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Today, we hitched a ride from near Damyang back to Gwangju.  I was slightly freaked out, but my wife’s Korean friend had no qualms and jumped at the offer.  I figured he’d be safer wth me in the car and jumped in after him.

Along the way, the driver suggested some sights to see and a venue for dinner.  He dropped as at the restaurant and went on his way.

We ordered Nakkji muchim, a spicy octopus dish with the octopus boiled briefly (only one minute).  When the dish arrived, the cooked octopus was promptly chopped up with scissors, and the (apparently delicious) inside of its head was set aside after the outer flesh was removed and cut. The octopus was tasty, and we mixed it with rice as well to make a kind of nakkji bibimbap.  The octopus innards sat there for a while as we both discussed what it was going to be like.

We finally decided it was time, and grabbed the odd-looking egg-like objects and put them in or mouths.  I chewed.  The taste was OK, with an oddly appropriate raw egg-yolk taste and texture mixed with the octopus.  I had to fight a gag reflex though as my brain thought through just exactly what I was eating.

 As we neared the end of the meal, my friend suggested we get some sambalnakkji (three legged octopus), which we had discussed earlier in the day.  I suspected nothing, was a bit full, but it was the last I was going to see of him until I was back in Seoul, so I said ‘OK’.

Rather than describe what happened then, I’ll just embed the youtube videos:

And the earlier video of the octopus innards being set aside: