[KOREA] WINTER HUNGRY JEJU

HELLOO! its already 3rd advent week! Christmas is getting closer. Well now i'm on my duty trip again to Korea! Departed on 15th dec by asiana airlines, and we took a domestic flight to Jeju island as our first destination. First meal that we had was SUNDUBU JJIGAE 순두부찌개 ( Korean tofu soup ) wah! Cold weather super spicy sour tofu soup succeed made my stomatche wanna explodeddd! So yummy!

As Jeju island is famous with its tangerine, we visited a Tangerine plantation. WIHHHHH  from september to december always be perff time for tangerine harvest. Beautiful oranges close by snow. We called it ES-JERUK ( Snow-Orange) hahahaa

And then we took our 1.5 hours flight to Jeju. Weather was so bad like crayyy, thunder and storm shaked our flight HAHA thank God we were totally safe. We directly went to Seongsan Sunrise peak and [MAGER] i just stuck and amazed with much much snow around and AGAIN we ate. Now we had GALBITANG 갈비탕 ( Korean beef ribs soup ) Mennnnnnnnn so savory and found some suprised clear chewy noodle inside the soup ♡♡♡ me and after got lots of energy we stupidly built a snowman and sang Frozen's song like a autism children HAHAA

Next destination is Teddy bear Museum. Well... its been our many times here. So we just waited outside and then decided to EAT AGAIN since crazy winter always makes our lovrly tummy hungry all the time. We bought ODEN 오덴 and TTEOKPOKKI 떡볶이 and still..... felt hungry menn

DINNER TIME! Its been our 4th time in a day -> EAT. Men... you all cant imagine our stomach, cant you? Haha. We had HANJEONGSIK 한정시 ( Korean Set Menu ) ugh ugh ugh pork belly, grilled macarel, and steam egg in a table men and lots of side dishes! FOR THIS TIME i could eat a full bowl of rice HAHAHAA

Finally the night was came and we went to Nanta theather to drop off our guest there and we had to wait like 1.5hours till the show is over. Me and Mey ( my friend) looed for a coffee shop and this cray village didnt have it until We found a lil newly opened coffee shop named OMEGI. They sell freshly made milk ice cream as their speciality. We ordered  MIKI ICE CREAM 미기미기 & ICED AMERICANO 아이수아메리가노 for price yaaa like regular coffee shop around ₩3500~₩5000. what suprising was the ice cream. Its totally Great! Tasted like super fresh milk transform into icecream with simple sweet and vanilla taste 대박!

and im promised it will be the last for my jeju story..... STARBUCKS! standard bla bla bla. Im totally interesting with 2015 planner since it SBUCKS X MOLESKINE. Well i just newly know "cool" pricey notebook from my boyfriend *norak* and do you pay attention on my word? I HAVE A BOYFRIEND HAHAHAHAHAAH ok this food and travel blog hana not a diary okok skip it. 2 thing my favorite in Korea Starbucks especially in jeju. I got my HOT JEJU GREENTEA TALL ₩3500 and CLASSIC CHOCOLATE CAKE ₩4500. gosh gosh gosh best starbucks combination i ever had! The chocolate cake is totally bitter from dark chocolate hmm texture like brownies but softer and chocolate mousse on top and hot light greentea ugh ugh best thing for closing the day!

LAST BUT NOT LEAST! night in Korea never complete without chicken and beer and hellyeah here near my hotel, there is KYOCHON well norak because there are some store in Indonesia but different TASTE & SIZE here so yummy and tasty! oh ya here a bucket of chicken price  ₩15000. More expensive but totally worth it!

Stilllll more more more things that I eat on my winter duty trip to Korea! ♡♡ CIAO!

[KOREA] SEOUL I'M IN LOVE ♡

SEOUL! Finally city view HAHA shopping! I just love city view, skyscrapper, traffic jam, crowds. After 4 hours drive from mt. Seorak and 1 rest area stop, we made it here. Btw, in korea, Rest area is so clean and lovely. There are food court, ofcourse toilet, mini market and even some clawn machine :3 beaucse of fall, everything just looks amazing! Red, yellow, and green leaves, cool wind breeze, sipping hot chocolate ☕ because I arrived here about 12 am, i was having lunch here. There are some choices, RAMYEON 라면 (Korean noodle), UDON 우동 (Japanese big noodle), BIBIMBAB 비빔법(Korean mix rice with vegetable and beef ), and many more. I chose HAEMUL RAMYEON 해믈라면 (seafood ramyeon) ₩5,000 or IDR 60,000. Hot broth, fresh clams and squid so yummy!!! And dont forget eat it with kimchi and raddish. 

