Saturday, August 13, 2016

SEOUL- Day 3 Part 2 (160807)

We wanted to eat at School Food in Garosugil but the waiting list was too long and we were starving ballz. So we just wandered around and we went into one of the smaller lanes and we found this random restaurant and it's like one of those awesome moments when you find a good random place to eat. We ordered kimchi jjim. When it first came, I was like OH HELL NO IT LOOKS LIKE THE DEVIL'S SPIT. 

DOESN'T IT LOOK LIKE THE DEVIL'S SPIT TO YOU??

We even asked the uncle whether it's super spicy or not and he was like no its the least spicy. The restaurant has a spiciness level so yeah. But after we tried it, it wasn't that spicy haha. It goes well with white rice and the price was really not bad too. 14,000won for two people's share.

Explored further down Garosugil after that.


LINE Store at Garosugil

The huge bear that everyone is lining up to take pics with



3CE

JOYRICH
We got lost after Joyrich and it mostly my fault oops. BUT we did manage to find our way (eventually) to the subway exit at Sinsa station that we came out from thank goodness. We then moved to our next destination.

Oh sinsa how happy we were to see you


I nearly wanted to cry tbh


Yup das right. We went to SM COEX Artium!!! Its right next to the COEX Mall and this artium has about 4 floors. There's a market, cafe, beauty thing, goods store, theatre and I don't know what else. The moment I went up those escalators, my mouth just could not close. SM really knows how to bring in the big bucks. There were so many people in there and they're not all korean. There were many international fans there too. 

I REALLY REALLY WANTED TO CRY WHEN I SAW THIS


LOOK AT ALL OF THIS

LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE

SUHO IN A ROW T.T I CRY

OH SEHOON T.T

Feel like taking one home. Or maybe two. Or three.

HAHAHAHAHAH NOOBSSS

NO JUNMYEON I CAN'T CHOOSE A SIDE


SM is into this wall of fame thing lol

SUM Market

This pose is so yeol. And also, SUM Cafe behind

SUM Market

CHANGMINNNN~

lol


This doesn't really look like Suho. Or maybe its just me who is a fussy fan

Suho's golden hand

I didn't try that hand matching thing cos there were some girls hogging it. Oh wells I can come back and try again. The glass is so dirty ew so I didn't place my hands on the glass either. Junmyeon has tiny hands we all know that. 

I SEE YOU BLOND HO

Urghhh that pic still has an effect on me. Something about those glasses.

Oh yeah can anyone tell me which SUM Cafe does Exo frequent the most? Cos I've seen fancams of them speedwalking to a elevator area thing and I didn't see that at this artium SUM Cafe so it must be at another SUM Cafe. Please please let me know asap if you know which one it is thank you so so much. 

For dinner, we were kinda forced to eat dakgalbi at a small restaurant opposite our guesthouse. The guesthouse dude just kinda pushed us there. It was kinda pricey 17,000won just for a two person meal. And my friend thinks that its not so great. I've never ate dakgalbi before so I can't judge the taste much but the price tho...too expensive. We bought a bag of 120g Honey Butter chips and ate it at the restaurant/bar below our guesthouse. It tasted so so so good I wanna crai T.T

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

SEOUL- Day 3 Part 1 (160807)

Convenience store sandwich for breakfast-2,000won
Supposed to get our Olleh sim card today since foreigners need to be here for a minimum for 3 days before u can purchase and register a local sim card. Don't know what kind of rule that is lol. In Malaysia, no one really cares. They will just jot down your passport number as long as you have money to pay for the sim card and that's it. So we had to get the sim card the following day since all the Olleh stores do not sell it on Sundays (not sure about Saturdays).
One of the Olleh stores in our area

SPAO again! @Hongdae
(SUHOOOOOO)

Shoopen across the road. So far its the only Shoopen I saw.

I was not kidding, these are the DEVIL STEPS.

On our first day, we had to carry our luggage up steps this high. It was crazy. Thank goodness we have good friends here to help us. If not, we would be dead. (Later we found out there was an elevator...)

We decided to go to Ehwa University since we have heard some recommendations about the shopping there.
Main street on the way down to Ehwa


KOPITIAM!!! I literally yelled that out and pointed the shop to my friend. 


This Kakao bear is very famous here now

Keep Calm & Study

Auntie Anne's!!!! Just opposite the main entrance of Ehwa
Iconic wall at the Ehwa entrance. 


Very nice :D


I think this is the main hall. I'm not sure.

Shopping streets at Ehwa
CHEAP CHEAP EVERYWHERE


Kpop celebrity socks!!!
There's Bigbang, Block B, Shinee, Exo, BTS, Got7, CNBlue, Vixx, 17

Next, we went to Garosugil at Sinsa, Gangnam. It's an upmarket area so we didn't buy anything because we can't afford it. At first when we came out of the subway exit, we thought Garosugil was just like all a gimmick since what we saw was the two pics below.

We were like "Is that it?"

"Are you for realz?"

But then we just walked straight ahead and turned left and then only we found the real Garosugil yay. Look at this upscale area with upscale residents.
The lined trees are iconic and is why its called Garosugil.

I also spotted something super super important! I went to the same School Food (chain restaurant) that Exo went to in Exo's Showtime a few years ago.


IT IS THE SAME ONE!!! I AM HYPERVENTILATING OMGGGGGGG 
I wasn't even planning to intentionally come to this place since School Food is a chain and I saw another branch in Myeongdong but I really wasn't expecting to find this one in Garosugil which happens to be where they came for Showtime. ILOVESHOWTIMEIWANNACRAI T.T okaybyefangirlmomentovergonnasleepnowpart2tomorrow

Stay tuned.