What to eat in Seoul? Seoul Food Post (Oct 2013)

What to eat in Seoul? Here is a small guide on what I have ate during this year Seoul trip!

Sinchon Station

Palsaik Samgyupsal (팔색 삼겹살)

Sinchon Station (Line 2 Exit 6) Walk straight until you see the crossroad then cross the street walk further down for 10 minutes the shop is located on your right.

This restaurant is real famous! It offers 8 flavours of Samgyupsal and gosh this is the best Samgyupsal that I had ever taste in my life (real soft & tender). When you order it comes with a seafood soup (soup are fresh) set.

Palsaik Samgyupsal 8 Flavour Meat

Palsaik Samgyupsal Seafood soup

Must try when you are in Sinchon is real good! You wont regret!

Beside this you can try the Choon Chun Jip Dak Galbi too.

Gyeongbokgung station

We came across this stall at Gyeongbokgung station (Line 3 Exit 2 ) selling Premium Walnut Pastry and it was 3000 won for 12 pieces and is delicious the filling is red bean paste with premium walnut.

Cocohodo Premium Walnut Pastry

Next we went to the famous Tosokchon that sells ginseng chicken! From Gyeongbokgung station (Line 3 Exit 2 ) and walk further 5 minutes you will see Tosokchon on your right side. Was so lucky when we went there was no crowd and we do not even need to queue! That time was 11+am and when we were out of the restaurant the queue was incredibly long!

Tosokchon Gingseng Black Chicken

Samcheong-dong

The second best in Seoul (Seoureseo Duljjaero Jalhaneunjip) 

Angguk Station (Line 3 Exit 1) or Gyeongbokgung station (Line 3 Exit 1). The shop is just located right opposite Beans Bin Cafe. (Just find Samcheong-dong Beans Bin Cafe and you will reach the shop)

The second best in Seoul in Samcheongdong

Is a small tea house and quite famous around the local. We order "patjuk" which means red bean porridge which cost 6000 won per bowl. Its best match with the mochi they gave the taste very traditional. What I observe is that all the locals order this as well.

The second best in Seoul: Red bean porridge

55 Beonji Ramyon ( 55 번지라면)

Just walking around and we came across this 55 Beonji Ramyon Restaurant banner located out side (small path of an alley) When I saw the tasty road banner I was like OMG we gotta try this shop out! (tasty road is a very nice Korean food channel)

So we order the very famous Jjamppong Ramen 79 000 won minmum order was two bowl.

Mussel was fresh and delicious! Nothing bad to say about the ramyon simply love it! The price is worth for the freshness. Plus is not spicy it just look spicy only!!!!

55 번지라면

Went we were there we witness live shooting as well seems like this shop is really famous!

Myeong-Dong

Myeong-Dong Gyoja is also the most famous gyoja in Myeongdong and this is my 3rd visit I blog it here! Located beside Myeongdong H&M (they have two shops).

 Just order it NO REGRETS!

Dong Seoul Station

We was loitering around the Dong Seoul Bus Station and we found this shop that sells fish cake & hotdog.

Dong Seoul Station (Food Stall)

Jumbo hotdog and is super nice! The lady gave lots of cabbage it cost 2000 won plus her fish cake are good tho only 500 won per stick

Chain Cafe

I'm grouping all the chain cafe together. Literally you can find it everywhere!

Beans Bin Cafe

Beans Bin Ice Cream Waffle

Expensive waffle it cost me rm30+ hahaha still acceptable since the ice cream is from Häagen dazs you get to choose 2 ice cream flavours of your choice.

Coffee Bene

Coffee Bene

I ordered belgium waffle with vanila gelato (2nd plate) and I like the waffle compare to beans bin! It taste very sweet and soft! IDK what the 1st thing called but is a bread with cream topping and chocolate syrup and is a autumn menu.

Kyochon Chicken

Kyochon Chicken

This branch is located in Hongdae and is quite hard to find when I ask the locals they seems to like NO IDEA on it and it was 11pm+ we were hungry and looking for dinne. It taste better than KFC hahahaha!

Seoul Station

Beside that I also manage to buy some meat from LOTTE MART it was on SALE during closure of their business hours; 3 box of Lotte Mart (Samgyupsal)  it only cost 15000 won mega cheap! So I bought some rice cake and mix it and thats for dinner!

Lotte Mart (Samgyupsal)

Stay tuned for my next haul post!

Note I will be blogging at http://joyssan.wordpress.com

Seoul Itinerary Blog Post 7D6N (October 2013)

Note post is a copy from my joyssan.wordpress.com blog as I planned to shift to wordpress since is more convenient. Will start blogging on two sides as I haven't finish understanding wordpress. Now back to the topic.

My travel period was on the 14-20 October 2013 (7 days 6 Nights) Itinerary to share with you guys. This only a summary itinerary, details will be cover in other post.

Day 1

Arrival at Incheon Airport at 3.20pm (have a light meal by purchasing chicken teriyaki sandwich from 7-11 on the arrival hall next to skin food & reload T-money) Hop on to AREX (Airport Rail Express) to Honggik University Station (Hongdae Station) to make a transfer to Chungjeongno Station.

Check in Brown Resident at Chungjeongno Station (Line 2/5 Exit 4)

Dinner at Palsaik Samgyupsal ( 8 flavours grilled samgyupsal) this is the best grilled samgyupsal I had in my entire life highly recommended! This restaurant is very famous and is located at Sinchon Station (Line 2 Exit 6)

Have some dessert at Twosome Cafe after that at Shichon branch and walk lottering around Sinchon and we called it a day!

Day 2 

It was rainy all the day and the lowest temperature was 9 degrees. Journey to Sokcho which is is located at the north-east of Korea so is nearer to the sea they have a lot of harbour around. Mt Seorak is the main reason to stop by at  Sokcho.

Headed to Dong Seoul bus terminal to purchase our bus ticket to Sokcho Intercity Bus Terminal. Dong Seoul bus terminal it is located at Gangbyeon Subway Station (Line 2 Exit 4). (Dong Seoul bus terminal is just opposite of the exit)

Tips: when purchasing the ticket to Sokcho, inform the counter to get a express bus ticket and it will take 2 hours and 15 minutes to reach Sokcho Intercity Bus Terminal while the normal ticket  will take up to 3 hours. Cost for single trip is 17,300 won.

Check in at Casa Seorak for a night stay. Highly recommend this B&B in Sokcho! The owner Mr Jun Hwa was very nice and friendly and the B&B was very relaxing indeed it feels like home.

Casa Seorak at Sokcho

Grab some light food at Tiamo Coffee Shop that sells New York hot dogs their fries was awesome. Is rainy heavily thus we shelter there for a while and then we headed to Daepo harbour by using bus number 7 or 7-1.

Daepo Harbour at Sokcho

Daepo Harbour offers wide variety of seafood compare to others harbour around Sokcho it is just beside the famous Sokcho Beach. Their seafood are really fresh! (will update on my food post)

Day 3

On the next morning we depart to Mt Seorak (Seoraksan) by using the same bus by using bus number 7 or 7-1 from our bus station located near to Casa Seorak. From the bus station to  the main gate of Mt Seorak National Park took 30 minutes. Then you need to purchase cable car ticket, please be early as the cable car ticket sold out kinda fast.

Mt Seorak check point

What a beautiful view.

Autumn Leaves at Mt. Seorak

Day 4

Theme Park Day! This time we went to Everland since last trip we went to Lotte World theme park. The fastest way to Everland is take subway to Jamsil Station (Line 2 Exit 8 ) and then take Bus number 5700 this is way faster than taking the bus from Gangnam Station since the subway travel route from Chungjeongno Station to Gangnam Station was 44 minutes and the interval bus to Everland at Gangnam Station was 1 hour once compare to Jamsil Station 20 minutes once.

You will reach Everland Bus station and ride the free shuttle bus once you reach there.

Everland T-express

Tips: Get the Q-pass which is FREE OF CHARGE at the ticket counter near the T-Express, if you want to ride the T-express and print out this Everland Discount ticket!

T- Express Q Pass at Everland

Day 5

Is leisure day and we went to Myeong-Dong to have our breakfast. Myong-Dong Gyoja is the best food to have in Myeong-Dong and then we register ourself to get our free hanbok experience at Seoul Global Culture & Tourism Center  which is located at M Plazza Level 5(same building with Zara)

Free Hanbok Experience at Seoul Global Culture & Tourism Center

We shop a while around myeong-dong. Personally I like the Olive & Young store (the biggest store in myeong-dong) that offers direct tax refund and the store is connected to Twosome Cafe as well.

After Hanbok experience we went to get some dessert at Cafe Bene. Then we went to Shilla Duty Free nearest subway was Dongguk University Station ( Line 3 Exit 6)

Note: Exit 5 is the nearest way to reach Shilla Duty Free but the exit was closed during that time.

After that we spilt up and I went to Lotte Mart to get some snacks while the rest went to Namsam Park (since I have been to there I did not went back again this time) Lotte Mart was located at Seoul Station (Line 1/4 Exit 1).

Day 6

Another leisure day and we spilt in to two groups as well I did not went to Nami Island (since I’m not a big fan of winter sonata) I went to explore around some area that I did not covered on my last trip.

Thus I make my way to Tongin Market to get some famous ttebokki but before I reach  Tongin Market I saw Tosokchon (the famous Gingseng Chicken Restaurant) was not pack and had my breakfast there. Lucky indeed as we went out, the line was really long and packed. (reach time 11.30am). Tongin Market and Tosokchon is located near to Gyeongbokgung Station ( Line 3 Exit 2)

Next we went to have our dessert so we went to Angguk Station  and walk our way to Samcheong-dong and personally I really like Samcheong-dong is really beautiful and fresh all the houses and buildings have their own style and Samcheong-dong is really near to Hanok Village. You can find beautiful cafe, restaurants and shops around Samcheong-dong.

