3D2N solo trip in Edinburgh

Hello!!! Apologies for not updating this space... I had every intention to write abt my Taiwan trip, and continue on abt my trip to Seoul, Taiwan, Prague, Rome etc but evidently, it's not gonna happen cos I'm soooo busy with school! In case you're wondering, I'm currently in my final year in dental sch!

Anywayz I'll try my bestest to keep this blog alive by updating once in a while (Eg. whenever I go on a trip) Even if it's just one entry, it's better than nothing right? Hehe so anyway I had a long weekend since it was Bank holiday on Monday. Decided to visit Edinburgh by myself since I haven't been there and it's too much of a hassle tryna find someone to go with me. I'd like to think that I'm pretty independent!

So it's my second time traveling alone! My first solo trip was almost 4yrs ago to Amsterdam! You can read abt it here! Edinburgh is a rather safe city so if you're looking to travel somewhere alone for a short trip, Edinburgh would be a good place to go!

Made a short video of my trip to Edinburgh! It covers most of the things I did on my 3D2N stay! Pity I didn't get to to the top of Arthur's Seat cos it was simply too windy and I gave up halfway (well I was approximately 10min frm the peak but it was drizzling and the wind was so strong, I really thought I was gonna be blown away!)

Anyhowz, here's the video, hope you enjoy it!



The honey-lemon lookalike drink at 2:14 is called Hot Toddy which is basically hot whisky with lemon and spices! It's the best drink ever! Plz try it when you're in Scotland, tastes nothing like whisky! Very sweet! And of cos featuring deep fried mars bar (and my greedy face) and the best baked potato ever with mushroom and sour cream and cheese! Yum!!!!

That's all for now! Till the nxt time! X

I love Taiwan Part 1: Taipei -- Where to stay

Hi guys! I decided to stop being so lazy and start blogging abt my Taiwan trip! Since I spent 19 days in Taiwan, it's probably gonna take me ages to blog abt my whole trip haha. I've yet to blog abt my trip to Prague, Rome and Belgium cos I'm lazy (and busy) like that, but well I will try my best!!!!

I LOVE TAIWAN!!!

So this was my first time to Taiwan and prior to my trip, I was pretty thrilled! Did quite a bit of research and since I was there for almost 3 wks, I managed to visit most of the places on my list!
In case you're curious as to why I was in Taiwan for such a long period, it was becos I did my dental elective in Taipei and was attached to the hospital there for 2 wks! Did a bit of travelling over the weekends to other cities like Kenting and Taichung and also explored the outskirts of Taipei!

I actually stayed in 2 different hostels when I was in Taipei -- H132 Hostel and Flip Flop Hostel. The reason why I stayed in 2 different hostels was becos H132 Hostel was fully booked for a certain period, hence my friends and I were forced to move elsewhere.

H132 Hostel

No. 132, Section 1
Zhongshan North Road,

Zhongshan District
台北市中山區中山北路一段132號,

Nearest MRT station: Zhongshan 中山

Lounge area

 

Sorry, I only took 2 pictures becos our room was TOO messy and I can't possibly take a photo of a messy room right? Please check out their tripadvisor page for more reviews and photos: http://www.tripadvisor.ie/Hotel_Review-g293913-d1951662-Reviews-H132_Hostel-Taipei.html

If I were to visit Taipei again, I would DEFINITELY choose to stay in H132 Hostel. This place was my so-called "home" for 13 days and it was one of the most comfortable hostels I've been in.

The location itself is superb! It's just a 5 minutes walk away frm Zhongshan MRT station, and Zhongshan MRT station itself is just 1 MRT stop away frm Taipei Main Station (where you'd get the bus/ high speed rail) There are loads of convenient stores located arnd the hostel and there is also a departmental store and supermarket in the area.

