omg such a long day. Yesterday (Friday 5/14/2010), Nick, Tina, Ivan and I had a party at our Hyundai Residence suite (where we are staying) with the koreans Su, Gong mei, Miyi and Vince. Su, Gong mei, and Vince went to BLCU with Nick two years ago so he met up with his old classmates and we partied. We went to buy "sam gup sai" (pig belly meat), Soju (korean alcohol), Max beer, Welch's grape soda (white grape and purple grape), lettuce, rice, Milikis (milk soda), Fanta, Pepsi, and Makoli (rice alcohol) and of course KIMCHI! We went to buy groceries at Lotte Mart? I guess it is very similar to a Walmart.
The total was 151,000 won, which is about 151 USD. We had a total of 8 people, so it was about 18 USD per person. We would take the lettuce and wrap it around the meat, rice and this korean red sauce which wasn't super spicy but it had a very nice taste to it. We had so much food left over. After eating, we played drinking games. There was this one "horse race" game, "007 game", "Chiminanda"????? They were all very fun.
The koreans were very lively and very energetic haha. They even have this dance and chant thing they do when youre drinking down your shot of alcohol when you mess up during the game. We were so loud that the next door neighbor banged on the wall, the front desk called, and a hotel person came up hahahaha. We bought groceries at 7pm, then didnt go to bed until 1am.
Today, we woke up at 10am and didn't leave until about noon. We went to this restaurant which is supposedly famous because the ex- korean president ate there. The line was just so long that we had to go to another place to eat. This other place was on the 2nd floor...i forgot the name........but anyways, Su ordered this thing where there are strips of meat and 3 kinds of kimchi. You wrap the meat in the kimchi lettuce leaves and eat it. Also, we had this potato noodle with salad on top. The potato noodles were very bouncy and REALLY REALLY REALLY GOOD.
I even like eating Kimchi now!! ALso, there was seaweed soup MMMYUMMMMMMMM!! Oh by the way, we met up with Nick's other friend, David. He is from Australia but he is living and teaching english here in Korea. Su had to leave after lunch, so David brought us to a Korean palace (which was kinda boring but at least its free), and then to the Myeongdong station so that we could go to the N Seoul tower (Nam Jong tower?). David just dropped us off at the cable cars because he had to go have a family dinner. At this N Seoul tower, we went all the way up and got to see the entire city. We had to take a cable car up (7500 won), then pay another 8000 won to go to the top of the tower by elevator.
After that, we took the cable car back down and then went to find dinner in this shopping district right by the Myeongdong subway station. There, we had japanese ramen hahaha. My ramen was 9500 won. Unfortunately, it was very spicy so i didnt finish all of it. Then we went shopping and i got a lot of makeup stuff...$150 USD worth. ALSO! THERE IS A KRISPY KREME HERE! OMG. Ivan and I were standing in line and then since they just had fresh doughnuts out, we got one for free! Then i also bought a green tea doughnut, which was okay, but not as good as the originals. I also had this soft serve ice cream that was like 9 inches tall. It was a mango and strawberry twist. Unfortunately, I just ate a krispy kreme doughnut so then it tasted kinda like bitter milk when i went to eat the ice cream.
After that, we walked around on the night market streets and just looked at random things like shoes and clothes. The place is HUGE. I will definitely need to go back another day and dedicated a couple of hours to really buy some nice shoes and clothes. You can bargain there, but I dont even know how to count to 10 in korean so it is kinda difficult to get things at a good price haha. We went home at 11pm because that is when all of the stores close. I was in the makeup store with Tina from about 9:45pm-11pm hhaa. The person who helped me spoke Mandarin really well, and she also spoke English too so it was fun. We then walked about 10 minutes to the subway then went one stop to Chungmuro station, and then walked another 15 minutes and now we are HOME! GOODNIGHT! BTW, korea is very clean, they have western toilets and toilet paper, and the subways are also very clean but lack trash bins...strangely... temperature is very nice (70's for high and 50's for the low).
No comments:
Post a Comment