Gabriel’s Musings

Light & Easy at Seoul – Korea Day 3

After a night of clubbing, the 3rd day was pretty simple… It’s a free and easy to have a quick ‘recharge’ whilst enjoying the sights and sounds of Korea…

The 2 girls went on their shopping spree at Forever 21 which is a very huge store here… It’s like the entire building is forever 21..  Apparently, the Forever 21 staffs would line up in straight lines and wish their patrons Good Morning! Talk about Customer Service..

While they do their shopping, Yee Weng, Yvonne and I wandered aimlessly around Myeong Dong.

We had a very peculiar lunch. Ginseng chicken with rice fillings!

At the centre of the chicken is glutinous rice! I liked the chicken.. and the soup… but the rice is a bit out of the ordinary for me..

And desserts was Ice Cream @ Cold Stones!

There was a promotion outside where you speen the wheel to get coupons to be used inside!

 

We had some ‘size ups’, and ‘free waffles’ for our ice cream purchases. Yummyy.

Oh, I also bought my first krispy kreme here!

Okay.. enough about food.. As the girls were crazily shopping, to us guys, we just immersed ourselves into the Korean atmosphere.

  

 

Did I mention that Korea has very very cheap cosmetic/facial products? There are so many different competitors around..We bought loads and loads of masks..

  Yin Sin asked me to buy a whole list of Skin Food Products which costs more than SGD$30 but only costs around SGD$10 here.

The one thing that’s “fun” is that they give free-gifts for you to just browse around the shop. And for every purchase, they’ll throw in a lot more freebies such as more masks, cotton pads, sample products, etc.

And the highlight for the day….

Charlie Brown Cafe!

This was a request by one of my fellow travellers who is crazy over Snoopy..

The place is pretty interesting actually… Everything is really based on Charlie Brown.. The tables, the walls, the window frame…

The plates, plastic wrappers, cakes, food…..

The glass window, ceiling and floor..

 

It also has a lot of miniature figurines..

 

And the happiest girl of all…

  

 

She was happy and nice enough to treat us all at the cafe!

After Charlie Brown Cafe, we resumed shopping and sight-seeing…

And the next item of the night, groceries/souvenir shopping at Lotte!

We bought so much stuff we had 2 fully filled trolleys!

Ok la, basically it’s just me and bishan who bought a lot of things..

Chee Lim and Yee Weng only require two small baskets… :p

From all the stuffs that we bought, we didn’t have enough luggage space… So, we packed them into boxes and check-in those boxes!

All these shopping made us forgot about dinner… The girls took the cab back to the hotel with all the boxes while Yee Weng and I hunt for food..

We wanted to head back to Namdaemun market for the pig throttles but alas, the market closed already by the time we reach there..
We managed to find something to eat at the street-side though.

We had Udon and Ramen.. And we tapau-ed back the Ramen for the girls.

By the time we returned to the hotel, it’s around 10 plus. Had to start packing and prepare for the following day’s early flight to Jeju Island!