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[Birmingham.couple]

It was on for lunch, it looked like little bacon rashers and I had convinced myself I could do it.

I ot o the front and I just counldn't do it. Some of the teachers seemed, well, bemused but I don't think I'll ever be able to do it. It actually looked quite appealing and smelled like BBQ but nah, I can't brin myself to do it.

What does it taste like?

[nukeday]

haha...the teachers were other foreigners, right?

they're messing with your head. looked like bacon? it's pork. sam gyup sal.

this stuff, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Korean.cuisine-Samgyeopsal-01.jpg


you've been having a rough time in korea so far, judging by your posts. relax and have fun. get drunk over the chuseok break. eat the sam gyeop sal and laugh the next time someone tries to tell you it's dog/cat/human.

dog meat is usually served in korea in a soup...dog soup. i'm 99% sure they weren't eating dog and were just having some fun with you.

[Birmingham.couple]

Oh no! I ate the soup because it tasted like vegetable soup
I just need to get settled in properly.

No it was the Korean teachers that told me it was dog and they were serious.

[nukeday]

theory two...perhaps they were saying "duck?"

i've NEVER seen bbq dog here. even the boshintang (soup) places are hard to find

and yes, you had vegetable soup.

[Birmingham.couple]

You know what, it did kind of look dark, like duck and I couldn't tell the pron perfectly.

The teacher also made a noise like "kak kak" that could have been "quack quack" .

Am I starving because I thought duck was dog?

[nukeday]

it can be kind of hard to hear when a korean says 'dog' vs 'duck.'

yeah, grilled duck is much more likely.

quack quack, yes...if it were a dog, they would've said "mong mong"

live and learn

and now you've made them all think "ah, foreigners cannot eat duck"

[TheUrbanMyth]

[jvalmer]

[nukeday]

right...so, as i said, hard to find. nowhere near as ubiquitous as samgyeopsal, korean chinese, or in birmingham's case even duck.

i never saw one in seoul until i moved up to suyu and went into the shijang - way off any major road. i doubt it could accomodate more than two groups of five, and you'd never go inside this shijang unless you lived nearby. but i was living in gangnam before this.

only time i saw one before moving to suyu was taking a bus to pyungnae in gyeonggi-do. ever heard of pyungnae? no one has.

[oldtactics]

Too bad, you missed out. Grilled duck is some of the best food I've had in Korea.

[Hotwire]

[Mod Edit] we don't eat the same animals we make part of our families okay?

There's plenty of other meat out there, you don't eat your friends.

[interestedinhanguk]

As already stated, it was probably duck.

Did it look anything like this?
http://tinyurl.com/3y9kwo5
http://tinyurl.com/32mrz6g

Go back and ask your coworkers, ask them to write it down (duck or dog).
Duck is 'ori gogi', and dog is 'gae gogi' in Korean.

[toadkillerdog]

Dog meat is not BBQed at all. It is either served as a stew or steamed. Koreans think BBQ dog smells terrible.

[FMPJ]

[Hotwire]

Look, the guy has been in Korea around a week.

No way in hell his co-workers would take him unknowingly to a dog restaurant lol.

I seriously wonder how much of what's going on around them in korea most posters actually take in.