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Jeju Island - Day 2 之 Teddy Bear Museum and 济洲A级黑猪肉

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 @ 11:08 PM

After the day tour, we asked our tour guide how to go to the Teddy Bear Museum and he offered to drop us there. He is really a nice guy! We reached the museum at 5 plus and the tix cost 7k won ($8) each.

Inside really a lot of teddy bear loh! Ah bear in all sort of forms! hahaha... See pics...

teddy bear wall

Titanic bear, they shd do bear hug lah

Elvis bear

Einstein bear

Marilyn Monroe


Beastles! hahahha


this one i like most! 兵熊勇

Beardon!

"Bearther" Theresa

Mac-Bear

"Bearhamad" Ali

露宿街头 Bear

Mona Lisa

This is cool too!

familiar??

xy and reen @ teddy bear museum

CareBear! finally they met...

The most exp teddy bear! LV Bear (220k USD)

Another exp one, Swarovski Bear (10k USD)

Gandhi Bear

宫 series

宫 series - modern wedding

宫 series - traditional wedding

宫 series - sch u

宫 series - Alfred Bear

Another exp one with 125 karat in eyes

me and the giantic bear!

reen and the giantic bear!

xy and the giantic bear!

i found bear's wife! GPGT!

The museum is not very big but there is a lot of showcase of teddy bears! After 1 hr we left. We wanted to go one place recc by the 天书 but is a bit difficult to go so we ended up in another place call the 新雨城. This place is almost full house cos a lot of tour bus stops here also. We ordered the 济洲岛名产-黑猪肉! Unlike 黑鸡，黑猪肉 is not black in colour, the colour is the same as normal pork. Actually i cannot tell the difference but is still very nice! Korean BBQ is godly!

A级黑猪肉 - raw

A级黑猪肉 - almost done

delicious!

eating the Korean way!

Boa Poster!

Cheers, 全部的神仙保佑我吧！

Jeju Island - Day 1

Sunday, June 28, 2009 @ 10:43 AM

We woke up very early again cos we need to catch the 9am plane to Jeju Island. From our hotel to the domestic airport need like 1.5 hrs then we need to be early cos the security check at the airport is expected to be tighter cos of the testing of Nuclear! hahaha...

The night b4 we moved all out luggages to the new apt we will be staying 3 days later when we are back from Jeju. The initial apt we booked online is not tat easy to find so we abandoned tat and moved up street to co-op residence, sister apt of our current apt. Co-op is smaller and more exp! but i guess we have not much choice loh.


outside our apt @ 6.30am local time, bid farewell

our new apt, nearer to subway

dunkin' donut coffee @ airport, surprisingly nice

Jeju from plane 1

Jeju from plane 2

Jeju intl airport

After we reached Jeju, the hotel transfer is there to pick us up liao. We then check in to the hotel! This time we got 3 bed! haha 1 dlb and 2 single bed loh! heee. We booked it though the online agent including the air tix and hotel plus 1 day bus tour is 330k won. Jeju island is a place that u need own transport cos the only public transport is bus which take ages and the taxi is exp.

After we check in we slp for a few hrs b4 gg out. We followed the 天书 and decide to go to seopjikoji, which is the place where they shoot ALL IN, 真爱赌注 by 宋慧乔. We have to get to the bus terminal to take bus to seopjikoji and the bus journey is 1.5 hrs. After we alight we still have to take a 10 mins taxi to seopjikoji.

their chips, similar to calbee, we bot on bus to eat!

the bus, look a bit run down?

finally we reached!

seaview from seopjikoji

3 of us at seopjikoji

me @ seopjikoji

the church @ seopjikoji where 宋慧乔 became sister in the show

xy and reen


i really like this place loh is very scenic

me again!

xy and me on the swing

all in church

3 of us, photo taken by a jap tourist

me with the 宋慧乔 @ ALL IN house backyard

swing with the church

the fountain looks real but is just a wall painting

me with 宋慧乔!


the stairs leads to a light house

cute Jeju

me and reen

sunset 1

reen

sunset 2

nobody help us take so we use composite mode!

sunset again @ the carpark where we wait for taxi!

