Korean Barbecue

Most of the group went to dinner at a Korean barbecue restaurant (one of the high-end ones so the food was excellent quality).

Each table had a hole in it for the fire pot. The waitresses then put a grill over the pot and cooked our meat at the table. According to our "party guide", Olivia, the beef was Korean beef and is considered to be the best (the lower class joints use very fatty beef). After the meat is cooked, the waitresses cut it into pieces and then you make little wraps with it using various lettuce leaves and condiments. It was excellent!

After the beef came the squid. The process is the same. The taste is not. I tried a piece but I did not go back for seconds! Some people in our group loved it but I thought it tasted like fishy erasers. There was also raw crab which is meant to be eaten raw. Olivia said that is very expensive and shows a great deal of respect on behalf of the restaurant that they served it to us. I tried a piece and it tasted like what you would expect raw crab to taste like. The sauce on it was so hot, though, you couldn't taste much. Some had the idea of throwing that on the fire and made cooked crab. Much better.

Pictures here.