Thursday, February 13, 2014

# 7 - Strange Korean Food - Fermented Skate - MUST TRY!

reference: my last experience with Hong Eo

Seoul - It was great to meet up with Ki-Won again.  I was asked to choose between pork and fermented fish - being adventurous, I chose Hong Eo.   This is my second time eating this fermented skate - a kind of fish that looks like ray.  This is a expensive dish in Korea.  Hong Eo is fermented skate (a family with the sharks).  As with the shark family, the passing of urine is through their skin and so when raw skate is kept at room temperature to ferment, the uric acid from the skin keeps the meat from rotting and over time kills all bad bacteria.  So, this dish is meant to keep your digestive system in balance.

Hong Eo





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