,
and just with that essence, that aroma of the fish broth.
Okay, I'm going in for one more.
I want a really hot one.
Looks like a patty, a patty formation.
So cool that they just give you freedom
to grab your own sticks, self-serve,
just on a busy lane, just reach,
walk by and reach by for a skewer.
Oh, this one's really good.
This one has a little more scallions,
carrots inside of it, or chili.
Oh, this one's got a little more of a spongy texture
and a little more flavor coming out of this one.
Well, that's the Busan fishcake experience.
Wonderful, we have a lot more to eat.
There's an entire lane for something
which is called bingsu, which you might have heard of.
It's one of the most famous Korean desserts,
a shaved ice, but with so many toppings.
I think you'll find it around the world now,
and so we're gonna try the original
Busan shaved ice bingsu.
Nice, they still do it by hand, crank that ice.
Oh, so shaved ice, beans, fruit.
Oh, more ice gets shaved on.
Condensed milk, that's condensed milk, goes on.
Oh, and more ice, all the layering.
Oh, and what's that, go on top, some candied fruits.
Oh, look at that, look at the texture of that ice, though.
Beautiful shavings.
Okay, kamsahamnida.
Man, she does it so fast.
Just whipping together the ingredients,
layering it together, adding on multiple layers
of beans, candied, canned fruits,
and beans, and condensed milk.
Really see the shavings of ice, really nicely shaved ice.
It's not crushed, it's not really fine,
it's not snow, but it's like these beautiful shavings.
Look at that texture.
Oh, oh yeah.
Oh, that is refreshing.
I think the joy of eating bingsu is that
when it starts to melt, it starts to create
these new flavors and mix all the ingredients together.
You've got the texture of that ice,
which is shaved so fine that it has a little crunch,
but as soon as you crunch down,
it just melts, dissolves on your tongue.
The beans are a little bit sweet
and just act to bring it together,
and then you've got that candied fruit
and the condensed milk, which also just makes it milky.
And you start to mash it up, it starts to get wetter,
melt with the ice, the juices flow.
I love her texture of ice, though.
The bingsu was excellent, very refreshing,
and just a simple, simple bingsu, which is what I enjoy.
Okay, we're on our way to find another thing.
In order to make it, she takes a handful of the dough,
which is quite sticky.
She kind of presses it into a ball,
and then she puts in a spoonful
of the cinnamon sugar mixture
and then wraps it up to close it.
Then she puts it onto the hot griddle,
which there's oil in it, to shallow fry.
Shallow fries it in the oil,
smashes it down into a patty formation,
and then flips it over and cooks it until it's golden brown,
until the sugar starts to melt on the inside.
And then the really cool move is that once it's done
and crispy, they make an incision into the top of it
and load it up with a bunch of crushed,
I think, almonds and pumpkin seeds.
Nuts, a variety of nuts on the inside,
and then it's ready to eat, a handheld pocket.
That's a really, really cool idea.
And serve it to you in a cup.
Check this out, I mean, it was good already before the nuts,
but when they open it up and load it full of nuts,
that makes it even better.
Oh, there's even, I think, almonds,
pumpkin seeds, and sunflower seeds, at least, maybe more.
And that's hot, that's right out of the oil.
Oh, man, it's good.
Crispy on the outside.
The dough is really chewy, elastic-y.
You've got the sweetness of the sugar,
which has been melted with the cinnamon,
and then the crunch of the nuts, the nuttiness of it,
all coming together, kind of like a donut pocket,
but so good.
Yeah, I'm not that much into sweets,
but this is really good,
especially since it's hot and fresh,
prepared right in front of you.
That was a great time.
Definitely a place you wanna get lost
just walking around, exploring all the shopping alleys
and lots of street food tucked within.
But from here, we've got another place
that we're gonna go
that's also a big part of the food culture of Busan.
We ended up driving probably a 15-minute drive or so
from where we were to a place called Amnan Park,
and this is on the seaside.
Actually, it's really popular for fishing.
Almost everyone here is fishing,
but it's also popular for these local Busan food tents,
and that's what we came for.
Oh, and this is the food section.
Look at all the stalls.
There's probably about a dozen or so seafood stalls,
absolutely packed, people waiting outside.
I love the environment.
And I mean, these are straight-up seafood shacks
next to the sea.
We are in.
Oh, it smells good.
Oh, the seafood.
Oh, it smells amazing in here.
We are in, and this type of dining
is called the pojangmacha.
It's a part of the Busan Korean food culture.
It's like this hot, steamy tent,
and you feel all the heat coming from all the grills going,
clouds of smoke rising as you grill up seafood.
And they're especially known for having some drinks,
having some bites to eat, some snacks,
some grilling some seafood,
and for the loud environment.
What an atmosphere.
Okay, and here comes,
whoa, that looks like a plate of cheese or butter.
Make sure you grab the cups.
I love how everything here is just completely fast,
furious, loud action.
Cheers.
Oh, the appetizer plate.
