Eating The Live Creatures

So then, me and some of the girlies I hang with here in South Korea decided to go to a sushi restaurant and try some of the sea food. We've all been here for different time periods. There is me who had been here for a few weeks, Erin and Diana who have been here for a few months and Sarah who has been in SK for a couple of years.

What came to us was a huge surprise!

We were enjoying our meal and one of us happened to mention trying live octopus. What do you know??? A few moments later a plate of live octopus was brought in to us! Call us inhumane or sick but we squealed, poked at it and ate it. It was delicious and so very weird.

Also at this point we had other plates of various fish on our table. On one of the plates we had already tried some of the fish but there was one small saucer of something called penis fish. (Due to it's colour and shape) and we were a little more hesitant to try it. Erin and myself both popped some into our mouth, we chewed down and swallowed. Nothing wrong with it, it tasted fine.

That is when one of the other girls pointed out it was also moving!

Yes we had eaten live penis fish. It was crazy! It did not wiggle like the octopus, it sort of breathed.... in and out.... it pulsated a little like a.....

Anyways... we were all now prodding the penis fish and what remained of the octopus tentacles which were sticking to the plate and curling around our chipsticks. (Yes we're evil and did voice immitations of the creatures saying "please do not eat me" while trying to squirm away from us.)

There was this one pretty big penis fishy thing that was really expanding and contracting, so for a picture, I put it on my tongue before chowing down and eating the little fellow.

We thought this would be it. There were lots more dishes. A huge plate of raw fish was brough out to us and the fish itself was still intact (it's head and tail) while it's middle was all sliced up. We dived in, grabbing slices of fish and then after a few moments, we all started squealing again.

The fish was still alive.... it was gasping and it's fins were moving. Instead of being grossed out though, we decided to poke it to try and get it to move more and play with its jaw pretending it was talking.

All in all it was a great and evil day... but I loved it! >:D