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[Len8]

I was in a restaurant with some Korean friends, and they ordered a big dish of raw meat. It was marrionated in something so the meat taste was masked pretty well. I'm wondering though if there are any side efects to the body after you have eaten the stuff. I have seen raw meat dishes offered at other places ( raw liver as well), so I'm assuming the quality of the meat wasn't your ordinary cow.
Anyone out there have any knowledge of this. If so please share.

[ulsanchris]

as long as the meat is fresh no worries.

[VanIslander]

All those guys who ate blue rare steak back in Canada no longer seem so strange to me.

Though in Korea I only eat raw seafood, not raw beef or poultry. I like a spicy seafood soup with raw beef shavings, but I actually put the shavings in the soup rather than merely dip them like the locals do.

Everybody draws their line somewhere. I myself have never eaten raw beef or poultry, and probably never will.

[mindmetoo]

You might be talking about ��ȸ (yook hwi). It's almost identical to Steak Tartar which you can find in many German/Swiss restaurants. The reason it's so similar is because both came from the Mongols. The Mongols swept into both Korea and Eastern Europe. They would keep raw meat under their horse saddles and then eat it with some oil and spices.

I kind of like to use this food as an example to my kids that Korean food didn't all get handed down to them from the heavens by Tangun. Many Korean foods come from foreign sources.

I think eating raw beef is always a risk, made more dangerous by cracking a raw egg on top. If you chase it with a bunch of soju, I'm sure it will be all okay

[JacktheCat]

[vlcupper]

If it's marinated, isn't it like ceviche? Or however you spell it. I thought the marinating "cooked" the meat so it'd be safe to eat. Or is it all the same? I've never eaten steak tartar, so I wouldn't know.

[Medic]

Have seen raw liver at a buffett. Shesh. Don't know how they can eat that stuff.

Saw the movie about the plane crash in the Andies a while back. It was called "Alive". They survived for 2 months on human flesh which wasn't marrinated. It was frozen so I guess you could say it don't go off, and was always fresh.

[vlcupper]

Yeah but they also cooked their friends, so they weren't eating them raw. Because, you know, that would have been barbaric and rude.

[ulsanchris]

try telling koreans that hapkido came from Japan and that Taekwando is heavily influenced by Japan.. You get some crestfallen looks.

[vlcupper]

And all this time I thought Korea was the cradle of civilization.

[paperbag princess]

woah, given the animal husbandry laws here, no one should eat the meat raw unless it's coming from australia...