Korean Cuisine: Live Octopus - Navigeaters

To get a taste for Korea, the Navigeaters chew on sannakji—aka still-squirming octopus tentacles. The thrashing food was served up by East Seafood Restaurant in Flushing, Queens.

You can read more about the Korean gastro-journey here: http://www.navigeaters.com/post/377179973/korea

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[fred1375]

Definitely agree with the comment before.

[navigeaters]

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[CookiesMaker]

aww so yummy :O

[rEsonansDx]

i hope the octopus eats you inside out in your stomach

[drsnowmon]

@CamperBiffles

that's chinese and russians not Koreans.

[CamperBiffles]

you couldve eaten cat or dog for korean food...

[sega31098]

@klusmanp

Actually, I have seen many videos where they prepare Sannakji. Ususally, the brain is scraped out resulting in instantaneous death. The only exception was the one in LA where the brain was not split open so it was probably alive, and I felt a little disturbed by that one.

[klusmanp]

@sega31098 I suppose you are an expert on the specific manner in which a live octopus is prepared for eating this way? I doubt it. The references that I can find indicate that the animal is dismembered while it is alive and death is neither swift nor free of pain. That aside, my point is that these two seem to have absolutely no regard for the suffering of animals. They to seek out cuisine that is particularly exploitative, destructive, and cruel to animals.

[sega31098]

@wishmaker244

We do that every day. Did you know we eat spiders in our sleep?

[sega31098]

@klusmanp

Not too much pain actually. One hit with the knife and the octopus dies practically instantly. The death is generally swift and takes at most less than a minute on average 8 seconds or so.

[klusmanp]

@sega31098 That is not the point. The animal suffered terrible pain just so they could enjoy their disgusting "unique dining experience."

[sega31098]

@rere5251

Because octopus have a different system, so nerves will still continue to move the tentacleseven after the octopus is dead.