Samcheong-dong

We walk our walk from Angguk Station to Samcheong-dong and then to National Folk Museum of Korea the whole area filled with local tourist and it is a very artistic place indeed and few Arts exhibition and museum are located in that area.

View behind Gyeongbokgung Palace

From National Folk Museum of Korea (just located behind Gyeongbokgung Palace)   we walk our way to Insadong which is very near and I went Ssamzigil a very famous places that offers Arts & Craft items.

Ssamzigil at Insadong

Day 7

Depart to Airport on 6 am. The Subway opens at 5.33am

Stay tuned on my details trip, food and haul post! It will be more details ^_^

Shinchon @ Seoul (Choon Chun Jip Dak Galbi is the best!)

Here is a way overdue Seoul trip post which is Shinchon. That is a place we stay and we only found out that the other side of the subway exit (exit of Hyudai Department Store) was full of cafe,restaurant and most of it was full of university students. 

This post is just very brief did not take much photo over there all we do was walking & walking~~

Me with the Hello Kitty Cafe

Don't fancy Hello Kitty so much thus dont even to walk in
hahaha sorry for there fans out there!

Another street view 

Another street view 

Another street view 

Posing with Sakura Tree

Sakura tree at Shinchon are less blooming so sad!

My little bro

Big mirror at shinchon exit

subway exit from hyundai department store

I would like to highlight that Choon Chun Jip has the best dak gakbi ever!!!

Img from google post forgot to take picture of the store =_="

The store is something like this they have fushia & orange colour weird people logo LOL!

It is a franchise restaurant which specialize on dak galbi! Is quite famous everywhere you go will see this appear around the streets of seoul! 

I had my at Shinchon!

Yeah with the dak galbi

They even serve salad for side dishes & you can refill any amount you want!

I cant forget the superb taste of it! Will visit them again when I return to Seoul! hahaha

You can buy travel guide books to find really good food in Seoul too! I found this in my book & they are so useful.

Myeongdong Gyoja

Starting to miss gyoja!! Whenever I see steam dumplings I will start thinking about Myeongdong Gyoja (singing mandu mandu mandu in my head) is only available in seoul!!! 

I went there twice!! hahaha is a fortune for me cause normally people went once to the shop but during last trip I went there twice ; could not resist the taste of it!

It cost 8,000 won actually everything in the shop cost 8,000 won they only offer few range of food. But as for me their gyoja is my favourite !

Make sure you visit them when you are in Myeondong and their shop name is "Myeongdong Gyoja" If you are lost make sure you talk to the tourist assistant (they wear red color outfit) they are super friendly.

Adress: Myeongdong Gyoja 25-3 Myeong-dong 2-ga, Jung-gu

Cheonggycheon stream at Seoul

How to get to Cheonggycheon stream? There are many ways to reach there Cheonggycheon stream is a super duper long stream!!! You can easily walk out at any exit of their subway from Dongdaemun Station or City Hall  that shows Cheonggycheon sign.

This whole post is just mainly a journey of walking along Cheonggycheon stream (it is a two days post different outfit ) 

Yeah we walk there twice coz we are going some where can't recall where we are heading at the time   I think we are searching the route to Insadong somethink like that! 

Lets start the journey

See they are so excited

        Saw the colour t-shirt hanging around? I think is election period they are advertising who to vote

This is the back side of the stream nothing much to see here.

As further we go there are more people 

Ahem pardon me a post to prove we are there HAHAHA

Sorry i been cut half

Along Cheonggycheon stream many tall buildings this is an interesting bar we saw so cowboy feel

Many people resting at the stream the water is really clean and the air is so cooling

Mojeongyo Bridge at Cheonggycheon stream there is also a tourist information center incase you get lose they are very friendly. 

Mojeongyo Bridge is located halfway of Cheonggycheon stream 

Finally reach the end of the stream where there is many people busy walking around

Another view they did not on the fountain 

Just a tall building image I feel like a tiny person surrounded by many giant buildings.

 Feel so insecure everything in Seoul City is humongous!!!! 

See another giant-antic building !!

The Snail Shape looking design thingy dunno why it was there and it looks weird 

Got history??

It is a good statue to make a fake Christmas tree out of it!

Below is the other day we walk to Cheonggycheon stream again but is from other exit I cant recall where.

Cheonggycheon stream peaceful stream

Cheonggycheon stream 

Cheonggycheon stream with sakura flowers not forgetting our face of course LOL

Okay this is Cheonggycheon stream with sakura flowers without our face hahaha

They even have a direction guide incase you get lose so considerate

Tada a mini waterfall 

Group picture dunno what the guy doing behind there

On the walls beside the waterfall they have some sketching so artistic! 

Tat's the end of the journey to Cheonggycheon stream

Bye!!!