Today was basically the day that we said that we would do things that we didn't get a chance to do. Originally, this day was suppose to be either the "Carribean Bay & Everland" Day or DMZ Day but due to the constant raining in Seoul, these events were unfortunately canceled. So today we woke up and decided to try out this restaurant that SL from home kept telling me to try. She said it was one of her most favourite noodle places so it was a MUST TRY before we left Seoul. So we headed to Myeongdong station again. When we exited, it was raining a bit so we were wondering if it was worth trying to find this restaurant. The instructions on Lonely Planet books are seriously not that great to be honest so half the time we're trying to find locations to places on our own. We decided to ask this lady working at the money exchange booth on the street for help and she pointed us to the right direction. The only instructions we had were "Myeongdong Gyoza" but there weren't any restaurants called that and even if it did, it would be in Korean. So we looked at every restaurant possible and then we walked by one that seemed like it would be it but I couldn't tell. Then we walked by a second restaurant that seemed really busy inside, I saw people eating noodles and I also saw that the restaurant hours were the same as the one in the book. So we asked the waitress if it was the right place and she said yeah.
We ordered our food and we decided to get these steamed dumplings that kind of reminded us of Siu Long Bao but Korean version haha. We also ordered this soybean noodle thing that was cold, which we weren't a fan of but we also ordered the famous dumpling noodle which tasted pretty good. Ray didn't think it was that great but I think it's because he ate majority of the soybean noodle haha. So after we finished eating we went to develop some photos for CK to give to her before we left. We walked around Myeongdong and since it was raining it kind of sucked so we decided to go into the Lotte Malls.
There were about three malls all owned by "Lotte." One was Lotte World which was like a department store like all department stores and then there was another more high class store selling all your high end name brands and then one that was for a younger and more hip generation. So all malls were pretty much the same but one of the highlights of the mall was how good the Lotte Duty Free Shop was. Like most duty free shops (minus the ones at airports) the prices didn't seem all good but this one was amazing. It had really good priced sunglasses as well as cosmetics. We end up getting a pair of sunglasses which were for Ray and I bought a few cosmetics and makeup tools which were all awesome prices! I believe we spent a good amount of time here just browsing everything in the duty free shop since we didn't want to miss out on all the good stuff.
When the rain stopped, it was around 9pm and we already browsed all the malls so we decided to head to Dongdaemun again. Since we didn't get a chance to check out the night market the day before we headed there and the typical malls were still opened. Apparently Doota and Migliore are both opened til like 4am in the morning which is insane but it makes sense if it gets lively at night. So it was pretty live when we got there. Live as in busy for the vendors. It seemed as though people were mainly just setting up their shops to prepare for the night. It was pretty cool walking into the other malls because it was like Doota selling the typical clothes and they had like wholesale amounts in their little section. They all sold a bunch of jeans, shirts just everything you could imagine. So if anyone ever gets a chance to check this night market out. It's really worth it especially if you love shopping. We didn't buy a lot of clothes because everything was similar to other things we've already gotten. So we just walked around and checked out the place a little more and headed back to our hotel :)
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