[KOREA] 괴산문광저수지 GOESAN- MUNGWANGJEOSUJI

Now autumn is on the peak! All trees turn yellow and red on their brightest color. And as look "단풍여행" danpung yohaeng or autumn leaves trip's tag on instagram, i found this hidden beautiful place in Chung-buk provence. Many people asked me where it is and finally i made this post so hope this can give you more recommendation place during autumn ♡

문광저수지

MUNGWANGJEOSUJI

HOW TO GO

Take bus from Dongseoul Terminal (강변 gangbyeon MRT Station exit 4 line 2) to 괴산 goesan

It takes 2 hours drive// Bus interval every 1 hour // ₩10.800

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And after you arrive at Goesan Bus terminal actually you can take local bus ( but the interval every 2 hours CRAYS RIGHT) so better to take taxi around 15 minutes only around ₩10.000

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And i suggest you to check bus timetable back to Seoul so you can adjust your time there.

BEST TIME TO GO

these all photos took on 30th october 2017

And when i went there, leaves mostly had falling.

So better come here around 20th~ but then it depends on the weather

Nothing you can see more than a huge lake with beautiful yellow gingko trees and colorful hills around. It can be said as highcost trip since only 1 place to be visited but trust me, if you need healing time, come here and feel the nature. Super love ♡♡

CIAO!

[KOREA] 2017 스타벅스 크리스마스 1차 STARBUCKS CHRISTMAS EDITION

2017 STARBUCKS CHRISTMAS EDITION

On october 27th Starbucks korea just launched their new christmas edition. Wah i just didnt realize that i already reviewing starbucks for completed season this year, you can click here to check out my stsrbucks review and new products for spring, summer, and autumn. And this time SO MANY CUTE STUFFS GUYSSS!! Because tumbler collector is too mainstream so now i decided to be STARBUCKS KEYCHAIN COLLECTOR haha since they launched super duper cute christmas ornament. So lets get started!

Like the regular christmas period you can easily spotted starbucks planner that i never had in my life because i just thought that isn't even worth it HAHA 17 stars or ₩32.500? And this time, starbucks collaborated with pantone with lovely pastelly color.

SUPER CUTE DIABETIC CHRISTMAS ESSENTIALS

#1

KEY CHAIN

This is the main reason i woke up at 5 arrived at sbucks at 6 JUST FOR THESE GUYS so cute is it? So those 2 from the left is cold cup mini keychain, one in baby blue snow flaky things and the other is red santa head just too cute to be hung. And 2 other on right side is called christmas ornament which i believed it can be used for christmas tree decoration HAHA i loved both design but becareful because it made by acrilic.

#2

LED LANTERN BOTTLE

venti size

Few season before, starbucks has launched LED Tumbler and it super boomed but now they innovated with super cool LED tumbler that you can charge using USB cable and the light suprisingly quite bright.

#3

HOT BOTTLES

Well the left side JNL HOLIDAY tall size is pretty mainstream and pricey not big fan BUT GUYS you can check cool new item on right side, it's called SS GINGER THERMOMETER 360 so this cool tumbler can tell you about your drink temprature inside and the heart shape is led that can change into 3 colors, blue,purple and red depends on temprature.

#4

WATER BOTTLES

[Left to right]

SNOWMAN GLASS COLDCUP// SANTA HAT// HOLIDAY FRIEND WATER BOTTLE

#5

CUPS

DEMI CUPS come with cute keychain in a set,red cup sith gingerman and white cup with penguin key chain.

#6

OTHER THINGS

SANTA CONTAINER and cookie tray? Yeah just meh ㅋㅋ i dont even ever serve cookie? HAHA

#7

ANOTHER COLD CUP

These things are items that i never wanna buy from starbucks my very very bottom list. But actually SANTA ROBE BOTTLE IN THE MIDDLE is cute if i had baby lol

And so now lets move on to the christmas special menu!!