The hostel itself is very clean. There is a no shoes policy in the hostel, meaning you have to remove your shoes at the reception and change into a pair of indoor slippers. The toilets were cleaned everyday and I have absolutely no complaints with regards to the toilet! The wifi may be slightly weak in the rooms but it wasn't too bad (Okay no sometimes I really wanted to throw my phone against the wall lol...) There's a stronger connection if you were to use the wifi in the reception area/ common lounge area.

I stayed in a 4-bedded dorm (without ensuite toilet) with my friends and honestly, the room was kinda small but well, I got used to it after a while! There were 2 double-decker beds, each had 2 charging points right beside the bed lamp.

The thing I like the most abt H132 Hostel was its friendly staff! They were exceptionally helpful throughout my stay! They had no qualms abt helping me make restaurant reservations, helping me google up stuff and they even used google maps to help me locate a place I wanted to visit, and printed out the map for me.

If you're thinking of visiting Taipei, I'd strongly recommend that you book your stay with H132 Hostel!!!

Flip Flop Hostel

No. 103, Huayin St

Datong District

華陰街103號

Nearest MRT station: Taipei Main Station 台北車站

Sorry I didn't take any pictures since I was only here for 2 nights but you can check out their website for more info: http://www.flipflophostel.com/

As much as I love H132 Hostel, I've to admit that the location of Flip Flop Hostel was slightly better than H132 Hostel. Flip Flop Hostel is just opposite Q Square at Taipei Main Station. It was extremely convenient but I still prefer H132 Hostel.

The rooms in Flip Flop hostel are a lot bigger than that of H132 Hostel. However, Flip Flop Hostel did not feel like a "home" to me? The staff weren't as friendly and when I asked for help regarding some place I wanted to visit, they merely showed me the location on a laptop, but did not offer to print out the map for me. Also, they charged me for printing my boarding pass!

Given the choice, I'd still pick H132 Hostel but Flip Flop Hostel isn't a bad alternative haha.

That's all for now! Promise to update this space with my Taiwan adventures really soon! X

 

19 days in Taiwan

Hi! Sorry for neglecting this space for such a long time but I just got back frm Taiwan 2 days ago! Sigh, I miss Taiwan alr! If you're thinking of visiting somewhere in Asia for a cheap and fun getaway (besides Bangkok), plz do consider Taiwan!!!

Made a short video of my trip in Taiwan, featuring Taipei, Kenting, Taichung and the outskirts of Taipei! Captured  and edited everything using my iPhone! Still a n00b at editing videos but I tried my best! Hope you enjoy the video!!!

Rome: The best gelatos in town

Hi!!! I'm finally done with my exams and back frm my short trip to Prague and Rome! In fact, I just got back from Rome ytd night! I had a wonderful time in both places and can't wait to share my experience with everyone!

Decided to do a short entry on the gelatos I've tried in Rome cos I really don't wanna start studying for my multi-station exams nxt wk (lol procrastinating again...) Anyhowz, I had so much gelato during my 5 days in Rome! I had a cup everyday and on some days, I had 2 cups!!! Sucha pig!
I knw gelato is somewhat different frm ice cream but sorry, I'm just a dental student, so I can't appreciate the difference between the two. Kinda googled a bit on this and read that there's different milk/ cream content and fat content in both of them but whatever, both gelato and ice cream are cold, taste good and are comfort food to me!!! So to me, they are essentially the same thing, end of story.

If you didn't knw, I used to work part time in an ice cream shop before I started college, so I can be rather picky when it comes to ice cream! Hopefully this will be an accurate review of what to expect of Italian gelatos!