Korea is like a coffee addict country. You can easily find coffee shop every corner of the street. And here I drank my most favorite ICE CARAMEL MACHIATO from EDIYA COFFEE priced ₩ 4,500 for medium and ₩ 6,000 for large one. I thing it even tasted better than starbucks' my favvvv <3 check out my previous post about it! here

 

SHOPPING TIME!!

MYEONGDONG, the number 1 must visit place in Seoul. Myeongdong is like pasar baroe in jakarta, huge shopping street that you can find everything here from street food, local brand store, international brand store, and many more. But now I didn't buy anything cause it starts fall/winter collection and nothing can be use in Indonesia since it has different season I preferred myself "snack" HAHA. I bought CHICKEN SATAY ₩ 3,000, i forgot photo but it looked like kebab, huge satay with chicken , leek, and some vegetables in sour sweet sauce yum! and then refresh myself with POMEGRANATE JUICE ₩5,000, quite expensive but totally worth it so fresh, sweet with a lil bitter taste. and at least not last, TTEOKPOKKI W 8,500, korean rice cake and fish cake in sweet spicy jojujang sauce & KIMBAB ₩7,000, korean sushi with tuna inside 

And this is the end my autumn journey. Korea never makes me bored every season has it magical scenery. See on other travel diary!!

안녕하세요

KOREA TRIP PART 4 ( LOTTE WORLD, GYEONGBOKGUNG, MYEONGDONG )

Finally last part of my Korea Trip! YIPYIP a day before I went back to Jakarta, I had another theme park woohoo LOTTE WORLD. After halfday playing at, I had city tour to Gyeongbok Palace, Gwanghamun square and free shopping time at Myeongdong shopping street. So bad It had ended -_- Tomorrow morning, My Garuda Indonesia flight 10.15 A.M, went back to Jakarta.

1st destination

LOTTE WORLD

Lotte world is located in the hmm east of seoul not so far to be reached like Everland. If everland is looked a like with dufan, Lotte world is more interesting because there are outdoor and indoor area. For the indoor, it has 3 floors. There are many cute rides, like adventure around the indoor area using a giant air ballon, shimbad the ride, mini coaster and many more. Have you ever seen Stairway to heaven korean drama? My favorite korean drama after Winter sonata and endless love, the scene has taken here! When Han Jung-suh and Cha Song-joo made a promise before Cha Song-joo are going to study abroad and kissing in front of the carousel ( see the picture above ) AAAA i'm so happy has gone to Lotte world!!! in The middle of the indoor area you can see the ice skate area down stairs ( with additional charged ) nahhh that's also used as the scene background when Han Jung-suh and Cha Song-joo play ice skating at night together scene. Go to the second floor and there is a bridge to go to the outdoor area. For outdoor area, the rides are more challenging like haunted house, giant drop, giand coaster and many more ( but my favorite is giant drop, it takes you to the highness and when you enjoyed the view, you are suddenly dropped down. Now I know how it feels when someone suicide falled down from the high HOEK ).

BLUEBERRY SHAVED ICE ₩3000

shaved ice with blueberry sour syrup, so refreshing after playing giant drop on the sunny day

2nd destination

GWANGHAMUN SQUARE

Giant square with Gyeongbok palace and Bugaksan background. Many korean people come here for take a walk, go to malls around, just like a recreation area. In Gwanghamun we can see 2 famous Korean hero statues, the first ( the middle of picture above ) standing up statue is Yi Sun Shin, Korean naval commender that famous with his unique war ship, turtle ship or Geobukseon in Imjin War with Japan, and the second is King Sejong statue ( sorry no picture ), King Sejong is the king who invented Hangul ( Korean alphabeth). Beside that statue, Gwanghamiun also famous with Cheonggyecheon stream, it's like mini stream that used to be slums area and now turned into public recreation area.

