Wednesday, July 10, 2013

# 4 - Strange Korean Food - Fermented Tuna @ Aratuna - Tuna speciality restaurant

Seoul - We went to a tuna specialty restaurant - Aratuna restaurant.

Aratuna restaurant

all part of the tuna fish
fermented tuna
This is a delicacy for the Koreans - it smells and is an acquired taste.   Lot so taste of the cartilage and the smell of the fermented tuna can be overpowering.

Chef and owner of this restaurant
It was fun to see the chef of this restaurant serving us in our presence.  He was carving up the tuna head and is the best part of the tuna besides the stomach.

carving up slices of special tuna
meat of the Tuna eye socket

meat of the Tuna upper jaw
carving the eye ball of the tuna
The chef will dice the Tuna eye ball into slices, pour some vinegar and then Soju liqour for 6 of us and we have to drink it in one shot.

Tuna eyeball liquor
Wow, it tasted like ice cream with liquour.  Very nice and never tasted anything like this before in my life.

Cold noodles (Soba)
   The Soba noodles is so smooth and slurping it up seems alright....slurp!!





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