Oh and almost all of the gelato places don't have an English signboard so it'll be good to know what some Italian words mean otherwise you wouldn't knw what you're ordering! Here's a list of the basic flavours you might come across:
Cioccolato -- chocolate
Bacio - chocolate and nuts
Stracciatella -- chocolate chips
Cannella -- cinnamon
Mandorla -- almond
Nocciola -- hazelnut
Crema -- egg custard
Fragola -- strawberry
Lampone -- raspberry
Albicocca -- apricot
Mela -- apple
Ananas -- pineapple
Malaga -- rum and raisin

During my trip, I made it a point to check out at least 1 popular gelateria in Rome everyday! Here are the few places I visited:

Gelateria I Caruso

Via Collina 13-15
Nearest metro stop: Repubblica

 

After dinner on the first night, I was still feeling a little peckish and was craving for some gelato. Decided to google the nearest gelateria in the area and found I Caruso! Took a slow walk over and got myself a small cup -- biscotti and pistachio flavour!

Sad to say... the gelato here was just average? It wasn't spectacular and the sccoper couldn't really speak English/ he didn't really seem interested in serving me. I absolutely cannot tolerate bad service (lol when I worked part time as a scooper, I made a point to smile whenever I served ice cream to the customers)

 

So will I go back for more gelato? The answer is... NO! This place is kinda out of the way unless you're staying near the area. And although there's a wide variety (abt 15 flavours), most places in Rome offered a wide selection of flavours too. SKIP.

 

Grom

6 outlets including:

Via della Maddalena 30A

Nearest landmark: Pantheon

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greedy face

I visited Grom twice! Not becos I love it, but becos I wanted to try their other flavours lol. And also, cos it was conveniently located and the queue wasn't too crazy. I tried their strawberry, egg cream, apple pie and one other flavour which I cannot rmb (haha probably means that the flavour wasn't that amazing) The apple pie flavour was their flavour of the month and it was pretty nice with little bits inside! The egg cream tasted pretty weird to me...

Even though the ice cream was pretty much average too, I kinda like this place? It seemed more organized than the other gelaterias I visited and the servers were nice and didn't rush me even though I took a while to decide on what flavours to get.

 

Verdict: I will probably pop by to get a gelato fix if I'm craving for one and I see a Grom outlet around!

 

Giolitti

Via Uffici del Vicario 40
(Just round the corner frm Grom, Via della Maddalena branch)

Nearest landmark: Pantheon

 

 

He was juggling between 2 cones!

Haha ice cream on his face!

 

Giolitti is perpetually crowded. We walked past it twice and both times, it was packed!!! Read that this was the oldest ice cream parlour in Rome. Hmm maybe that's why it attracts so many tourists.
Unlike the other places, you're supposed to pay at the counter and get your receipt to claim your scoops at the gelato counter. There's a wide variety of flavours here but becos everyone's crowding around the display, so it's pretty hard to see what flavours are available. And also, everything's in Italian so I've no idea what flavours there are except for the basic few.

Read online that this place served really good nutella ice cream so I tried that. Got the scooper to recommend me a flavour and when I say recommend, I expected him to tell me what's good but he just scooped sth and placed it on my cone??? I don't even knw what he gave me... I think it's cream or sth along those lines. NOT impressed by his attitude.
The nutella was really thick. It didn't taste so much like ice cream though. It was more of like eating nutella out of the tub, except it's less viscous. I love nutella but I didn't enjoy the nutella gelato. It's too thick and after a few licks, I felt kinda grossed out cos I couldn't stop thinking abt the amount of calories lol. The other flavour wasn't anything special, in fact it was rather meh. Got a feeling the scooper just gave that flavour to me cos it was right in front of him and he wanted me to chop chop hurry go.

Verdict: I'd say check this place out when you're in Rome simply becos it's the oldest ice cream parlour and it's really popular with tourists. But I probably won't head back there becos it's just too crowded and in my honest opinion, the gelato was just average. Maybe it's cos I got the wrong flavours?
Oh and although Giolitti is a café, you're not allowed to sit down to have your gelato unless you order sth else frm the café. So basically, everyone just stands outside to eat their gelato!

San Crispino

5 outlets including:

Via della Panetteria 42

Nearest metro station: Barberini

 

Feeling really excited abt my ice cream!

 

This place is famous for their honey flavour! I got myself honey, ginger cinnamon and one other flavour which I cannot rmb haha. The honey was pretty nice but it wasn't wowza. Ginger cinnamon was okay too, nothing fantastic.