CAKES

[Left to right]

CHERRY GREENTEA CREAM CAKE

MARVEL MARBLE CHEESEVAKE

SNOW CARAMEL CAKE

7 LAYERS GANACHE CAKE

Still not try everything but will try soon and review on my instagram @jioehana don't forget to follow! ㅋㅋㅋ

DRINKS

they launched 3 new drinks like usually. BERRY TWINKLE MOCHA, TOFFEE NUT CRUNCHY LATTE & VALENCIA ORANGE TEA LATTE. I thought coffee latte just too mainstream so this time i tried ntea latte since starbucks also did lots of promotion of their teavana.

발렌시아오렌지티라떼

VALENCIA ORANGE TEA LATTE

tall ₩5600 // grande ₩6100 // venti ₩6600

Super suprisingly very good!!!! Omg you can really gaste orange inside ans tea latte itself using english breakfast based tea and it quite thick like milktea and dried orange as topping on top super yummy! It has delicious bitter taste and sweet in the same time. It tried also ice version but i though hot much better because you can really taste thick milk in it.

TASTE 10/10

( now be my fav menu in sbucks i've ordered in 4 times within a week LOL)

HAVE A MERRY EARLY CHRISTMAS AT SBUCKSSS!

♡

[KOREA] 신촌 부탄추 BUTANCHU, SINCHON JAPANESE RAMEN

lately the weather has became so much colder and made you craving for hot soup. And yesterday i just discovered new ramen place in Sinchon right behind Hyundai Dept. Store near small park around and after trying this, it directly became my number #1 top fav ramen in Korea beating all ramens that i've eaten before. No wonder it has long queue everyday and it is worth the wait.

부탄추

BUTANCHU

HOW TO GO

Sinchon MRT station exit 1 (line 2)

서울 서대문구 연세로5길 26-9

창천동 62-1

While waiting to be seated, the waiter gave us menu so we can order ahead. So here they give you plenty choices of ramen here.

SOUP BASED

#1 토코 톤코츠 toko tonkotsu - thick fat broth

#2 토코 시오 톤코츠 toko sio tonkotsu - less fat broth

#3쇼유돈코츠 soyu tonkotsu - soy sauce broth

#4 시오 돈코츠 sio tonkotsu - light broth

RAMEN CHOICE

#1호소멘 hosomen- long thin ramen

#2치지라멘 chijiramen - medium wave ramen (regular ramen noodle)

#3드래곤멘 dragonmen-thick ramen (similar with kalguksu)

EXTRA TOPPING

You can adjust topping by yourself, like 마늘 maneul-garlic, 파 pa-greenonion, and 숙주 sukju-beansprouts.

REGULAR RAMEN PRICE 

₩7000

Or

Make it set with kaarage or gyoza or fried rice with add on ₩2000~2500

MY ORDER

#1 toko tonkotsu soup based

#2 chijiran ramen

Extra all topping 

Upgrade with kaaragee

₩9500

Taste 10/10

Finally i met my type of thick delicious fat japanese ramen omg too gooood!! The pork slice is super tender and melting in your mouth and best part of it that you can add more noodle of free UNLIMITED i asked for dragon noodle as my second bowl noodle because i still has much soup left and DRAGON NOODLE= MIE KARET INDO super good thick,chewy and just the way i loved my noodle is.

[KOREA] 수원 SUWON THE UNESCO FORTRESS

Located one hour from seoul this city can be your best choice to get out from hectic Seoul ans enjoying one of best city that offer you traditional side of korea and the center of korean unesco's fortress.

수원

SUWON

TRANSPORTATION TO SUWON

by regular MRT to Suwon MRT Station line 1 ( 1 hour)

Or express MRT from only Seoul MRT Station line 1 (30mins)

TRANSPORTATION IN SUWON

For better information, you can visit Tourism center ( Suwon MRT exit 4) and ask them for map. And from there, you can take bus no. 11/13 from infrontof Novotel to the tourism area. 

