I'd like to comment on this.

i was is seoul just two weeks ago, and i've tried this dish.

it's actually tasty, but u have to get the right amount of salty oil or else u taste nothing but oil, not enuf oil means that u've got a tentacle stuck to your throat for a long time.

also those things really fight back. its hard to pick them up with the metal chopsticks that the restaurant provides.

eating this tops the live fish i ate japan hands down.

i've got my own vids of this as well if anyone wishes to watch.

What kind of people would choose a victim from a tank and wish to eat its still-moving freshly dismembered flesh? Sickos.

This was kind of close to what I had been looking for, this kind of thing always fascinated me - the differences in peoples preferences and while something to Us may seem horrific, its quite normal over there. Awesome video.






Anyone know where to find a clip of someone eating one whole? Also, am I mistaken when I read its more common to serve them whole as opposed to chopped?

Maybe you should try to enjoy it before you start thinking that Korea is bad!

You sick bastard!

I was utterly disgusted when I first saw creatures being eaten by "human beings" alive.
The monstrosity of it all had me fascinated at first but this act is so cruel and punishing. As humans we are suppose to be at the top of the food chain, we cook and prepare our foods this is what differenciates us from animals.

Reply to Zileen,
Unless you're a vegetarian, then I would not be to quick to judge.
If you eat beef, then you also participate in the killing of animals. Eventhough you may not be part of the slaughtering, you are a consumer supporting the cause.
However, I did also feel wheezy looking at that dish. I guess food is scarce in Korea especially N Korea, so I don't blame them for serving whatever is eatable.

This video is fantastic.

Most of the comments people left are really...
thoughtless.



1. Would you really eat food that was still moving? What kind of people would eat a cow raised on animal remains? Americans. What kind of people would raise calves on blood rather than milk, because milk is too expensive? Americans.



2. Eating animals that have been recently killed is inhumane? So... housing egg-laying chickens in 18x18in cages for their entire lives is humane? Learn something about the modern farm industry before you criticize anything. I guess catching an animal from the wild and cutting it up to eat is crazy and inhuman. I guess the mass culling by deep sea trawlers makes perfectly good sense. Let's kill everything in our path and only keep the marketable fish like the slow-growing Patagonia toothfish... OH, I mean... Chilean sea bass... even though it's not even a bass just a marketing gimmick.



3. David- Thanks for being progressive (I'm being serious), but Seoul is in South Korea. I'm not sure if you know anything about East Asia, but Seoul, Korea, is quite modern. They have the most profitable Starbucks in the world -- if that's a good thing. The only thing is that good Mexican food is nearly impossible to find and American candy bars are prohibitively expensive.



...Oh.... Even though this post is old, it's supremely fantastic.

I'm a vegetarian. I see no difference between just-killed and two-weeks-dead flesh. Also, with prudence, that octopus was probably justthrown back in the tank, as the tentacles will regrow quickly. Quite the lucrative resource.

That was awesome i have been wanting to try that for a while does any body know proper prep of it or not
and to the idiots that call it inhumane it are those like you that make most of the of our problems as a result of your stubborness and lack of information.and here is a a shocker for you . death by that means is barely cruel compared to what comes in nature thats right its not at all fairies and ponies death is required for life.well we've bitched enough now back on track. if you got the prep instructions please post it.

vegitarians suck

eugene you are a diety among mortals you worded that well

i'm a vegetarian, i have been one since before i was born, because my mom had a vegetarian diet while i was in gestation.
I feel sorry for the people who eat animals, because simply they do not know how detrimental for their health this nasty habit they got. they are told since they are born is ok to eat meat. I was told differently...
but these people grow up believing it is ok for them to eat an animal.
I can just imagine how hard it would be for a meat eater to become a vegetarian in a really short time. because i've heard those people just love the taste and can't just stop eating like that...
i feel sorry for them, i truly do
the damage to the ecosystem is gigantic, but they don't care... they are feeding themselves with animal hormons and poisons.... but they don't care, they just love the taste but they don't consider an animal life is being destroyed in the process just cos someone loves how it taste
how sick
i'm ashamed of the planet i'm living in
but i'm sure things will change
and all you meat eaters will pay
first mad cow disease
now avian flu
what else is to come?

Damage to the ecosystem? Meat eaters will pay? I ask the following in all seriousness: Are you high?

I wish I could stop eating meat.
I was veg for several years but craved burgers, fry ups etc...
I know it's bad for me and the environment but I just can't stop.
I don't know if I could kill an animal to survive.
I know how difficult it is to be a vegetarian and I admire those who adhere to this life choice.
Maybe I will try again...

I'm for eating meat, that's all animals' purpose... (although we do class animals as being domestic, they evolved from a different animal) even from a Christain perspective; it's states this in the bible. But this I don't know about.

Why can't they just kill it first, what's the difference in taste!? ... exactly. So stop this cruelty now. Sick sick bastards.

"What kind of people would eat a cow raised on animal remains? Americans. What kind of people would raise calves on blood rather than milk, because milk is too expensive? Americans." Whoever said this needs to check your sources? Cows are raised on grains and calves drink milk. I dont know who told you otherwise, but they were smoking crack.

I think its natural for a carnivorous creature to eat their food freshly killed, or still squirming. Can you think of any other animal that sits and waits for their fish to stop squirming before they ingest it? I've had the octo raw but never live, but I don't see anything wrong with someone wanting to try it that way.

As for you vegetarians, your diet is very unhealthy. We are not hurting the ecosystem by eating meat. Think of what this place would be like if every animal was a vegetarian. The world would be overinfested with bugs, rodents, and other bottom of the chain critters.

goddamit how do people turn this post into "americans do this... americans do that... nah nah nah..."? (I'm looking at you, Eugene)

absolutely retarded. every human being on this planet is different. now kindly fuck off

now i've seen everything.

i'm keeping out of the argument part of this thread. let's just say i can appreciate multiple points of view and leave it at that.

but this video just leaves me speechless. wow.