Korea, 28 Oct 2010, Day 1, Dinner in Sokcho

On getting back down the slope, we bought some seafood and green chilli fritters at 15 pieces for 5000 KRW.

At the Dongmyeonghang Live Fish Market, you can choose from the wide range of live seafood which you can then ask for them to be cooked at the restaurant located above the market.  There is a separate charge for the cooking.  We didn't eat there as we didn't want the wheels of our wheelchairs to be dirtied from the wet market floor.  However, the restaurant is actually accessible to wheelchairs as there is a ramp up to the second floor.

We originally decided to eat at one of the numerous other seafood restaurants that line the roads in the area, but ended in a regular Korean food restaurant instead. It was difficult to bear the thought that we were in the seaport of Sokcho with its abundant fresh live seafood, and we were not eating any of it!

We ordered a beef rib soup, which turned out to be the best amongst all the other places that we tried in Korea (and we did try many as our helper, who was travelling with us, did not have very adventurous culinary tastes). 

We also ordered a pollack soup.  On the way to Sokcho, we saw pollack (a fish) being sun-dried at many places and were told that pollack is one of the area's specialty.  It was a light and fairly plain soup.  Not untasty, but a little too mild tasting.  They actually didn't do it poorly.  We were served pollack soup on a few other occasions at other places and they all tasted about the same.

We also ordered a squid sundae, and some other stuff which were decent but nothing to rave over.

We ate our food with the fritters that we had bought earlier.  The restaurant did not stop us from bringing in outside food.

The restaurant was a homely little place, albeit under-patronised. The owner and the workers ate at another table and watched TV.

Location of restaurant

Having had dinner, we drove to the Maremons Hotel Sokcho, where we would be staying two nights.

What a day! Great start to a holiday!