In article >, werewolf
> wrote:

> Re Korean restaurants -
>
> I've been exploring Korean restaurants here in Orange County...but I
> won't be doing so any more.
>
> Dog meat restaurants in L.A. and Orange County...
>
> The dog meat on the menu, "boshintang", is never translated into
> English. If you ask, you will be told that it is something else.

You won't be exploring OC Korean food because of the dog thing, or
because you're headed home?

> The article indicates that it is quite widespread.
>
> Excerpt:
>
> "Popular Korean belief is that due to the adrenaline rush it
> creates, the more painful the death, the tastier the meat. Dogs are
> usually killed by slow hanging, beating (often in combination),
> electric shock through the tongue, and particularly for cats,
> drowning in large drums or pounding to death in Hessian sacks. The
> fur is burned off with a blowtorch, and not necessarily after the
> animal is dead.

It's a shame that foods garner these myths. It tends to screw
everything up. Like rhino horn. I assume that a lot of animal's that
had to die or be disfigured for imaginary boners have been forgotten in
the wake of viagra distribution. At least that's a plus...

--
"A Dictionary of Japanese Food, Ingredients & Culture" by Richard Hosking
(Tuttle, '97). All the hints one might need for exploring Japanese food.

"The Sake Handbook" by John Gaunter (Tuttle, '02). An excellent intro and
reference to sake.