[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!!!

Yoogane Singapore!

It's gonna be my first first FIRST time blogging about FOODS!!

I'm really excited to introduce you guys to Yoogane (유가네)

Yoogane is a Korean restaurant famous with their dakgalbi, and yes, there is over 130+ outlets all over Korea!

This is their 1st store in Singapore located at Bugis Junction level 2. Very easy to locate the store, it's actually at the old nydc restaurant (if you know where is it).

Yea, say until the location, it's directly opposite to TonyMoly (oops~ have to promote our shop as well!)

Here is the address of Yoogane Singapore:

Bugis Junction

200 Victoria Street

#02-47/48

Singapore 188021

Opening Hours: 11:00 ~ 22:00 (daily)

While Yoogane is still under renovation, we always peek through our shop waiting for more progress on their renovation..

Until one day, the signboard is finally up!!

You won't know how excited i was back then, messaging all my colleagues and friends, planning on which day to visit after their opening..

1st May 2014 Labour Day..

Oh well, i'm a labour labouring on every labour day:(

Not gonna get sad over this, because it's Yoogane Singapore opening day!!!

Woohoo~ Congratulation!

1st day of business and it's so overwhelming!

My non-working colleague went over to queue at around 2.15pm while i continue to stay in the shop (i only have 1hr break time)

Received their call at 3pm where it's finally our turn to get in.

45mins of queueing time, i heard that we are actually luckier than some other people queued for 2hrs?!!!

Was given this upon entering to the restaurant, Yoogane mascot. So cute!

Once we gotten our seat, the staff told us that they do provide phone charging service for Apple and Andriod device.

There's a plug outlet located underneath every seats.

Woah great service! That's the most important things that we need in our daily life!!

(because my shop is just opposite, of course i don't need it.. hahas)

But one bad thing about this service is that people might just sit there occupying   seats while waiting for to be fully charge.

All of us wanted to try the Octopus and Chicken Galbi but unfortunately all the seafoods are out of stocks:(

Awww thats really sad. Maybe they didn't expect that the crowd is so crazy?

After ordering our foods, we went to the self-serve corner where we can get our own side dishes.

Jinghan took back a plate of PINK color sauce where everyone started to wondering what is it?

And dalaaa i got it right, it's strawberry sauce!

But what is that for??

Then, a friendly staff walked over and told us that is for the salad!

I love their kimchi!

Taste perfect!

Not too spicy, not too sour unlike those that you can find in supermart.

After around 30mins the food finally served!

4 of us looked at each other, our heart is asking, so little?!!!!

Probably its their first day operating or the staff forgot to tell us or whatsoever, we actually ordered the Yoogane's Chicken Galbi ($16.90) and that is actually for just 1 pax!

No wonder the portions is so smallllllllll.........

Normally the staff should ask how many pax we want, but we never think of it, they never ask for it. HAHA!

Oh well, it's okay~

We also ordered a Combination Dokboki ($6.90) which inclusive of the traditional rice cake (떡), cheese rice cake (치즈떡) and also sweet potato rice cake (고구마떡)!!

I really really really love the sweet potato rice cake!!

Ok, don't say i bias to things that got to do with Purple, but i really love that!

It's so soft and chewy until the traditional rice cake which is so hard to bite.

What's more, there is 10% off total bill + free dessert for UOB cardholders! (not sure when will the promotion ends)

Thumps up for Yoogane Singapore!

Their service is really really great!

They make us really feel welcome unlike other restaurant call and call and call them over and over and over yet no one respond to us.

And the friendly staffs walking around, asking for opinions.

With all these kind of good service, makes me wanting to go back again and again:)

3rd May 2014.

Third day of their business...

Oops~ I'm there again!

A very very short catchup with mummy Vivian, Liying & Jane.

I guess they make the most noise in the whole restaurant. Haha!

We were comparing the price & portions between Korea & Singapore.

Portions were smaller than Korea, price are slightly more expensive than Korea, but hello, this is Singapore, what do you expect?

I don't find it expensive personally, it's affordable, like normal restaurants price in Singapore, and the food taste is really quite similar to the Korea one!

Really hope Yoogane Singapore will maintain their food standards and pretty please don't disappoint me in anytime:)

Again, today we ate Yoogane's Chicken Galbi + Sweet Potato Dokboki + Original Dokboki + Egg Roll~

Vivian were complaining about the original dokboki is too HARD! (yes i agree)

And the staff told us that they are actually changing supplier for the dokboki soon. (hopefully won't be that hard anymore)

I still love the sweet potato dok, everyone too:)

Egg roll taste............... erm..........

So..so... to me.

But friends out there can't even finish it, the poor me have to finish up all the egg roll=.=

Liying was asking for kiwi sauce! (yes, korea store do have kiwi sauce)

Do hope to see kiwi sauce in the future~ Hahas!

Oh yaaaa, did i forgot to say?

Now minimum order must be 2pax!

Means like Yoogane's Chicken Galbi x2 ($16.90x2)

Some people who never been to restaurants in Korea might think that eewww what if i don't want to eat the same menu as my friend?

Hahas too bad for you! At least they are not that mean as compare to Korea restaurants.

In Korea, if you have 4 person, you MUST order minimum 4pax! There's no choice for you.

So, minimum 2 pax is already good enough..

Thanks to Jeremy, it's really my honored for getting Yoogane's VIP card!

Was told that this card is actually suppose to be given out to their own friends and families only and some lucky one like me who really loves Yoogane hahas!

Good job, you guys really successfully turn me into a die-hard fans of Yoogane!

7th May 2014.

It's my off day today, met up with my long time no see girlfriends for dinner at Yoogane!

Alright, it's my 3rd time in a week visiting them. HAHA!

On a Wednesday evening, why is the queue still so LONGGGGG?!!

We arrived at around 6.30pm and we finally get into the restaurant at 8.30pm!!

Exactly 2 HOURS of waiting time:(

Today tried Chicken Galbi with Chukkumi Octipus ($19.90 per pax, minimun order 2 pax) and of course the all time favourite Sweet Potato Dokboki :D

The Korean chef who helped with our table we find him super cute, as in because of language barrier, he can't really speak much. Like when he is trying to tell the boy what to do, this and that, he just used sign language throughout. LOL.

Hahas, can always tell us to translate, today 3 of us all know Korean well HAHA!!!

Today menu was somehow a bit spicy to me..

*note* i'm not a person who can eat spicy food, but i'll still eat it down if i love it:)

Enjoyed our meal and the free dessert too:)

Please do take note that Yoogane Singapore does not take any reservations, if you want to enjoy the good foods, do come early to avoid the long queue~

Bugis Junction (Bugis MRT)

200 Victoria Street

#02-47/48

Singapore 188021

Opening Hours: 11:00 ~ 22:00 (daily)