Today in Seoul, my group and I ended up eating a ton of great food! Our first notable stop was a fried chicken joint. The one we found was incredibly well-known to many people in the area, and as soon as you stepped inside, you could feel the charm of the restaurant. Locals were on their usual lunch break, having a couple of beers with their friends while eating delicious food. As we sat down, an old Korean man played his harmonica for all to hear, but he started playing American songs once he saw we were foreigners. I couldn’t tell whether he was making fun of us or not but it doesn’t matter to me.

**Photo of famous northern village.

My group and I ordered three chickens plus a plate of chicken gizzards. Gizzards are the floppy red part of the chicken, and I had no idea at the time that people even ate this. This would mark the first weird thing I ate on the trip, but it was actually delicious. It was nice and crispy due to it being fried perfectly, and it was chewy but tasted similar to chicken. They gave us an amazing sweet/spicy sauce to go with it, which was a cherry on top. The main chicken was my favorite though and it was definitely some of the best I’ve ever had in my life.

**Photo of Buddhist temple in between eating

Our next stop was with Dr. Yun. As the main Plus3 group split up to do their own thing, my group stayed with Dr. Yun to go to the most famous food market in Korea. Here, many families host their own shops with delicious, homemade food for people to eat. However, the ones that caught the eye of Dr. Yun were the once tourists usually ignore. First on the list was chicken feet. Similar to gizzards, these were extremely chewy, but it took too long for me to chew, and I didn’t end up liking them very much. Then there were the live octopus. The lady straight grabs them from the tank and cuts them live in front of you. These were pretty good, but also too slimy and chewy for my taste.

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