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drumpounder · Joined: 20 Jun 2006

We were at a bar last friday and a Korean aquaintance ordered a steak and baked potato. The baked potato had a huge mound of strawberry whipped cream on it. She said that was normal. I said WTF!! Shocked

What are some strange foods you have seen here?

Poemer · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Location: Mullae

the chicken bungholes are a bit odd. . .and chewy.

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:23 am Post subject:

selling hot steamy bondegi and frozen ice cream together on the same cart Shocked

i... just... don't... get it

the eye · Joined: 29 Jan 2004

Waaaaay back in 2000, friends and i went to a reputable Steakhouse. Not a franchise, but it was basically the best place in town.

We ordered nachos for an appetizer.
We got nachos, but after a closer inspection..and a corroborating taste test, we came to the conclusion that they substituted SALSA with ketchup.
Instead of Sour cream.... they used ICE CREAM.

We didn't stay for the steak.

SeoulFinn · Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Location: 1h from Seoul

Must be the barbecued pig's face. I think it it called "모리고기" or something like that.

pidgin · Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Location: Seoul

Sahn NakGee (sp) is a little odd. Live Octopus. Comes to your table all wriggling around on the plate. Quite tough to snip the little buggers with your chopsticks, but all in all, not bad really.

heydelores · Joined: 24 Apr 2006

Either steamed dog meat or silkworms. I won't eat either ever again!

sjrm · Joined: 27 Jul 2005

Son Deureo! · Joined: 30 Apr 2003

Fried grasshoppers

Steamed pig lung (served with sundae)

Dried frogs

Clotted cow's blood soup

Live sea urchins

Whale meat

Korea's got some weird grub, but I've seen much stranger in China.

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

Fatty dog soup (of course), but mustn't forget the spicy silkworm soup (very nice actually, although don't wish to try the slikworms by themselves) and chicken arse salad. I don't see much appeal in the latter, other than the fact that you can tell your mates back home you've eaten a chicken's arse.

schwa · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap

They sell boxes of chocolate-coated kimchi at the airport.

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

annabel · Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Location: Daegu

Chicken feet (tried it- the taste isn't bad but I couldn't get past the scaley, ribbed texture...)

Squid and peanut butter (haven't tried that yet but who knows? Could be a new flavour for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups! Someone should write to them...)

ursus_rex · Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul, ROK

Grasshoppers mixed with peanuts covered in some sort of sticky brown sauce (I'd had the sauce with peanuts before, but the grasshoppers were a surprise).

This was at an expensive Korean restaurant.

Juregen · Joined: 30 May 2006

Buying a French Loaf of bread, cutting it open with a knife realising they had already done it for me.

Then realising they put some yuki brown stuff in it

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo