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Mighty fine eats in Korea
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Gollywog



Joined: 14 Jun 2008
Location: Debussy's brain

PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:26 am    Post subject: Mighty fine eats in Korea Reply with quote

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rhinocharge64



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No second place!! They obviously didn't ;ike you. Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes
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Davew125



Joined: 11 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gollywog (?!?! are we even alowed to use that word any more?? )

maybe you could serve it up with some of those slimy, wriggling, horse pen1s things i see in the fish tanks that i walk past on the way to school every morning? i havent tried them but they do look delicious!
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blaseblasphemener



Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be

PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just make sure you emphasize that it is good for one's "stamina" and you will have them lining up. Oh sorry, Westerners know about Viagra.
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Gollywog



Joined: 14 Jun 2008
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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JMO



Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu

PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

By that rationale, are we also all coons in Korea too? Or niggers? Here was I thinking, that all racial slurs would be bad user names.
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drunkenfud



Joined: 08 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

JMO wrote:
By that rationale, are we also all coons in Korea too? Or niggers? Here was I thinking, that all racial slurs would be bad user names.


Actually, I think that's what we are. No doubt there's some nasty names for us in Korean.

I agree with you about the user names though, that's why I chose "drunkenfud" instead of "Jungle Bunny".
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globalgirlk



Joined: 18 Jun 2008
Location: Livingston, La

PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey...It's coonass...well, if you're from South La and not a Cajun. Oh, yeah, do they eat horse over there? I had horse once but it was under the guise of beef. Embarassed
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tzechuk



Joined: 20 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My husband said it's the tail of Hong-or.... or flat fish.

We had eels last night for dinner and one of the side dishes was that. Simply the most disgusting thing on earth. Yet, hubby said it's expensive!

Only in korea.
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Tukkong



Joined: 27 Apr 2004

PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jeolla Province is famous for it. The first time I tried it, I thought I was mistakingly eating part of the table setting. The more you chew, the stronger the taste gets and the more overpowering the smell.
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mrsquirrel



Joined: 13 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Doesn't old Dave himself have to approve usernames.

So Dave must have approved the name Gollywog.

Interesting.
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aka Dave



Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river

PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think you can buy this in the supermarket, right? It comes in a little box? Has a picture of a skate like fish on it?

Anyway, I bought that, and took it home. After one bite, my thought was, "Humans can't consider this food, can they?" and it went into the garbage.
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blurgalurgalurga



Joined: 18 Oct 2007

PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Skate is pretty nasty stuff. There's one trick to make it ever so slightly less vile, though: put a little piece of it on a lettuce leaf, slather it in really strong gochujang, put a piece of bosam (steamed pork) on top, put a little piece of fresh gochu (pepper) on it, and chew.
It's actually not so bad that way. You can hardly taste the pissiness of the ammonia.
Unfortunately it's still got all those sharp little bones in it still.

As for those penile sea worms...they really have no taste at all. They serve them sliced up and you dip them in sesame oil and soy sauce and or wasabe. The texture is kind of interesting; gelatious, yet firm.
They look a lot worse in the tank. On the plate they are relatively harmless, and look a bit like something you might blow out your nose after getting wallopped in it the night before. Kind of a congegaled nasal blood slug, let's say, but more grayish.
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pkang0202



Joined: 09 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What you ate was most likely the skin/tailbone/cartilage of the Monkfish. You probably ate 아구찜. Was the entire dish red, spicy, with a lot of ben sprouts?
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aka Dave



Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Regarding Bosam, I love that stuff. I can live for 3 days off a take-out order of Bosam from One Grandmother Bosam, I think it's one of the best Korean foods, better than galbi. I never had pork that tender back in the States.

I cut out red meat (pork is red meat, don't believe those ads!) from my diet, the thing I miss most is Bosam.
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