Plus points to San Crispino for having lovely scoopers who didn't rush me to decide on my flavours and they even made the effort to joke with me even though there were people queueing up behind me! All ice cream shops shld be giving off these kinda vibes!

 

Verdict: I promised the scoopers I'd go back for more ice cream (simply becos they were really nice to me) but I didn't have the time to make a trip back! What a pity! But yes, do visit this place for their honey ice cream!

 

Flor

4 outlets including:

Via Cavour 337

Nearest metro station: Colosseo

 

 

 

 

OMG I LOVE THIS GELATERIA THE MOST!!!!! Plz visit this place when you're in Rome! They've outlets in other parts of the world too! And I just found out that they're opening an outlet in Singapore!!!! I am so excited!

I visited this place TWICE on my last day in Rome simply cos I couldn't get enough of their gelato! Their pomegranate flavour was absolutely divine!! It was really refreshing and I really love it!!! I tried their tiramisu, cherry and Sicilian cassata cake flavour! All were really good too!
The ice cream shop I worked at before served one of the best tiramisu ice cream I've ever had and Flor's tiramisu was equally good!

The scooper was really nice! Becos it was kinda quiet in the morning and we were the only customers, she allowed us to sample most of the flavours they had. I'm so glad I sampled the pomegranate flavour becos it's just not one of the flavours I'd usually go for. I don't usually get fruity flavours unless it's banana (I love bananas!!!) But the minute I tried the pomegranate flavour, it was really love at first lick... I'm still thinking abt it now!!!

If you only have time to visit 1 gelateria in Rome/ can only afford enough calories for 1 scoop of gelato, plz just go for the pomegranate flavour in Flor!!!!! You definitely won't regret it!

Gelateria Old Bridge

3 outlets including:

Via della Scala 69-70
(In Trastevere)
 

 

 

Old Bridge was kinda like a chance finding! It was on my list of gelato places to visit in Rome but I thought they only had one outlet near Vatican City. And since it was too much of a hassle to go back to Vatican City to find this gelateria, I decided to skip it.

 

So when I walked past Old Bridge in Trastevere, I was like, "Wait a minute, is this the famous Old Bridge gelateria?" The shop looked really basic! There were no fancy sign boards etc. I was really skeptical initially. I thought maybe it's a "fake" Old Bridge gelateria haha. But anyway I decided to try their gelato just in case it's the "real" famous Old Bridge.

 

And after the first lick, I was convinced that this place is the real deal! The gelato was really good!!!! I had their hazelnut and another flavour which I really can't rmb! And the hazelnut was really good! Very rich and creamy! I love it!

If you're in Trastevere, plz visit this place for some gelato! Alternatively, you can check out their outlet near Vatican City!

 

That's abt all the gelato places I visited during my trip! I can't believe I ate so much gelato during my trip! Just thinking abt the amount of fats I needa shed makes me wanna cry. But it's okay, I mean after all, it's not everyday that I get to have such awesome gelatos.

 

Stay tuned for more of my adventures in Rome and Prague! X

Update

Hihi!!! Haven't posted here for a long long time cos I've been really busy with sch and my exam's coming up! But good news is I'm going to Prague and Rome after my exams in April and then to Belgium for a short weekend trip in May! I've also just applied to Taiwan for my electives and if nothing goes wrong, I'll be spending 2 wks in Taiwan!!! Woohoo! I've nvr been to Taiwan before so I'm really excited abt it! And I've yet to work out my finances but if possible, I'm thinking of heading over to Seoul for a few days after Taiwan!

Easter and summer holidays sound exciting alr! Now I've just gotta get through my exams and 4 more months of sch!!! Will update this space in April! X

Seoul: Jjimjilbang, Noryangjin fish market, Ehwa Woman's University and Lotte Mart

Yay I'm finally gonna continue writing abt my Seoul trip!

