Mockpo city is famous for it’s cuisines. Actually the cuisines in southwestern area of Korea has been very famous for it’s various kinds and it’s quality. We named it as Namdo foods which meant Southern food. The name of this area is Jeollado. Each area of this province has it’s characteristics of materials. So sometimes the quarrels would have happened between themselves while discussing on which cuisine is better. Each area has it’s specialty.
Among them, Mockpo is very famous for marine products. When I planned to visit Mockpo, I expected to have a taste of the famous cuisines.
But as soon as arriving at Mockpo, I realized my expectation flied far away. Mockpo is old city, so if you’d like to taste something delicious or famous, they served the food in a pair base. That’s the reason you need to go to Mockpo with your friend. Mockpo is not a place to stop by alone.
Anyway I was hungry and needed to eat something to walk around Mockpo city. I found out well-known public restaurant ‘Doljip’ through googling.
The maid told me they could not serve for only one person, so I promised to pay for 2 persons.
I ordered a simple cuisine of boiled cutlassfish.
It was 2 o’clock when I arrived at the restaurant. Up until that time, some guests were having a late lunch with Maggeoli of the traditional Korean rice wine.
At first they served for me a boiled egg. It seemed like an appetizer.
The boiled fish looked like below.
Lot’s of red papers were put into that cuisine, and I could feel a strong taste of sweet in that.
Usually hot spicy and sweet tastes are going very well together.
One of the reason of the fame in Southern cuisine is due to the amount of side dishes. Many side dishes in Southern Area were famous in Korea. But the age was changing. It is difficult for the restaurant to serve that much side dishes like before.
Among the side dishes, the fermented oyster was my best favorite. Especially the oyster has it’s best taste in winter season.
After lunch, I had walked around Mt. Yudal for several hours. I will post on that nest time. After looking around, I was worry about dinner. How I could enjoy the dinner alone. I found a small restaurant. I entered into the restaurant and ordered the roasted fishes for 2 persons. There was no other way to take a taste the roasted fishes.
Interesting food in this restaurant was a sea shell soup. They served the sea shell soup. As I have posted several times, the most characteristic aspect in Korean cuisines is a soup. The taste of the soup decides every thing of Korean food. Among the soups, the role of the marine products is great. Offered sea shell soup was excellent.
Of course, the roasted fishes were so nice that I had eaten it up as below.
The oysters were also really awesome.
Remember, when you visit the Southern Area in Korea, you need to company with some one.
That is the most important tip in traveling of this area.
This area is not so developed as like Seoul.
It is preserving old style standard yet, so it is inconvenient but it could be a chance to enjoy the real Korea on the other hands.
Thank you for reading.