One Fish, Two Fish...

Six fish!

One of the perks of living on Seumasup-gil is being in Chuncheon's "Food Alley." There are restaurants flooding the streets and there are three food stalls lining the sidewalk on our way to and from work. We actually have only been to two of the restaurants in our area because I'm a pescatarian that cannot read Korean (bad move in a country whose national language is Korean, I know) and Michael, who does read Korean, albeit very slowly, cannot translate anything that he reads into English. When the menus don't have pictures on them, we get into a scary situation. We either order something that we think we might like, or we end up leaving the restaurant, embarrassed.

So yeah, nights out aren't too common for us. We are discovering the food stalls though. In Korea, the food stalls are only open during cold months. They serve soup, fish on a stick, sweet egg bread, ddeokbokki (a spicy ricecake dish), delicious pancakes and what I like to refer to as fish.

These cuties are shaped like fish but do not contain any fish at all. They are made with pancake/waffle batter and filled with either custard or red beans. I've been wanting to try one since they first set up the food stalls in October.

Last night we were super hungry coming home from work. Luckily the food stalls are available for instant satisfaction. We pulled up the the stall and pointed to the fish. I asked for one, thinking Michael and I could share and since he does not like red beans (I must be the only foreigner to like these in sweets) I asked for a creme-filled one. The man started filling a bag with 3 fish. I was shocked. I only asked for one! Confused, I figured it must be 3 fish for 2,000 won. I try to hand me the money and then he filled up another bag! Ahh! Fish overload! It turns out that you get 3 fish for a dollar. Oops.

Not wanting to cause anymore miscommunication with the poor vendor, we took off with our six fish. We happily indulged in two fish on our way home. They're delicious! Much tastier than real fish and now we have some left for dessert tonight!