Sarang @ Orchard Central

Got a sudden craving for some Korean food after watching a lot of Running Man over the past few days so decided to try out Sarang.

Kiwi Soju ($10)

Bacon Pajeon ($10.80)

Korean Army Stew ($18.90 + $1.00 for cheese)

Kiwi Soju was awesome, kiwis were sweet and blended well with the soju. Got a nice little buzz after. The bacon pajeon was also delicious. Loved the combination of bacon, scallions, chili and pancake.

I felt the Korean Army Stew was seriously overpriced. It's basically ramen, spam, some pork and kimchi and it cost about $20?! At first I thought maybe it's because it's a really big stew, meant for sharing. But looking at the portion served, 1 person could finish it comfortably.

Only ordered these 3 items and the bill came up to about $50.

I would return to try other items but would definitely NEVER order the Army Stew again.

Last Day in Seoul - Bulgogi Brothers, Tom N Toms, Baskin Robbins

welp it's been about 2 months since I've returned from Seoul and I'm only now uploading the last of my pictures oop @ me.

Well anyway, since our flight was leaving seven in the evening, we had some time to kill before that so we just walked around Myeongdong for the last time :'(

Cute car all bundled up against the cold weather.

Apparently all tourists order this when they visit.

The staff grilled the meat at the table for us.

We had lunch at Bulgogi Brothers and it was the best meal we had for this trip! At first I was worried that we had over-ordered and there was too much meat but once the staff had cooked the beef to perfection and cut it up for us to eat... just wow. The taste, aroma and chewiness of the beef, it was just fantastic. One of the best beef I've ever had.

Dessert at Baskin Robbins. Some new flavor for the holiday that I forget the name of.

Last meal before flying off. Some tea at Tom N Toms!

Honey thick toast. The whipped cream was actually really light and fluffy, love it!

Sweet potato latte, again! Did I mention that I love this?

Day 5 - Yeongyang Centre & Cheonggyecheon Stream

First up, lunch at Yeongyang Centre, apparently the oldest restaurant in Myeongdong and known for its roasted chicken. As luck would have it, a busload of tourists dropped into the restaurant just as we were about to enter. Fortunately, the place was quite big so we didn't really have to wait for long.

The chicken's skin was really nice and crispy!

The soup had nothing on Tosokchon imo! But the chicken tasted better since they use younger chickens here.

Some chai tea latte at Doota. We sat outdoors cos we were too lazy to remove our coats lol.

Doota at night.

Dinner was a giant piece of pork chop from some shop in Myeongdong. I think it was called Namsan #1 pork chop or something.

Night stroll.

There were a line of horses pulling carriages at the side of the road. Twas cute but they looked like they were freezing their butts off, poor things :(

Sweet potato latte from Tom N Toms, loved it! Btw, where did all the Tom N Toms cafes in SG go?!

Cheonggyecheon stream, which was actually within walking distance of our hotel but somehow took us forever to find lol.

Some icicles on a tree, only this particular tree had icicles on it, strange...

Seoul Day 2

Warning: Excessive use of image filters to make photos look better ahead.

Gwangjang Market.

Mung bean pancake. Nice but a bit too greasy for me.

Back at that spicy rice cakes shop (Mok Shwei Donna)

A spicy cyclone.

Spotted in Myeongdong: A man dressed from head to toe in white with a pink dog.

My fave street food:

Dried squid.

Sweet potato coated with hardened sugar.

Not a street food lol. A snowman donut from Krispy Kreme. His scarf was ripped off when I removed the paper tho, poor thing.

Back From Seoul!

¡Hola a todos! I am back. Fell sick on the way back (having a fever on board a flight is the worst thing ever btw) but I am on my feet now. Really need to work out and everything mehhhhh. I promised someone to take some mod shots of my Bal but the weather has been sucking for an entire month and I don't want to take my bag out in the rain so that will have to wait. /crazy bag lady rant

I'm going to share some pictures I took in Seoul but there's not many as my damn camera decided to break down after the first day of the trip, damn you Sony NEX! So this post will be the better pictures from the camera, after this will be all shitty iPhone pictures. Ok, on to pictures.

We reached Seoul at like 5 in the morning and were immediately met with freezing 5 degree celsius weather, well freezing for us. We were bundled up in at least 5 layers of clothing (2 layers of Uniqlo Heattech products, 2 layers of regular clothes and 1 down jacket) but spotted one Seoulite just cruising around with a sheer long sleeved blouse wtf.

So we headed to Tosokchon for breakfast. Supposedly ginseng chicken warms you up. Also I'd like to add that I love how I was able to find pretty much every place I wanted to go with no problem at all, I feel as if I'm a local there lol.

The menu, I have no idea what that says. But the staff just assume everyone wants the ginseng chicken soup which the place is supposed to be famous for.

Cheers to being back in Seoul!

Kimchi! Ok not that exciting, actually I just wanted to test the macro lens on my cam.

This time we decided to share the samgyetang and order a side of seafood pancake. The thing was huge, like even bigger than my face probably and our first thought was damn how are the 2 of us possibly going to finish this thing by ourselves?! Even contemplated asking the diners sitting next to us to have some. Btw they were actually on the same flight to Seoul as us, what a coincidence! But once we started eating, that thought disappeared from our minds. It was simply delicious! Light and crispy and wonderfully savory, yummmmm.

Later we went back to the hotel to take a long nap and then wondered around Myeongdong.

And then it was off to Dongdaemun for some late night shopping. See, that's one thing I love about Seoul. Even if you decide to take a break and have a nap in the middle of the day, you won't feel like you wasted a day in the city cos you can always do some late night shopping in Dongdaemun where the shops don't close till the wee hours of the night.

Spotted on the way to Dongdaemun:

KITTENS!! This lady just had a small carton with them, I think she was trying to sell something as well, I'm not too sure but everyone just crowded around to ooh and aah at the adorable kittens...

...then she lifted the blanket off the other side of the box and it turned out that she had some puppies in there as well, damn!