Posted by Adam Kuban, April 22, 2008 at 2:45 PM
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Elyse Sewell, the third-place winner from the first season of America's Next Top Model, is now modeling in Seoul, South Korea, where she keeps an entertaining, well-written blog that often has entries on her food adventures. Her readers recently dared her to try bosintang. That would be dog soup. She met them head on:
I was expecting the dog meat to be indistinguishable from beef or pork. It wasn't: this stuff was decidedly doggy, like, it had a sort of dogfur aroma and flavor to it. The soup also had a lot of green onions and those unidentifiable stringy greens that are also pictured in a bowl alongside. That big bowl of black pepper contained twice the quantity before the proprietor came up, dumped a huge mound of it into the bowl and stirred it up for me. This made the flavor of the meat seem much more penetrative; I felt like I was sweating the dog scent out of my pores.
Bosintang is said to have a heightening effect on the libido. Sewell touches on the effect but doesn't go into great detail. Perhaps in a blog post to come. [via Delish Dish]
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Posted by Robyn Lee, March 21, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Since the title of this video by American fashion model (and hilarious food writer on the side) Elyse Sewell is simple "Seoul Food," I expected to just see clips of various unthreatening food stuffs she came across while modeling in Seoul, South Korea. But half of the video is actually close-ups of the Korean dish, live octopus tentacles, and footage of her unflinchingly slurping down the wriggling tentacles as though it were merely spaghetti. Impressive.
I'd like to believe I'm willing to eat anything once, but I draw the line at food that's still vigorously moving.
Watch the squirming octopus bits, after the jump. (Unless you're squeamish, in which case you may safely watch the first half of the video, and then run.)
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Posted by Robyn Lee, March 18, 2008 at 6:00 PM
In Seoul, South Korea, hot dogs are popular, but hot dog buns, less so. Besides hot dogs on sticks and hot dogs battered in french fries, Superlocal has come across hot dogs wrapped in crepes. The above crepe dog comes "with a dressing of stringy cheese & a bed of coleslaw." I'd eat it.
Previously:
Photo of the Day: Deep-Fried Octodogs
Top Ten Crazy Asian Pizza Crusts
Photo of the Day: Budae Jjigae
Photo of the Day: Tornado Potato
Photo of the Day: Ich Bin ein Coburger
