Whether you're an unstoppable eating machine that will eat anything from a boiled egg to human stomach lining, or a fussy eater who spends more time picking through their food than actually eating it you're bound to find something to eat in Korea.
Here's some things we've eaten so far...
Silkworm - A fried delicacy that tastes as bad as it looks. It has a strange gritty texture and just tastes like eating dirt. It also has a horrible irony after taste that lingers for ages. Stephen stopped after one, Andrew ate an entire bowl.
Dried squid - A common snack in bars here. It's not actually that bad. First time we tried this was in a bar in Ochang. Andrew and Stephen were sitting chatting when out of nowhere a sexy barmaid walks up behind them and shoves dried squid in their mouths mid sentence. It was salty and fishy but that may have been her fingers..
Did you know squid have beaks? We didn't.
Cow's Head Soup - Yep soup made from a cow's head. Stephen was eating this when Lucy began to tell him exactly what was in it, Stephen stopped her and said to tell him after he'd finished although he had a pretty good idea what makes up a cows head. Slices of ears, slices of nose, slices of tongue and slices of head! It was surprisingly tasty.
Hae Jang Gook (aka Pig Spine Soup) - The perfect meal to have at 3 or 4 in the morning drunk or the next day as a hangover cure. It's soup made with a pig's spine. It can be very spicy and although it doesn't sound too appealing it is delicious. There's some amount of meat on a pig's spine. It's normally served with rice.
Chicken's assholes - Yes you read that right. Squishy, squeaky, chewy chicken's assholes. Here's a big steamy bowl of assholes.
Sam Gap Sal - Pork bbq in the restaurants. They give you big strips of pork and there's a barbeque grill on the table, you cook the pork and cut it up. Eat it on it's own, wrap it up in lettuce... whatever.
Barbeque - sausages, burgers, pork, mushrooms, pineapple, chicken skewers .. you know what a barbeque is.
Shellfish - We went on a midnight trip to Boryeong which is famous for it's shellfish. We got this feast and it was awesome. Clams, scallops, muscles and oysters among other things.
Lamb - There's an awesome restaurant down the road from where we live that serves lamb. Lamb skewers and ribs and it's amazingly delicious. And again, ye cook it yourself at your table which is always pretty cool.
Sushi - We took both our directors for meal to a Japanese restaurant recently and had a load of sushi. For starters they brought out a load of side dishes and finely cut sushi slices, we had poisonous blow fish which was delicious. Although it may have tasted the exact same as the rest of it and the novelty of impending death may have added to the flavor. Then they brought out a main plate of different types of sushi. The chef was a bit eccentric and took a liking to us, he came out with a big wooden boat with tuna on it. He wrote "Ireland" in Korean on the flag. He proceeded to communicate via body language and was pretend pissing all over the table and the 2 directors which they didn't like but we couldn't stop laughing.
This was followed by king crab which was off the hook and 2 big steaks of tuna and possibly plaice. It was delicious but a bit expensive.
We've also had chickens feet, pigs feet and intestines which was alright too. Here's some hangover breakfasts, rice, eggs, corn, corned beef and spam! Lovely.
They also serve rather suspect foods, I don't want to know what this is but I have an idea. Adam and Meg enjoyed it though, I think Adam more so than Meg.
Sometimes though you just want some regular normal food from back home. So Stephen made his first ever pot (2 pots) of Irish stew which was a complete success. Andrew made some crazy dessert with bananas, rum and ice cream and lemons in a frying pan which people strangely liked!
Stephen has been going crazy with gravy since he got a food parcel from Ireland! Spuds, steak, cabbage, bacon and carrots, oh yes.
Stephen also ate live octopuss. You pick the guy you want from the tank, they scoop him out, chop him up and serve it to you right there with the bits of tentacles still dripping wet and wriggling about on your plate. It was a less than desirable sensation having your food wriggle about inside your mouth. You get a side bowl with olive oil or some type of oil which you dip the tentacles into first, this prevents the suckers sticking to the inside of your mouth (that ain't no Mr. T ism fool, I'm talking about the suckers on the tentacles). Stephen wished someone had shared this invaluable information with him before he tried his first piece! It didn't agree with him and almost immediately prompted some pretty impressive projectile vomitting after many a dry heaves. Andy played the allergy card again, claiming he might die if he tried some.... pussy!
And here we all are out for a meal.
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