Friday, December 26, 2014

[Korea,Seoul] Lonely but not lonely Christmas~!

24 Dec 2014

Christmas Eve~

Flying alone again!
 


As usual, took airport limousine 6015 from Incheon Airport to Sejong Hotel station (myeongdong).

Hello Zaza Backpacker! Long time no stay! Hahas~

Am i staying in this 2 bunk bed room just me alone???
Answer = YES!!
WHY THE HELL DO I NEED SO MUCH BEDS?!

Anyway, the very first place to visit after putting down luggage - Myeongdong CGV!
Know what? Today KimWooBin movie 기술자들 (Criminal Designer) just officially release in cinemas!
The very 100% Singaporean kiasu me quickly went down and grab the movie ticket and i really don't mind watching it alone in theater HAHA!!
You know, my Christmas eve ain't lonely with woobin! 
Oh yaa totally no problem watching it without subtitle!

Sinsa-dong, Garosu-gil~
The famous atas shopping streets!

It's freaking -5°C and no problem eating my Softree Honeycomb Ice Cream! 

미스공 떡볶이 (Miss Gong Tteokbokki)
Whoever watched High School : Love On should highly know this place!
I took subway to Hakdong station and went out at exit 10. I would be good if you have GPS with you while getting your way here. If not, do a lot of research before heading out. It's quite easy but difficult to locate as we have to walk through the small alley..

Take note of the address:
60-11 Nonhyeon-dong (13 Nonhyeon-ro 150-gil)
서울시 강남구 논현동 60-11번지

If you are here, of course you won't want to miss out to try this famous tteokbokki!
However is FREAKING DAMN SPICY to me. 

Heading towards Gangnam and the crowd is so scary that i almost can't get out from the subway due to Christmas eve!

Towards a little quiet place - Agreable Flowers & Cafe

Address:
강남구 역삼로 110 Yeoksam-Dong, Kangnam-Gu, Seoul, Korea

Exiting from Gangnam Station exit 4, go straight till the intersection (yeoksam-ro) cross the road and make a left turn. Go straight and the first lane on your right (yeoksam-ro 2-gil) and there you are!
Agreable Flower & Cafe will be just right in front of you.

The hot hibiscus tea warm up my cold christmas eve.

Lastly event of the day!
Sinchon for Christmas COUNTDOWN!!!!
메리크리스마스~!





25 Dec 2014

MERRY CHRISTMAS~!!

Moved to the another room! 
Going to welcome my dear Eviltan & Momoko to join me tonight!

Woollim NIT Coffee

Address: 
서울 마포구 성산동 월드컵북로 23길 13
13, World Cup Buk-ro 23-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea

Take subway to Hongik station and get out from Exit 1. 
Upon exiting exit 1, you would see an busstop on the left. 
Take any of these buses: 7711,7016,7737. That goes to "성산2교".
Alight at 성산2교, cross at the traffic light in front of you and turn right. 
Go straight down until you see the road sign 월드컵북로23길 (Worldcupbuk-ro 23-gil) and turn left and walk straight in. 
NIT coffee will be on your left and Woollim on the right.
(Sorry i'm not quite sure about Woollim Kitchen as when that time of visit Woollim Kitchen isn't ready yet.)
 

I am NOT expecting to see any Infinite members this day as i know that they went to KBS for recording. 
So casually enjoying my coffee and cheesecake.

Suddenly someone look super familiar stepped into the cafe!
Guess who?
LeeSeongYeol?!!!
아니!
LeeDaeYeol!!!!!!
Hahhahhahahaha no sungyeol, daeyeol also good!
But i'm not here as a fangirl, so didn't stand up and approach him. I can't imagine the awkwardness that i would face if i talk to him. 
"Hi, i'm your brother fan, not you" HAHAHA!!


Dango House (단고@홍대)
This is so surprising super delicious! Especially the one with sweet soy sauce!
This Dango house is perfect for ladies who have sweet tooth! But you will defiantly be bloated after eating all of them.

청계천 (Cheonggyecheon Stream)
Need some exercise walking time to digest all the sweet food that i've ate early in the morning.

This is my first time walking this stream during winter.
Previously was during summer where the number of mosquitoes are horrible that i gave up walking halfway.
  Everything seems pretty clean and white during winter!

Walked to Gwanghwamun Square and crossed the road to Gyeongbokgung.
All these are not in my itinerary as this is already my xxx times coming here hahaha!
Just purely passed by as im trying to exercise by not taking subway!

Finally arrived at Tongin Market to take a look at the items that they are selling, as i'm planning to come back here again during my last day to buy some kimchi back home!

Went to Seoul Station and collect our Busan KTX ticket in advance so that we don't have to be so rush tomorrow morning.

