Yakiniku Game Serves Guests With Fake Korean BBQ

Yakiniku != Korean BBQ. Koren BBQ could be considered a subset of yakiniku.

takeshi

@mtimothymounce: the way you guys are talking you both sound like "typical white people" so I would never imagine that you both came from North Korea but it is totally possible that your family is still there.
In Japan back in the day, there were Korean people living there who actually believed the propaganda that going back to North Korea was a good idea and did they. Now they are stuck there "FOREVER"

TT

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: this is a Japanese game, so neither. they serve dog in South Korea too by the way.

TT

@tsdexter: blasphemy!!!!!

@ludwigk: My grandfather was separated from his wife and child when the war broke out. Long-story short, Kim and his regime eat poop and I'm not a fugee or communist! :P

@92BuickLeSabre: Good. I don't support hotlinking either!

psychiccheese

@M. Timothy Mounce: My answer is a bit more complicated. I am also Korean-American, but all of my grandparents escaped from North Korea during the war. So, I have a lot of family (none of whom I know, or that our family has contacted in 50+ years) living in North Korea. So in that respect, I can trace my lineage directly to N. Korea.

So that's the slightly-long response, but usually when I get asked the north/south question, I answer, "I'm from Brooklyn."

ludwigk

@M. Timothy Mounce: Okay, but to give them some credit - the "where is your family from" question can mean lots of things. For example, my family is "from" Appalachia, Wales, The Netherlands, although nobody has lived in any of those places in a few generations.

I know plenty of Korean Americans that have family stuck in North Korea. Not their parents of course, but grandparents, aunts, uncles, sure. And there are slight variations in culture and cuisine that come from those roots. And the current crisis impacts them (usually via their parents) slightly differently.

And even more South Koreans struggle with the same problem. Hell Hyundai's founder and the company have a long history of family ties and economic investment in North Korea.

So sure, the newest cell phone technology isn't going to come from North Korea (or any technology...of any kind), but to act like the links between North Korea and the South or the diaspora are long broken just isn't accurate.

@chazified: I'd rather have no bacon than turkey bacon... ew.

tsdexter

@M. Timothy Mounce: Wow, cool story bro. So are you guys from North or South Korea?

High Speed Indeed

@Kaiser-Machead: I can make a hell of a cake in one of those. Don't diss my shit.

Where is the plastic Dog? Or Rat?

RW-1

Wouldn't it be fake Japanese BBQ, or uhh Yaki Niku? It's not really the same thing as Korean BBQ style wise.

SatyaLelex

@Kaiser-Machead: fake bacon = fake better? ur right bacon fails for once, atleast fake bacon does. but u gotta admit fake bacon is better than no bacon. i.e. turkey bacon.

@TheCrudMan: I've had bad sex, I've never had bad yakiniku.

coyote1284: P.E.T.U.

So when do we get the Hot Pot version?

How much fun could this really be???? I would be bored after 2 mintues!!

schpeen

Thanks Gizmodo...Now I have to go splurge and Yakiniku today. The reaction Homer has to bacon I have for yakiniku.

@pekosROB: Well said! I too, am Korean-American and get asked that ridiculous question. Next time someone asks you that question, tell that typical white person that Uncle Kim will shower them with gifts if they defect to the Motherland and all they'll have to do is show up in some propaganda videos and teach English... Leave out the parts about having to do it FOREVER and never leaving and watching millions of people starve while you eat some mediocre food. That may get rid of 'em!

mtimothymounce

@ludwigk: i tell people that all the time, shit in the north stays in the north.

as a Korean-American (hell, I was born here, so I'm technically just "American"), I have been asked countless times "is your family from North or South Korea?"

If we were from the North, we'd either be eating bark off trees right now or hiding in China. I don't ask someone from North Carolina if they are different from the people in South Carolina. Or North/South Dakota. Or Northern/Southern Cali. Well, Northern vs Southern Cali might be a stretch to call them the same... :-P jk

I find it interesting that the Japanese have a word for Korean BBQ, and that yakiniku literally means "grilled meat", which is the same as the korean name "gogi gui", which is just the words for "meat" and "grilled" put together.

A lot of japanese and korean food names are similarly literal. Instead of having food names like "brown betty" or "pigs in a blanket", we stick to names that mean literally "mixed rice" or "rib soup", or my favorite, "gori gomtang", which is [ox] tail soup.

About 17 years ago, my cousins had a similar toy that was named something like "boggle boggle", which is just the korean onomatopoeia for the sound of boiling. It was a hot-pot toy where you put fish and vege into a similar plastic dish. It also made me hungry.

ludwigk

@chazified: Fake plastic strips of bacon do not make up for the lack of bacon.

Kaiser-Machead

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Just remember, NOTHING comes in or out of North Korea. Korean culture is basically S. Korean culture.

And in N. Korea, this would be more like sticks and grass. Their food situation is so dire that their gov't distributed official information on edible grasses and barks that can be used to stretch meals.

ludwigk

not even bacon in the items. what a loss. bacon would have made it better.....

Real food is cheaper and funnier.

Skid-Vicious

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Those aren't monkeys.

@OMG! Ponies!: Good. I don't support cannibalism either!

@ValerioB: I wonder how this works. Do the plastic pieces change color or something when they are done and then you have to quickly take them off?

Purple Monkey Dishwasher

Is this a North or South Korean game because there's probably a big difference. I'm guessing in the North Korean game these are rectangular medium-well pieces of dog meat and monkey penis.

Purple Monkey Dishwasher

But how can you teach kids about the effects of food poisoning, like when convincing them that they can cook chicken wings in an Easy Bake® Oven?

Kaiser-Machead

So it's the Korean BBQ equivelant of a fleshlight? I am comfortable with that analogy because Korean BBQ is basically in the same league as sex. A lot of the time.

TheCrudMan

im surprised nintendo hasn't brought this out for the wii yet

Nathan Ryan

This is the version aimed at cannibals:

So wacky and precocious, these Nipponese.

Walljasper

Delicious!

ValerioB