Going to Korea on Kiss day is awkward but well, nothing is going to stop me from going! ACCA exam is done, now all i have to do is pack my luggage and off I fly! My flight no. to Incheon airport from KLIA 2 is my birth date (D 506). Such coincidence!
The flight took 6 hours and 20 minutes, landing at Incheon airport at around 7:45am. I had some Korean friends telling me it is very hot in Korea now especially in Seoul but no, it was kinda windy! The temperature was around 19°c in the morning and 25°c in the noon. It was a bright shiny day!
After collecting my luggage bag, I went to the convenient store in the airport, wanting to buy the T-money card. Not sure if I remembered correctly but the last time I bought it at 2,500won but now they are selling at 4,000won without credit inside. Since I was planning to buy the cute limited edition Kakaotalk T-money, I decided to go for the Mpass T-money card.
I took the airport railway from Incheon airport to the nearest subway station of my guesthouse. I am going to stay at Kimchee Guesthouse for 6 nights and 7 days. It is really really near Chungjeongno station, exit 3. Literally within 20 seconds distance.
After leaving my luggage bag at around 11am, by the time I arrive and pay for the room, I could only check-in at 3pm. So I went for lunch at 청진옥 (a restaurant where the hit Korean drama My Lovely Samsoon was filmed, but apparently the interior was different from the drama, guess it was restructured or it was a different branch). It was a bit hard finding the location as the directions given online wasn't really clear.
I had to stop by some cute coffee shops along the way to ask for directions. The people were friendly and helpful. They even used their cashier computer to go online and find the exact location for us! Although he wasn't able to speak English, he used really simple English and body language to direct us! And yeah, we made it in one go~
It was lunch time and you can see a lot of working people coming out of the buildings, heading to restaurants for lunch
The main dish they serve at 청정옥 is the famous ox blood and vegetable soup where Koreans said is good for hangover. It is called 해장국. One portion was kinda big, costed 10,000won per portion. There are other side dishes such as Korean pancakes (전) too. We ordered 4 해장국 and one mixed pancakes (costed 20,000 won) where different flavour pancakes were served.
On the other hand, the pancakes came in a variety of vegetable, fish, ham and crab meat, spring onions, tofu and green pepper. It was kinda oily and expensive I would say.
After a full lunch meal, I went around walking and went in to GS25 and bought some snacks and drinks that I have always wanted to try! I bought the Korean version Coca Cola where this cute Kakaotalk character was printed on it with some cute encouraging words, 25% mango bingsu, Hershey's ice cream, Snoopy 3 set chocolate milk, 예감 chips, Banana milk and Ghana chocolate milk. There are a few stuffs still in my list ready to be cleared in days to come!
After leaving GS25, I came across a cute coffee shop right around the corner where I bought a hot coffee latte from Habana coffee, which is a cute coffee shop along the way back to the subway station.
Since we were all a bit jet-lagged, we went back to the hostel to get some rest before heading out for dinner. Around 7pm, we went to 먹쉬돈나 for some incredibly delicious rabokki! The restaurant was easy to find following directions found online, however, it was a bit far walking on feet. Nonetheless, the taste of the food really made the trip worthwhile!
The minimum order or base for the rabokki is 2, so we ordered the seafood and budae. There are also options like cheese and bulgogi too.
Then, choose any topping and addition ingredients that you would want to add in! I chose some meat dumplings, fish cakes, hard boiled-eggs and ramyeon. We also ordered a portion of fried rice. It will be served after the rabokki is done~
The rabokki is served cooked, meaning the ingredients are cooked when it is served. They will heat it up on your table and make heat up to a boil. Then you can start digging in, while it is pipping hot! It comes with refillable side dish of yellow pickled radish 단무지.
After that, I went to Jonggak station and went to Jongro for some sweet dessert! It was a highly recommended dessert online, it is called 설빙 and it is a quite famous shaved ice 빙수 chain in Korea. I ordered the Blueberry cheese bingsu.
It was heavenly delicious! It costed 10,000 won per bingsu. The portion could be shared among 3 person. The chain was full and pack with people. They come in and out constantly and the tables are always full. The blueberry cheese bingsu is one of the hot items of theirs, along with mango cheese bingsu. There are a lot of chains around Seoul so it is easy to just drop by any of them and try the dessert out.
On the way to 설빙, there was a small accessories store in the subway. I stopped by and bought a eco canvas bag and a pink cap! I never look good in caps but this cap looked good on me! The cap costed around 6000won while the bag costed 3900won. The shop is called Lucistar at Jonggak station.
Around 10:30pm, I went back to my guesthouse, took a shower and updating all my social media sites and updating my friends and family about my first day in Korea! Now I am here, ending this blog post at 2am.
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