(You can read the first part on what to eat in Seoul here: http://weilingweilingweiling.blogspot.ie/2013/11/seoul-cos-stuffing-your-face-with-good.html)

I love Seoul becos there are so many things to do and so many places to visit! On my second trip to Seoul with my best friend, Ashley, we tried our best to fit in with the other Koreans and went to some of the places typical Koreans would visit. Really enjoyed myself a lot!
So I'm gonna be recommending some of these places today! Do spend some time to check these places out when you're in Seoul!

Jjimjilbang

찜질방

 

Becos I'm a Korean drama fan and 1 in 10 Korean dramas feature a sauna/ bath-house scene, I figured that I HAD to check out this place when I visit Seoul! I had a rough idea of what to expect from all the Korean dramas and I was super excited abt my virgin experience! We decided to go to Silloam Fire Pot Sauna since I've read good reviews abt the place online.

Silloam Fire Pot Sauna
실로암불가마사우나
128-104 Jungrim-dong

Jung-gu
Nearest train station: Seoul

 

Directions frm Seoul station:

Walk to Lotte Mart

Walk towards Korea Economy Daily News for 30m

Turn left
 

We took a cab there and arrived at slightly past 9pm. Most jjimjilbangs open 24/7. At Silloam, it costs abt 15,000 won per person (SGD$17) for bath and sauna when you visit after 8pm. And you are allowed to stay until 5am the nxt day aka you can slp there if you want! Hee hee I'm so gonna do that the nxt time I visit Seoul and save on a hotel night stay!

 

So basically, you are provided with t-shirt and shorts which you are to change into when you enter the place. There are female and male changing rooms with lockers provided for you to lock away your belongings. After you get changed, you can start to explore the place!

 

In our cute matching sauna attire and a towel wrapped around our head hehe!

Korean jjimjilbangs are srsly the bombz! There are so many facilities available in one building. In my opinion, it shld be called an entertainment centre instead of a bath-house. So basically, Silloam is a 5-storey building with facilities which include sauna, beauty salon, gym, PC rooms, snack bars and a Korean restaurant.

 

At the main area where there are massage chairs and a TV with mats for you to lie on

So there are many different sauna rooms in a jjimjilbang, including an ice room, oxygen room, jade fire sweating room, salt sweating room etc. Each room has a different temp and are said have various effects (Eg. Circulate physical energy and restore vitality, relieve shoulder aches etc)
We checked out every room in the place and I have to say that some of the hot rooms are really HOT. After staying in the room for 2-3mins, I could feel my contact lenses melting in my eyes and it was so painful! That was when Ashley and I would run out of the hot room and dash towards the ice room (where it's -10 degrees) to cool down haha.

Some of the rooms with a more comfortable temp aka air-con kinda temp, tend to get more crowded at arnd 11pm as people who are intending to spend the night in the jjimjilbang start to find a spot to slp. It's actually very comfortable just lying down in one of the rooms and chatting to your friends. Felt really relaxed the entire time!


This room wasn't too hot and yup those holes were made for people to lie in!

One of the extremely hot rooms

Playing arnd with the shovel and yup that's "sand" I think haha

Yay ice room!

Haha Minjung's face reads, "OMG I'M SO COLD!!!"

Minjung helped us with the sheep head towels hee hee so cute right!

So after running arnd the entire place and checking out all the rooms, we decided to sit on the massage chair and enjoy some full body massage. There was this particular machine which was really weird and it made me laugh so much!!! Unlike the normal massage chairs, this machine requires you to lie down on it and it vibrates so hard that all your fats will start to jiggle non-stop. I was laughing so hard the entire time that random old uncles (ahjussi) who were watching TV started staring at me.
Lol but do check out that machine if you visit this place! It was quite fun hahaha.

