Wednesday, March 24, 2004

 
One of the sea critters I enjoyed eating while growing up in a small sea side town on the western coast of Korea was a small, bottom-dwelling octopus-like thing, all tentacles with only a ridiculously tiny body. It is served raw, chopped up into bite sized pieces, and if it is sufficiently fresh your lunch tries to crawl off of your plate, each piece going a separate direction. The tentacles themselves have little suction cups that stick to the roof of your mouth and teeth while in your mouth, and this only adds to the difficulty of chewing as the tentacles have a tough, rubbery sort of texture. The particularly vigorous specimens wiggle slightly while going down, but I've never heard of one choking anybody to death by attaching onto the diner's epiglottis with its suction cups. They are very good with a little hot sauce.



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