bosintang

English

Alternative forms

boshintang, poshintang, posintang

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 보신탕(補身湯) (bosintang, “bosintang”).

Noun

bosintang (uncountable)

A soup from Korea, the main ingredient of which is dog meat
The South Koreans we met on our trip sure seemed to love their local bosintang restaurants.
- 2013, Robert Ji-Song Ku, Dubious Gastronomy, page 143:
  Perhaps John Feffer put it best when he identified the “greatest enemy” of bosintang to be not Brigitte Bardot but Colonel Sanders.

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