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Monday, 8 April 2013

Korea - Seoul Day 5

Korea Day 5

Woke up later this morning. First place we go once we wake up is to Beans Bins for our brunch!

Haven really spend enough time to shop at Myeong Dong in the day time so we decided to spend our whole day shopping there. We realize there is more things to shop in the day time then the night time there!

Time always pass very fast while shopping! Time for dinner!

We went to one of the restaurant at Myeong Dong for their famous ginseng chicken soup a.k.a Samgyetang.

Price are reasonable too!

Here again, this is what will happen once there is wifi and food is not here yet.

Ordered only three dishes to share cause we wanted to eat some of the street food along Myeong Dong so we keep some spaces in our stomach.

This is also the last dinner in Korea for Jaslin, Yee Xuan and Pamela cos they will be going back to Singapore the very next day.

After dinner, off we go for some street food! So many food along Myeong Dong!

To eat their famouse chocolate biscuit, we need a hammer to crush it but of cause the boss did it for us. There cafe where they sell this and you can crush it yourself. Sounds familiar? Yup this appear in the kdrama too! Haha!

And we continue our food hunt... I love to hunt for the local food and snacks whenever I travel to other country!

Here ends our day five.

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Sunday, 7 April 2013

Korea - Seoul Day 4

Korea Day 4

It's raining today but it doesn't affect us shopping at Myeong Dong! Borrow an umbrella from the hotel and walk over to Myeong Dong for some crazy shopping.

Girls will just lost control here! And please do so! Because the Korean brand cosmetic here is much much cheaper back in Singapore! Almost all Korean brand can be found at Myeong Dong!

P/s: Sales staff there can speak Chinese so not to worry about communication problem. For those who don't speak Chinese, they can speak basic English too. Some shop they will have staff who speak three main language, English, Mandarin and Japanese. Look at badges pin on their uniform and you will know which language they can speak.

Étude house product are half price of Singapore! Grab as much as you can. They do sell items like mask, bb cream, cc cream in a bulk so look out for those. Buy some for your girlfriends back home like what I did!

Went back to our hotel to put our heavy stuff and had our brunch near our hotel. About two mins walk from Hotel Irene and you could find this restaurant. They serve really nice a

seafood porridge, dumpling soup and kimbap. The boss and lady boss were very friendly too.

After brunch, we went to Hongik to visit their trick eye museum.

How to go there: take train to Hongik University station, exit 9, about 4-8 mins walk. You will see a sign board stating Trick Eye Museum and it's at the basement of the building. We got confuse when we reach there cause the building doesn't look like a museum. Haha... But we follow the crowd downstairs and realize that the museum is at the basement.

Operation hours are from 10am to 9pm. Las entrance will be at 8 pm. Entrance ticket is selling at 13000 won for above 18 years old and 11000 won for below 18 years old.

P/s: please visit www.trickeye.com for more details.

We had so much fun with all the 3D arts.

Even the toilet has the 3D art. But I really got a shock when I see this! Haha!

After the trick eye museum, we went in to the Angel In Us Coffee cafe which is near by the museum for a rest and some tea break. Continue to walk around at the Hongdae before we head off back to Myeong Dong.

By right we should be heading back to Myeong Dong to look for places for the Korea sauna place a.k.s Jjimjibang, but while we are at Seoul station doing some research on which sauna to go and we found out that there is actually one near the Seoul station so we decided to just go to the nearby one.

Siloam sauna, Just 5-10 mis walk from the Seoul station. It's behind the station, just walk tru the Lotte mart, cross the road and you will see a slope and its up there!

You will see all this sign board along the slope and there you are at the Siloam Sauna.

Charges at Siloam are like :

It look exactly like the Korea drama! In the jjimjibang you see families gathering there, children playing around and people eating and watching tv there. We feel like a Korean there! We lie down there to relax ourselves and also went in to the sauna room.

P/s: you can stay overnight there too but of course you paid for your hotel so there is no reason why you have to sleep there right?

Three type of sauna room for you to choose and of course we went in all!

Saw on tv on how to fold the head towel so we tried and ta da! We totally look Korean now!

In the kdrama, they always eat egg after the sauna so we did the same! We also use the Korean way of cracking the egg and realize its painful and not easy to crack egg using our head!

We wanted to try the 'drink' that always appear in the kdrama too but we didn't know what is that so when we finally saw someone drinking, we ask our manae ( youngest member ) to go ask them where to get the drink and of course she is the one who will go and get it. From the picture we know that it's selling at level 2. Haha!

Yup! That's the drink! This is the ice sweet rice drink a.k.s Sikhye.

We're done to make ourselves fresh! Heated our body up and continue our night with the 7 degree temperate outside. Fighting!

Heading back to Myeong Dong to hunt for food and do some shopping again.

We were at Myeong dong shopping and there was this shop selling lots of accessories and look! they got a lot of variety for glasses! I bought two back! One at 10000 won and the other is at 12000 won.

We really shop till all shop is close and them we decided to go back to our hotel for our dinner cum supper at the street stall.

Our dinner cum supper place is just right below our hotel. This is also a street stall, a.k.a Pojangmacha which we always see in the kdrama.

