Destination 5.1.2 : Castle + Double Shopping + Clubbing

Should be consider day 3 (actually is 2nd day only)
woke up a bit late today

went to a palace called 경북궁 (kyeong-puk-gong i guess)

then we only set that we meet after 30mins
cuz it seems small from outside

but then after we reached the garden

only we knew how big it is...
we need 1.5hours to visit every unit i guess
+ the road wasn't convenient at all


when we reached a pagoda
it's not within the palace
30mins almost passed
so we planned to go back
but we saw soh yee was walking up the hill
so we spent a bit more time there
then it ended up we got lost

due to road blocks and
those road we followed didn't lead us to the direction we facing...
phy and i were late for 30mins >.< (really OMG) after this we visited the museum next door for 15mins and i collected stamp on postcard it's nothing much to see in museum but it's FREE i think every museum in korea is FOC then we moved on to another destination in our plan we wanted to go to another palace forgot the name, should be 장덕궁 (chang-duk-gong) but it's a palace with something special called the secret garden it cost 5000won to enter the secret garden and we need a tour guide to bring us there we need to be there on time to get a tour guide else we won't be able to enter but then the entrance to the palace is charged separately it'll be another extra 2400won since we haven't take any breakfast or lunch yet and it's already 1.30p.m. so we decided to eat 1st then only come back for 2.30p.m. if we can make it so we searched somewhere around the station area and found a street of food
but a lot of japanese food
so we went to some cheaper restaurant
and this is my lunch
korean pan mee XD


after that
we walked to 인사동 (insadong)
a street of hmmm... shopping?
a lot of art thingy sold here
we planned spent 2 hours here

there's a really nice looking building with something like
cray, drawing and whatsoever

these are clays...

then along the street
a lot of good looking snacks shop

so my plan was...
walk faster till the end and start walking back and buy whatever i want
since i walked so fast
i'm not so sure where's the rest of the people already

then i was returing
i bought this for my sis

cost around 13,000won (~RM50)
i'm sure she like it (and i hope so >.<) and nice looking snacks

then i saw the rest of the people still walking down
omg... they're so slow
it's around 1/4 of the street only and 1.3 hours is already gone...
so they just keep walking and i stopped by a coffee shop

it's the bunting at the entrance attractted me to stop by actually


the rice cake at the bottom there is nice
soft and good tasting
it's together with the red bean paste above one
there's chestnut included in them
so the chestnut is actually the secret for them
then the snack on the left is FOC i guess
the drink on the right is the 5 flavour tea
looks weird cause it's red in color
and very sour in taste

meet the rest of the gang when it's almost the time
+ i forgot to buy my sis some very cute looking pouch
that i saw around the starting of the street...

next station
bukit bintang of seoul, 명동 (myeongdong)

it's more like hmmm... maybe shinjuku of japan (i guess)

since i'm not sure what to buy here
i just follow murphy to find his cap
the store is MLB, seems really famous in korea
as everybody on the street is wearing this
while phy was choosing his hat...
i saw one really nice and it cost 99,000 won (~RM270)
omg... the cap is very nice looking
that time i hope phy can leave the shop quickly
so i won't be thinking of getting that cap...
but he spent almost 30mins there >.< and luckily i didn't bought that since there's still some time we went up to some music store was helping my sis to check for japanese album it's more expensive than what we can get in msia so ignore that but the korean album here is very cheap 3 album i bought Bigbang 4th mini album
GD and Top album

and 2NE1 1st album

each of them cost around RM40 only
with nice packaging and nice printing booklet
free posters are included in these new album too XD

then the dinner for today was
Ginseng Chicken Broth (recommended by Ms. Mengwei)
very famous here she said

i chose the normal chicken with wild ginseng 18,000 won
this meal included
Ginseng wine, alcohol taste quite strong actually
then glutinous rice, nothing special i guess
and the main one, the chicken broth
glutinous rice, herbs and ginseng is wrap within the chicken
so the chicken is filled with glutinous rice actually
the problem of this is just that i taste no ginseng...
maybe it's because i didn't pour the alcohol

since some of the people were tired so they went back
Mengwei, Zhengjing, Murphy and I still wandering around
cause they wanted to buy some bernie and glove for ski tomorrow

when we went back
sombody asked us to go for nightlife
it's recommended by a lot of people
the china gals we met at the subway when we just arrived
our lecturer, dr wong
and the High Park Hotel Owner, Jina
since it's recommended by so many people
why should we hold back

there's a lot of funny stuff happened here
it's already 0030 so we need to rush for train
soh yee still asking for a lot of stuff from owner
then while reaching the station, ken forgot to bring his transport ticket
so he went back and talked with Jina happily

when we reached there, it's the last train already and the station is closing
we chose the exit with most people walking
we couldn't find so we asked somebody there
and there's only 1 club in there... where's the other 10 clubs around?

since it's so late already
just queue up and wait
then Xiang didn't bring his passport in so he cannot go in
they need to check the age limit
Soh Yee and Yvonne didn't want to go in at the counter there...
so ended up only Cong Jie, Murphy and I...
20,000won per head and
they asked us to pay extra 3,000 won for don't know what checking
we didn't really understand so they just let us in without paying the extra 3k

this club, Viva Club
is packed with teenagers
it's only dancefloor, member area (upstair) and small resting area at the back
no table around but the drink bar
stage is only for the DJs



change our drink at the bar there
only a shot of vodka (phy said it's more like tequila)
btw, the drinks there is similar to msia price
tried to go to the stage there
it's so hard that we can hardly move
so just stayed back at where we were



okay now... what do we think about korean?
they are good in dancing right?
actually everybody here only shake the same way...
so... they can't dance i guess
those can dance already moved to TV already i guess

oh... forgot bout something
korean people spit everywhere on the street....
some people even spit in the club okay
SPIT INDOOR... OMG

we left after spending 1 hour there
cause we still need to meet with the rest of the people
so left around 230a.m.
and took cab back
cost around 14,000 won (in meter)
but quite far actually
and there's a lot of traffic lights on the road

that's the end of another day
nice sleep and hope can wake up for another day