Korea Picspam: Part 02

[meitachi]

Picspam, part 2: still image heavy, naturally


PART 1 ←
WEDNESDAY June 04


We had jja jang myeon for lunch!! It was...good but not that amazing. And neither was the zha jiang mien (same thing) we had in China. Um. Maybe we just like spicy food too much?


Michelle taking a picture of our dinner, as she was obsessed with taking pictures of food


Bulgolgi! So delicious. Totally my favorite meal, I think. And look at all those side dishes!


I couldn't even squeeze everything into one picture...


Shindong's favorite food. :D I totally trust his taste now over everyone else's. Seriously, you guys. Kimchi fried rice and jja jang myeon are both good, but this was kind of amazing.


Inside of KBS Radio!


Idek why.


See? Flags.


THURSDAY June 05


In the morning we went to Changdokgung Palace, but it was pouring.


Oh look, we saw Rain in Korea. ::kicked::


Looks a lot like...palaces in China. I should be more impressed but, er, I wasn't.


Picturesquely posing with an umbrella, hoyes.


More interestingly, look at this giant worm next to Michelle's foot!


Idk who this is but she reminds me a little bit of lille_bean so I had to take a picture. :D
Looks a lot like Chinese palaces...I fail at being terribly impressed.


Looking for a place to eat that day, we passed this amazing sign.


Woo Kwangbok-oppa, the Ph.D student who showed us around Seoul. This is right outside Seoul National University's Museum of Art.


On our tour of Seoul National University, we saw a ton of protest signs by students against their President (and the whole mad cow disease issue).


Ahaha.


On the rooftop of Kwangbok-oppa's College of Natural Sciences. Michelle and I believed many an epic K-drama moment could be re-enacted on this rooftop.


In the distance, a temple!


Below, a river!


Oh this is our other matching outfit of the trip. It was kind of amazing, lol. Idky Michelle is holding a random plant...


Dog meat with Chinese chives!


Soup of some sort or other. :D I clearly knew what I was eating.


The impromptu drinking party with our hostel buddies after dinner out with them. We kept saying, not too much, we have to be up at 5am (for the SJH fansigning lol), and they kept making fun of us. It was awesome.


Me showing off the strawberry milk we had out with the alcohol. Never drink it with soju, btw, but it's alright on its own.


After 7 or 8 shots of soju, Michelle was pretty tipsy. (This was the night we ate live octopus! But those pictures are...not on my camera. So. It was amazing, though.)


FRIDAY June 06


Christian Broadcasting System- oh Korea. This is the building right next to the music store for the SJH fansigning.


In the square where all the ELF were congregating to wait for the CD store to open to buy their copy of SJH's single, there was Jackie Chan's restaurant! Too bad it was 6:30 in the morning and not open, haha.


After abandoning the SJH fansigning because we couldn't understand what those hordes of ELF were shouting about in Korean, we passed by the SBS building!


SBS!


Because we didn't have watches or cell phones, the only way to tell time was to either look at our iPods or to, as I did, take random pictures of Michelle and then read the time display on the picture of my camera lol.


Wandering around Myeongdong, this is the kind of stuff you see in the windows of their clothes shops. Aissh.


The ground entrance to the understore fangirly shop. Amazing, isn't it?


Still in Myeongdong, one of the street vendors.


I told you guys we saw Rain in Korea. Everywhere.


YEH was also kind of everywhere.


For some reason or other (I forget), Michelle and I had a delicious waffle with ice cream for dinner. It was amazing, okay? I love waffles. This was at a coffee shop...Korea freaking loves its Western coffee.


The hostel owners had a cat who was the cutest, laziest thing ever. It was sleeping 90% of the time, active only when it was mealtime, when it would mewl complaintively and try to eat everyone who tried to pet it, haha. It's curled up on my bed, which totally surprised me. We leave our door open a lot when we're at the hostel, because it's tiny and we can see everyone, anyway, and then I went in the room after a while, sat on my bed to watch TV, and then nearly shrieked because OMG BLACK CAT ON MY BLANKETS. I almost sat on it. ;_;


Later that night we went out for gelato! Yummy and, yes, very Western.

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So those are my pics from Korea!

On Saturday morning, June 07, we got on the bus to the airport and flew back to Beijing, where it was so hot because it hadn't been raining all week like it'd been doing in Seoul.

