Monday, September 28, 2015

[KOREA] INSADONG

One of must visit place in Seoul, INSADONG famous with this old traditional thing shops. Here you can find everything traditional about Korea, classic painting, traditional souvenirs, home-made postcard and paper fan, and many more. And like house hold, glass or plate. It super long road and has many small alley along the street, take a rest after long stroll in some unique small cafe.
There is also an open- air shopping mall? I actually dont know it mall or what HAHA this 4-floor- building has so many cute local brand shops selling unique stuffs, home made craft, hanbok ( korean traditional clothes) photobox or enjoying korean famous shit cake in shit (ppong) cafe on top.
Fence your love here, write some love note and hang it there
TRADITIONAL CAFE
Compared with modern coffee shop, i suggest you to go here, teaditional cafe with super old homey korean design, sit on the floor, herb smell what can be more peacefull than here? You can order famous korean traditional dessert, PATBINGSU (korean ice flakes), traditional coffee tea, or snacks like DDEOK ( korean rice cakes)
팥빙수
PATBINGSU
₩8000
well it kinda pricey with small portion but it totally worth. Overflooded ricecake and redbean, poured with condensed milk, Best combination
Taste 9/10
오미자차
OMIJA TEA
₩5000
one of suler famous traditional tea flavour, OMIJA means 5-flavoured-tea. It made from wild berries fermented in honey so it tasted sweet, bitter, salty,spicy, and sour but sour and bitter are more dominated. Very good for your health
Taste8/10

[KOREA] IHWA MURAL VILLAGE

In my previous post in Busan, we visited Gamcheon Mural Village which is super colorful and lovely and here in Seoul also has one, named IHWA MURAL VILLAGE. Mural village is kinda living area, painted with many wall painting. Well it is a little bit complicated to find this place so I took some picture for you, so you can reached it easier.
1. COFFEE & MAKGEOLLI BREAD
2.  RABBIT
3. KOI FISH
4. BEFORE I DIE...
5. FLOWERS
6. ROSE WALL
You can find other painted wall but thats all i found HAHA so hot and humid, i was out of my limit so we went back to the first place that is actually a cafe famous with their frozen makgeolli and everything makgeoli
FROZEN MAKGEOLLI
green grape flavour
₩6000
Well it quite pricey but totally okey since the sun killed me slowly outside. It taste good bitter yet sweet better than the other flavour Grape fruit ( pink color ) super bitter ewwwww
Taste 7/10
Come to this cafe, each person should order 1 food/drink and actually we also ordered MAGKEOLLI WAFFLE thats okey the only special thing that they change all yeast using makgeolli. 

IHWA MURAH VILLAGE is a great place to spend your day, take unique photos, and enjoy the day, but when summer it totally unsuggested because it located in high place and you can easily get sunburn

[KOREA] TTEOKPOKKI TOWN PART 2

If you have read before i wrote about Tteokpokki town, " i love sindangdong" restaurant with their speciality, jjajangtteokpokki, Last holiday i tried another restaurant with my boyfie, located across i love sindangdong named, MABOKRIM  HALMONI TTEOKPOKKI
Well here is quite traditional they only serve Classic tteokpokki, no other flavour and no cheese or anything "upgrade tteokpokki" so we ordered this
CLASSIC TTEOKPOKKI
2 person serves 두인분
₩11000

They have everything tteokpokki ( ofcourse ) spaghetti, ramyeon, lots of fish cakes, 2 eggs, some drugs fried mandu ( because it super good) and spring onion on top. Well it tasted classic just good nothing special quite spicy and sweating while eating because the table super small and the pan super big hottie stove haha
Taste 8/10
Good but me prefered jjajangtteokpokki have a try guys!

[KOREA] PETITE FRANCE

One of "running man" shooting place makes this place very famous like a boom among tourist, so me and my boyfriend decided to come here. Cute france style old town with colorful pastel buildings and views.
PETITE FRANCE

how to go:
Gapgyeong MRT Station ( 경의.중안선 gyeongui. Junganseon)
Take travel bus ₩6000 / taxi ₩40000~ around 45 minutes

Entrance fee:
₩6000
I just amazed how they made all of the houses, art gallery, cafes and balcony. All looked very unique but i just this place just not enough for impressed me. When you come in you get a guide map, you can also see the timetable for some traditional show, puppet show, dance or music. But that's all very small and ya not so me 

MUST VISIT GRADE
5/10

CIAO!