Bujeon market, in Busan, is an old school type of market filled with vendors selling a staggering array of meats, offal, seafood (dried and fresh), vegetables, and mountain greens, kelp, garlic, and everything a Korean kitchen needs. This was one of the most exciting stops in the entire trip. We're on the outer edge of the market. The bricks are starters for making daen jang, a fermented bean paste that's a staple in many meals. Blocks of fermenting soybeans that are quite pungent if you're in a warm room full of them.
You can even buy pillows for sitting on the floor.
It's hard to tell at this resolution but you're looking at a table full of octopus. Amusingly enough, not long after we returned from our trip I began reading Jeffrey Steingarten's "It Must Have Been Something I Ate," which started off by describing the Calamari Index.
Fish and... that looks like offal of some sort on the left.
Some real hard core women here. They could probably kick my ass. They're selling salt. You don't often see salt sold that way anymore, and that seems like a shame to me. We're making our way deeper into the market and it's getting more crowded.
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