Day 32 & 33: Lotte World & Bungee-Jumping (which failed)

I am back after another 10 days in Korea (technically 8 because I arrived late on the first day, and I am leaving first thing on the last day). I will have more things to blog about I guess, since I went to Petite France and Jeonju this time round too. And a few other places. I re-visited Namsan Tower (still loving it very very much) and Myeongdong countless of times and Express Bus Terminal and Bukchon Hanok Village and I've to say that I take back all my words about Bukchon being boring.

So... Lotte World is relatively one of the easiest themeparks to get into. And also a good choice even if it rains because half of Lotte World is sheltered. But comparing Lotte World to Everland, I personally would still head to Everland despite it being farther and more troublesome to get to.

So Lotte World is accessible by Jamsil subway station, Exit 4 if I am not wrong. This makes going to Lotte World soooooooo easy. There isn't a need to change to any buses or take a taxi there or anything. Just walk a stretch of underground shops for about 15 minutes or so and you will see Exit 4. Follow the directions along the way and you will reach Lotte World. Besides, there is also Lotte Departmental Store there so you can do your duty free shopping afterwards (if it is still open of course).

So I was saying Lotte World is a great choice because it is partly sheltered. So here is the sheltered part. We were honestly quite glad to have this kind of crowd on a Saturday - I thought this was pretty reasonable already. There are quite a few rides indoors and also food places and performances at the center stage.

If you cross a bridge, it will link you to the outdoor part of Lotte World. This is where the more "exciting" rides are all at.

I took this one! It's called Bungee Drop. And it will simulate how a bungee jump is going to be? I thought it was just one drop down, but it went up and down thrice I think. I guess if you do a bungee jump there is rebound too hahah. This scared the hell out of me. I can't do anything vertical oh my goodness. I thought heights scare me already and vertical heights are the worseeeee.

This is the #1 ride in Lotte World - Gyro Drop. This ride is crazy. If Bungee Drop at 45metres scare you, Gyro Drop at its height of 70metres is sure to freak you out. And the worse - it's free fall (or so they say) comes suddenly and unexpectedly. You will go steadily upwards and the ride will rotate around so you get to see a 360 degrees view of Lotte World and its surroundings. It will stop for like 5 seconds or so and suddenly it will just droppppp!!! I was just standing below it and I can feel the strong wind when it came down. I could never pluck up my courage to do it even though people said the #1 scariest ride in Korea is T-express in Everland and #2 is Gyro Drop. I did #1 but I have no courage to even queue at Gyro Drop. Just feeling the strong wind when it drops down makes my legs go jelly already.

So I thought that Everland is a lot more fun because of the kinds of facilities it have. It has children-family rides as well and a lot of other things like a mini zoo etc. For me, Lotte World either has scary rides or boring rides - there is no middle here. Of course I opt for those boring rides hahahahahah. Everland also has the four seasons garden which you can spend an hour easily admiring the pretty flowers and snapping photos. If you have limited time on your trip, I would recommend Everland but of course that's only my opinion.

So Day 33 was the day I was half anticipating and half dreading - the bungee jump day. I decided to group it with Lotte World entry so you probably can expect that I didn't jump and thus have no experience to talk about. I can't even remember which one I attempted to do it at. I think it's Yuldong Park Bungee Jump.

Sorry I really can't help cause I forgot all the directions. Actually I was dreading rather than anticipating it because after the Bungee Drop the day before at Lotte World, I was somehow very very scared. It's about the same height as the one in Lotte World and thinking back, it will probably be done and over with before I know it. But I asked a lot of friends - it's taking the first step out that is hard, not so much of the free fall part.

I could help with a few photos though. You should see this playground just opposite the bungee jump area. 

I couldn't jump and I didn't fully understand why still. The instructors didn't speak Korean but it was drizzling and the weather looked bad and I thought that is the reason why too. I re-confirmed with him again after seeing a note saying that there is no jumps allowed that day. I could only understand him saying "no" hahahahahahha but you know how relieved I felt at that moment goshhh.

