Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Travel Seoul during Autumn 2

More about food ! Dining in a restaurant at Seoul will cost you a bit more than you expect. But, who does not like good food. LOL

My favorite list as below:
Even though it was cold outside, we still craved for desserts. We stopped by at Sulbing Korean Dessert Cafe.These two bowls of snow ice were absolutely GREAT ! The shaved ice were soft like snow. I chose on mango and tiramisu toppings.  The mango snow ice came along with pale yellow cubes, Bey said the cubes were butter, I said the cubes were cheese. Anyway, the cubes were flavorful and creamy , perfect match on the fruity snow ice.



Interior of Sulbing Korean Dessert Cafe

Craving for BBQ ?  This grilled pork is $$$ expensive but it's a must try. It is 黑豚家(明洞店), located underground at Myeong Dong. The black pork is known to originated from Jeju Island. There were not a lot of side dishes, but their pork were really really GOOD !





We also had 陈玉华一只鸡 at Dongdaemun. Basically, the whole chicken, potatoes and green onions were cooked and boiled in a pot of clear soup. It looked simple but it tasted AWESOME. You can also add in kimchi or spicy sauce based on your preference. Later on, when you are almost done, you can add in noodles and rice cake and cook it with the remaining soup.  





When we were walking around Insadong Street, we spotted this dumpling logo, and gave it a try. Dumpling is known as Mandu in Korea, it is a perfect snack dish. We ordered a platter that had both steam and fried dumplings, the ingredients in it were minced pork, vegetables and also tang hoon. 




After tired walking at Myeong Dong, we stopped by OSULLOC cafe. This cafe serves a range of green tea food from dessert, hot tea, smoothies, parfait. It was a relaxing cafe !


I believe that there are still lots and lots of good food in Seoul waiting to explore!

Let's continue with
Day 7 
We departed early in the morning to Nami island by taking ITX train from Cheongyangni station to Gapyeong station. We then took the shuttle bus from Gapyeong station to Nami island ferry station. It is a big island, where you can spend your whole day here, bicycling, strolling, eating.

At the entrance 

Beautiful autumn leaves at Nami island; but too bad; people mountain people sea.
Bey said there were more people than trees

One of the tourist volunteered to help us for a photo. Greatly appreciate!
Winter sonata shooting spot - checked . 
When we were there, there were none Jinko leaves on tree.
But, it was still very romantic to have the right person with me >.<
 
Look! What's Bey doing? He was shaking a metal box vigorously !

Dada! It was a bento box with kimchi, rice and egg. It tasted super duper good!!!
After we shaked it, look how well all the ingredients were mixed.
Must try this at Drama Cafe. 
We also visited the Petite France. But, let me tell you, if I knew it was a small place like this; I will not spend extra bucks to visit it. Not too much here. Just colorful buildings and some shows. I did not enjoy the place and we headed to our next stop: Morning Calm Garden
Morning calm garden had less crowd. It was a peaceful garden.

In the late evening, the weather started to change gloomy and chilly.
 But, it was just nice to have our day trip ended here. 
Day 8 
It was the last day of our trip; we started shopping at Myeong Dong. I am not too fancy about cosmetics or skincarse; but, I still bought some basic ones from Innisfree and Etude House. We also tried a couple of street foods. 

I think this is the most special one - egg bread !
 It was served hot, fluffy soft bread with an egg inside. :p

We also tried hot teokbokki (spicy rice cake) and odeng (fish cake) at this stall.
People just stand and eat. Kinda like our rojak stall. lol
The hawkers are aggressive, they speak Mandarin and persuade you to try on everything. 

Of course, must take a photo with this huge line bear. Grin widely :) 

At night, this place was so happening.
Even more food stalls, even more crowd, even more music, endless night... 
Before packing our lugagges, we had a late night supper at our hostel. We dabao fried chicken from Kyochon which is just a street opposite our hostel. We also cooked a pack of instant noodles. The best combination of all: fried chicken + beer+ instant noodles !!!!!I am now saliva-ing .....



Hope to see you again, Seoul! Tataz.

Click here for the first post Day 1-6
http://yvonneyeu.blogspot.my/2017/04/visit-seoul-during-autumn.html

Love, 
Yvonne