Choice Tables | Seoul, South Korea

[lsanderson]

The Weird, Wild and, Ultimately, Sublime
By MATT GROSS
Published: July 20, 2008

SOMETIME after midnight on a Sunday, the streets of the Myeongdong neighborhood in Seoul were quiet and cold. The young shoppers who flit from Adidas to Tommy Hilfiger to Club Monaco had gone home to study for December exams, and restaurant workers were setting barrels full of leftovers onto the curb to be picked up by early-morning garbage trucks. The city was going to sleep. More

Comments

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

You posted that just to torture me, didn't you? ;)

Si!

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

But I was thinking more about danae who's there teaching English.

[danae.livejournal.com]

ah.. I was just in Seoul on Saturday
I don't really eat the big korean dinners like the galbi or bulgogi. I eat a lot of just soups (tongs and chigaes)

[danae.livejournal.com]

oh, I just finished read the article
I've had the live dead octopus and it is super freaky because the suction cup on the tentacle was sucking on my tongue when it touched my mouth, sesame oil or no sesame oil. This was a week ago and I'm not sure if I'd do it again

I think

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

I'm firmly in favor of boiling octopus until kinda tender.