Now imagine this plate of food MOVING.Koreans believe you can never have your seafood too fresh. In some cases, this means eating something while it's still alive. A chef will relieve an octopus of its head, and the diner is brought a plate of writhing tentacles which she must then pry from the plate--the suction cups make live octopus an extremely stubborn dish. The suction cups also make live octopus a risky delicacy. The tentacles are very chewy, and if not properly broken down they can be a choking hazard. The catch: the heimlich maneuver doesn't work on food that's actively clinging to the inside of the throat.
Watch video of Los Angeles Times reporter Liam Gowing chowing down on a very alive plate of octupus here.
Wikipedia article on eating live octopus.
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