EATING WIGGLING OCTOPUS?! | Seoul Fish Market

We're almost back. 6:10am it's light outside.

Going to bed.

It is now 2:45am we have officially done the entire Korean spa. Somehow she managed to fall asleep all the time. I think I'm supposed to take off all of my clothes. Now.

I have a bag with a live octopus and a penis station.

So if you watch any of our vlogs, you probably know we're not really nighttime people. We're normally back at our Airbnb before it gets dark outside. So tonight is going to be crazy for multiple reasons.

I've not been this excited to make a video in a very long time.

Tonight is going to consist of first eating moving live octopus.

We're going to be getting naked with a bunch of strangers at a Korean.

Spa and ending the night, or starting tomorrow at a 3am fish auction.

Let's do it. Here we go.

Oh.

Oh, yeah. I think we're close.

Oh, baby.

This is nuts. As far as I can possibly see that way, there are just stalls of people with all kinds of live sea animals swimming around. Oh, I have not been this excited about something in so long. So we've heard that when you're in Seoul, if you're an adventurous eater, there's two things that you have to try. You have to try a live wiggling octopus, and you have to try a penis fish, both of which can be found here in the seafood market. And we've heard that the best way to do it is to buy the fresh seafood, like the live critters, straight from these ladies downstairs. And then you can take it upstairs and you can get it cooked by somebody upstairs. Well, look at this crab dancing out of the water.

Please don't.

Please don't.

Please don't, please don't.

We're making our way around the market, scoping it out, seeing who we want to buy from. I've never seen this many fish, and we've been to so many fish markets and the people are so nice. Normally we have to kind of sneak the camera to get some shots of the fish, but they're just telling us that we can film. Smiling, Having a hard time enjoying myself, though, knowing what we're about to eat. Like, really nervous. I really don't want to eat these things.

Think we just need to go for it. How much for an octopus? 5,500.

10,000. 5. 10,000.

5 for 10. Can I buy one? What about for this.

One? 2, 2, 2, 4. 1, 2, 5.

10,000.

Okay. Can I touch it?

Touch it, touch it.

Oh, that feels so Weird. This is a penis. Oh, it's squirting.

An octopus. Octopus. Is it alive?

Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. That is crazy. Oh, my God. Okay, in the bag.

4,000. Okay. That was much easier than expected. It was like, $2 for each of those. I didn't buy more than one because I don't think we want it to eat more than one. We're just trying these now. We're going to head upstairs and see if we can get them cooked.

Seriously. She was so nice. I heard it was going to be, like, expensive and you needed to haggle. This way. Ah, on the left up here.

Then she said, hey, cook this. Cook this for that.

Also for the sesame.

Yes, please. Oh, my gosh. I can't believe we're doing this. So there's this little bitty restaurant just tucked away in the fish market with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 local people. Our purchases have disappeared into the kitchen, and I have no idea what form they're gonna be in when they come back. My eye is twitching. I think it's because I'm nervous. I've, like, never been this nervous to eat something. There it is. Getting chopped.

Whoa. That is crazy. They weren't even wiggling this. Oh, they're super sticky now. Since I did all of the purchasing, I think you need to eat it first.

No.

Yeah, you have to try it first.

Should I eat it with my hand or should I use chopsticks?

Oh, there it is.

Ah, yes.

That looks disgusting.

Okay, this one looks like he's trying to get out. Go ahead and put him out of his misery. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.

I can't even think of that. Oh, my gosh.

Oh.

Why are you making me do this?

Oh, God.

She cut your fingers so hard. They are strong.

Chewed up good.

Okay, okay, I'm just gonna do it. I'm just gonna do it. I'm just gonna do it.

Oh.

My tongue. He's trying to stick to my tongue.

But it won't go away.

Okay, now I just feel like I'm eating sushi. That was the weirdest sensation on my tongue. It was like wrapping around my tongue. Like, I feel like I was French kissing with an octopus tentacle. The taste isn't bad. Like, I really tasted the sesame seed, but the texture, like, it was just like. And then once it stopped moving in my mouth, it wasn't that bad. Now you have to eat one.

