Last day in Seoul

We got up "early" to move from our awesome apartment, at Samgakji, to this funky hotel in Itaewon. We both agreed that this hotel was very cool but Itaewon was our least favourite part of Seoul that we experienced. Jake did get his awesome board from there though.

The hotel lobby had swings to wait on instead of chairs!

This was the inside of our room. The huge red lips on the wall of the all white room really set the mood...

Trying Korean McDonald's. Jake really wanted to get McDonald's delivered but feared not knowing enough Korean to have it all work out.

This was interesting. Would you sip the coffee through the muffin? Would the bottom become coffee flavored then you eat it? Wish we had tried one while we had the chance.

We eventually made our way to Namsan/Seoul tower. You have to take a cable car, or long hike, to the base of the tower, and then pay to go up the rest of the way. We opted out of the full tower experience to just take photos at the base and look off the top of the mountain, which the tower was on.

We walked down the mountain and into Namdaemun market. Saar grabbed a vegetable hoddeok there because they are so freaking gooooooooood.

After a short subway ride, we met up with our new friend Michi at Shincheon station! Michi was the person who showed us how to make makkoli back at the Tea Guesthouse. Shincheon station was decked out with kakao talk related stuff, including a pop-up store. Kakao talk is a text/call/cute app which is VERY popular in Korea. These characters are mascots/emoticons which are within the app.

 

We grabbed a couple of awesome souvenirs from the pop up store! 

Michi took us out for some traditional Korean food that night. Here she is pouring us drinks. YOU ROCK MICHI! WE MISS YOU!

This is how our meal came to the table. You just order the dish you would like and then it cooks on your own personal grill. We let Michi order for us, then 2 minutes later this mini octopus and samgyeopsal dish came out. It was easily the best meal we had in Korea.

Once the meat is cooked. You wrap it in these leaves, then stuff it in your face!

After finishing almost all the food on the grill, they bring out rice and crack an egg over it. You mix it all together then have an awesome rice dish!

After dinner we sought out patbingsu so Jake could cross it off his list of foods to eat in Korea. Patbingsu is a Korean shaved ice dessert with sweet toppings.  We got one with black sesame and another with peanuts. Each came with red bean and condensed milk, which you poor over top. This was so, so, so tasty. Our stomachs were so full from dinner though, that we couldn't finish them off. Thanks for finding this place for us Michi!

Our last night in Seoul was a perfect way to finish the first half of our trip. We were sad to leave, but the next is we are off to Japan!