So the other day, I decided to go with my friend, Robert, to go to this Korean restaurant here in South Memphis called Du Won Jung over on Hacks Cross just south of Winchester Rd.

I’ve been here once before with my friend Kati (which wasn’t a good experience for her at all…) and I really enjoyed what I had, even though it wasn’t that filling. (All I got was barbeque and Korean style gyouza.)

Since Robert had never tried Korean food before, we decided to go, since it’s pretty much considered “The Edo of Korean Food” amongst my friends.

We get there, and I decided to order my favourite dish, dulsot bibimbap, which is like mixed veggies, beef and rice over a sizzling hot stone bowl, and served with a sweet yet spicy chile sauce. Robert ordered this black codfish and seafood stew, and we split this huge sushi roll that was bulgolgi (Korean BBQ,) pickled radish, crabmeat and cucumber.

We get our various sidedishes and when our main courses arrive, despite me trying not to do so, I burned the top of my left ring finger on the side of the bowl. Ow… very much, ow.

Robert’s stew came and it had something in it that looked really, really weird. We couldn’t tell if it was brains or what. I told him to just eat it already and he tried it, and said that it was actually pretty good. Much to my disbelief, I tried it myself. It actually WAS good…

We ate some more of it: it had a pretty decent texture, and tasted like fish meat, so we figured it was intestines or something. It didn’t have a bad flavour at all.

So after a while, we finally got our waiter and asked her what it was:

It was the stomach of the fish.

Robert and I were pretty much like, “Oh, OK! We’ve already had some, it’s not bad,” and after a while we had a couple of Korean people walk by and stare at us with a look of being impressed that we were eating this stuff.

So in the end, we can brag about eating fish stomach. Will we order it again?

Probably not…