3rd destination
GYEONGBOK PALACE

GyeongBokGung (Gung means palace) is the biggest, oldest, main palace in Korea. Actually there are 5 palaces in Korea, Gyeongbokgung ( the main ), Changdeokgung (Flourishing Gladness ), Changgyeonggung (Eastern palace), Gyeongdeokgung (Western palace), and Deoksugung( Virtuous Longevity palace ). During Imjin war, Japanese has burnt all parts of the Gyeongbokgung, and the goverment built it again like in the past. Only 3 buildings that still original from the first time it built until now, there are Geunjeongjeon ( the mainhall, where I took the picture above), Gyeonghoeru ( Queen's bedroom ) and Hwangwonjeong ( Palace back yard's pavillion )

4th destination

MYEONGDONG

super huge street market, there are many sections that very possible can make you get lost.It made me crazy! Beside local clothing brand there are also international brands, like H&M, Forever21, AmericanApperal, Payless, and many more!  I WAS SO BROKE. In every corner of the street you also can meet Etude, The Body Shop, Missha and other Korean famous cosmetics. And if after you shopping like crazy and your tummy hungry dont worry, there are many stalls that sell Korean Traditional snacks, Curly fries, Hotteok, Tteopokki and drinks :)

GREEN TEA 32CM-HEIGHT-ICE CREAM ₩3000

so tall 'O' !! Tasted hmm watery kidding :p yummy and light creamy, half greentea and half vanilla. But too bad it melting so fast

LEMON SQUASH ₩2500

my favorite!! Fresh squeezed lemon with soda, served in unique plastic :p So sour >.< 

1st restaurant : AN DONG CHIM DAK

JJIMDAK

finally heavy meal!!!!! after tiring shopping day in Myeongdong, didnt take too long, I ate also in Myeongdong area there's a small restaurant that speciality in JJIMDAK. My local guide said that korean girls loved it so much especially if they ordered it hot with much chilli. Jjimdak hmm for me it tasted like semur in Indonesia. Taste sweet from sweet soy sauce and savory, contain Chicken, Potato, falt rice noodle and spring onion.SO YUMMY and huge portion, I ate this together with 3 others without rice and couldn't make it :( Poor the rest of the chicken. I saw 2 korean girls eat that with rice and taa-daa the plate was so clean -___- eat alot and stay skinny sucks

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My routinity every time I go abroad is..... PLAYING AT SUPERMARKET! you can feel different unique excitement when you find cute snacks, drinks or other cute stuffs that you can't find at Indonesian supermarket. Or maybe if you are lucky, you can find Korean traditional food cooking demo and try it for free HE HE HE but if there's no Supermarket near your hotel, just go to 7 eleven or other minimart :D  

BANANA MILK ₩1500

Very very famous. Hmm tasted like banana HAHA hmm tasted creamy but not too heavy and strong banana flavour. Actually there's other packaging and brand, but this "shape" is the most common for Indonesian and better taste from other brands. They also have other flavours, like strawberry and orange :3

PEPERO ₩1000

well in Indonesia, usually we know Pocky stick, in Korea, Lotte made the same called as Pepero. I bought milk chocolate, almond chocolate, and dark chocolate taste. YAM YAM. because very famous in Korea, There's PEPERO's DAY, or Korean Valentine's day. Always be held every November 11th ( 11.11 ) <- Look like pepero rite :p On Pepero's day, People gives pepero cute creation for someone they loved <3<3

my on-board's meal

GALBI

well, their 2 choices for my lunch, roasted chicken in western style or dakgalbi. Of course, I chose Dakgalbi HEHE since western food is too mainstream. Galbi is Korean beef ribs. Galbi usually cooked as soup ( or called as Galbitang ).Here served with saute vegetables. It's ok but ya you know what can you expected from on-board-meal? Small plate on the left of main dish is like salad but more looked like urap HAHA taste  good hmm tomato, peas, and mincemeat :9 the one that interesting me is KIMCHI in a packaging AAAAA tasted so damn good even better than fresh kimchi *over* so sour and hot my favorite!

Korea is such a lovely country! I never get boring with it especially with their food, hopefully can come back here next time! Maybe with boyfriend :P because Korea is full with super cute romantic couples who make you super duper envy like crazy when you go here alone! 안녕히 계세요!!!!