m'th'su wrote:But I've eaten and taken pics of an embarrasingly huge variety of weird and delicious things. Forwarded an abbreviated list to Wiv (don't have anyone else's email, but I'm checking mine every few days or so) Reporting upon return unless our hosts are planning to eat us on the final day.
LTH,
Here's m'th'su's "abbreviated list." If this is the abbreviated list, I can't wait to see the long-play version.
Enjoy,
Gary
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m'th'su in email from Korea
live octopus, aka Korean Viagra (twice)
fermented (rotted) skate (many times [repulsive])
skate liver (unbelievably good) with orange sea salt
raw chicken (dipped in salted sesame oil, excellent)
many bizarre and unidentifiable shellfish and other invertebrates (some great, some not so)
silkworm pupae
2 year old kimchi
3 year old kimchi
4 year old kimchi
raw crab a la San Chae Dolsot comes as panchan with almost every meal
lots and lots of abalone
tons of sashimi
duck kalbi
gallons of soju, beer, raspberry wine, and unfiltered rice wine
piles and piles of unidentifiable roots and vegetables
some disgusting black drink squeezed out of a root before my eyes that has me squirting black ink for the last three days
chunky blood soup (for hangovers)
fried fish guts
turtle soup (w/ a large bisected turtle floater)
rice steamed in bamboo
stomach on a stick
purple tofu (made with black beans
Outback Steakhouse (yes, it's true)
Sweet potato pizza with Kraft parmesan cheese and tabasaco (blecch)
purple "rye" bread
dried squid with cookies
no dog yet. I don't think its gonna happen