How-To: Eat Live Octopus

Subscribe to Munchies here: Our correspondent Sydney Chun heads to Jongno Octopus in Seoul to try the controversial practice of eating live octopus. Head chef Kim Sang Jin shows us how to squeeze the mucus out of the tentacles, then chop the octopus up so that it becomes a writhing pile of slimy bits. Then, it’s time to add some seasoning, serve, and hope that you don’t get internally strangled. If, like most people, you got all your octopus-eating know-how from that sce