Category: Food
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Silkworms in a can
Koreans eat some pretty strange things. Dog, probably the most well-known, can still be obtained although it is restricted to special restaurants, is rather expensive and is consequently unlikely to show up in your bulgogi. Some of the snack foods seem to freak the foreigners out even more.
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Gyeongju
One of the places about which my guide book is unusually enthusiastic – unusual because it is decidedly luke-warm about places like Daegu – is Gyeongju, a city about an hour away from Daegu which served as the capital during the Silla Dynasty, including during the first years of a unified Korea. The place is…
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40 steps and Jagalchi Fish Market (Busan Part 1)
Daegu is not a coastal city. But some days the wind blows in a certain way and the glare is a particular way and the air has that feeling of moisture that makes me think of the sea. I think that is the reason I’ve thought a lot about coastal towns since I arrived here…