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I almost forgot the most important part of the trip this weekend!

While we were walking around the Namdaemun market, there were a bunch of booths selling various foodstuffs, pieces of watermelon on sticks, fried masses of random fish bits stuck together (really, I asked; the name translates to fish jelly), tubes of vegetables and rice rolled up in seaweed, that kind of thing. Several times, I saw people with big broiler-cases displaying great hunks of what looked like barbecue ribs, except shaped wrong. After watching several of these go by and being slightly weirded out by them, Wendy and I asked Dave what they were. He said dog, then laughed and said he was only teasing, he wasn't sure but he didn't think they were dog.

At the end of the day, heading towards the subway out of Dongdaemun market, Dave got a funny look on his face. Well away from the place he'd gotten the funny look, so as no locals could hear what he was saying and get offended, he told us that he'd seen a sign advertising "askdjashdKJhdf.J" And this, he told us, translates as dog soup.