Yesterday was Rie's birthday. Since we were in the jjimbilbang and the lights had just gone off, I was able to wish her a Happy Birthday right at mid-night.
After our afternoon Korean lesson, we hopped on a bus and went out to the Kigeong market. It took close to an hour to get out there. It is several beach towns up the road from Pusan. Kijeong is locally famous for its crab restaurants. We walked down the alley where all of the crab houses are concentrated. Each restaurant has a bunch of tanks in front and the tanks are filled with crabs. We found a place we liked and then picked out two good looking crabs. The man helping us threw in a third one for free and put them all in a metal container. He put the container in line for the steamer and we went in and sat down.
The meal started off with a great assortment of appetizers. We ate a kind of pancake filled with scallions, quail eggs, peanuts, kimchi, and seaweed soup among others. When our crabs were done with their sauna, they were brought to the front table where two women with scissors quickly cut them up and arranged them onto a serving dish. Rie and I spent a good half-hour pulling all of their meat out and eating it.
The crab brains came to the table on top of the crab's shell. Rie sent them back with a request for how they should be prepared. A few minutes later, the shell returned from the kitchen, but this time it was filled with crab brain fried rice and topped with some fish eggs.
After some ice cream at Baskin Robbins, we called it a day.
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