In other bizarre food discoveries, there’s a handful of restaurants in Koreatown which serve this dish called sanaakji. Saan-akji is a raw preparation of octopus, serves on a plate. But the interesting thing about it is not the fact that it’s raw, but that it’s so fresh that it’s tentacles are still appear to be alive on the plate. After the octopus is sliced, its tentacles continue to twitch and function independently for another half hour or so. The dish is serves for a cheap $10, and comes with a trio of sauces. One thing the eater should keep in mind, though, is that those suckers can choke you, so chew fast. It’s quite an interesting sensation having something wrestling your tongue with your mouth closed. I can’t finish a whole octopus since the flavor gets boring after the third bit, but the dish comes in an excellent sharing-sized portion. I’ll put a video of it up on here soon [or just youtube sanaakji if you're really curious]. The one restaurant i recommend for saanaji is Hwal a Kwang Jang in a strip mall on Vermont. If any of you end up going, i’d like to hear what you think of it..

more to come.