Korea, Seoul (2nd Day)

Woke up the next day feeling hungry. The best part about staying in Myeong-Dong is that everything that you need is right at your finger tips and within reach. Most of the well known restaurants are located in Myeong-Dong, cheap facial and make up products are here and the food night market is here as well.

So, what's for breakfast?

Migabon Korean Porridge. The only porridge I would recommend trying is the abalone porridge. It is really good. I saw recommendations online for pumpkin porridge, that was why I ordered it. Big mistake :(

 Abalone Porridge

Pumpkin Porridge 

(if you prefer your porridge to be savoury, don't bother trying this)

Address : 2F 2-23, Myeongdong 2ga, Jung-gu

(Easy to find. It's on top of a famous beef broth soup restaurant - a tv drama was shot here. Or you can look for a restaurant with a very long line waiting outside)

In the afternoon, we went to play at Trick Eye Museum at Hong Dae. Pretty easy place to find. A lot of weird dimensional pictures to take in here

 Lol, I like this one

Address: 20, Hongik-ro 3-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul

Trick Eye Museum is a bit tricky to get here. After leaving Hongik University Station, take exit 9. Walk straight to the cross junction, cross it and turn left. Walk one block, and you'll see a road between Holika Holika and Tony Moly. Turn right into the road. Trick Eye Museum is further in.

After playing around at Trick Eye, we wanted to visit all the restaurants visited by the cast of Running Man (They did a episode here where they visited the 'famous' restaurants or cafe in Hong Dae). But we couldn't, cause we were too full.. So we shop around at little shops littered around Hong Dae (cheap clothes for sale, catered for teens and young adults)

What else to visit (eat) around Hong Dae?

1. Hello Kitty cafe 

(here just for the environment, food/drinks nothing to shout about)

Address: 94-3, Eoulmadang-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul

Easy to find

2. Eat waffles

(absolutely delicious - there are many cafe's littered around Hong Dae)

3. Haha's Pal Ja Mak Chang

(if you're a fan of Running Man, you should go)

(if you're a fan of bbq intestine, you should go)

(if you're a fan of food, you should go)

Address: 395-17 Seogyo-dong (23 Jandari-ro)

Also, get the Korean Rice Box. Sort of like BimBimBap in a box. 

Close the cover, and shake it till it's all mix

Gary's restaurant in Gangnam, but both selling the same dishes

We went back to Myeong Dong with a full stomach.

Next day, another full day of food again :)

Korea, Seoul (1st Day)

Number 1 country in the bucket list has always been either Korea or Japan. Finally, the opportunity came in April 2014 and I can cross Korea off the list. So how was Korea? Weather good, people are nice, food is DAMN AWESOME!

Since there are only night flights to Korea, which is pretty awesome I must say, we reached Seoul in the morning, so we can start walking around.

We stayed in Sejong Hotel which is a pretty good location, the airport bus (6015) will stop directly in front of Sejong Hotel. Airport Bus stop is located directly outside the airport.

So, after reaching the hotel, what was the first thing that we ate? Myeongdong Gyoza!

Delicious Hand Cut Noodles

Mandu

Worried about conversing with them in English? No problem. Everything is in English, and they only have 4 items in the menu. Hand cut noodles and Mandu is a MUST order. Bibim Guksu for me is so so. But you must must try the kim chi. This is the hottest kim chi I have ever tasted. There is so much garlic flavor in here, one taste of it and you will be crying so much. It is that spicy, and it is damn good!

There are 2 branches in Myeong Dong. Get there early to avoid queue!

Later we went back to the hotel to sleep for a while cause we were sooo tired. It was a full flight and it was quite hard to sleep on a bumpy ride. 

Next for dinner, we had Bongchu Jjimdak. Recommended by so many, so here we are! No problem in ordering, cause there's only 1 dish on the menu, haha

Bongchu Jjimdak

Sleepy face

This reminds me of ginger chicken, but instead of ginger, it's dry chilli pepper, potatoes, zuchini and noodles. This is soo delicious and also incredibly spicy. Better to eat it with rice. And also, it's nicer to eat the chicken with bones. We had ours without and the meat texture isn't that nice :(

After dinner, we did some walking around Myeong Dong. Kinda reminds me of pasar malam, cause it's mostly all food stalls.

 Didn't really try this

 Egg bun

 Must try, it's fish cake. Don't forget to take a cup to drink the broth. Heaven....

Hot Dog galore. Super delicious

1st day done, now it's back to hotel to sleep for another day of eating, shopping and very little sight seeing