I went for an afternoon walk with one of my friends around the perimeter of Goraksan (or, Gorak mountain, if you remember from my last post!). The sunlight was pouring through the trees and we weren't the only ones out and about, as usual!
I had originally planned to go to the top again, but I'm glad I was convinced otherwise. It was nice to try something different. There were many interesting grave sites/cemeteries along the path, which I didn't find creepy at the time, just interesting. Looking back now I might reconsider!
Afterwards, we went to a little restaurant and I got to try the famous bibimbap (비빔밥) for the first time! It came with a few more side dishes that I hadn't seen before, like pickled jellyfish and zucchini, clams, oyster kimchi and crab marinated in soy sauce. I don't know if being told what it all was made me braver to try it, but I gave it all a taste and I survived! I quite liked it, in fact. I didn't even know that you could eat jellyfish, but then again, why am I surprised?
I'm slowly getting used to using chopsticks. I can't help but think of the scene in Beauty and the Beast where the Beast is majorly struggling over a bowl of porridge. If you can picture that, well that's pretty much me with chopsticks. Today, however, I felt a little more like Belle.
Maybe I will try live octopus before I leave this country, after all. I seem to be working myself up to it.
And, I'll even eat it with chopsticks.
