Bitter-Sweet Life

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The days are passing fast and we are about

to end the Korea trip soon in

another 4 more days.

I had my Banana Milk early in the morning

before leaving the hotel for breakfast

It's my forever craving when I am in Korea

and everyday must have one bottle

For breakfast,

we went to queue up for Issac!

It's very famous among the locals and

foreigners. Their queue early in the morning is horrendous and

we waited for about 30-45 minutes before we could order ours.

Issac Myeongdong Branch

Direction: Myeongdong (Line 4), Exit 6

Walk straight for 10 minutes

Look at the queue! We are at least behind 15 people

Finally reaching the store and able to catch a glimpse

of the menu

Ajumma preparing the bread and eggs for the toast

From opposite the street!

I ordered Potato toast while my sister and Huimin

order Bulgogi MVP. They still don't understand

why would I choose to order Potato Toast instead of others sandwich.

하하!

I am a huge fan of potato and will never take the chance

off any food with potato.

Although, it has no meat just potato but it is still nice.

My Potato Toast (Bread, Cheese, Egg and Hashbrown)

Finally, we get hold of the our piping hot sandwich

Love the sun rays shining

Sister can't wait to satisfy her craving

after months and she has been pestering me

to bring her to get Issac even when we

are still in Singapore

We slowly make our way to Namdemun as we enjoyed

our sandwiches on the way. Namdemun is just

walking distance from Myeongdong so don't have to

waste your T-money just to take a stop from Myeongdong.

Namdemun Market

Direction: Hoehyeon Station (Line 4), Exit 5 and 6

Our first stop at Namdemun is to visit Shinshigae Departmental Store

as Huimin needs to help her friend get products from Sulwashoo

and apparently only Shinshigae has their counter.

(A little unbelievable)

While, my sister and Huimin were at Sulwashoo,

I went around the different counter trying on their sample products

and am feeling a bit Aunty to do that.

히히!

After making payments and getting the Tax Rebate done,

we went shopping at Namdemun Market.

It is a very huge place with at least 3 shopping building selling

from children to adults apparels.

They even have just one entire building dedicated to

children' apparels, which wasn't pricey and you can

bargain a little with the vendor.

All the shopping buildings took us at least few hours

to finish looking and exploring the place.

We bought a few pieces of children clothes for the kids

in our life and it's all fashionable clothes.

Coming out from one of the building, we saw this

pushcart selling children clothes at only 5000 KWR per piece.

(Whatt??? Total mind blown)

Of course, we did not missed the chance but I gave up shortly

because the whole pushcart is so messy and everyone

is like digging from under. With my OCD, I can't see myself doing it.

In the end, my sister managed to dig out a few nice tights and clothes

for my nieces .

Street market at Namdemun was very huge and sells a variety of stuffs

from clothes to food to cosmetics and souvenirs.

So, I urged you to just get your souvenirs there as

there is no where would see cheaper than Namdemun Market.

I bought a couple of traditional purse there for my Mom

to give to her friends as souvenirs from us,

which every single time I would buy and let her give out.

Namdemun Market would spend you half a day or more

depending on your shopping speed.

After Namdemun Market, we returned back to

the hotel to put down our stuffs from Namdemun

and started chilling in the room before heading out to Dongdaemun

in the evening.

(P.S. It's a relax trip as sister can't be stress.) 하하!

Dongdaemun

Direction: Dongdaemun (Line 4), Exit 8 or 9

Dongdaemun has 4 shopping malls

(Doota, Migliore, Maxstyle, Good Morning, Hello Apm)

Doota and Maxstyle are more of a high-end shopping

and you can't bargain with the vendors there

so if you are going on a budget trip then you can give these a missed.

As for Migliorie, it is 7 storey high selling from

clothes to accessories to luggages. Most of their items

are of affordable prices and able to bargain.

Some of their styles in Migliorie might not suit the

Singaporean styles and not much of a choice.

I only managed to buy 3 clothes from there

and MANY accessories.

Don't have to worry about time constraint,

they are open till 5 am in the morning so

you can go have dinner or supper then continue

you shopping agenda.

But, for us,

we decided to end our shopping agenda

after we finished with all the malls and head for dinner

at this Korean BBQ restaurant.

First BBQ of the trip

Kimchi Tofu Stew

Beef Soup

The Ajummas there were very friendly and kind.

They taught us how does the locals there

had their BBQ. She even wrapped

the BBQ with rice and vegetable for us, even

feed us with it.

Awww, felt so loved in Korea.

After the meal,

we headed back to the hotel to wash up

and catch K-Drama and Produce 101 again.

That's always the highlight of the night!

That's all for Day 7

and I will be back for Day 8 soon.

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Hello! I'm Joan.
I lived in the little red dot of the earth.
This blog records down the places I travel, nice foodies I eat, skincare and make up that I tried.

I love photography, sunset & sunrise, Seoul, My Melody,
Super Junior and my favourite shade is MINT.

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