여행코스

WALKING COURSE

Suwon fortress is quite big but if you can manage your time half day is more than enough than you think. And along the way, you can see other tourism object and chill in some cool coffeeshop with beautiful traditional view. Suwon fortress has 4 main entrance, 팔달문 paldamun Southgate, 회서문hueseomun Westgate, 장안문janganmun, and 차룡문 charyongmun. But mostly Paldalmun or South gate is the most famous entrance gate as the main starting point. And walking clockwise along the fortress needs around 3 hours AND can be longer depends if you love taking photos. So let's get started! 

#1

팔달문

PALDALMUN GATE

From train station, you get off at Paldalmun as your starting point. There are 2 choices of course, turn left from the gate to do clockwise course or turn right to do the counterclockwise.

#2 

화성행궁

HWASEONG HAENGGUNG

From paldaemun, turn left and walk around 10 minutes you can find Hwaseong palace that famous as the shooting location of 대장금 daejanggeum, famous korean cooking colosal drama. 

#3

효원의종 태종

HYOWON'S BELL

Bell that located on the top of paldal mountain where you can look all city view and ring the bell!

#4

화서문

HWASEOMUN GATE

West gate of hwaseong fortress,actually nothing interesting with this gate but i found one beautiful cafe near here and can be your fav spot for chilling and taking a rest after a long walk.

원모어

ONE MORE CAFE

경기 수원시 팔달구 화서문로17번길 4

장안동 322-17 CU편의점 2층

You can easily find this coffeeshop on 2ndfloor of CU conveniencestore. 2nd floor is for indoor seats and 3rd floor os for beautiful outdoor "westgate view". price is still affordable around ₩4000 for coffee and ₩6000 for cake. I was ordered 카페라떼 cafelatte and 에어그레이케이크 earlgreytea cake, it suprisingly super good especially the cake, you can really tasted strong earlgrey. And after took photos on 3rd floor, i skipped my lunch and spent my whole lunch time on 2ndfloor.

#5

장안문 

JANGANMUN GATE 

another gate that located close to each other. Jangan gate can be said as the biggest gate as it translated (Jangan) as "capital" in english, since it located in the north and used as the main entrance when King arrived from 한양 hanyang, or modern seoul. 

#6

화홍문

HWAHONGMUN GATE

And not far from there, you can also spotted Hwahong gate, water gates those installed to control Suwon river water flow that cut across from north to the south.

#7

창룡문

CHANGRYONGMUN GATE

The east gate where you can take beautiful palace & wide green field photo. And here, you also can ride hot air ballon, that called 플라잉수원 flying suwon. The ticket price : ₩18000/person. Yeah i know it's quite expensive for around 8 mins ride but it worth the view! For opening hour and air ballon weather forecast you can check here www.flyingsuwon.com

#8

시장

MARKET AREA

so for your final course after long walking around fortress, you can enjoying Suwon main markets, walking around small suwon river, and having dinner with Suwon's famous food

SUWON'S FOOD

as you go to other city, each city offers different food representative and as in Suwon Famous with 2 kinds of food that you have to try.

#1 갈비 galbi, Korean BBQ marinated short ribs

Recommended restaurant: 분수원 BON SUWON

경기 수원시 팔달구 중부대로223번길 43

우만동 103-1

Open hours 11.30~ 22.00

Price/person ₩30000~40000

#2 통닭 tongdak, Korean traditional fried chicken

Recommended restaurant: 진미통닭 JINMI TONGDAK

경기 수원시 팔달구 정조로800번길 21

남수동 117-1

Open hours 12.00~24.00

Price ₩16000/ chicken

But beside these representatives, you can also try Suwon famous 순대걸목 sundae or korean blood sausage road, and some other local foods.

Overall, Suwon is super well organized and great choice for visit if you are a historical lover. You can buy all tourism objects pass ticket for ₩3500/person compared you buy one by one on every objects. 

CIAO!!