Now, listen up, you foreigner boys and girls, Chinese New Year is around the corner and I want to talk to you seriously about chicken feet, sea cucumbers and firecrackers.

Hong Dong has been raised on beef, chicken, abalone, and sea cucumber.

We are not impressed by sea cucumber chivalry.

In another example, some previously common species of sea cucumbers at Station M virtually disappeared after 1998, while others became much more abundant.

They said the rare white sea cucumber has come to hail the auspicious event of electing Secretary Kim Jong Il as Party General Secretary.