You mean you eat this?
Spicy fish stew anyone?
Oppa Choi Dokyung in KBS drama “My Golden Life” turned his nose up at the spicy fish stew in Seoul’s Namdaemun market when he first saw it. His absolute freak for cleanliness and eating healthy, organic food would not allow him to even so much as touch the mushy slop being served. Not with its dented, unwashed-looking metal container and when he couldn’t figure out what was in the brown mash of so-called stew.
Well, like Oppa Choi, I turned away that spicy fish stew too…but for a different reason. Like Chai Hua who would not eat snakes, my abhorrence to eating snakes goes beyond just snakes but to anything resembling a snake. Sorry, for Hong Kongers who love their snakes and consider it a delicacy to indulge in during the winter season, this just isn’t something I can stomach.
Like Oppa Choi, I was not too taken with spicy fish stew
So seeing the fish used to make this spicy fish stew – the Hairtail or Cutlass as the shop called it, which is a long, flat-bodied fish with a most ugly face, like a snake – I was not too keen. But heck, if Oppa Choi finally ate this dish with such relish after he dropped all pretentious airs of being a chaebol, I just had to try!
Four of us with an ambitious itinerary for the day, took on a double portion of this spicy fish stew set (minimum order) right after we had a heavy lunch of chicken feet and spicy tteokbokki! Of course we insisted on the table where Park Sihoo-ssi’s Oppa Choi sat and had to patiently wait, but we got what we wanted.
A tiny facade you might just miss, if not for the photos!
The stew set came with banchan or appetizers, fried Hairtail, steamed egg, the main event of spicy fish stew and white rice. As can be expected, I only took tasting portion of the stew, eating the veg though I skipped the fish. The other sisters who ate it thought the food was delicious! So I will go with that.
Once the main ingredients of fish and vegetables were all chowed down, what was left was the saucy stew in the dented metal bowl. We picked out the remaining fish bones as a precaution and then dumped the bowl of rice in the mental bowl and gave it a thorough mix, a la Oppa Choi! And then we tucked right in!
Yummilicious was our conclusion, fish eaten or not. And during his recent Japan KBS “My Golden Life” Commemorative Broadcast event held recently in Shinjuku, Japan, Park Sihoo-ssi also highly recommended it. So try you must!
So there, another “My Golden Life” location spot bites the dust! What’s next!
KBS Youtube Video – “My Golden Life” Episode 10: Spicy fish stew? Ewww!
https://youtu.be/D6UJ5qjbgLA
吃不吃辣炖鱼？
KBS电视剧“我黄金光辉的人生”中的偶吧Oppa崔道京首次目睹首尔南大门市场的辣炖鱼时，就瞧不起这道菜。对卫生和健康有机食品非常讲究的他绝对不会尝试这煮得烂一团的辣炖汤，尤其是他无法弄清楚辨别出一锅褐色的浓汤里有些什么东西。
就如偶吧Oppa 崔一样，我也对辣炖鱼没有兴趣…但是出于不同的原因。Chai Hua 之前说她不吃蛇 （哦，“吃蛇”在我的祖籍指的是懒惰，而不是真的吃蛇肉😂），我也一样，最怕蛇，看到蛇或类似蛇形状的所有东西都不会动，哪还敢吃呢？对于喜欢在冬季喝蛇汤，认为这是特等的美味佳肴的香港人，说声对不起，蛇是我不可忍受的动物和食物。
所以看到用来制作这韩国辣炖鱼的带鱼Hairtail或这家店称为Cutlass的长条而扁平，像蛇般的鱼，有着丑陋的一张脸，我不太热衷。但是，如果偶吧Oppa 崔最终放下他的偏见，津津有味，狼吞虎咽的吃下这道菜，我只好也尝试了！
The spread of the spicy fish stew set
当天，雄心勃勃的把行程挤着满满的我们4位姐妹花，刚吃过了一顿丰盛的辣鸡脚和辛辣炒年糕午餐后，就去了南大门这家辣炖鱼店，订了两人套餐（最低订单）！我们要了施厚君饰演的偶吧Oppa崔道京坐过的位子，耐心的在哪里等着，终于等到了。
套餐配有banchan或开胃菜，煎带鱼，蒸蛋，主要的辣炖鱼和白饭。我也品尝了辣炖鱼，但只吃菜，没碰鱼。吃了这道菜的姐妹们都说”好吃”！一旦吃完了辣炖鱼里的鱼和蔬菜后，我们把剩余的鱼骨给挑出来，以防万一，然后把一碗白饭倒入那金属碗中，用劲彻底的混合汤汁和白饭，就如偶吧Oppa崔一样！然后就大吃起来！
吃不吃鱼，Yummilicious美味是我们的结论！最近在日本新宿举行的KBS“我黄金光辉辉的人生”纪念广播活动中，施厚君也强烈推荐了这道菜。 所以大家一定要尝试哦！
又另一个“我黄金光辉的人生”的拍摄现场给参观了！下一个地方会是哪呢？
Credits – KBS Drama, ParkSihooSsi.com
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在我的家鄉台灣台南市的善化區，每個月的2日，5日，8日，12日，15日，18日，22日，25日，28日，有一個市集，名稱叫牛墟，較早以前都以販賣耕作牛隻，農具為主，現在則演變成什麼都賣，什麼都不奇怪的百貨市集，裡頭有現宰蛇肉湯和聞名全省的善化温體黃牛料理還有鱉肉（甲魚）料理，之前有嘗試喝過蛇肉湯，還不錯 ，像吃雞肉
其實蛇肉是像吃雞肉, 但對我來說, 是腦海裡那蛇動物的抗拒, 自然抗拒 🙂
Thanks Nance for sharing this very significant experience the fish stew. Which we know now as you have shared earlier that PSH the man himself did like the fish stew dish though CDK’s very 1st encounter with this dish he acted like this is the last thing he would ever eat on earth. I do eat eel which many also felt it’s looks is rather off putting as eel too resembles snakes. I especially love the Japanese eel bento set. But anything that is snakes, nuh, not for me. The thought of eating that creature all my goosebumps just stood up. I am with you, every snake eating season Hong Kongers would make it a special occasion, gathering around to eat their expensive banquet. But I would never be able to bring myself to partake these banquets. Maybe if you had not seen the look of the fish that goes into your fish stew yesterday, you might have enjoyed the fish meat in the stew hahaha.
Estas bien turr
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Your article brings back fond memories of a great time spent by us foursome on 30 of last month venturing into various nooks and corners around Seoul and outskirts to explore and soak in experiences relating to PSH in the context of MGL. But what? 😳😫😩 It did not occur to me the hairtail /cutlass fish are snake like creatures 🐍 until your education. For one who would turn down dishes with eels … I didn’t realise I was gulping down fish with a more creepy appearance than eels. Oh well 😔, guess there is always a first time 😝😋
@dorothyooi Eel, something else that I won’t touch even though many people rave about Japanese unagi. My childhood visits to the acquarium sealed my fate when I came eye to eye with this huge snake-like creature between a thick glass tank! Eeek! 🐍🐍🐍
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