hi this is Bill and I just want to tell
you about a moment of culture shock that
I had when I first came to Korea this
happened many many years ago but a one
time I had only been in Korea for maybe
a few months two three months something
like that well I was walking down the
street one day it's kind of a busy
street there's many restaurants many
people a very busy area and there was
one restaurant very big restaurant it
was kind of the raw fish restaurants as
they see them everywhere the kinds that
have all the different aquariums out
front and they have the different kinds
of fish you know in this one this one
they have squid things like that okay
well at this restaurant I noticed it was
very busy at the time there are many
people inside the restaurant eating and
well as I was walking by I noticed one
of the server's goes into the kitchen
and tells the people who prepare the raw
fish is like they talk at each other
kind of they're talking kind of shouting
very loud but then the man from the
kitchen he comes out in the front of the
restaurant because all the aquariums are
in the front is like on the road so
people can see them you know so people
know this is fresh fish and I love fresh
food I like that if I go to a fish
restaurant I know that the fish is very
very fresh but just this one time I
noticed that the man from the kitchen
chef who cuts up the fish he comes out
and he goes to the aquarium that has the
biggest fish the biggest fish they have
there I'm not sure the name because I
don't know much about fish but the fish
was about this big all right and well
the man he just takes his hand just
reaches his hand into the aquarium he
just grabs the fish by the tail and just
takes the fish out now I think he's
gonna walk into the kitchen put the fish
on the table
take his knife and just give it a quick
chop on the head fish is dead ready to
be cut and served but know this man he
just grabs the fish at the tail takes it
out and then he just slams the fish on
the ground about three or four times
just whack whack whack whack and then he
holds the fish like this so it's hanging
here the fish Wiggles a bit and then he
just goes again whack whack just on the
ground right there in front of the
restaurant after two more times he just
holds the fish up like this the fish
doesn't move then he walks into the
kitchen and starts cutting the fish now
me I was surprised very surprised very
shocked because that's a very violent
way to kill a fish as I think it almost
it wastes more energy than just taking a
knife and cutting its head off like I
don't know why he would want to just
take that and violently hit the fish on
the ground so again that's my culture
shock story from my first moments in
Korea I haven't seen it happen since but
at that moment I didn't even understand
what was going on so I hope you enjoyed
my story have a good day