Don't try this at home...

IF YOU'VE ALREADY READ THIS ENTRY... PLEASE CHECK OUT THE NEW VIDEO CLIP ADDED!!

Last night we went out on the town Korean style, with our good friend Sangwoo. After drinking copious amounts of Dong Dong Ju (like alcoholic sweet milk, served out of a bowl with a wooden spoon) we headed off to a local seafood restaurant. Oh goodie! Still, if you don't eat seafood at all usually, then you may as well go the whole hog and try the most disgusting thing you can think of...

....LIVE OCTOPUS! To anyone who may be offended by the cruelty to Octopi, I am very, very sorry, and I can assure you it will never happen again, but when in Korea...

We even managed to get video footage, so please have a look at these clips.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E2wrkoqHmY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4U-6wq8QEE

NEW CLIP I'VE FINALLY MANAGED TO UPLOAD... THE BEST OF THE LOT!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TXyYNE1bXc

I'm afraid to admit that our table manners were not all they should be... we couldn't help but play with our food, which was kindly pointed out to us when we were asked if we knew the meaning of the word "etiquette". We were however, regarded as celebrities today by some of the Koreans - people who have not spoken to us the entire time we have been here were coming up to us having heard that we not only survived a night of drinking with a Korean, but were game enough to try live Octopus. It wasn't until this point that I realised that even many Koreans wouldn't go near it!

Apparently if you go to a seaside town, you can eat live octopus whole... I can imagine I would be likely to end up with an Octopus face mask if I attempted that manouvre...

Tip of the week: Why faff around trying to pick up food with chopsticks when you can get the food to voluntarily wrap itself around your chopsticks?! That is, if you can get it before it sticks to the plate/table/your face...