I headed back to Gangnam station to get a backpack for my last 10 days of road trip though. And I spotted Gongcha which is like my favourite bubble tea store everrrrrr. It costs nearly S$5 for a cup of pudding milk tea, which is almost twice the price of what I can get back in Singapore. But I was missing it so bad. If you ever want to try out bubble tea while in Korea, I recommend Gongcha anytime hahah.

Day 31: Last day of school + Luxury Noraebang

I think I should do another post before I head back to Korea tomorrow. I am going back for another 10 days. Don't be jealous though! You can always go there if you want. It's not that easy for me to head back too, I need to work during holidays to save up for the trip (my parents like us to be independent), and it isn't that easy to get approval from them too. I was brought up quite strictly and never have I thought that I would be heading overseas alone until last year when I decided to "fight for my right" to come to SKKU for exchange. But then again, nothing worth it ever comes easy.

So here is a strict view of Daehangno and SKKU where my school is. I am probably queueing for Isaac Toast as I snapped this photo.

This is the kind of games Korean played in class while not paying attention hahah. Because we had finished our presentation the day before, we were not required to be here to listen to the other presentations if we didn't want to. But Jihye was our class representative so she had to be there, and our group decided it is the last time we could have a proper meetup so we came over nonetheless.

Okta brought this over for us. She brought it from Netherlands, and it was really pretty good!

So the girls + HyoEun and Okta decided to go sing Noraebang at a super luxurious noraebang that day. We headed to Edae to do some shopping first, and I see a teeny weeny bit of Singapore in Edae. A Kopitiam cafe that whips out our famous Kaya toast! I've never had it before but I heard it's pretty good like ours. So somewhere you can go if you are missing home.

In Edae, you can see shoe shops like this. Rows and rows of shoes. Although not everything may be cheap, but you can always ask. You can bargain if you buy a few pairs XP

And if you complain about the MRT situation in Singapore. Do note that it is that bad everywhere else too. I have come to treasure our transport system so much especially after Korea trip. Seriously, waiting for an MRT for 5 mins is NOTHING. Our kind of crowdedness is NOTHING compared to the ones in Korea whereby you are literally squashed onto another person's back almost all the time. At least we only experience it during peak hour. That aside, I'm getting very proud that Singaporeans are starting to line up for the MRT, I see that in Taiwan and Korea and always wonder why we don't ever do that. 

HyoEun brought us to a very traditional Korean restaurant, or so it claims. The food was good at 7,000won but honestly it tastes the same to me hahah.

This is the luxury noraebang I'm talking out!!

You use this thing to control your music. You can add "applause" after the song ends hahah.

Hahah I gathered everyone for a photo. This room is kind of huge actually. And we paid a high price for it. Like 25,000won for 2 hours, with no free drinks or anything. Give me Teoheng anytime!!! Plus the room was too big for any cosy feel. It stinked of cigarette smoke too so I don't think it is really luxurious to me.

It was pretty late when we got back to Hyehwa. Like 11.30pm or something. Someone suggested a crazy idea of eating Patbingsu at this hour. And also probably because this rather famous patbingsu store was empty and still open when we walked past it. I wondered did I just experience "rounds" in Korea? Like Round 1 of dinner. Round 2 of noraebang. And round 3 of patbingsu. Is that considered a "round"? 

Blueberry patbingsu and original patbingsu. The berry one sucks hahah but at that timing, they didn't have much choices left. Also, we picked out all the berries and added the red beans because the berries were so sour. We requested for more red beans and surprisingly we got it. Hahah I think usually you have to pay for it but since they had it when they are closing soon (12am) they gave it to us. Yay!

I will update the remaining 15 days when I am back in Korea. And if there is any more interesting things to talk about, I will have 10 more days of adventure. I'm mostly doing the same things I did when I was in Korea then, but I'm heading out to explore Jeonju and Petite France which I didn't have a chance to last time. Hopefully it will be great!