Octopus, oh, and some sea squirt, I think that is.
Mm, oh, wow.
That's a strong flavor.
It's one of the most seafood-y tasting things
that you'll ever, I have had it before,
just straight, but that's with marinated in sesame oil.
I think it's came down the seafoodiness a little bit.
It's still very strong, very pungent, almost bitter.
The mussels have arrived.
Some freshly steamed mussels, oh, and clams down here, too.
Steamed with a broth, onions in here,
some chilies in here.
Oh, I can't wait to try those on the half shell,
loaded up with some of that soup.
Mm, oh, sweet.
A little bit of onions and chilies in there.
That broth is great, and then ultra-fresh mussels.
Let's try that clam.
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, again, ultra-fresh, piping hot.
Whoa, and here's the main event, a whole tray.
Wow, oh, wow, this is literally a party tray.
I see spaghetti, I see hamburgers, I see shrimp,
I see abalone all on this tray,
and it's kind of like you, there's no real menu.
You kind of just serve you,
they have these set menus that you order,
and we got that, definitely the party platter.
Here comes the fire.
Put it on?
To the edge, okay.
Okay, so that just needs to slowly simmer.
Looks like there's chilies, onions,
some kind of a yellow substance on top,
and that just needs to slowly simmer on the fire.
Oh, the scallops, all of them?
Yeah.
Okay, so now we have the butter,
the butter and the cheese tray.
You take a blob, a block of butter,
put one into each scallop, and then you add a little cheese.
Yeah, you can try to cover it up with cheese,
make it like a, cover it with cheese.
Okay, cover it with cheese.
Oh, man, yes, yes.
Melted cheese and butter.
Believe it or not, there is a order and a strategy
and a method in which you grill,
in which you prepare all this seafood,
and this is as like Korean, local,
modern style as you can get.
Oh, man, with the butter, with the cheese,
all the onions, and all these different trays of mixtures
that you're gonna keep on feeding to your, wow,
feeding to your grill.
So you do wanna then mix this up.
Oh, there's shrimp.
Oh, more cheese, more butter, onions.
Mix this up so it starts to slow cook over that fire,
starts to melt.
This is like powerful fire cooking.
Look at that scallop in the middle.
It's already melting, we better move it out.
Oh, that's a raging hot fire.
It's a raging hot fire.
Okay, I think this one is ready, though.
Cheese, onions, scallop has come off.
Okay, let's go right off the grill in the fire.
Oh, wow.
The cheese is so mild,
but you got the sweetness of the scallop,
the onions, the green pepper in there, the fire.
Oh, man.
That is pretty tasty.
And abalone goes on.
Okay, let's try it.
This red, cheesy, shrimpy,
just melting sauce.
Molten lava cheese, it looks like.
Oh.
Literally, it's molten hot lava cheese.
Maybe with pepper paste and shrimp in the center.
Tray of cheese goes on.
Almost looks like the last tray of cheese.
Grilled abalone is ready.
Let me dip into that sauce.
Oh, wow.
That is so tender, so sweet.
This shrimp here, I've been looking forward to it
from the start.
These are beautiful, beautiful.
They're gonna be so sweet.
Let's put them on.
Oh, that's a lot of butter.
Oh, man, these shrimp beauties.
The shrimp is ready.
Oh, man, that fire in the face is warm in here.
Wow.
That is by far the best bite of the meal.
Oh, that melts in your mouth.
Oh, it's so sweet and fresh.
Shrimp is incredible.
I'm putting on the burger.
Spaghetti time.
This is the finale.
The spaghetti finish.
Oh, it's okay.
I think I got it.
Sliced up that hamburger steak,
and it's ready into bite-sized pieces.
Yeah, that's done, that's good to go.
Oh, that is good.
A little sweet, totally caramelized.
Crispy, smoky.
Now mix the spaghetti.
Oh, yes, there's butter, there's onions,
there's shrimp, there's ham.
Okay, time for the spaghetti.
Seafood spaghetti, ham, Korean spaghetti.
Oh, flaming hot spaghetti.
That tastes kind of good.
And guaranteed, this is the sweatiest, hottest Korean meal
I've ever had in my life.
Not only is it a dining room and a restaurant,
it doubles as a sauna.
You sweat it all out as you're eating.
Oh, wow.
Again, that was by far the sweatiest Korean meal
I've ever had.
This is such a popular place, so local,
and yet so modern, so much cheese.
But man, it's so smoky, so hot back there.
Just feels great to be back in the fresh air.
And what a day in Busan.
Busan has so much character to it.
People love, love to eat.
And this is only scratching the surface.
I mean, there's so much more to eat,
but it's been an incredible time in Busan.
And I'll have all the information
in the description box everywhere we went.
I wanna say a huge thank you
to the Korea Tourism Organization
for arranging our entire trip here
and for setting everything up.
Tomorrow we continue on to Daegu
and then on up the east coast of Korea for more food.
So stay tuned, and thanks again for watching.
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