raw octopus safe to eat?

Question

i've seen some korean eating it on youtube. its a dish serve at korea, it raw octopus. the chef just cuts it up into pieces and puts it in the plate...and the darn thing still moves. does anyone know if its safe to eat it? if so is there a restaurant in nyc that serves it? and how do they taste like?

ITS NOT SUSHI GUYS!! its korean food..

im talking about this for those who dont know http://youtube.com/watch?v=iiJkdOZEjXU

okay first of all sushi will not come with moving octopus in it, i've eaten enought sushi to know it. and secondly, look at the way its serve u moron. its not sushi damnit its a korea dish!

Answer 1

I think you're talking about sannakji (산낙지). The important part is that the live nakji (octopus) must be served immediately after being cut into small pieces. It's usually seasoned with sesame and sesame oil. I usually saw them served whole. Like most people, the Koreans believe that seafood is best served fresh. I am sure there is a restuarant in NYC that serves sannakji. The biggest thing you have to be careful of is the live tentacles' suction still being active. This could stick to your mouth or throat, which obviously presents a choking hazard for some people, especially if you're drunk on soju (소주).

Answer 2

Eating Octopus

Answer 3

Eating Live Octopus

Answer 4

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raw octopus safe to eat?
i've seen some korean eating it on youtube. its a dish serve at korea, it raw octopus. the chef just cuts it up into pieces and puts it in the plate...and the darn thing still moves. does anyone know if its safe to eat it? if so is there a restaurant in nyc that serves it? and how do they taste...

Answer 5

I lived in Korea for a while, and one day, my father went into a Korean restaurant, and randomly decided to eat a live octopus dish (he was feeling brave). He tried it (yes, the limbs were still moving!), and he was just fine. In fact, he said it tasted quite good.

Not sure if I would try it, but considering the fact that my father was just fine after eating it, and everyone one else was too, I would assume it would be okay.

Answer 6

most octopus is boiled - even in sushi restaurants. uncooked octopus is extremely tough. so you boil and then chill it - hence the illusion it is raw.
small octopus can be eaten raw in some places, but of course i'd pick them carefully. seafood in general needs to typically be flash frozen which means it's not going to be live after.

Answer 7

I saw this in the National Geographic channel ni a very good program called Taboo Foods. It is dangerous to eat it because it CAN get stuck in your throat. The restaurant they showed has a resident paramedic/chef in the place just in case and he has even performed tracheotomies. Look for it in NatGeo because they even showed the preparation when they take it live out of a tank, the chef stuns him by hitting it and stretching its head "or whatever it is" cuts the ink sak off and lets any remnant flow out and then he cuts it and serves it. Yuo could see it squirming in the plate and falling out of it still moving. By the way, its not sushi. Sushi might be raw but it does not move, does it?

Answer 8

Raw octopus is perfectly safe; it's sushi; there's squid and a bunch of other stuff like that too.

Answer 9

Uh, what about cutting up a raw octopus and putting it on a plate with absolutely no cooking, seasoning, etc, makes it "Korean food"? Just because the people eating it happen to be Korean?

That IS sushi (sashimi), and yes, you can get octopus at a sushi restaurant. It's extremely chewy and not something I recommend, though.

Answer 10

Discovery Channel did a special on Live octopus as a delicacy in Korea. It did mention that people have choked from it because of the octopus latching itself to the throat.

or maybe it was National Geographic - it was one of those learning channels