Day 30: Apgujeong - JYP, CUBE, SM

I'm sorry for the lack of updates. I was struggling to complete my 4 papers in a week or so. And I'm now freeeeeeeeeeee~! Unofficially graduated. Hahah I know studying is always great but I've had enough of it for so many years so working isn't that bad an idea right now.

Okay so back to Day 30. Jenny Cheryl Winnie and I arranged to meet up after school to explore the Apgujeong area, with the main aim to go check out the entertainment companies. I listen to K-POP and have my own biases in various groups, but I'm not an avid fan of any particular one. I'm always neither a YG-family supporter nor a SMTOWN supporter, or JYP or FNC etc etc. I just pick and listen to songs from various artistes although I really like CNBlue's, SHINee's and SISTAR's songs quite a lot.

So, drifting away for a while, I'm here to introduce Korea's Lotteria! Which is like our McDonalds. I think you have a equal or in fact higher chance finding Lotteria than McDonalds. There is one branch between our guesthouse and SKKU, so Lydia and I decided to head there for breakfast on Day 30 since we haven't had much roomie bonding before. This breakfast set that consists of a waffle and a cup of coffee/tea costs 2,900KRW, and I've to say that the waffle is pretty good! (Choose the blueberry over strawberry anytime please.)

I also had my presentation because Day 30 was the second last class. (Time passes way too fast there!!!) It went well and I work well with my groupmates despite our different nationalities (2 Koreans, 1 Singaporean and 1 Indonesian). I'm honestly grateful for the girls to allow me to experience Korea in a more local manner.

Okay if you have been reading this blog for a while, you know I'm bad with directions. Like really bad in telling you how to get there. But if you place me there, I probably can walk and reach easily. So anyway, do google the locations but I remember you can alight at Cheongdam subway station if I am not wrong. 

From Cheongdam subway station, JYP Entertainment is the first one you will see. Fans of 2AM, 2PM and I don't know who else, JYP maybe, this is the place you should go. Not that I can guarantee you that you can see them. If you have all the time to wait, please feel free to wait outside for your favourite artistes! My bias from 2AM used to be Seulong, but now it is Jinwoon!!! His cute eyes hahah. Not very familiar with 2PM but everyone looks equally good in 2PM as well. :) 

If you have spotted JYP, walk further into the alley and you would have seen CUBE Entertainment as they are just nearby. For the lucky fans of artistes from CUBE including BEAST and Hyuna (sorry my knowledge in K-pop is really limited) this is the place you might chance upon them! There is a CUBE Studio which essentially functions as a cafe, and they also sell merchandise of their artistes there. Me and the girls headed in for a cup of coffee.

We were lucky as some of the BEAST members came down to get coffee when we were there. The fans were surprisingly calm and they did not approach them for signatures. I didn't know that they were artistes in the first place because I didn't pay much attention to BEAST before that until recently. I also accidentally blocked Hyuna's way because I was struggling to open the door which would not open, and again, I did not know that she is Hyuna even though we were standing side by side. I just knew that this person is definitely some artiste because she looks so good.

Anyway, we also walked to the opposite alley and randomly chose this restaurant for dinner because we saw so many signatures there. It must be good right!! This is also the alley which you should be getting your dinner because if you walk to the main road, it's gonna cost a lot more!!

This is Sundubu JJigae, which is tofu stew. I am slurping now already. I love soups like all kinds of soups. Chinese soups, or things like Clam Chowder, or even certain herbal soups, so it's no surprise there that I am in love with Korea's soups too. Sundubu jjigae, doenjang jjigae, budae jjigae and kimchi jjigae are the four most common soups you can find in Korea, of which I think I mostly ordered doenjang jjigae. If you are in Jeju-do however, do try their seafood stew - haemul jjigae, or the sea urchin soup. I only had the chance to try sea urchin soup and it was so flavourful.

