August 28, 2012

  • Trip in Seoul (Korea Day 6)

    Wife rested at home while I went out in search of food and some vitamins, also to satisfy some food cravings. After unsuccessfully looking around apartment area for 20mins due to wild goose chase from Google/Maps, decided that the "pharmacy" was most likely the facial enhancement surgery place. Had a break by having this katsu next to our residence - ordered the katsudon that came with sweet/spicy sauce costing only 7000won for large piece of katsu, totally satisfactory! After that I headed to the next nearest pharmacy indicated on the map, only to find out it was the same place Ahram took us to the day before. I tried my luck again and yes, they did have what we were looking for :-/ so that sorted out vitamins and now I just had to get some warm food back to wife. This area really had lots of food stalls. I took a chance with what I thought was warm noodles with beef that turned out icy cold and a bit yucky so that didn't work out well.

    Instead we went out together to Dongdaemun area, picking up things to eat along the way (starting with a yummy 1,500won dumpling). It was just one large connected area of shopping for one particular item for each section, very very long sections. Started with shoes and at some point we just got tired of it all, and went to look for shopping areas. There wasn't much shopping actually... and found out that most places closed at 11am. Huh? Yeah, it looks like a midnight to late morning shopping area. So we went to some that were open before heading back. Turns out once we went past that corner (on cab), there were places like the 7storey cinema.

     

    Stop for food!

    Found Vit for wife!

    Trip to Dongdaemun

    Never.. ever... run out of shoelace or rubber or whatever.

    Wow, Online currency convertor?

    Arrgh!  We are here the wrong timing!

    Ice in these bottled water we bought

    We are now down to eating single meals at every place instead of two.  Instead, we have more meals or snacks in between

    Heading over to Seoul Tower.

     

    Got these long exposure shots by setting low ISO, small aperture but putting the camera on the railings.

    Decided to skip going up the tower as it will take another hour (after this 10mins queue for tickets)

    Instead we went to this burger place

    Cyclists!

    Mistake not rushing off just before the laser show ended.

    Looked for food after 10pm when we got back to our place was a little difficult, but we managed