So, I'm forever wanting to go to a different restaurant and try things. Daniel likes to stick to places that he has found food he likes and will get familiar dishes even if we explore. Today we tried a new restaurant that was still Thai food, which we both like, but just a different place. Daniel as usual stuck with a familiar dish but I as usual tried something different and I this time I regret it.
I chose to get curry puffs for an appetizer and then for my lunch I got the chef's recommended chicken something. The curry puffs were pretty good and even Daniel seemed to kind of like them. He initially didn't want to try them and looked at them with suspicion but wound up eating 2. When our meals came out I was the one looking suspiciously. Back in the States we joke about eating cat when we go to Chinese restaurants but rarely is that the case. Here it really is no joke to say I think that I'm eating dog because that is a dish that some Korean people genuinely partake in and enjoy.
I don't know what kind of meat I was eating but it did not look or taste like chicken to me. Daniel tried a couple of bites and he agreed that it was probably not chicken. It was dark meat but there was so much of it stuck together it didn't seem to be possible that it could have come from a chicken thigh and leg. Afterward my stomach was making a lot of noise in disagreement with the foreign thing I just ingested. It didn't hurt or anything like that it just keeps talking and bubbling.
We both agreed that we don't want to return to that restaurant. It could very well have been chicken and I might be being dramatic but I genuinely don't think that it was... :-/
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I would like to say for the record that I am not against consuming dog meat and no one else should be able to tell another country what meat they should or should not eat. Unless someone is a vegetarian there should be no conversation whatsoever about the consumption of dog meat as if it is worse than any other meat consumption. In the West we mainly eat cow, pig, chicken, & turkey but who are we to tell another culture that eating any other meat is wrong? I know that they have a dog rescue here for dogs that were going to be eaten and I have a problem with people in other countries adopting dogs from here to save them from being eaten. How ethnocentric of us!
Many of the dogs that are eaten here are a particular breed for the purpose of eating, just like with cows. Who are we to say that eating a pig is okay but not a dog? So even though I hope I didn't eat dog I am not opposed to people eating dog.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2002/01/wok_the_dog.html
1 Corinthians 10:23-27
23 “All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. 24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor. 25 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience. 26 For “the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.” 27 If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
I chose to get curry puffs for an appetizer and then for my lunch I got the chef's recommended chicken something. The curry puffs were pretty good and even Daniel seemed to kind of like them. He initially didn't want to try them and looked at them with suspicion but wound up eating 2. When our meals came out I was the one looking suspiciously. Back in the States we joke about eating cat when we go to Chinese restaurants but rarely is that the case. Here it really is no joke to say I think that I'm eating dog because that is a dish that some Korean people genuinely partake in and enjoy.
I don't know what kind of meat I was eating but it did not look or taste like chicken to me. Daniel tried a couple of bites and he agreed that it was probably not chicken. It was dark meat but there was so much of it stuck together it didn't seem to be possible that it could have come from a chicken thigh and leg. Afterward my stomach was making a lot of noise in disagreement with the foreign thing I just ingested. It didn't hurt or anything like that it just keeps talking and bubbling.
We both agreed that we don't want to return to that restaurant. It could very well have been chicken and I might be being dramatic but I genuinely don't think that it was... :-/
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I would like to say for the record that I am not against consuming dog meat and no one else should be able to tell another country what meat they should or should not eat. Unless someone is a vegetarian there should be no conversation whatsoever about the consumption of dog meat as if it is worse than any other meat consumption. In the West we mainly eat cow, pig, chicken, & turkey but who are we to tell another culture that eating any other meat is wrong? I know that they have a dog rescue here for dogs that were going to be eaten and I have a problem with people in other countries adopting dogs from here to save them from being eaten. How ethnocentric of us!
Many of the dogs that are eaten here are a particular breed for the purpose of eating, just like with cows. Who are we to say that eating a pig is okay but not a dog? So even though I hope I didn't eat dog I am not opposed to people eating dog.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2002/01/wok_the_dog.html
1 Corinthians 10:23-27
23 “All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. 24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor. 25 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience. 26 For “the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.” 27 If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
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