The SMTOWN which was just by the road was down for renovation. We spent  more than half an hour before we manage to find the new SMTOWN which was by the expressway. We climbed slopes after slopes and it honestly wasn't fun. We were so tired after that we decided to cab to the nearest subway station. I think the cab driver was irritated we wasted his time - it was only 3 mins ride away.

That area where all these entertainment agencies are also had many luxury brands. E.g. Gucci. I see many other big names there so if you are thinking of getting some, this is the place which you definitely have to head to!

Lastly, poor me had to study for my exams on the last day of school (Day 30) even though it was nearly 12am when I reached my guesthouse. I read the case till 2.30am and fell asleep. But don't worry, most of the time, exchange life is fun (even though there are still projects and tests)!!!! Never miss a chance to go for an overseas study if you can afford it!

Thoughts: Hostels/guesthouses for budget travellers

So I have received various emails and comments about guesthouses or dormitory while studying in SKKU. I would also think that it's useful to provide some information about guesthouses in other areas even if you are here for travelling and not studying. So here's some guesthouses you could consider.

There are many options for accommodations in Seoul. If you're a traveller, of course you could consider between a hotel or a guesthouse. And of course homestay is an option too, however most homestay requires a certain number of days too I believe. Hotels are definitely the most convenient but it is also on the high end. If you are in Seoul for travelling but you are on a budget, guesthouses are definitely a better option. Of course, with guesthouses, you can get to interact with many other like-minded travellers too!

Different people have different criteria when it comes to choosing a guesthouse. For me, I don't sleep on the upper deck, so double decker beds are out for me. I also take into consideration the location and make sure that transportation is convenient and the guesthouse is near to where I would like to go. Most importantly, I am especially particular about the bathroom of a guesthouse. So far, I've stayed in guesthouses that only have private bathrooms because I think it's pretty troublesome to share a bathroom with other users. But I think I can compromise on that if necessary, but one thing I can never compromise is tidiness and cleanliness of a bathroom.

For SKKU students, you can consider these guesthouses.

Open Guesthouse / B&J Guesthouse (http://www.openguesthouse.com)

This was the guesthouse I stayed in for 29 days. And the room I reserved had a private bathroom. If you are coming here for studies, one thing this room lacks is a proper table. It also has a mini kitchenette which isn't very helpful because you can't cook there. It also has a big fridge, a TV (though old but functional) and a dressing table. I like it because this room is well lit. Open Guesthouse is also good in the sense that the owners stay inside this house too. You really can try to experience the life of a Korean if you would like.

You can also use the washing machines and get a rack from them. This is what I do every few days. We hang them outside our room, which has a small balcony.

And the view from the balcony. This guesthouse is situated in the housing estate and also a reason why I like it. It can be slightly secluded but 5 minutes walk will bring you to the main street and it is only 10 minutes away from Hyehwa station and Hansung University station, which both have an area full of restaurants and shops.

This is the kitchen whereby you can make yourself breakfast every morning. Toast with jam and peanut butter. I think you can make your own coffee as well. Simple enough and at times, I will pop by Paris Baguette to get a bread and munch on my way to school. Free breakfast doesn't matter much to me, though it's a nice service to have. :)

Another choice for SKKU students. 

Bong House (http://www.bonghouse.net) 

Bong House was definitely within my considerations as well. I chose Open Guesthouse in the end because of the bigger room and also that their bathroom looks cleaner. These two are of the same price though, and Bong House looks pretty good too. Best of all, Bong House is only less than a minute's walk from school, probably 30 seconds? It is that near! There are also many eateries right beside Bong House and I believe many SKKU students stay in Bong House so you will get to know a whole lot of friends! :)

