The "most interesting" dinner I'll ever eat (but only once!)

 I've made a couple of good friends here in Seoul.  One is Simon (behind me at the table).  He and Mr. Kim (across from Simon) have adopted me as their "hyong", or big brother.  (Mr. Kim is too Korean to have a first name yet.).

We had many, many bottles of sake, which were necessary to both get us in the mood for (and to wash down) the dish that we had come to the restaurant for:  Live octopus !

One night they invited me to join them (and the other gentleman, who is not my brother) for a traditional Korean "delicacy" of live octopus.   It actually isn't alive when you eat it (kind of).  They cut up the live octopus and serve the tentacles while they are still squirming.  Here is a picture of the dish.

For the less squeamish of you, you can see what it looks like when it is still moving:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiJkdOZEjXU