Day 97: Timmy Ate Lassie

This one Korean thing I had been putting off for the three years I've been here, but finally grabbed myself by the balls and jumped in. Growing up, kids would always tease me by saying 'where's Lassie, Timmy?' Well, now if someone were to ask me now, I could simply respond: "I ate him". Guys and dolls, that's right, this Timmy ate Lassie, or whatever the Korean equivalent would be. Yesterday, my friend took me to eat dog at a place called 갑부집 in which we had (as pictured above) a delicious soup with dog meat and just steamed dog meat. Was it good? It was certainly quite different, though the taste wasn't that exotic, nor did it look strange. It did smell a bit weird, but that didn't really influence the taste. In Korea, the dogs that we eat are raised on special farms and must be killed in a certain way, and only a certain breed of dog is used for food. When eating dog, we usually don't grill it because of the smell; we rather eat it steamed or broiled and in soup, which is most common. These things, though, are quite expensive, as the two things we ate yesterday added up to more than 40,000 won.