CU B.N.B is my friend's guesthouse and she loved it so much there. So I thought it might be a good choice or option for SKKU students too. CU B.N.B is just a few minutes walk from Hyehwa station, and therefore you are surrounded by a wide variety of food, cafes, stores. The only reason why I didn't choose it was because this guesthouse didn't offer a private bathroom. However, the guesthouse owners take effort in knowing their guests and my friend had the chance to cook with them, and eat dinner with them. Sometimes they head out together for shopping too! Pretty nice owners I must say!

http://www.cubnb.com/

So, what if you are not studying, but am here for travelling purposes instead? Well, maybe Hyehwa area is not that convenient. Whenever I travel, I choose to stay in Myeongdong, because I love Myeongdong as previously mentioned. I want to be able to get to Myeongdong as soon as possible. And this is also the same guesthouse which I will be staying in 20 more days from now! Yes I am heading back to Seoul in another 20 days!! Although I am only heading there for a week or so, but I really cannot wait!!

I-house Seoul is not available on any major booking websites like Agoda.com or Booking.com. It is listed on Airbnb.com instead. Is it safe then? Well, I took a leap of faith basically, because this place looked so good I feel that I just had to stay there. Well, I'm glad I made this choice!

I love everything about I-house. It is relatively big (though slightly smaller than Open Guesthouse) and the available facilities are modern (nice TV!!) and a nice bathroom (one of the cleanest bathroom among the guesthouses I have stayed in) though slightly small but that is typical of Korean guesthouses. It is also cheap and the room is always bright. A sad thing is that most people just shut themselves in the room so we didn't get to interact much too but one day I was in the kitchen getting water and another Singaporean family was there. The mum was cooking supper for her kids and invited us to have some too. :)

The only con to this guesthouse is a steep slope right before the house. Be prepared for the last 1 minute of steep slope, but anyway Korea is full of slopes too but that really is the steepest slope I have climbed in Korea. I am determined to conquer the slope again this time round!

Before I found Open Guesthouse, Stay in Gam was an option I was considering to stay in. The only thing that deterred me was the distance from SKKU. It looks near but it is separated by Gyeongbukgung and I don't think you can cut across it everyday. Even if you do, Gyeongbukgung is huge, you probably need 30 minutes!!! I have emailed the owners before and they told me SKKU is 10-15minutes' bus ride away, so after factoring in the time taken to wait for the bus etc, I felt that this place was way too far.

However, if you were to go travelling, Stay in Gam might be at the perfect location. It is minutes away from the Jongno station, which is surrounded by lots of amazing tourist attractions, like Gyeongbukgung Palace, like Insadong. Plus the room looks so amazingly beautiful - must be those colourful bedsheets! I have a soft spot for pretty rooms like this, and it's relatively cheap considering its strategic location. They have family rooms and an amazing suite room too, though it gets a bit on the higher end already. Their rooms are mostly based on a shared-bathroom basis, except the suite room and family room.

I would however want to give this place a try the next time I head back to Korea. I can compromise sharing the bathroom with other users if it means I can sleep in such lovely bedsheets. I have to comment that the owners are absolutely nice people. Despite me bombarding them with many questions over a few days, and yet not reserving any rooms from them, they were still polite and told me that they hope they will get to serve me next time. 

Stay in Gam (http://stayingam.com)

I have to say I absolutely do not gain anything from advertising these guesthouses. It's just some amazing finds that I've come across while searching for guesthouses. For the other three guesthouses which I have not had a chance to experience, please, anyone who have had any experiences with them, let me know! :)

Day 29: Sanmotoonge Cafe

I have been wanting to visit Sanmotoonge Cafe after hearing about how it is situated on a hilltop, and how unique it's been. If you have not yet known, it is also used in the filming of Coffee Prince. It isn't the cafe that the male and female leads work at, but one part of the cafe was used to film the study room of one guy lead. It's been ages since I watched Coffee Prince and it wasn't the most memorable K-drama that I've watched, so I remember very little about it.

