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[uberscheisse]

i have 10 days of holidays.

i'm not going to be doing much of anything, might take a quick day trip or 2.

but -

i want to do 2 things while i'm relaxing:

i want to eat deer meat, korean style.

i also want to eat snake.

i'm pretty certain i've heard that you can eat both in korea.

can anyone help?

[Bibbitybop]

I want to know this, too.

I've heard, not reliably, that snake is illegal to eat as snakes are disappearing in Korea.

[Qinella]

You can get venison in Korea??

Ooh, please tell, if you know. Tried Naver, gave up after several minutes of looking at people's blogs or links to places to order it online. If there's a restaurant that cooks it up, I'd love that.

[rhinocharge64]

I was asking a student about the most exspensive meal he had ever eaten. It was deer, it cost them 1 mill. Won. That was in Seoul. So, yes you can get it, but it's a little pricey. I think there were about 10 people all together. I'm sure it was the first time they had ever gone 'dutchy'!!


Regards The Charge

[Qinella]

That's not so bad. 100k per person?

Any idea where it was?

[rhinocharge64]

Sorry fella I don't, and unfortunately my student is on holiday for two weeks.

[uberscheisse]

i ate snake in vietnam (cobra and some other poisonous mankiller) and it was very delicious. venison is farmed like beef or pork there too.

[VanIslander]

Have you tried b.b.q. eel in Korea? It's great.
The river eel soup is just alright.

While I haven't had deer meat here, I have been to goat meat restaurants here in more rural parts of the country, and the price is reasonable, the meat pretty good.

Deer meat back in Canada was plentiful and we often had parts of a carcass taking up one of our two big deep freezes because there always was a friend or two out looking for a big buck (for the antlers) and of course the law is, No waste, so deer, bear, moose meat were easy to get (I didn't grow up in a big city).

The best meat ever, by far, is rabbit, and I swore never to try it (I had pet rabbits!) until my dad sneakily substituted it (NOT my pets, a wild rabbit shot by a friend) in a chicken stew and dumplings dish and I was in such a hurry to go out with friends I didn't notice til I'd polished off the plate and was asking for seconds.

Is there a rabbit meat restaurant in Korea? Now THAT I'd travel anywhere on the peninsula to taste.

(North Korea is looking into getting those huge rabbits that European guy bred, if you recall the news story from a couple years ago. Wonder how that's going.)

[ethanp]

I had deer meet once at a restaurant on the outskirts of Mokpo. It wasn't too expensive, either. Nothing like 100k per person, more like 20-30k. It was a little place, and there was a guy out back who cooked the meat over a smoking fire, so the meat was 'smoked' as well. Quite tasty! It was served with side dishes as if it was 3gyeopsal. I can't remember the name of the place, but I can at least confirm that such places exist in Korea.

Never seen a snake restaurant, but I've had students mention eating snake in the 'country' before.

[Jarome_Turner]

[uberscheisse]

[vlcupper]

If you don't mind cooking, they sell deer meat at the International Food Market next to What the Book. I think it's 14,000/kg. Totally worth it. Now if I can get some deer jerky, I can die happy.

[Julius]

[xenok]

if you can read korean, you can try out this place:

http://kin.naver.com/db/detail.php?d1id=11&dir_id=110205&eid=n80MztEsEJn/fUOcynaqGg8LD+PZrTv8&qb=u+e9v7DtseI=

i don't know how good it is since i've never been there, it says it has appeared on TV (which really doesn't mean all that much).

i enjoy venison as well, especially the chinese style venison served on a hot plate (铁板鹿肉). i find it much more tender and succulent than beef overall.