MMS Log 2: Inspirit.
Day 2.
Today we headed out to GwangJang Market. It was interesting. There were textile shops everywhere, selling traditional clothes especially for weddings. Then we reached the more popular part: the food market.
There were stalls in the middle, stall at the side. The road stalls were selling the usual like Kimbap, Dokbokki, Japchae and Jokbal.
I bought the Jokbal to give it a shot. The woman recommended the leg so I chose it over the meat portion.
Bad choice. Honestly, I could only taste pig's skin. I love poultry skin, especially if it's from a roasted chicken or duck. But this; this was something else. I felt like I was eating collagen -which I was. we didn't finish it and I felt sorry for the vendor and myself. KRW7,000! Sigh.
Then we headed to Myeongdong. Look at the horror I found lol
We went into cosmetic shops and visited the famous SPAO. I was pretty upset over the lack of S sizes for the Iron Man 3 shirt series lol. But the polo shirts were awesome. I love how SPAO provides normal essentials that everybody would want to wear. You can't forget EverySing either. Now they sell photo packets too.
Then I went crazy at my favorite CD store Music Korea. It's located on the third floor of the Nature Republic building near SPAO. Boy, was I jumping for joy at the giant sticker of INFINITE on the store glass! And I found the book that I wanted so badly: L's Bravo Viewtiful!
Today we headed out to GwangJang Market. It was interesting. There were textile shops everywhere, selling traditional clothes especially for weddings. Then we reached the more popular part: the food market.
There were stalls in the middle, stall at the side. The road stalls were selling the usual like Kimbap, Dokbokki, Japchae and Jokbal.
I bought the Jokbal to give it a shot. The woman recommended the leg so I chose it over the meat portion.
Bad choice. Honestly, I could only taste pig's skin. I love poultry skin, especially if it's from a roasted chicken or duck. But this; this was something else. I felt like I was eating collagen -which I was. we didn't finish it and I felt sorry for the vendor and myself. KRW7,000! Sigh.
Then we headed to Myeongdong. Look at the horror I found lol
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| Shame on you TonyMoly |
We went into cosmetic shops and visited the famous SPAO. I was pretty upset over the lack of S sizes for the Iron Man 3 shirt series lol. But the polo shirts were awesome. I love how SPAO provides normal essentials that everybody would want to wear. You can't forget EverySing either. Now they sell photo packets too.
Then I went crazy at my favorite CD store Music Korea. It's located on the third floor of the Nature Republic building near SPAO. Boy, was I jumping for joy at the giant sticker of INFINITE on the store glass! And I found the book that I wanted so badly: L's Bravo Viewtiful!
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| L's photo essay Bravo Viewtiful |
I managed to get the last Special Edition book that came with the extra postcards. What I love about Music Korea: they tend to give free posters or pictures of the star whom you bought merchandise of. They even let me change the photo that they gave me. I changed the Nothing's Over photo for a... Chaser(?) photo. Sad thing about L's Bravo Viewtiful: most of his entries are in Korean D: I know my Korean but my head can't handle so much translation at one shot.
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| 칼국수=Knife Noodles ㅋㅋㅋ L.... |
After all the shopping, we finally decided to eat... at 3pm. We asked the tourism helpers for information, and they gave us directions to a famous Samgyetang Restaurant. It's called BaekJe Samgyetang.
Directions: Turn into the alley where the Laneige corner store is. It's on the second floor.
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| Black chicken Samgyetang; KRW27,000 |
They gave some mixed grain rice with the soup! But don't order a bowl of rice, because there is rice stuffed in the chicken. I think it was pretty overpriced, and I prefer normal white chicken which is cheaper too.
We wanted to walk off our lunch so we went to Namsan Tower. CAn I just advice that you do not take the Pacific Hotel route? That was some killer climb. Namsan's Cable Car Station actually has a lift that you can use if you walk form MyeongDong subway station. There's walking, but less climbing. The worst was yet to happen: the cable car was out of order. HORROR. Climb to the station and then climb up to the tower?! Sobs. We walked to a directed bus stop and found the famous stairs on the way.
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| Aww couple on the couple steps |
You were supposed to play Rock, Paper, Scissors with as couples on these steps. But we found the bus stop so we took Bus 2 to the top. I didn't follow, though, because I had been there thrice and I had other plans:
I came back to the hostel early to book tickets. Interpark is not server-friendly. The server crashed a lot of times like the last time I tried to book Infinite That Summer Concert tickets. 6 shows sold out in 15 minutes! But what can I do? INFINITE's that good haha. After one and a half hours, I GOT TICKETS. I love that Korea shows are way cheaper than Singapore shows. KRW99,000 for the best seats in the concert! It's the ticket competition that's the problem.
Then I headed out for chicken near the hostel. Shinchon closes around 9, so I settled for Yang Pang Chicken which was two shops away form my hostel. Yang Pang Chicken has interesting original chicken. I thought that it would be crispy plain with only mild marinade, but it came with a sweet, sticky sauce poured over it. There was also deep-friend rice cakes! The skin was like popcorn chicken hardness so it was tiring for me to eat it (mouth weak; braces). But it was KRW2,500 so oh well... Yang Pang Chicken also has spicy crispy chicken, which my friends said were SUPER spicy. Like, I'm-not-kidding-you spicy.
Today was a day of errors, but I'm grateful for my Inspirit fulfilment. I can't wait for August 10 to come!
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