Okay, so the nearest busstop to Sanmotoonge Cafe is at Buam-dong. Don't ask me where is Buam-dong, I honestly cannot remember how I got there. I took a bus, dropped off, and switched to another bus to get to the Buam-dong busstop. And even so, I was following the lead of HyoEun, my Korean friend and even she was googling the route. However, I am sure many other blogs provide the route there. Google it! :)

Well, at least I know the picture below is your starting point!

And here are some photos that you can see midway, to know that you are still "on track". There are road signs every now and then to lead you to the place. So just keep walking straight until you see a road sign. At every possible turn, they have a sign there, so I don't see how you will get lost.

It's a long route up!! It was a gentle slope but I think we took about 20 minutes up from the busstop (at least). We were walking at pretty normal speed, so it isn't that we are slow.

An example of the road sign. Would definitely help if you can read Hangeul. If you can't, I am not too sure how I can help you. Memorise these words "산모퉁이"!!!

Some of the beautiful views of the mountain on the way up!

And finally, you should see this beautiful building when you reached! :)

And this is the view I have come for! A pity there wasn't enough space to accommodate us outside + we were too warm from the hike up to sit in alfresco area too. But this view is amazing.

We ordered a couple of cakes, green tea latte, caramel mocha, yuzu tea etc. The blueberry cheesecake was good in my opinion! But not something out of the world. Similarly for the yuzu tea. Yuzu tea is just... yuzu tea. Most of the drinks were too sweet though. Drinks cost about 7,000won here, which is pretty much on the high side for a cafe. You can easily get coffees at 4,000 or 5,000won, and similarly the cakes were 8,000won and up if I remember correctly.

The cakes and drinks were good, but every other cafe could easily serve these up. I don't think the drinks can justify the reason why we should get up here. I would say, come here for the ambience and the view.

Last picture, this is the highest level of the cafe, and apparently this is the filming site I was mentioning. I have totally no idea when this place appeared in the drama though. :P

Day 28: Why I love Myeongdong

A photo with my lunch buddies before we left the school (again) to head to the neighbourhood in search of a nice place for lunch! Absolutely love these girls and I'm so glad that my lunches are never boring with them around! (:

So I've been mentioning about Myeongdong so many times in my blog. I've been to Myeongdong 12 times (or was it 13) in my short 46 days there. It's like if I go to Myeongdong every 3-4 days. And considering that I spent 3 days in Jeju, 10 days on a road trip, I went to Myeongdong 12 times in 33 days. So there must be a reason why I love Myeongdong.

First, let me introduce Myeongdong. Once you exit from Exit 6/7 of Myeongdong station, you should see this sign after a few steps. (The chinese words translate to "Welcome to Myeongdong") I remember Myeongdong so well that I don't even need to google to check which exit in order to blog about it. And just an additional info, exit 7 has escalators but exit 6 does not. So if you are carrying luggages, head through the underground shopping mall and at the end, you will reach exit 7 which has the escalator. Once you exit, you will first see a very huge Nature Republic store, by then you should know that you are at the right place.

So why I love Myeongdong. I love Myeongdong because it's always lively and buzzling with people. I love Myeongdong because it has a great mix of tourists and locals, unlike certain tourist spots like Dongdaemun (which my Korean friends say they hated going). I like Myeongdong because occassionally, I hear Chinese and English while walking on the street. It's a place that makes me feel like home, and whenever I felt like I just couldn't fit into the Korean culture and miss home terribly, I love to head to Myeongdong. Best of all, you can get all your cosmetics and clothes and shoes here. I have to say again, Korean shoes are really the best, especially their heels. Myeongdong is also a place where you can get so many different kinds of food, and if you are looking for street snacks, do head there! They have almost everything there! I'm going to stop here because if I blabber on, this point is never-ending. I hope you do feel how awesome Myeongdong is and do head there. Anyway Myeongdong is #1 tourist spot in Seoul. :)

So that day, I was supposed to meet with a friend, R, who is also in Seoul for summer studies, but he is from another university. We were supposed to head to Apgujeong, then Dongdaemun. Even though I really hate Dongdaemun despite not stepping into it before, I decided to maybe give it a chance and besides, I really wanna meet R. Turned out R needed to change more Korean currency and Myeongdong offers by far, the best rate, as stated in most forums and blogs. We decided to head to Myeongdong in the end, as R wanted to get some shoes as well.

