# 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!!

Bulgogi

Seoul - For lunch with HanaIT friends, we travelled a distance to eat some bulgogi and it was a good restaurant. 

30 years old Bulgogi restaurant

Bulgogi

Delcious Bulgogi cooking over the stove.  This dish is a sweet mixture of sauces straw mushrooms, leeks, onions, glass noodles and slices of beef.  Once the beef is cooked, there are numerous ways to eat it to savour the taste of the Bulgogi.   You can pick up the beef, add garlic with chilli sauce and wrapped in lettuce or you can eat it with rice.

After I pick out the food to be place on my plate it looks like that. 

On my plate

Kichenette in a Seoul Hotel room

Seoul - I just watched latest movies on the flight to Seoul - "Olympus has Fallen" and "The Sapphires".   I was given a room with a kichenette @ The Best Western Guru Hotel.  This is the first time for me in a Hotel but in a service apartment of course there is a kitchen.

Kichenette

Young Jin joined me for dinner @ a nearby sashimi restaurant.   The fish was so fresh....

raw fish

So delicious and fresh dipped into wasabi and soy sauce and wrapped in a lettuce and into my mouth.  Yummy!

fried fish head

plate of shell fish

We had a large platter of steamed shell fish - 6 x Jegu abalones, scallops, cockles and other shell fishes.  So much food for the 2 of us.


 

Peking Duck in Hong Kong

Kowloon - We were recommeded to this Hong Kong icon restaurant - Spring Deer Restaurant.   This is the only place to eat Peking duck in Hong Kong.  The place was crowded and the ceiling of the restaurant is so low; giving you a claustrophobic feeling.

Condiments for the Peking Duck

I did not like the taste of the wrap; it left a powdery after taste.  I had to gurgle the tea in my mouth to get rid of that after taste.

Peking Duck

The Peking duck does not come up to my expectation as compared to the Peking Duck I had tried in Beijing.  This restaurant does not serve the remains of the duck.  Unlike on mainland Beijing, the chef will prepare the remains of the duck into soup and vegetable dishes.

My previous blog on Peking Duck

Stewed ham & Tientsin cabbage

Wing Wah Noodle Shop - Michelin Bib Gourmand award

Hong Kong - First time trying a Michelin graded noodle shop in Hong Kong.  One of the famous restaurant in Hong Kong - Wing Wah Noodle restaurant.  

You must try the wan ton noodle and it is the noodle that makes this place so special.   The restaurant is nondescript with simple arrangement of chairs and have been that way for decades.  It gives an atmosphere of bygone years of old Hong Kong.

The noodles are still made by hand, kneaded using bamboo upstairs.  

Latest news is that this Michelin shop has closed operation on 31st August 2018 after 68 years in busines.   The 3rd generation own Tse Sau-Hong commented that she was 'feeling old and wanted to retire' and the business has fallen after the immigration department moved their offices away from Wan Chai.

Surprise! Affordable seafood restaurant in Hongkong

Hong Kong island - After watching our movie World War Z, a good movie.  It's already 9pm and time for a late dinner.  We thought of the restaurant that had a queue and so we walked over but realized that it is a fusion restaurant of SE Asia and Hongkong dishes and not our cup of tea.   Looking across, was a seafood restaurant and we sat down to order.

We were recommeded by the captain for their promotion of 1 full lobster and 1 steam fish at affordable price of HKD 308.  Extremely surprise when the dish arrive and it was fresh and really good.

Steam fish

Lobster with cabonara noodles

The lobster dish was great - succulent and fresh.  It was cooked together with noodles in carbonara sauce.  I really enjoy this dinner as both the lobster and fish was fresh and also affordable.

Restaurant: Charming Cuisine @ G/F 517 Jafe Road, Causeway Bay (walking distance from Time Square)

Monster University

Hong Kong island  - Resting after our meeting, we walked around Times Square which was running a promotion on the movie 'Monster University'.  Large queues gather to take phots with the monsters...

Monster University garden

Huge Apple Store @ Causeway Bay

We popped into a Desert shop a short walking distance from our hotel and had a Durian cake dessert.

Durian cake dessert

The Durian cake is bland, no taste and no smell.   Surprise, HK people like Durians.

Seasame seed and bean curd

This is a mixture dessert of seasame seed and bean curd dish with yellow sugar.  The seasame seed is very fine and smooth..

Tang Yuen

Hot desert with glutinous ball in ginger soup