Sea creatures have some special functions, octopus can squeeze themselves out of a coin-sized hole, deep-sea belt fish will burst and die of internal organs when caught from the deep sea, and they will also attack their own kind that is hooked by a fish hook.
Legend has it that in Korea, a live octopus is eaten, its head is poked with chopsticks, and it is cut off, and the tentacles in another plate still make a contraction motion that tries to protect the head.
On the way to Jeju Island, I always imagined the roadside snack bar, the seafood stall with plastic sheds on the seashore, facing the sea, eating live octopus once.
But most of the people who traveled with them wanted to drink beef bone soup, and later began to rush between various attractions, and when they returned to the homestay at night, they fell back to sleep. The owner of the homestay is a European and American movie lover, and the lobby is plastered with out-of-print posters of "The Shawshank Redemption", "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", and "The Wild Rose of Paris", but we all just hurried past, rushed back to the room, drank a bottle of beer and fell asleep.
On the third day, the owner of the homestay saw that I was depressed and asked me if I was unwell, and I said to the uncle, "I want to eat live octopus, but no one wants to go with me." ”
The uncle said, "I can drive you to eat a family." ”
I was afraid that I would be too unsociable to act alone, because of the language barrier, and I could only continue to express my feelings on the translation software as simply as possible: "For a meal, there is no need." Others may feel that eating is not that important. ”
The uncle took a look at it, and he didn't know if the translation software was accurate or inaccurate, whether it would misinterpret my meaning. He grunted a lot, and I went up to look at his phone, and it said, "That's not right, we have so many different restaurants on the island because everyone wants to eat different things." ”
A little moved, I only told my companions in the same room and got into the owner's car. On the road, I still feel a little too tired, if my parents know, they will say that I don't know the weight, and follow a stranger on a strange night, on an island with no language, speeding towards the dark sea.
Forget it, just think of it as a free journey for The Shawshank Redemption. Of course, freedom is not cheap, and the owner of the homestay negotiated the fare with me before leaving.
When I arrived at a shop, the owner signaled to me a small truck with a robotic arm at the door, indicating that the store had to go to the fishing port every day to get fresh catches. Sure enough, the seafood here is all good. The suckers of live octopuses sucking densely in the mouth are very exciting.
Back where I lived, I was satisfied, reminiscing about the miso soup and seafood cooking I had just eaten, and describing the pot with the people in the same room - the best thing to eat was not the octopus, but the fresh striped fish that was nearly a meter long, which was completely different from the striped fish I used to eat when I was a child, and I could even eat a little garlic clove meat.
There was also a grilled striped fish on the next table, as thick as an arm, and the volume of one meter and five seven meters was quite amazing. A word popped into my head when I read a Hong Kong gossip magazine: "Bullet eye drops." The whole table just eating this dish, plus seven seven eight eight small plates of kimchi, is quite hearty.
The next day, everyone's return flight time was different, and some people were going to fly to South Korea to play, and the small team disbanded, and I got into a taxi to the airport in the rain with another girl with a similar flight time.
She muttered to herself, "I was so tired of running this time that I wanted to have a big meal and get on the plane, but I didn't know what to eat." ”
I said, "Go, go eat the fish!" ”
"Which one to eat?"
"It depends on which seafood truck is in front of your house!"
This time I ordered the exact same dish as I ate last night, and found that the portion of this portion was enough for two people, including abalone, striped fish, shrimp, crabs, enoki mushrooms, octopus was cut and placed on the most surface, as the opening ceremony of the whole party, full of movement.
But the octopus I have in mind is only fresh to eat, and when it is set off by the fish in the back, it seems to have lost its luster. This silver-glowing fish inhabits a water depth of about 60m and is not too deep, and the pressure of the sea is small, so the range of motion is very wide, and the flesh of the whole body is very tight. It is also mainly active in the evening. They had to rely on the lights to attract them to fish in the dark of the night.
I don't know how I poured that pot into my stomach last night. This time I asked myself for more hot sauce.
She works out, so she feels a little guilty. After drinking a few more glasses of shochu and ice water, she expressed her opinion on the fish: "The fish here are really worth a special trip to eat." ”
But she insists the culmination of the trip was a ferry ride to an offshore island with towering mountain islands and foggy seas, like Chinese landscape paintings, and a hike along a sunny island road to an abandoned square in the center of town.
"Before checking the information on the Internet, I felt that this island must go."
"Isn't that terrifying? Unlike the Kim FuNan incident that movie? "I took the chopsticks and poked at the octopus leg that was still squirming in the pot.
She is a fitness enthusiast and loves extreme sports, on the island, very tired of walking in the sun, while she walks in front of the team.
Her state of life is like a fish in the Bohai Sea, silver and cold, the whole person is as thin as a knife, sensitive and fierce, and I am an octopus, slowly squirming, finding a small mouth and wanting to sneak back into my own world at any time. We all have such different views on what must happen in just four days of travel, and it is conceivable that our views on what must happen in our lives are even more completely different.
But that didn't stop us from eating that delicious seafood dinner in the rainy island of Jeju, two hours before the plane took off. Octopus and striped fish, living in the same sea, look at each other like monsters, but in the end, aren't they all in a pot?
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