Dynamic Busan: BIFF 2011

The annual Busan International Fireworks Festival held in end October. This year, it is held at Gwangali beach.

Just so happen I would be away with the bf for the week so we quickly went to the festival on the 1st day, where they held the fireworks competition.

There were 4 countries each with 15min display of their fireworks in the competition. So u can imagine ALOT of ppl standing there for 1h+

 while walking back to the Subway, Shin decided to buy some of these bugs.

Yes silkworm!!!! KL tried one. I had always been adventurous with my food but this is too smelly and disgusting for me. no one else tried in the end. haha!

I bought these red bean cakes instead. like it when its piping hot! very nice!

Dynamic Busan: Jalgalchi Market!

We went to Jalgalchi Market on the last day of the Jalgalchi Festival 2011, which falls on a Sunday 16th Oct.

my 1st time at the biggest wet market in korea, busan!

and boy, am I impressed:

HUGE lobster!

eew slimy octopus!

loads of fish!

pretty sight! but stinky too!

 squids! eew

the harbour:

they were sunning these fishes:

somehow there is a huge blown-up balloon turtle:

I knew about the event where they want to make the world's biggest bibimbap. everyone gets a bowl of it free. so we went to queue up for this free lunch too!

very spicy for me, but it was nice:

another free event was to go onboard this sailboat for FREE!

 but the queue for it was too long no one wanted to go. sadded. so I couldn't have a chance to go onboard it =(

 so we moved on to the stalls. and came across this auntie selling grilled/bbq eel.

he is a famous sashimi chef who appeared on TV numerous times:

we came across this event, whereby u signup with 5000won, and get a chance to get into this waters to catch fish:

rais went to try and he caught one of them! (after a very long struggle, hahaha, but the onlookers were very enthusiastic in cheering this foreigner on!)

this is his catch!:

the eel we ordered:

bbq-ing it:

and along the way back, I saw these abalone! like what the channel8 show back in singapore was talking about. its 10 abalone for S$30!

scallops!!!

 way back to the station, there are a row of petshops as we stand there and are bewildered by the puppies' cuteness again. and this dog is sooo unglam:

ok thats all for the day!

Dynamic Busan: cooking up a storm!

on one of the weekends, the office of international affairs decided to give us some lessons on traditional korean food making. Both Anqi and my buddy came with us to the cooking lesson!

Firstly, the teacher demo-ed her version:

this is called Gujeolpan 구철판

 this dish consists of 9 different food assorted on a wooden plate with 9 divided sections in an octagon shape on the plate itself. There are (from the top middle, anti-clockwise) vegetables, egg yolk, beef, prawns, carrots, egg whites, mushroom, squid. In the middle is a stack of pancakes made of wheat flour, meant to wrap all the 9 ingredients in to eat together! 

The 2nd dish is called hwajeon 화전

this dish is a small sweet pancake, with leaves as the leaves of the flower petals, and red dates cut to make the flower shape! Sprinkle some sugar over the dish and its done. Very easy to make! delicious too!

ok. so heres our version!

it was delicious!