There's really no shortage of places to get food in Seoul, and if you like your seafood fresh, nothing's better than the Noryangjin Fish Market. Located a short taxi ride from the banks of the Han River, hundreds of merchants sell seafood directly from the tank in Noryangjin, cleaning and preparing it on the spot. The sashimi is about as fresh as it comes, and if you're up for a unique culinary experience, you can try eating a few things which haven't come to terms with their own deaths just yet.
Call me traditional, but I've always been of the mindset that food should be dead by the time it hits your plate, or at least unable to grab you while you're trying to eat. Apparently, the octopus I had in Noryangjin didn't come from the same school of thought. For as long as a half hour after it was killed, its tentacles wriggled wildly around the plate, the suction cups latching onto anything they touched - chopsticks, cheeks, tongue, esophagus. As if the squirming around while in your mouth wasn't bad enough, to have the thing actively sticking to you, grasping your throat on the way down, is a whole new world of unease. A few slimy, grabby tentacles was enough for me, and we called it a night.
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