More food.
Had a couple of neat food experiences recently. I’ll start with the less weird one, bosingtan. Bosingtan is, simply put, dog soup. The actual taste is a lot like very soft beef. In fact, were I not informed it was dog, I would have simply assumed that it was just fatty beef. It was actually pretty good, even after knowing what it was. There was a twinge of guilt, as I do like dogs, but when in Rome…
The second was unpleasant. Earth Dragon soup. I can’t recall the korean name, but that’s the translation. It is a very old fashioned recipe, and almost completely gone from the culture, usually eaten only by the very old for medicinal purposes (same with dog, actually. Younger Koreans usually refuse to eat dog, as they associate it with pets. Incidentally, the rare women in america you see with a dog with colored hair, clothes, and little boots? That’s the norm here in Korea. I see it four or five times a day.)
Earth Dragons are a humorous name for earthworms. They collect hundreds in a jar with many herbs and spices and let them soak for several days. Then they are taken out and the guts are squeezed into a pot and boiled. Tastes just as good as it sounds.
