아름답 다 , ah - lum - dahp - dah : 영덕 대게 ( Yeongdeok Dae Gae ) : KING CRAB 
 영덕 대 게 ( Yeongdeok Dae Gae ) : KING CRAB 
 As much as I love my girlfriends here in Korea , lately , it seems like I have been spending A LOT of time lately going out on a seemingly never ending series of " girls nights ". Subsequently , I was delighted when my my guy friends Anthony and Brendan invited me along to go with them to Yeongdeok this past weekend -- I jumped at the chance to drink a lot of 막 거리 ( makgeoli , Korean rice wine ) , eat prolific amounts of food , and basically , do nothing but shoot the shit and chat up with my guy friends + a few badass chicks , too . 
 Yeongdeok is about fours hours away from Seoul , on Korea ' s picturesque east coast . See for yourself : 
 Brendan -- Glen Beck fanatic , crazy Catholic , ex - coworker 
 Anthony aka 상민 aka King of Minlak - dong , my old ' hood 
 Steve aka 성진 aka Ghana Steve -- he volunteered in Ghana for a year so we always have lots to talk about 
 Gwen -- South African goddess who is one of the sweetest people ever from my old ' hood 
 Jodie -- soccer playing crazy ( in a good way ) woman , also from my old ' hood 
 Bradley -- bombastic , ADD Canadian 
 Sean -- Bradley ' s mild - mannered buddy 
 Silvia -- Se Rok ' s friendly Canadian friend 
 Sarah aka Se Rok -- Brendan ' s psychotic Korean ex - girlfriend 
 Steve + " The Angels ": Silvia , Gwen , and Jodie 
 Despite some drama from the afore mentioned ex - girlfriend , the weekend was filled with food , food , and some more food , and was therefore GREAT . 
 The pension that we stayed at was on a beautiful beachside location : 
 Brenda , King of the Yeondeok Rock 
 First , we went to a nearby windmill power plant to check out some starkly beautiful pylons . 
 Anthony suggested we should make a " double windmill " parody of this video 
 YEA SUSTAINABLE ENERGY 
 Then , we went to a fish market to buy some cheapcheapcheap 회 ( hway ) , or Korean sashimi : 
 There were scores of 아주 마 ( ajuma , or " older lady " in Korean ) squatting around live , wriggling fish in buckets . We picket the ones we wanted , and within minutes , our gal had killed and filleted our choices into several pounds worth of sashimi thin slices , ready to eat 
 We didn ' t eat any of these guys 
 Nor did we get any oysters , though we probably should have 
 It ' s like Hemingway BUT IN KOREA 
 After buying the fish , we drove for a half hour up the coast to this random house in the middle of nowhere -- a top secret location Anthony made us promise to keep under wraps . It was a house , kindofsortof built into the cliffs , like a Korean Santorini or something : 
 There was an old woman living in this house , selling king crabs for a fraction of what the fisherman down at the port were selling them for . We bought 200 , 000 worth of crabs : 10 , 000 per person ! A huge bargain , in other words : 
 We went back to the pension and feasted on the raw fish and the crabs , which the owner of our pension prepared for us : 
 Crabs + makgeoli + deliciosity 
 In Korea , the ubiquitous Korean kitchen scissors are used to cut open shells 
 Steve and Anthony were experts at dissecting the crabs of course , and insisted thatI save the " crab butter " inside the crab ' s body ( seen above ) , and mix it with rice and dried seaweed -- the Korean way . It was , of course , ridiculously tasty . I stuffed my face . 
 After a full meal , we rolled out of the pension to check out a nearby lighthouse by night : 
 Then we headed back to the pension for ANOTHER gut - busting meal , followed by fireworks / fire : 
 Queen Jodie 
 Bradley + Brendan + fire 
 We woke up early the next day and went home . One the way out , I snapped a few pics of the lighthouse we had seen the night before : 
 Overall , a fantastic weekend that was all too short , spent with great people AND GREAT FOOD NOM NOM NOM 
 Posted by Madeline Lee at 12 : 31 PM 
 elwood 5566 . net June 13 , 2011 at 9 : 56 AM 
 I find this crab over rated . Korean crabs are always leggy and small bodied compared to the monster bodied and short legged crabs we have in the UK . British squid however , are pathetic ! 
 Foreigner Joy August 1 , 2011 at 7 : 19 PM 
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