First off I'd like to apologize for the lack of updates. We're actually in Hong Kong right now and we're not exactly living like how we were in Seoul. No laptop, no rented cell phone and no wifi access in our hotel room. Only certain times i can catch a signal so I'm taking the advantage right now to blog. Also, blogging with this iPhone is slightly difficult.
So I'm trying to remember day 10 since it was pretty much more than a week ago but I pretty much remember because we experienced some interesting things that day. This day I woke up and checked my email and received an email from my friend CK who lives in Seoul. She knew I was coming and wanted to meet up. I gave her a call and she said she was free so we decided to meet up. She lived an hour away from us so it took a bit of time but I was glad to see her. She was kind enough to take us around town, lend us her laptop and rent us a cellphone to use while we were here.
This was only the second day that we were here so she asked me what I wanted to do. Looking at our itinerary we decided to go to the Myeongdong area which according to our guide book, it is similar to Tokyo's Shinjuku. This area did not disappoint as it had many department stores/shopping options such as Migliore, Lotte Dept Store, Lotte Duty Free etc. As well, there were many shops and restaurants in the side streets / alleyways. It really reminded us of Tokyo Shinjuku Red District that's for sure. We walked around and decided to grab some food. CK and her cousin SK who joined us afterwards, decided to take us to eat shabu-shabu which is hot pot that came with beef, veggies, dumplings, fish balls etc. After we were done with those items, they brought us noodles which we boiled in the broth. If you think that was a lot of food then we must be pigs because after the noodles they tossed in rice and seaweed to make a dish kind of like congee using the leftover broth and rice. It simmered in the pot and made a nice flavorful congee. It was a huge and really tasty meal.
After lunch we decided to walk to Insadong near anguk station. This area is a very traditional place, meaning it had a lot of traditional food, stores and traditional gifts/souvenirs. It was an interesting site and had such a different atmosphere. We also encountered these guys who on the street, made this korean dessert using honey and a sweet peanut filling. They put on a performance for us which we have on the camcorder and will upload as soon as we get home! We decided after the long walk to check out this traditional Korean teashop. We didn't have any traditional tea but we did have red bean shaved ice with ice-cream and this 5 flavour tea that was sweet and sour. We didn't really enjoy the tea but the ice-cream and bing sa was good. CK and SK had to leave because they had other plans so we decided to stay in the Insadong area after they left for a bit.
We were planning to go to the Seoul N tower because we heard the view at night was beautiful but it started to lightly rain so we just walked around where there was shelter a little more. By then it was time for dinner so we walked down the streets kind of in between insadong and myeongdong area trying to find a good restaurant. We were enticed by an Italian restaurant so we decided to try it. Dinner was slightly expensive, well more like moderately priced, but it was really good. We had the best lobster spaghetti, caprese salad and pizza. So it was definitely a hit this night picking this place for dinner. I know you're all probably thinking we should be eating Korean food in Seoul but sometimes it's good to switch it up a bit.
Unfortunately for us, after dinner we caught some heavy rain so we ran to the nearest metro station and made our way back to the hotel to sleep and be ready for Itaewon the next day.
I don't know if I mentioned this in the last blog, but we saw a free concert at City Hall the other night and this dude named To Yun Yuen (sounds like toe yun yoon) performed. I think he sounds good but I guess he's not at international stardom yet cause no one seems to know who he is back home! If anyone knows him leave us a comment haha.
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