I chose the place for dinner. I am really bad at deciding the choice of food, because honestly I am not a picky eater in terms of how good it tastes. (I pick as in I hate fatty oily stuff though). We decided to settle for Myeongdong Gyoja which was very highly raved, and I was craving for something soupy, and R didn't want something very Korean. So apparently, a long queue will form by dinnertime and lunchtime, and the wait could be an hour long, so R and I met at 5.30pm for an early dinner to avoid the dinner crowd.

By the way, this bowl of noodle costs 8,000KRW and as I have read in certain blogs, they are refillable. The noodles, not the dumplings of course. The minced meat is however pork, and hence, definitely not halal. R and I ordered THE EXACT SAME THING. We knew it was refillable but we didn't see anyone refilling it, so we were worried to look like fools hahah. We also figured that if you had this refillable, and ordered another tray of dumplings (8,000KRW) it would have costed the same. So we decided to eat the same thing. To be honest, it didn't taste as exceptional, maybe because I had high expectations of it. Another selling point is their kimchi, which is known have an exceptionally strong garlic taste. It was alright, but not something that I would keep eating. Two Japanese grandmothers beside me passed me their kimchi because they thought I loved it. I had to force myself to eat it so as to not make them embarrassed hahah. 

My advice: Probably not worth the wait if you have to queue for more than 15 minutes.

So the street snacks after dinner! O'sulloc green tea icecream!!!! There was a sale, and it was at 3,000KRW. Still expensive I know, but R said that he had it at 6,000KRW at Jeju Island and it was good! We decided to give it a try. It was pretty good but not fantastic, I wouldn't get it at 6,000KRW. If I see it at 3,000KRW and I have a green tea craving, maybe I will. But then again, the 30cm long icecream only costs 2,000KRW if I am right. So... your choice :)

Next one: Hotteok/Hoddeok. Which I have been wanting to try since forever! This was at 1,500KRW and it is some sort of a pancake with melted brown sugar inside. It tastes heavenly~~! But 1 is enough, because it is too sweet and after a while, you will get sick of it.

I had the noodles with the above two street snacks and R was amazed how I can stomach so many things. But then again, R just had a KFC meal an hour before meeting me because he was starving so badly, so no surprise that he cannot eat anymore after the ice cream. But more street snacks!!! I took these pictures on another day. I really head to Myeongdong every other day.

I'm not sure what this is called. But it consists of sausages and the other two are fried ddeok (rice cakes). Yes it's the ddeokbukki that you eat but they fry it! I really don't like ddeokbukki but I can accept this version. For 2,000KRW I think.

Sugar cane juice! If you have been to Singapore, or are a Singaporean, this is not the sugar cane juice we all loved. T.T This tastes like brown sugar juice, I feel so cheated. No doubt it's refreshing but I was (for a moment) proud that Singaporean food made its way into Korea, but no~~~

Some other snacks I bought before but didn't have a picture of were: tornado potato (the spiral potato), kimbab (5 small ones for 2,000KRW), egg bread. You can just eat street snacks the entire night and you could be full as well. Except that they are so addictive you probably will spend quite a bit of money buying them and eating them.

All in all, Myeongdong is definitely my #1 favourite place in Seoul. I've also booked my tickets back to Seoul again in May, so 8 more days in Seoul (so short T.T) and I'm staying in Myeongdong again. My guesthouse in Myeongdong was good, cheap, quiet, clean and just so awesome, except that it's situated on the slope up to Namsan cable car station. Which can be a dread but I'm willing to brave it because I want to stay 10 minutes away from Myeongdong. (: