Seoul Day 2 - 景福宫 and Insadong Cultural Street

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！