If you haven’t eaten Gope Chong, specifically, Moe Doo (variety) Gope Chong, you haven’t lived. That’s quite a powerful statement from a person who’s eaten pretty much every single Korean food? ever. You might be a little suspicious about why I’m trying so hard to get you to try Gope Chong, and why I haven’t yet described to you what it is, exactly. Allow me to tell you a little story, entitled Gope Chong: The World of the 4th Meat. This was your world. Your whole life you’d grown up knowing that there were only three kinds of meat: red meat, white meat, and fish. Then one evening, after a round of Meck Jew (or three) your friend says, “Come on, I know a place.” He leads you to a small street market you’d never noticed before. “It’s called Gope Chong Goal Moke,” he says. Past the fruit stand, the second in a row of tiny restaurants, you find yourself sitting in front of a grill. “What’s that?” you ask. Your friend replies matter-of-factly, “That’s the 4th meat.” For a moment, you don’t know what to do. You just sit there, staring, trying to comprehend what you’ve just heard. “What? No! You’ve got to be kidding? there’s a 4th meat?” as you topple backward off your plastic stool. “My whole life, I’ve only known and experienced three meats. How come nobody ever told me about this 4th meat!?” you cry in disbelief. “Well,” says your friend, picking you up from the heavily worn tiled floor, “I guess you’ve never lived in Korea.”