If Seoul has Noryangjin Market, then Incheon has the Yeonan Pier fish market. Incheon does have the sea and a harbour, but unlike the South Sea or Gangwon-do, the fish here isn’t any fresher than at Noryangjin. Still, these days Noryangjin is so full of touts hassling you that it gets annoying, and Yeonan Pier isn’t nearly that bad, so it felt like a fine place to drop by in a light day-trip mood. – Though on weekends there are so many people that parking is no easy task..
Blue crabs
We went at the tail end of blue crab season. The prices weren’t exactly cheap.
Shellfish
Shrimp
Ganjaemi, young skate
A little grotesque, that one..
Cutlassfish
Ever since my trip to Jeju Island I can tell the difference between silver cutlassfish and black cutlassfish..
Olive flounder and brown croaker, I think..
Multeombeongi, monkfish..
It really does look a bit grotesque, doesn’t it. There’s a famous alley of multeombeongi restaurants in Yonghyeon-dong, Incheon, but even living in Incheon I never find the time to go.
Pomfret and Spanish mackerel
Since we’d come all that way, we bought a bit of everything. Maybe because it was the weekend, it was so crowded I could hardly think straight. I’d meant to have a plate of sashimi, but between the heat and the chaos we went straight home. These days every tourist spot in Incheon seems packed wherever you go. Home really is the best.