January Newsletter

Lutheran Church in Korea

The Lutheran Church in Korea (LCK) was established more than 50 years ago and has been growing and reaching out the Korean people ever since. As the partner church body of the LCK, members of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod in the United States have the unique opportunity to work along side the LCK—including short-term mission opportunities.

Bizzare foods in Beijing

One of the days we were in Beijing, Josh and I set out to try some new food. Earlier during our trip we had cow lungs with our lunch, a recommendation from our tour guide Hannah. They were not bad, pretty chewy, but the sauce made them edible.

After talking to some of the English students we decided that we should go out to an area famous for street foods. The students told us we could eat scorpions and crickets, plus a lot of other types of meat.

We ended up buying both scorpions and crickets, plus snake all deep-fried and covered in salt. Basically the scorpions and crickets were crunchy and tasted like fried salt, but the snake was an interesting texture. It was very chewy and reminded me of octopus tentacles. After our more adventurous food purchases, we finished the night with pumpkin cakes, yogurt and bubble tea.

Although there were many more types of food at the vendors, we decided that we had enough since we did not want to be ill on our 24 hour train ride back to Hong Kong.