 

Anywayz after that, we decided to act Korean and get some typical Korean snacks to eat! So Minjung said that we had to eat baked eggs (맥반석) and drink sikhye (식혜) when we visit a jjimjilbang! The baked eggs were really nice, tastes somewhat like normal hard boiled eggs but better! And sikhye is a traditional sweet Korean rice beverage which is made frm cooked rice! Yum!



Posing with our baked eggs and sikhye

So based on what I saw in Korean dramas, you're supposed to crack the egg on your friend's head and then eat it. Ashley and I tried that on each other and here's a video of the process:

Haha this video nvr fails to put a smile on my face. We had so much fun that night!!!

 

YUMMY!!!!!

We decided to leave the place after spending almost 4 long hours there. Just before leaving, we found the hot bath place just beside the female changing room! Well the hot bath place is split into males and females only area, and you're supposed to strip naked before entering the bath place. So essentially, everyone in the hot bath is naked and most people are just chatting to their friends etc. There are many different types of baths including hardwood charcoal bath, wormwood bath, steam jade bath etc and each bath has their own "special effect" like relieving menstruation pain, helping in blood circulation and metabolism etc.
It's sth like Japanese hot spring (onsen), where you get to soak in the hot bath for as long as you like.

It was Ashley's first time to a public bath and she was really shocked when she saw naked women walking arnd lol. I've been to Japanese onsen loads of times when I was younger (my parents LOVE Japanese hot spring) so I'm no stranger to it. I told Ashley that perhaps we shld go to the bath tgt before leaving the place and we almost did, but decided to chicken out at the very last min. Hahaha I guess life wouldn't be the same if I saw Ashley and Minjung naked and vice versa. Imagine how awkward it would be when I see them in sch, lol just joking.
But no, I actually didn't mind going to the hot bath with them but I don't rmb why we chickened out in the end haha. What a pity!

 

Noryangjin fish market

노량진수산시장

13-8, Noryangjin-dong
Dongjak-gu
Nearest train station: Noryangjin

 

Directions frm Noryangjin station:

Take Exit 1

Walk 100m on the overhead bridge
(Alternatively, you can just follow the fishy smell haha)

 

Noryangjin fish market topped my to-do list on my second visit to Seoul! I was really excited abt visiting the fish market and looked forward to indulging in some fresh and cheap seafood! Ashley wasn't too thrilled abt it though cos she hates fish. But she accompanied me still!!! That's what friends are for hee hee.

So we went at abt 1.30pm and the place was pretty quiet. I think we were the only tourists arnd lol. It was so difficult trying to pick a stall to buy frm becos we're n00bs are choosing seafood and I can't really speak Korean so it was a headache trying to bargain etc. Really had no idea which stall had the freshest items but decided to buy frm this stall owner who was able to speak Chinese!
Srsly, the minute she spoke Chinese to me, I was like Hallelujah. It's really frustrating trying to buy stuff from someone you can't communicate with!

Becos I did my research before embarking on the journey to Noryangjin fish market, I knew what I had to order! Ashley and I really wanted to try the Alaska crabs but it was too pricey so we skipped that and got some fresh sashimi, abalone and octopus instead!






Looks like a typical wet market

 

 
 

HUGE scallops!

My first time seeing this and are you thinking what I'm thinking....
This is actually a type of spoon worm, commonly known as penis fish or gaebul.
I didn't order this, can't bring myself to eat it cos it looks so gross.

Octopus (sannakji)

Acting likka tourist and taking pics with stall owner who was able to communicate with us in Chinese!

 

The stall owner who could speak Chinese was quite nice! I wanted to buy fish but I can't find a stall selling live fishes so she brought me to one and helped me talk to the owner in Korean!

Decided on getting seabass (gwang-uh) and the fish stall owner just scooped the fish I chose out of the fish tank, and used a sharp hook to kill the fish on the spot omg. And then he took the dead fish to the back and cut off its head and started slicing it into sashimi slices for us. Talk abt having fresh sashimi lol...




