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I think I mentioned this elsewhere, but yeah, meals were included on the Cheju tour we went on, and that's a good thing, because the food is ridiculously overpriced there. We had a lot of local fish, which was good, but they were charging like $60 U.S. a meal, which is just insane.
SN. Jieun spent a full day trying to figure out what one of the fish, octom gui, is. We still don't know. Tilefish? Snapper? No clue.
Why do I mention this? Oh yeah. OK, so one meal we have the local pork, which is actually quite tender and flavorful. It was accompanied with this sweet rice wine, not clear like soju, but cloudy. It was really good.
Anyway, the name of pork is ddong daiji, which (I might be totally wrong since my Korean sucks) roughly means Crap Pork. And later on the tour, they show us a crap pig. Here it is, in a traditional Cheju village. It's called crap pig because it lives in crap. That thing you see on the right is the village toilet. I'm not sure if it eats it or what, but it's disgusting, and you definitely need to stand upwind from this or just far far away. Repulsive. Anyway, there's a reason they show you the pig after you've eaten the pork. It wouldn't work in the opposite order.