Breakfast @ MyeongDong - MIGABON
Today, we decided to go for porridge. And this is my MOST FAVOURITE food out of the whole trip. In fact, I am missing this now. And it's the only food I've been thinking after my Seoul trip.
The porridge is not expensive. About SGD10 per set. It is so well cooked (not too soft and watery) and it's exactly the kind of texture I love!!
How to go:
45-3, 1-ga, Myeong-Dong, Chung Gu, Seoul
After breakfast, we decided to stroll in Myeongdong before the crowds arrived...
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| krisy kreme |
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| my 3 favorites side by side |
COEX MALL
Frankly, I don't fancy Coex Mall. But if you have kids in your group, they'll love the aquarium here. As for me, the most happening place in this place is Artbox, where I get my stationery fix. Other than that, we're not too keen in the usual 'mall shops' and we actually left the place pretty quickly.
STANDING BBQ IN SEOUL - SEO SEO GALBI
Lunch is traditional BBQ place @ Sinchon area. My partner saw this being recommended in Japan TV Channel and that's how we ended up here. It is full of locals and a lot of Japanese!
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| doing my best... |
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| done! |
The meat cost about 14,000won for 150gram, which is about SGD16. They only serve beef.
How to go:
MRT Line 2, Sinchon station, exit 7, walk straight to the first traffic lights and cross the traffic. It is just at the steep hills at your right. You should be there in 5 mins after exiting the station.
about 5mins
12pm to 8.30pm
*they do not serve rice but there is a minimart around the corner whereby you can buy a packet of steam rice and have it microwaved there
GWANGHWAMUN STATION - KYOBO BOOKSTORE
This was a pleasant surprise. I have been looking for bookstores/stationery shops everywhere I go (thinking that they are easily available everywhere, I didn't really put an effort in this part of research but I was wrong) but failed and when I chanced upon Kyobo Bookstore I went crazy.
I love stationery, all the cute stuffs and of course, books as well, which do not apply in this scenerio because I won't understand the lingo even.
Kyobo Bookstore is one of Korean's biggest chain of bookstores. There's a character shop, stationery store and a music store where you can listen to your favourite albums. It has tons and tons of books but the foreign books are housed in a corner with many different foreign languages available.
The stationery section is huge!! Really big!! The price is sooooo attractive! I"m sure you'll love shopping there if you are crazy over stationery :)
How to go:
Gwanghwamun station (line 5) exit #3 is directly connected to the bookstore.
CHEONGGYECHEON STREAM
An iconic sight in the middle of Seoul City is a stream which stretch 8.4m long. Forty years ago, the stream was covered underground with highway on top. In 2003, the then Seoul Mayor spent 386billion won to restore the stream. At that time, he was being criticised but now, the stream is enjoyed widely by locals and tourists.
SEOUL TOWER OR NAMSAN TOWER
Namsan Tower is very near to our guest house. If we were to walk uphill, it'll take us 10-15mins to reach the cable car station.
Ticket costs 7000won and each cable car can carry quite a number of people so even though we chose to go at night with the after-office crowds, the wait was not long.
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| the cable car |
Namsan Tower's visit ended my Seoul trip in a beautiful note. I love Seoul for shopping. I am quite disappointed with the food as I have higher expectations of the BBQ food but of all the meals I've eaten, they are nice but they are not impressive enough. I also need to get use to the people, while we call it 'rude' it is 'normal' to the locals. My Korean teacher was telling me that it's bec Koreans treat everyone like family members hence you tend to take family members for granted thus there was no need to say 'sorry' if they knock into you or cut into your path.
After a few days me and my travelling partner got used to the locals and even live and behave like them. We reckoned since we can't beat them, there's no point getting upset over it, we might as well join them and blend in.
Seoul is unexpectedly affordable. It is like a trip to Thailand, minus the air ticket cost. Everything is so affordable. The best time to go seoul should be April (Spring) and October (Autumn). Seoul city has nothing much to offer except shopping. If you are looking for more than that, be sure to head out to the outskirts, which I hoped to do next time :)
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