All fresh seafood! They serve grill seafood and soju.

Although it's cold outside cause of the rain, we still wanna try to eat in Pojangmacha.

Just 5 people, we ordered 8 dishes!

The lady boss was friendly, food was fresh and yummy but was very expensive! We learnt a lesson today: ask the price before ordering. We really didn't expect that the price is so high since its only a street stall. Be prepared for the high price if you are going to try eating there and remember to ask the price before ordering. We paid around $200+ SGD for this meal ( including 6 soju)!

End of day four.

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Saturday, 6 April 2013

Korea - Seoul Day 3

Korea Day 3

Settled our breakfast before heading to 63 tower. Had our breakfast at the mall at the train station but I can't remember what's the name of the mall.

These people just can't live without wifi.

At 63 building, there is three visiting point, the sea aquarium, wax museum, and observatory deck. Wanted to go sea aquarium and observatory deck but was told that the observatory deck are close for renovation when we are purchasing our tickets. ( just not our day I guess! ) so we end up going to the sea aquarium only. Tickets are selling at 15000 won for sea aquarium.

Cute little boy is finding the nemo. I'm sure sea aquarium is a fun place for kids.

Sea lion show. Both adult and kids enjoy a lot.

By right we are suppose to head to Lotte world but was told that the entrance fees is cheaper after 4pm. We thought its only about one hour plus of waiting and we might not want to take so many ride so why not just wait for 4pm and meantime we will go shop at the Lotte department store and also have our lunch.

P/s: MCM there is cheaper den Singapore and even Hong Kong.

Had our lunch at the food court.

4pm strike! Queuing up for our after 4pm tickets and realize actually a lot of people also wanting to buy the cheaper tickets. ( maybe they don't really like the rides too )

Cute little baby in front of us.

It's call the after 4 special pass. If you are not a person who get excited in trying all the rides then you can purchase the after 4 pass and just play with a few rides.

Children friendly place! Schools outing to amusement park are so cool!

Actually it's jaslin's birthday wish to go Lotte world and so, her wish came true on her birthday!

I bet u saw this often in kdrama, staircase to the haven shooting venue.

They don't like anything exciting so therefore we decided to take the hot air balloon to tour around Lotte world first. It was so coincidence that it was 5th of April, we got 5 people, it was 5pm with its our turn and we gt the no. 5 hot air balloon!

View from top.

After a round of touring the indoor Lotte, it's time for the outdoor where all the more exciting rides were at.

The happy but timid birthday girl.

Some of the ride outside. Gyro drop is the famous one!

They said that I'm crazy by taking photo while on the ride! Haha! Anyway this is the only "exciting" ride they willing to take. ( lucky I came before last year and had try the famous gyro drop and bungee drop)

P/s: almost all rides are havin long queue even on weekdays so I so not recommend to go on weekends, it will take you forever to take one ride.

After having fun at Lotte world, we took a cab down to one of the happening shopping area, Sinsadong for further shopping.

Saw this huge husky at one of the shop opening party. I love country which are dog friendly!

After some shopping we decided to settle our dinner the The Ha Noo. Han noo means Korean beef so we assume they serve very nice beef.

I don't eat beef so we orded some beef ( for the rest ) and pork ( for me ). They got a lot of variety for beef but only one type of pork. So sad... But the pork was delicious tough. Heard from them that the beef was really nice and tender. Had some soju to warm us up on a cold night too.

Beef lover, do try at this BBQ place if you pass by. Price point is still consider as cheap for such a good and tender beef.

For those who watch 'Gentlemen's Dignity', yes! this is the cafe that appear throughout the whole show.

Anyway dessert time!

It was Jaslin' birthday and Pearlie's advance birthday surprise! Haha. We cut the candle out ourselves because they do not provide candle at the cafe.

Some of the dessert we ordered. Not that bad but of cause the waffle cannot be compared with Beans Bins waffle. Haha.

Ordered a drink that the lead actress of Gentlement dignity always drink in the show. It's some soda lemonade but taste good.

After the dessert, we went to gangnam for some night entertainment. There is a lot of clubbing around here and quite happening at night.

Everywhere has queue so we went to one that's without queue and we found out why isn't there any queue after we went in. Haha. The music there is really bad! There is an entrance fees with one free drinks. Their locker sytem is that they will give you a big bag and if you can fit all the bag in, if not then you will have to "buy" another bag. One bag is 3000won. So try to bring smaller bag so that you can put all your bag into one bag to save the cost.

In Singapore, people tend to stand near the DJ but in this club, they all stand far away the DJ. When we step in, the music was really bad. The DJ are playing some old music and people inside basically are just standing there not dancing. After one drinks and a few song, we decided to leave the club for awhile to see if other club will be better. Other club is still with long queue so we went back to our club and realize the DJ has change to a younger one and the song is all the new song!

We heard that there is a lot of good clubbing place there but I guess it's just not our luck that we went to a lousier one. Haha. Now we know when there is queue, there is a reason.

P/s: Hongdae is also a area with a lot of clubbing place. It's at the university area so I assume the people there will be more young and fun. We shall try there the next time.