Korean meat and Poultry food
Some of the most popular Korean meat and poultry foods
are dicusssed below.
Bulgogi – this is beef marinated
in soy sauce, garlic, sesame oil and sugar and then cooked
on a grill. If you eat this dish in a restaurant, the
grill is usually in the middle of the 
table
and it cooks in front of the diners who share it. Bulgogi
ws personally one of my favourite foods. Bulgogi is a
simply but tasty dish, and one which is popular with Westerners.
Sogogi dup bap – beef with vegetables
and spices, served with steamed rice.
Galbi – beef or pork ribs, cooked
on a charcoal stove, in the middle of the table. Galbi
is usually served with kaennip (perilla leaves, often
translated as sesame leaves) in which the diners wrap
the pieces of meat, adding, if they want, rice, doenjang,
chilli paste or salt
Dak Galbi – dak galbi is a Korean
dish similar to galbi, but made with chicken. The chicken
is cooked on a hot dish in the middle of the table with
vegetables (sweet potatoes, carrots etc.), chilli paste
and spices. When there is only a small amount of chicken
left on the hot plate, the diners can ask the waiter to
add rice, noodle or ttok.
Hoe – the Korean version of Japanese
sashimi, this is raw fish sliced and eaten with wasabi
(Japanese horseradish) sauce or gochujang sauce.
Sannakji – live small octopus,
cut up and eaten alive, while still moving and seasoned
with sesame oil. We personally never tried it. Sannakji
has become famous worldwide thanks to a scene in the Korean
film Old Boy, in which the main character eats it.
Eating dog meat in Korea
Selling dog meat has become illegal in Korea. However,
some restaurants still serve a soup made with dog meat,
called bosintang. Not many Koreans nowadays eat dog meat,
only older men who think that dog meat improves stamina.
Not every dog is killed for its meat! The only dog that
is eaten is a particular race called nureong. Among young
people, the consumption of dog meat is becoming increasingly
unpopular and the idea that all Koreans eat dog is largely
a misconception.
