Seoul First Day

Already one month past since after I went to Seoul. Too busy..hmm or must I say, too lazy, honestly hehehe. Went to Seoul on Oct 21~25 with my younger brother (3 days after back from Hongkong!). Our main purpose going there was for meeting my parents and sister who were joining tour in Korea but at last we only met them 1 day in Everland due their tour schedule suddenly had been changed T_T.
Our ticket quite cheap. Only 23,200yen + tax 9250yen. We would not be informed what flight and what time will we have until 10 days before the departure. Well, since it is not my first trip to korea, it was ok for me. Cheaper ticket is better. Quite lucky we had Asiana Airline and could earn 1000 more mileage on this low fare (I thought I can't earn miles from this kind of budget ticket). Flight time was not bad too!

We supposed to arrive at the guest house on 5 PM but we didn't notice when the bus driver asked if anyone getting off at the stop that we would like to go. How could we understand what he talking about as he spoke korean!!! (-_-); Feeling fishy so I went to ask the driver but he dun understand english at all.... Thank God that there are 2 ajuma in the bus who are working as a tour guide. They don't speak english but japanese ^^; As the result, we keep stay at the bus till the last stop and turn back again to our bus stop and arrive at guest house at 6 PM! (_-_)

First night stayed at Daehangno (대학로). We had booked a room in a guest house nearby (Windroad Guest House). The peoples in there very friendly. We have a nice talk at there. But too bad, we don't like the room. We got a private room as we requested but we had to enter the dormitory before enter our room. When we coming back at night and going out at early morning, it makes us feel like we are disturbing another guest who are sleeping in the dormitory. We don't like that feeling. And the room that we saw in web is different! The room was as big as shown, but not 2 single bed in the room. It was 2 single beds place closely and 1 bunk bed. You can imagine how narrow the room is. So that, we decided to check-out at the next day. It was 34,000won per room per day.

We just explore around Daehangno and Myeongdong at first day. Quite funny in first day as we didn't know how to order in the food stall. We saw an odeng (fish cake) stall which full with customers. It must be delicious, we think. But at the end, we left the stall cause after standing at there for a while, as no body told us how to order!! hahaha Too stupid :P Everything goes well when we visit another stall. Become cleverer after explore more stall hehe (anyway, we still stupid when we take the cold tempura just like that and didn't know that we can ask ajuma to warm it up hahaha stupid! stupid!) Then we also had dalg gochi (kinda chicken satay or japanese will say it yakitori) at Myeongdong.

Okay, that was a small stall and we just stand at the front of stall while we are eating. Next we went to bigger stall, so we just sit down and order soju. They brought us a bowl of mussel with soup. Hmm.. we didn't order mussel... maybe everyone will eat mussel so every guest coming they will serve mussel, we think... after waiting a while, still... our soju haven't coming. We asked them again to bring us soju. "Anju! Anju!" the ajuma replied us. Hmm? Is she asking us to sit down and wait? gee.. what must we do??!!

Seeing we confused, there were 3 kind girls helped us. One of them can speak english a bit. She told us that we can't order only soju. We must order the food as well. And the mussel, it was free! No wonder they serve us the mussel even though we didn't order it :)
Then the kind girls helped us to order a bowl of snail, same as the mussel, it come with the soup. All the dishes very tasty especially had it with the soju hehehe

Back to the guest house, a japanese girl who is a friend of the guest house owner told me "anju" means snack and "anjo" means sit down. OOOoooo I thought the ajuma told me to sit-down, but actually she were asking me to order a snack hehehe Must learn korean more ^^;
She also told me that almost every stall have different system. Just like the stall we visited, the customer have to order the original food from the stall first before order a drink. :)

Although we had some problems in a short day, we found it was a splendid day. Found that the koreans really helpful :)




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