Do some LITTLE shopping in Myeongdong while waiting for Eviltan & Momoko flight to arrive at Incheon from Taipei. 
Why do i say little shopping? Because basically i just think that Myeongdong is a place to cheat tourist money!!
It is true that it's convenient if you wanna do your skincare/cosmetic shopping, however if you are a very "gei gao" person like me, go other place buy instead!!
Myeongdong staffs will get you to buy until certain amount eg.₩100,000 in order to get a big amount of freebies that makes your heart itchy. However at other place, u might just need ₩40,000 and you can get the exact same amount of freebies!

The night is getting later and later, but still i don't receive any message from the girls that is supposed to have be touched down.

Went to A Twosome Place for a cup of hot brewed tea with nice sofa seat while continue to wait for them.

Finally the message come in telling me that they are late because of the flight delay earlier on. 

The girls finally arrived and i went to fetch them from the bus stop and up we go to our Zaza Backpacker.

Before the Christmas ends, we had our gift exchange and went out for some BBQ!!!

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Taiwan (Taipei) - November 2014

16 Nov 2014
Day 6


FINALLY we can now get out of Taichung!!!!!
Crazy bitch who planned to stay in Taichung for 6 days... CRAZYYYY!!
Alright, i shall forgive her for bring first time here.

Taipei here we come!

Check in Wonstar Hotel萬事達旅店 located at 五分埔

Firstly we filled up our stomach at 鬍鬚張! This is my xxxxxxx times here and it's my first time trying 鬍鬚張! This is so famous that everyone say it's nice. But to our surprise, it taste extremely sucks as compared to those on the roadside or night market. Seriously it's horrible but why everyone love it so much????
 

Any the way, we started shopping at 五分埔!

Att 4 Fun

Dinner at OPA歐帕希臘小館

Glamair (originally named as "Softree" from Korea)
 

饒河夜市

And the bitch wanna try out taro card reading.. She ended up crying like tap water all because of that bastard who dumped her.. Lame-,-
 

Loots of the day~





17 Nov 2014
Day 7

Booked my Taiwan driver 阿萬 to bring us around today!
We are suppose to go 野柳 however it was raining heavily this day :(
So we ended up at 侯硐貓村~
Because of the rain, not much cats are outside.
 

九份老街 (Jiu Fen)
 
 
 

Hehe~ My favorite ice cream wrap!
Its a MUST MUST to eat each visit!

阿柑姨 QQ 芋圓地瓜圓

On the way down to 十分火車站

十分火車站 Shi fen to put 天燈!
BUT STILL RAINING!!!!!!
So we decided not to put, since it's not our first time anyway. Haha!

平溪老街

深坑豆腐街~

金大鼎串燒香豆腐 The best best best best best 豆腐街 i've ever ate!
Because it called 香豆腐?? The kimchi flavor is a big hit!

基隆廟口夜市
Eat and eat and eat nonstop we go~
 
 

Loots of the day~

Goodnight!




18 Nov 2014
Day 8

Day meet out with my eviltan!
 Long time ago cafe!
 

We came here specially for the 拉花 (latte art)
One of the crew came outside to have a small talk with us about that they are starting to feature customers who visits to their cafe, and we are the first group of guest and somemore are all tourist. Hahas.

敲敲咖啡 Knock Kafe

錢櫃 Party World K session~ 
 
 

Meet up with Momoko at 無老鍋 steamboat!
 

woolloomooloo
 
 





19 Nov 2014
Day 9

Early in the morning we had 爭鮮 Sushi Express as breakfast?!

Att 4 Fun - Arrow Tree

The streets of cafes - 永康街
Smoothie house 思慕昔
The queue for this mango shaved ice isn't joke.

Zenique Le Salon 小茶栽堂
The crew came to know that we are from Singapore, he chatted with us a lot as he used to stayed in Singapore back then.
Seriously this is my first time being recognized as Singaporean so many time in Taiwan, all because of this xmm who totally sounds like 100% typical Singaporean. Hais~

西門町

阿忠麵線

Met eviltan to 三井上引水產
 

Momoko joined at Costummice Cafe





20 Nov 2014
Day 10

On the way to 板橋SOGO~


 鼎泰豐

Honey Crème @  東區

咖啡農
This little bitch here face totally turned red when she see handsome service crew. omg so paiseh please~~~ Kill meeeeeee!

We quickly moved out to meet Evlin & Momoko before she start to 花癡 again!

 

Dazzling Cafe~^^
 
 

4am
 

Loots of the day!
 





21 Nov 2014
Day 11

Bye Wonstar, off we moved to check in in 金都精緻溫泉飯店 Golden hot spring hotel at 新北投 area.

淡水老街
 
 

阿郎基咖啡 Aranzi Cafe
 

士林夜市with Evlin and Momoko!
 

Duck candy floss :D

It ended up become Rooster????? HAHA!!!

We swiped all the last haters backpack in the shop!

 Loots of the day~!

Hotspring in our room~ shiokness ever!





22 Nov 2014
Day 12

Last meal before we leave Taiwan!

志明牛肉拉麵 - Who won the 2010台北國際牛肉麵節第三名!
Because everyone says number 1 lose to number 3. So we tried number 3! Haha!

Bye Taiwan~!!!

Loots of the trip~!