2011.11.08_13_Interesting Places

Everland ThemePark

Personally, I do not like artificial / fake buildings. This theme park is mainly for teenagers. Love its wooden made roller coasters. It is the steepest in the world presents sudden drops and sharp rises at 104 km per hour. It's about 3 minutes journey n can make ur heart stop beating. I spent more than one hour in queue. But, it's worth. Dun think i will pay a second visit for this Genting-look-alike place.

There is a safari park in this theme park, a "liger" -> lion + tiger breed. Never encounter with this creature before. Kinda strange...

Mt Sorak

Mt Sorak is one of the famous national park in Korea. The sightseeing view was superb and the weather on the day we visited was sunny n clear. We went to the middle mountain by cable car. We love all these different colours auntumn season leaves haha...

Hey hey, my new buddy. Both of us look pretty scary, rite?

Nami Island

A piece of land split by dam and become an island, it was private owned by Korean tycoon. It was well-kwown via Korean drama serial : winter sonata. My mum eyes was blinking n overwhelming when she step her foot on this tiny island. The owner is very creative and call this place as Republic of Nami. We need to go through its immigration department to get a visa ( entrance ticket. Well, the allocated time for this island is only 3 hours. It was not enough, i wish i can re-visit this place and have cycling session with someone ;p

My new commerade, Samurai Bug-san in Nami Island, both of us also looks pretty fierce, rite?

Bae Yong Joon, leave her alone. Choi Ji-woo is belongs to me !!!

Nam San Hannock Village + Gyeongbok Palace

Well, not my cup of tea, all the building looks like temple.

Daepohang Fish Market

Im not seafood lover. The end.

The Doota Shopping Mall

This is luxury shopping mall and korean items is much more expensive then KL except its cosmetics products. Six of us bought more than 400 pieces of masks. Hahaha...

My funny sister with poor effect in order to create autumn romantic atmosphere after a lunch break on the street. All of our travel mates imitate us and start throwing leaves.

No doubt, this is one of the best holiday in my life. Very appreciate all of us can make it. Wish my dad n other siblings can join as well.

Officially end of Korea report.

Personal rating : 3.5/5

2011.11.08_13_Korean Trip_Food

Korean food is unique, full of sauces, pickles and multiple side dishes. According to our tour guide, the reason Korean not being attack by SARS disease was probably Korean eat a lot of Kimchi. Kimchi is general term for all the vege marinate with varied seasoning. My fav kimchi is white radish that marinated become yellowish.

I believe most of the Korea kampung / village got all the urns beside its backyard. All the runs contains their daily consume sauce, most of the beans will keep in the urns and let the fermentation works, all the bacteria can live in it happily. Well, it's smelly when u open the lid.

My fav kimchi.. dunno n forgot to note its korean's name.

Typical cabbage kimchi, each Korean has his/her own secret recipe in making kimchi. It's a new experience and taste to try kimchi at respective places.

Eh.. dislike its beansprout/tauge soup... Miso soup is better...

Marinated black bean side dishes taste was very similar with china made can food ( 豆鼓鲮鱼) The seafood kimchi pot soup very thick.. to much tapioca powder.

Can u see the dark noodle on right top? It was mince pork noodle with dark sauce, taste similar with Taiwan mince pork rice ( 鲁肉饭）。

Beef steamboat: we dumb everything in to one frying pan...

Again , seafood steamboat: we dumb everything in to one frying pan... In certain way, feel like Koreans is less creative in preparing food esp on dressing segment hahaha

Fav Chicken BBQ, our lovely tour guide is hilarious. To avoid any conflict, she keep remind us that rice will be served at the end after BBQ. Love the BBQ ingredients: cabbage ( it a MUST in Korean food, beh tahan!!!), fillet chicken ( good for those hate bones), Korean Spicy Rice Cakes (韩国年糕）。The leftover after BBQ will be fired with beansprouts, sweet corn and cabbage.

While we visit one of the famous seafood market, we have stopped and buy ' goreng pisang'. 10 pieces of fried sweet potatoes n fried prawn cost us about MYR15. Have u see the price tag was double layer? Digit 5 is mainly for foreign tourist, local is applicable in digit "1"

The night before we left, our tour guide brought us to Pakistanian Food Restaurant. It was damn weird tht eating roti nan, 'dial soup', samosa n indian curry. Some of our tour mates were overwhelming with 'homefood".

Lastly, a must eat meal: Ginseng Chicken Soup. Apparently, only contains a 2 yrs old little ginseng in this big pot. Korean tradition in eating Ginseng Chicken Soup style is pretty strange for me. They prefer take this meal during SUMMER: a Heating day for a HOT soup ??? Unbelievable. Since I went during autumn season, no local will go for this meal except us. Korean believes that Ginseng can rejuvenate stamina and energy, they will eat this meal at least 3 times during summer: the beginning, mid , and end of summer.

In a nutshell, I did enjoy Korean food.

2011.11.08_13_Korean Trip_Teddy Bear Museum in Seorak

Initially, this museum was not in our tour schedule. I'm not Teddy bear's fan. Most of the tour members are keen to visit these teddy bears even though it cost us USD 8 per ticket. All the gals eyes were 'blinking' when they meet these adorable buddies. OK... let the pic reveals how lovely n innocent they are... bear bear....

The speaker is brown bear bear in front of white house , assuming he is Mr.Obama...hahaha...

Faces of 3 Republic Bear Presidents carved in a cliff, Mt. Rushmore National Memorial,South Dakota, USA.

Japan monkey is really know how to enjoy his life, enjoy hot spring with bear bear together...

I love you you love me

we're a happy family

with a great big hug and a kiss from me to you

wont you say you love me too!

Koh ni chi wah.... Pak kah ya lohhhhh....

An yon hah say yoh.... Antarctica... Korean also quite kiasu ... instead of showing their tradition , they choose to display their adventurous image...

DObriy den'! from Russia ;D

Vodka..vodka...vodka....

Waka waka eh eh...

Tsamina mina zangalewa

This time for africa

Fire of Olympic.... Run.. run ..run...fat chubby bear

Gui lou leong cha.... cheers... yum... seng.......

Row, row , row your boat,

Gently down the steam.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,

Life is but a dream.

Peace, save the planet

My travel kaki...

My fav... a nice n cozy picnic...so harmony...