Monday 2 December 2013

Seoul - Day Five & Six




Seoul - Day Five!

Felt colder again today. We wore matching coats today. It's the one we bought at garusogil. It's so incredibly warm though it does't look like it. It has a hood at the back that I love. Not cheap but not exactly very expensive too for something of this quality. Usually i would stay away from anything without buttons or zip at the front but for this coat it doesn't really matter. #majorlove.




Lunch is at this barbecue restaurant near our hotel.It's only open 1130 if I'm not mistaken. We had to walk around first and visit this Aland shop I like! Bought a sweater from there. I haven't bought anything major so far so on the last day surprisingly I bought a lot of stuff - sweaters especially! Hahah.. I'm definitely in the winter mood even up till now. 


Got this grey top from Dongdaemun - it's one set with the white collar you see. Love these fake 1 piece that looks like 2 pieces. Anyway, back to food. We ordered 2 portion of their bbq meat sets. All the other dishes by the side are their side dishes which you can ask for top ups. The staff will grill the meat for us. I think I ate loads that day. Couldn't stop shoving the lettuce + meat + kimchi + whateverelse into my mouth. I usually don't like meat stuff but these are good. We ordered two kinds of meat and one of them is nicer than the other. I forgot which one was that. Not a cheap meal but very satisfying.


We had tea at this cafe - Cafe Benne, Myeongdong area too. It's next to Uniqlo. I bought a skinny jeans from there. It's surprisingly cheaper than Singapore. But since then I found out that Singapore lowered their prices too so it is around the same pricing now. We ordered hot chocolate I think and this waffle with a sinful scoop of chocolate ice cream. Good tea break. 



I did my nails last night. All using Etude House polish and stickers! Not sure why but when I'm there I always end up painting my nails and also get to be so diligent in applying face masks before I sleep and also apply serums. Maybe it's because I'm doing all these plus the good weather my skin feels better when I'm there. #lovit!


We spent the rest of the day walking around in Myeongdong till night time. This is a pomegranate juice. They have this stall by the road side that squeezes pomegranate juice non stop. And it's authentic pure pomegranate. The last time we went in summer they have lemon juice stall but it's mixed with soda which I don't like. This is pure pomegranate. I like feel good food. You always see face creams with pomegranate essence in them. I don't mind eating this if it give me good skin hahahh


Seoul - Last Day!

Last day in Seoul and we had to leave early. Those of you who have never been to Incheon airport before, please go early. So many make ups to see and buy - they are cheaper there compared to Changi airport. And some stuff like Benefit is even cheaper than US Sephora prices. I went to the US and Korea after and compared the prices and I was like ermahgerd... #youiskiddingmeright and I stocked up on lots of my Benefit tint. #awesomebuy. For this visit I got this Clarins cellulite cream. It's only 50-55SGD per bottle. I think retail in Changi is around 70SGD at least. 


We were waiting for the bus here. Cold wind blowing from every direction but it's fine. I'm back to wearing my North Face coat today. If you visit cold countries often you should get one too. I think it's a good investment. 


We went around in the airport and I ended up getting this mini MCM backpack. There was some promo going on and we got an additional 15% off I think. Worth it. Not sure why but people are so obsessed with MCM stuff over there. That's the end of the trip. I think we reached around midnight. Can't wait for April! :)

Sunday 1 December 2013

Seoul - Day Four




Seoul - Day Four!

We had brunch at one of the cafes in Myeongdong. Sandwiches, toasts, hot chocolate. Not cheap but it's quite good. Good thing about Seoul is that there is Wifi almost everywhere. But when you move around you get disconnected often. The signal isn't strong too. But it's really better than nothing. 










Today we visited #Insadong. Surprisingly there are many maple trees in Seoul. We kept finding gigantic maple leaves on the street of Insadong. So what this street has plenty of is souvenirs. There are unique stuff here. A lot of handmade stuff and things you don't really see elsewhere. We spent most of our day here. There are also quite a number of restaurants, cafes and tea houses. 


We went during lunch time again, so it wasn't really that crowded. Saw a group of Indonesian tourists. Wanted to ask them to take pictures for us but we were too shy so we missed the chance hahah. Solo shots will have to do! That is at the entrance of Insadong. You can go in through this train exit and exit through another at the end of the street, though this one needs a little more walking. 



We stopped for tea at one of teahouses. They sell loads of different tea at level one which come in very nice box sets. Level two is the cafe. We had this tea set that comes with a matcha sponge cake and tea with biscuits. Cake was light and good. They have quite an extensive tea list for you to choose from. I think I picked some wedding tea that tasted fruity and floral. I got this gray sweater at Doota. It was on clearance and it was cheap! No trying though. A little big but I think it will look very good on a slim girl who knows how to match clothes very well - obviously not yours truly. One thing I love about the sweaters there, most of the have this wooly lining inside and it's warm!  


There are a few stalls selling this ice cream. You queue up, make payment and get this yellow crunchy stick and at the end of the queue the guy will pump the softserve vanilla ice cream through the stick. It's quite yummy. Just like McDonalds vanilla ice cream with a harder and crunchier cone. Would be great when it's not that cold.




Next stop we went to Hong Dae University. There is this flea market I wanted to go to. It's only open on Saturdays during specific timing and I think it's closed in winter. Lots of handmade stuff of course. I love flea market settings so I'm always up for a visit to anything like this. Not that many stalls , probably if you walk around in a slow steady paste without stopping by too long each stalls, you can finish viewing the market in 20 minutes. We stopped by this food stall just next to the market. Ordered some sushi and rice cakes. I don't really like their rice cakes. The portion is a lot and there are so much bland rice tasting part I guess. If it's smaller I think i will like it better - more bite size. The sushi wise, I only like one of them but I don't know what the filling is called. They come in many different fillings. You can pick any food on display here and they will fry most of them first before giving it to you. It's a nice experience. Very authentically Korean I would say. Have always wanted to try that soup they dip the sticks in and I did. Nothing fantastic of course hahah..