Killing the fish in front of us

Sashimi in progress

So after getting all our fresh seafood frm the wet market, we proceeded to the restaurants located on the 2nd floor of the market! So you're supposed to hand over whatever seafood you've bought frm the wet market and specify how you would like them to cook it.

So we started off our lovely lunch with our freshly sliced seabass sashimi! It's so fresh!!!! And what Koreans would usually do is that they'll bring the fish bones to the restaurant and request the chef to whip up some fish stew (maeuntang) We made the mistake of ordering the spicy version which was really... super spicy for us! It was really quite yummy though!

Seabass sashimi

Spicy fish stew

For our abalone, we decided to have one of them raw, and butter grill the other one. But sad to say, I didn't enjoy both the raw and butter grilled abalone. The abalone was somewhat tough, not as tasty as the ones I've had in Spore hmmm.

Raw sliced abalone

Butter grilled abalone

Scallops -- I forgot how we asked them to cook it

I was determined to try sannakji (산낙지) which is live octopus that is served immediately after it has been cut into smaller piece. It is usually seasoned with sesame oil and you can often see the octopus squirming arnd on the plate. And yup, you're supposed to eat it even when it's squirming arnd!
Becos the suction cups on the octopus are still active, it is possible for small pieces to stick to your mouth or throat while eating. Hence special care must be taken as it runs the risk of being a choking hazard!
I was really apprehensive abt it at first but eventually, I just decided to go for it (#YOLO)



Sannakji, they were squirming all over the plate when it was served

 

Ashley took a video of me trying sannakji for the first time in my entire life:

 

 

In all honesty, it tastes just like normal octopus to me??? I was really scared, so the minute I placed the piece in my mouth, I started chewing really fast cos I didn't want anything to stick to my mouth or throat haha. But anyway, taste wise, nothing spectacular abt this dish.

 

Overall, you shld definitely visit Noryangjin fish market when you visit Seoul! Good and fresh seafood at an affordable price! I'm definitely going back there when I visit Seoul again!

 

Ehwa Woman's University

이화여자대학교

Nearest train station: Ehwa's Woman's University

 

After our satisfying meal at Noryangjin fish market, Ashley and I decided to take the train down to Ehwa Woman's University to shop! We wanted to check out the university, as well as shop arnd the area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The university campus is so nice and modern looking! Walked arnd the campus for a bit and then decided to head to the shopping malls! Read online that shopping in the area was meant to be really good and glad to say, we weren't disappointed at all! There were so many good bargains!!!

If you're a shopaholic, DO NOT miss this place! Saw loads of clothes which were similar to those in Dongdaemun but were much cheaper!

 

Lotte Mart

롯데마트

432 Cheongpa-ro

Jung-gu

Nearest train station: Seoul

 

Decided to act like a Korean again and visited their local supermarket -- Lotte Mart! I had a whole list of food items I wanted to buy back to Spore, some of which included yulmucha (율무차, also known as job's tears tea), chocopie, soju, Market O real brownie.

 

I was really excited abt going to Lotte Mart as I heard that it's massive and there's loads of free goodies for you to sample. I love free food haha!!! #cheapskate



Saw this inside the supermarket! Not sure if they're really planting it to sell or it's just for display???

Just had to pose with these huge watermelons! They're 10kg each and I couldn't even lift it up (TOO HEAVY)

HUGE chicken cutlet

Ashley posing haha

Anywayz there was so many things in the supermarket! It's like a food lover's paradise! And everything was so cheap as well!!! And yes, a lot of free food samples! Ashley and I just kept walking round and round the place and trying out all the free food stuff lol.
And the soju was so cheap!!! It was like SGD$2 for a small bottle. BUY ALL THE ALCOHOL!!!! Just kidding.

If you wanna get any food items frm Seoul, this is the place to go! It's easy to find this supermarket and it's huge. You can definitely find whatever you're looking for there!

Okay that's all for now! Will continue my entry on Seoul soon! Nxt up, Everland and Bukchon Hanok Village! Stay tune! X