Oh, it's stuck to the plate. Here we go.

A car hurts. A car hurt. Oh, hurt.

That's super weird. Oh, stop. Just so me.

Still going.

I did chew it good enough in a suck.

I had to swallow it. I think I got it done. It literally, like, tentacled to the back of my throat. I think it's gone. I think it's all the way down. Okay. Honestly, the flavor is really good. Like, if you enjoy sushi, you would enjoy this. But texture, like tentacles inside your mouth and just, like, the general chewiness of it makes it not really enjoyable, but something I'm so glad that I tried. So after the penis fish came back.

I can't believe I'm saying that word and putting this spot in my mouth. So after the penis fish gave a. Okay. Back out of the kitchen, it didn't look nearly as intimidating. It just looks like this red kind of circular thing. Smells strong, though. I think they put something on.

Seriously has, like, no flavor whatsoever.

I'd like to point out that we're not just being immature and calling it penis fish because it looks like penis, but that's really, from what I understand what it translates to, like, what they call it in Korean translates.

All right, here we go.

You're right. No flavor, but very, like, rubbery.

Like it. Like, almost crunch like cartilage.

I'll try one more. So we are gonna wash our food down with the traditional drink in South Korea. It's called soju. Some kind of fermented drink, maybe rice. Not positive, but all of the locals are drinking it all the time. Everywhere we've gone, it's everywhere.

Ah, thank you. So I guess we're making quite the scene here. And they're bringing us more food. This looks like the pancakey thing we had yesterday.

Mmm. Oh, that's amazing.

Better than the penis.

I'm so glad she brought us something that didn't have raw fish in it. It's like spicy pancake.

Okay. So with the soju, we paid a total of 10,000 won, which is like 10ish dollars. A little less than $10. So that was 4,000 for this, and then she charges a total of 6,000 to prepare the whole thing. We paid 4,000 for penis fish and octopus. So all in all, this awesome experience only cost US$14. And now we've been joining.

So we bought an extra bottle of soju, and we started pouring it for the ladies who are next to us who showed up, like, right before we were supposed to leave. But we were like, I think we can make friends if we buy another bottle. And it totally worked. They're sharing their food with Us, I have no clue. What I mean is delicious.

Apparently, if you hang around long enough, they just keep bringing you food.

At this point, I'm just getting fed. I have no clue what I'm eating. This is so good.

That was, like, the best dinner experience of my life. Not because of the food. The food's pretty good. But the ladies next to us were so nice. We just had to stop filming because we were having such a good time. We didn't want to ruin it with the camera.

We totally made friends. They just. They just kept giving us food and giving us food and.

But they weren't like, like, laughing, happy, like, we're gonna share with you, like, best friends. Like, they were very much just like, here. Like, they would just, like, hold out their chopsticks with a bite of food in it or like a leaf.

And it was so hard to use my. I'm not that talented with chopsticks, so I'd try to use my chopsticks to take it from her. We probably were there for, like, two hours, and it was definitely one of, like, the best experiences that we've had. We just felt really accept it in the local culture.

Our waitress told me she loved me when I left, like, literally gave me a hug and said, I love you.

For better or for worse. We left an impression on the place.

It is now 9:25pm we're making our way back to the subway because we are going to a Korean spa.

So the Korean spas are called what? Gym? Jim. Jill. Jim. No, it's definitely bang at the end.

And you can spend the night at Korean spots. So we've gone a little out of the way from our place to come here to the fish market. So we didn't want to go home for the night. And so we were like, this would be a great opportunity to just have this super local experience of spending the night at a Jimjol Jeong.

Plus the fish market is at 3am, which is like, here. And the Jeongjuljang is. What is it, Jim? Joolbang is only one subway stop away, so it just made sense.

So now we're about to go to a Korean spa, spend the next six hours there doing some, like, spa stuff and maybe some sleeping. And then we're coming back here at 3am for the fish auction.

Oh, yeah, he's really stuck.

Yeah.

Suctioning.