By the time we walk finished, the stalls selling food at the carpark were all closed and there is no taxi ard. We wanted to ask ard if ppl wanna sent us to the mainroad where there is taxi but in the end we met a Korean family and they can speak english! They help us call a cab! So frenly!

We told the taxi driver we wanna to go to a specific place for dinner shown in the 天书 but he dun seems to understand us so i showed him the book. I think he sort of call up the shop and then drove us there. When we reached there the shop is closed or is the wrong shop. Then we told the driver just bring us anywhere that sells the seafood pot! Haah and here we are!

the typical 前菜

kimchi

seafood pot! we ordered the medium one, if i not wrong is 40k won

mini lobster, not very tasty

the shell like thing is nice, dunno is call wat 螺

the soup is very nice! and the weather is a bit chill so drinking the soup is damn shiok!

the shells, alot of it is the la-la i think the whole pot like got 30-40?

After dinner, we had some prob trying to ask the way back. Haah, cos this place is not the city area and the shop owner and all his workers cannot speak english. Taxi driver also can't speak english loh so the taxi driver called a translator and slowly translate to him but i dunno why he like also dun understand and he drove off.

Then the shop owner ask us to get into his van and he drop us at the bus stop where we can take bus back to the terminal. Heng ah! Actually can walk to the bus stop one but i guess he dunno how to tell us. Jeju island ppl are more frenly loh! haha.

That ended our day!

Cheers, 全部的神仙保佑我吧！

Seoul Day 5 - DMZ, Itaewon and Namdaemun

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 @ 6:59 PM

5th day. We got up super early cos we are supposed to meet the tour guide at the apt lobby at 740am. We are gg for the DMZ(demilitarized zone) tour, super excited cos jinhan told me is a good experience! The walk down the steep entrance to the tunnel is tiring! But the walk up is even more tiring!!!

image of the 3rd tunnel

xy with the cartoon officer

left is South Korea, Right is North Korea, i dun mean to stand on the North side, is tat ah peh loh

from Dorasan observatory, opp is North Korea, 朝鲜

our tour guide, we call her 小美 cos she a bit pretty haha

Dorasan Station the last station from South Korea

xy and reen with the Korean Soldier


the peace bell (but one day b4 we visit DMZ, north side tested nuclear)

freedom bridge! but again...

look at the blue ribbon!

Imjingak Plaza

The DMZ ended at noon time and we were back in Seoul and in Itaewon! This place is near the American army base in South Korea so the streets is more westernised in a way. We decide to stop here cos Hard Rock Cafe Seoul is here also. Before HRC we went to eat lunch, and according to the 天书, there is a nice family porridge shop in Itaewon so we search for it. The chinese name of the shop is call 高丽仙.



buy the way! is like 7-11 type of 便利店

高丽仙 is the 1st shop with small white signboard

inside of 高丽仙, of cos we nvr sit on the floor!

the menu!

trying out my lousy camera fun mode!

鲍鱼粥, actually so so onli, the one near our apt one is best lah!

HRC Seoul

one of my 遗憾 in Seoul is tat i nvr get to buy HRC tee cos all men's design sold out!!!!!

After HRC we went to 南大门 to buy our 紫菜! Finally we see the crowded 南大门. 南大门 sells a lot of ginseng and 紫菜, and of cos a lot of clothes also. But the clothes they sell there are more to those wear at hm de and kids clothes lah. hahaha.

南大门 floor sign

南大门

南大门 street view 1

see! idol stuffs

Crispy Roasted Pork Knuckle! but we nvr try cos one is too much for the 3 of us to share!

dunno why they use this name?

紫菜天国, i bot like s$60+ worth of 紫菜 here!

南大门 street view 2

南大门 street view 3

ginseng!

We went back early at 5pm cos the next day gg to Jeju! Haha on the way back we bought their local 'KFC' call 2 2 chicken. We bot a nine pcs meal but is not filling one! haha cos all the chicken small small pcs. But i think the chicken is nice, a bit sweet sweet de cos of the marination.

In the end we went for second round dinner at their local MAC call lotteria a few hrs later!

two two chicken

see? small hor?

Next up is JEJU Island!

Cheers, 全部的神仙保佑我吧！

Seoul Day 4 - Coex Mall, Seven Luck, Lotte World!

Saturday, June 20, 2009 @ 3:41 PM

4th day, we decided to go to COEX mall and then the casino and lastly the Lotte World after 5pm. COEX mall is smth like our Suntec, cos beside it there is a convention center. It is the largest underground shopping center in Asia!

co-op residence, our next apartment! sister of western co-op residence and is just another 100m away from western

xy and reen @ COEX

xy and me

ARTBOX, sell all those cute stuffs, tat day i just realised JP also have one! But the price diff is WTF...

We went to had lunch at Kraze Burger. It's a Korean fast food chain serving American Burgers. They do not have long history, abt 10 years onli but they have abt 25 outlets in Korea. The serving of the burgers are not really as big as Carl's Jr but they are nice! however i find them a bit ex cos they dun have set meal one and one burger cost ard SGD10. There were so many choices haha but mostly all beef de!

Kraze Burgers

inside Kraze Burger COEX

xy ordered ham sandwich

reen order some beef burger

my order, with egg de!

we finished everything and start fighting with the swords!

of cos we nv eat mac there! just wanna show the korean signboard nia

kimchi museum but is closed when we were there! think they nd to pao the kimchi :P

saw this sign! haha is a GYM loh... lol

there is a aquarium at COEX mall but we nvr go in cos we think is not worth it, cost ard SGD17 per pax

went to 7 luck casino instead! haha and we played Blackjack! 1st game we 万里 liao! Hee lucky! one bet is 10k won! in the end we won like 80k! swee!

7 luck lobby, onli foreigners allowed in the casino!

After winning some $ we proceed to our next destination, Lotte World! It's 3 stops from Coex, at subway station Jamsil. Exit from subway staion walk abt 5-7 mins can reached liao. There is also a Lotte Hotel ajacent to the theme park! Lottee World is the largest indoor theme park in the world! After 5pm, the entrance fee is cheaper by 9k won and after 7pm is onli @ 14k won. Normal fee is 35k won! As we spent most of out day at COEX we reached Lotte World at ard 7pm so we bot the 14k Won tix!

reen

the lotte mascot!

xy and reen at the south entrance!

we dunno wth is this 2 but just snap!

the indoor skating ring! really big!

xy and reen @ 旋转的木马

xy and me on the 木马

reen and xy, after the 旋转的木马 stops

a must take pic, 天国的阶梯 famous scene - 旋转的木马

then we took a rest at one of the cafe

prison break!

阶下囚 1

阶下囚 2

阶下囚 3

We then took the monorail to the outdoor theme park.


outdoor theme park castle! a bit like disney land hor?

The Gyro Drop and Gyro Swing are the top crowd pleasers where u can free fall from 70 meters, or taste the thrilling sensation of being inside a tornado. I wanted to try the Gyro freefall but was a bit ham to go alone! I admit i weak! Instead i tried another freefall which is shorter in height but it goes up and down 3 times! Also very thrilling!

3 of us then took the Gyro swing which not bad too. The thrilling part of the swing is that ur shoes or bag may drop into the river! cos the machine will swing out to above the river! Then we also went to take the bumber car! Haha have to queue like 20 mins loh and play for 5 mins. We wanted to go to the ghost house but too bad is closed liao.

Then we went back to the indoor theme park to take the hotair ballon! The ballon will go ard the indoor park for us to see from birdeye view! I notice a lot of couples come to Lotte World, i think is a must go place for couples to pat tor! hahaha.... Imagine a guy have like 10 gf b4 then he must have came here 10 times!!!!

me and xy on the indoor hotair ballon


behind me is the Gyro Freefall which is 70m and fall at 100km/h suitable for yy

from the place 崔智勇 always stand to peep at her bro!

天国的阶梯 the famous painting! but this is onli a pic cos the real painting they took away liao

The theme park close at 11 pm and we went back after tat, no more night shopping cos tmr we have to wake very early to go to the DMZ!

Cheers, 全部的神仙保佑我吧！

Seoul Day 3 - 宗庙, MyeongDong, Namsam Nseoul Tower

Saturday, June 13, 2009 @ 9:54 AM

Come to Seoul die die must visit one temple de, cos they got a lot of historical temple. I also dunno why we choose this but is recommended by some webbie, not the 天书. The best is, it is near our apt(2 subway station away)! hahaha...

We went to jongno-3-ga station (钟路三街) where the Jongmyo or 宗庙 is near to hoping to find some breakfast on the way but we failed! Then we went to a shopping complex which sells jewelery and tried our luck on their food court. Only like 3 stalls opened and all of them dunno how to speak English! GG man, so again we point at the pictures again...

too bad is not open is not i will try the coffee really gusto or not?




the above all 4 pics is my set meal! haha. is really nice loh esp the soup got egg and tofu and is spicy!

Then we went to the 宗庙, entrance is free got elderly thus we can see a lot of elders inside. Is more like a park to them! hahahaa.

this is actually pine tree but we call it '中指'树

nice? 3 diff colours

trying to act like in 古装 show to poke through the paper window

name of the kings and his queens

Jongmyo Shrine was built to hold the ancestral tablets for the kings of the Chosun Dynasty. Thus is a highly respected place and was added to the UNESCO World Heritage in 1995.

Sinwibongando, notice the roof is flat.


Sinwibongando is the first place to hold the 19 ancestral tablets of the kings and queens

Yeongnyeongjeon was an addition bcos Sinwibongando was full

the centre is elevated unlike Sinwibongando bcos it holds the 4 generation of King Taejo, founder of the Choson Dynasty

We wanted to go to cityhall to see the nice riverfront and their "padang" but all was marred but the crowd who went to pay respect to their late president. The crowd is damn 夸张 lah, and there were a lot of 镇暴警察 to seal some of the subway exit. Also it started to rain so we gave up and went to MyeongDong cos is near to our next destination Nseoul Tower! hahaha...

xy and me @ myeongdong

reen on the myeongdong sign!

from myeongdong we can see the Nseoul tower on Namsan (南山)

see the crowd?

After a little shopping for around 1 hr, we went to eat Korean BBQ!!!! haha... This shop is recommanded by the 天书 and is really good!

charcoal

the veggie to wrap the bbq meat

since we were the first customer, they helped us cook also! haha

those pink in colour one are 五花肉，which have some fats de but when bbq till crispy crispy is damn nice!

烧酒! 20% alcohol. Keep seeing th ads on subway station and the gal is pretty! haha.

this is beef and the white thing is onion.

we even bbq kimchi! is nice to bbq them!

3 of us very satisfied with the meal! haha

this is the bbq shop!

notice my face? haha, i drink a bit face red liao

After dinner, we walked up to take the cable car to Nseoul tower. It was a long way up there, or maybe is us dunno the route. We use like 35 mins then reach cable car station! But the view is definitly worth the walk! At 1st we tot the cable car will be like our cable car but we were wrong! One cable car can stand 40 ppl loh! So packed!

Nseoul Tower from the cable car

behind us is the cable car station

below is some trail for ppl to 散步 but we decided to skip that

sunset at namsan

zoomed sunset at namsan


ang moh took this for us! angmoh can take better pics than koreans i think

behind 3 of us is seoul city!

foot of Nseoul tower

the view from the tower is good!

me @ Nseoul

xy and reen @ Nseoul

night view 1

night view 2

Nseoul tower at night

After the tower visit which we took like 45mins to get out of the tower! There were a few of taiwanese tourgroup and sunday evening is not a good time to visit the tower! We decide is still early and visit Namdaemum but to our surprise most of the shops are all closed! haha. We have to come back another day cos of the 紫菜.

closed at 10 plus???

Cheers, 全部的神仙保佑我吧！

Seoul Day 2 - 景福宫 and Insadong Cultural Street

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 @ 7:18 PM

We went to gyeongbokgung which is 景福宫 after we woke. Luckily we arrive 1 hr earlier @ 11am cos the change duty ceremony started earlier! Nothing spectacular about it, just special, i find the guards slack leh, unlike the one i saw at Buckingham palace. Maybe they noe is onli for show now ba, cos noone to protect inside the palace!

不老门 found at the gyeongbokgung subway station, 穿过了就会不老

reen and xy with the guard

trying to steal his sword!

After watching the ceremony we went to a cafe for brunch. Food there is not cheap, if anyone go there dun eat at this cafe. I dunno the name of the cafe but is just at the exit of gyeongbokgung station towards the palace. hahah.

Then we went to a new musuem which showcase the history of Korean empire and their royal families life but most of the explanation are in Korean so we nvr stay long.


brunch! 荷叶饭

mushroom pasta


their 医书 also in chinese

娘娘 clothes

socks and shoes

like royal families everywhere, sibei exgerrating! nd so many combs meh?

Then we went into the palace, need 3k won each. This is much smaller than 故宫 in Beijing but still quite impressive. Inside the palace you can feel that you are in china cos of all the similarities. They are promoting the traditional costumes so we get to wear it for free and take pictures! but need to queue up lah. There were some irritating ATs wanna to cut queue but the ic nvr let them! swee! they wanna try go back homeland try dao 饱 lah.


behind is the main gate of 景福宫

man-made river inside the palace

main parade sq for the 文武百官, different ranking also

my rank very small, 八品



outside 勤政殿 where the throne is.

me as guard

xy as 文官

reen as general

xy and reen


me, xy say the costume like 闵大人

me and reen

3 of us, will look more real w/o sunglasses

this guy is standbying for performance but drag by us to take photo

After all the walking and photo taking we are hungry liao! so we went to the recommended ginseng chicken soup shop! It is quite famous and is near the palace! We were in the right direction but we walked so quite long haven reach so we decide to ask 2 policemen. haha and they very kind escort us there! hahahh escorted by police to eat ginseng chicken!


the ginseng chicken shop! 土俗村

the soup with 1 chicken inside, see the 2 small cups? they are ginseng wine!

this is our tag, use this to pay at the counter

after we ate!

we walked out then i realised that there is 烧鸡! shag! heng
we will be back again on the last day

Then we went to walk walk at insadong, here sells a lot of korea souvenir and hand made stuffs. a lot of roadside stalls also. Then we went to Ssamziegil, also in insadong, it is a mall with a lot of small shops selling trending stuffs. After long walking at insadong, our light dinner is at 宫饺子 which we onli order 6 and share. i find the 饺子 ok onli.

insadong

the onli Starbucks signboard in the world written in Korean

fried potato coil with cheese powder

Ssamziegil, most trendy and new mall in insadong

宫饺子

cup noodles and "fishcake" we bot the night b4

cooking the fishcake! service apartment is good, can cook

the table is like a drawer with roller! save space...

Our day ended back in hotel cooking 泡面 cos the dinner is too light liao! hahaha. The fishcake is korean's fav i think, cos most of the 路边摊 got sell also.

Cheers, 全部的神仙保佑我吧！

Seoul Day 1 - Arrival and Dongdaemun!

Monday, June 8, 2009 @ 12:54 PM

We set off on 21st May from SG to HK. Cos we took cathay and is not a direct flight! For me i dun mind stopping over at HK cos i love her and i was so excited about HK that i asked for the arrival card!!! hahaa... We reached HK at about 10plus nite time. Our next flight is 0020 thus we have ard 1 hr to slack and we went to relax in a cafe.

our plane at Changi!

on the plane!

After another 4 hours flight from HK we finally reach seoul! I was lucky cos the 3 seats beside me were empty so i can slp on the plane! Seoul is 1 hr ahead of us. So we reached around 5am in the morning. 5 am is pretty bright there already. 1st thing we do is to buy T-money, which is their ezlink.

on AREX to change to subway line

early morning AREX no ppl one

the panel tat shows where u are

Then we took AREX which is their airport express to change subway to our hotel. Our service apartment is located at Dongdaemun Stadium which i mistook to be Dongdaemun Station, my bad and we had to change train again. Our luggages are quite heavy loh, but luckily is onli one station difference.

The description on the apartment's website says 60m from exit 12 of the station but is not true! We walked like maybe 600m? haha. It took us like almost 2 hours to travel from airport to the apartment. 1st timer, it can be faster de. But this is the cheapest method cos it cost less than 5k won ($6) per pax.

We can't check in yet cos the staff says check in time is 2pm so we left our luggage and went for breakfast! The very 1st Korean restaurant we went in we have language barrier liao. In the end we resort to pointing at the pictures. haha...


the setting of a typical korean rest

the owner, we think he looks like 小新's dad

xy and reen

side dishes, kimchi and xyz

reen's order - korean 泡面

this is smth like 鱼片汤 but is nicer! the soup is tasty!

luckily got pics

After breakfast is onli ard 11 am so we went to walk ard. We went to this shopping mall call hello APM. There is a few apm in korea, they are sister shopping mall i think. Every level has their own categories just like normal shopping mall but the onli difference is tat they do not have a shop and is more like a stall. We were all very tired cos we nv slp well on plane and i was dozing off while shopping with them at the accessories lvl! hahaha...

hello apm

looking at dresses

We then went back to the hotel lobby to rest, and 3 of us fell asleep on the sofa. Woke up like 45 mins later and asked for check in and they let us check in! like half an hr earlier. Maybe they pity us... The room is quite big, everything is for 2 so we asked for extra pillow and towel. Then we decide to slp till dinner time then go out again!

our room, on the left of my luggage is 2 working desks

our beds, which we combined to one

facing the bed is TV! but is not LCD like wat i saw from website!

After nap, we went out again! First was dinner at a porridge stall which turn out to be a pleasant surprise! The Kimchi tuna porridge is very nice! As we were staying in dongdaemun area, shopping is really convenient for us! Dongdaemun shopping is divided into 2 parts - wholesale and retail. There is really a lot to shop! But not all the shop inside the wholesale mall are willing to sell one piece de.

kimchi tuna porridge!

side dishes, 紫菜，苏东, tuna and raddish

seafood porridge

doota shopping centre (retail)

Area 6 (wholesale)

U:US (wholesale)

路边摊 - 炒年糕，炸鱼，寿司

Mr WoW sausages

The porridge are not tat filling so we went to roadside stalls and bot sausage while walking ard too! Is again 买东西吃东西，买东西吃东西! hahaha. We then went to the tourist information to ask where exactly is all the pasar malam cos we feel tat it is not 热闹 enuf as described by the 天书 i had. Then the person told us bcos of the rain most of the stalls will open at ard 10pm instead of their usual 8pm. And true enuf at 10 plus the market is like just started!!! Really can shop till 天亮. After another hour of shopping, we went to buy some snacks and drinks from the super mart and return to apartment.

To be continued... Day 2.

Cheers, 全部的神仙保佑我吧！

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