Kitchen Alley, originally uploaded by Jake & Kristin.
The Dongdaemun Market is a huge shopping area near the Great East Gate in Seoul. It’s set up so that certain varieties of businesses are all grouped more or less together. We walked by rows and rows of fabric shops, deep fryer shops, blacksmiths, shops selling camping chairs, and shops full of rivets for jeans.
Restaurants followed the same pattern of organization. The ladies here represent just two of a dozen or so similar restaurants lining one side of this alley, all of which appeared to specialize in smoked or baked fish. The restaurants on the other side of the alley all had roasted rib cages from some unknown animal on display. It was remarkably smoky and stinky. I couldn’t help but wonder what my old friends at the health department would say about this alley full of kitchens.
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