Seoul = amazing. I'd so do that again. :D

Comments

[meiface.livejournal.com]

We really wanted to at least try dog meat, so we did, and it wasn't that bad. It wasn't that awesome either, but hey. XD;;

Oh dear, that would be rather traumatizing. That sort of happened to me when I was seven, except they killed an enormous fat black pig (that kept squealing), and the last time I went back when I was sixteen, they killed a chicken. :( But not a dog!

[peachpastiche.livejournal.com]

It happened to me, but it was a turkey! It was sitting outside in a box with its head poking out snapping at everyone all day before they cooked it... xD;;

[annacircles.livejournal.com]

LMAO YOU SAW RAIN EVERYWHERE! XD

[meiface.livejournal.com]

I SO TTLY DID.

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Dog was...interesting. Tasted a little like lamb. Not the favorite thing I ate in Korea, by far, but interesting.

But fooood. Definitely the best part of the trip. \:D/

[kasugai-gummie.livejournal.com]

S-so much food. SO MUCH GELATO. OH GOD. ::eats her monitor::

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Dude, forget the fangirling stuff; the best part of my entire trip, hands down, was the food. :D In China and Korea both.

[loser-no-jutsu.livejournal.com]

I WANT TO GO. I WANT TO GO.

also, i. errgh. that jja jang myeon doesn't look very appetizing to me. s-so much sauce...i had zha jiang mien once and i could only eat about a third of it, it was so saucy and rich.

I PREFER SPICY THINGS AND CHICKEN, PLS. D:

also, that rooftop looks eerily similar a scene in coffee prince.

and holy hxc karaoke. .___. looks like the lobby to an expensive hotel?!

[meiface.livejournal.com]

ONE DAY YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY GO. But you're young yet, you have plenty of time. Let me remind you constantly of your jailbait-status, Bailey. ::stares::

Jja Jang myeon really isn't my favorite type of food either, but I wanted to try it. Honestly I prefer spicy things and chicken too! :D And all sorts of weird Asian food, ftw!

Dude, if you think that karaoke place was hardcore, wait until I put up the pictures of the one from China. It was a skyscraper. It had a gold elevator and a buffet service! IT HAD PIMP LEATHER SEATS OMG.

[loser-no-jutsu.livejournal.com]

AJGDF. YOU CAN'T PUNISH JAILBAIT FOR BEING JAILBAIT, YOU CAN ONLY PUNISH THOSE WHO PURSUE THE JAILBAIT. *stares*

LOL, i'm too white to get into the 'weird asian foods,' but i do love me some chicken. i really think i could eat chicken forever, i-i love it so much. orz

[loveblackcoffee.livejournal.com]

you ate...puppy??

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Please, it was an old dog! Actually I have no idea, it's not like she killed it in front of us.

[black-goose.livejournal.com]

[meiface.livejournal.com]

We couldn't figure how to get in line! thyme_hawthorne has pictures of the hordes of fangirls, I'll see if I can steal some to put up. It was rather terrifying - there were literally hundreds of them, and all intently talking in Korean.

Ahaha Rain. Ubiquitous. He's actually in Germany, atm, filming some ninja movie. Idek.

[black-goose.livejournal.com]

I can spell abandoning, yes I can.

Germany? Filming a ninja movie. I don't actually know Rain, but that's amost enough to make me go look/listen to his stuff!

Oh, btw, while you're here, ILUSM for reccing my fic~ I pretty much sat there last night after seeing it going :DDDDDDDD THANK YOU

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Rain! Alright singer, amazing dancer, famous for his roll in the k-drama Full House, and now famous for being in Speed Racer, and for beating out Stephen Colbert on Times' list of 100 Most Influential People type thing. He had a dance off with Colbert on the show recently hahah. He's, like, Korea's favorite son or smth ridiculous like that.

Nooo, I've been owing your high school fic a giant rec for a while now, so I'm glad I finally got around to it. ♥ I hope you never quit drabbling for it! :D

[sapphynashi.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, that looks so great. XD So much food! AND YES, BULGOLGI IS DELICIOUS. Hardcore karaoke! ANIMAL COSTUMES LOL WTF. Oh, I want to go~

*also got really excited over the KITTY, but who's surprised*

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Dude, Asians take their karaoke-ing very, very seriously. @_@ It's amazing.

The kitty was so, so adorable. I still don't know if it was a he or she or what its name was, lol. I ran around calling it "OMG CAT".

[ricciolo.livejournal.com]

If you like spicy food, next time you should try jjamppong (Idk if that's spelled correctly), which is noodles in a seafood soup (http://www.toz.co.kr/files/bbs_img/20060925444743549.jpg).

I wanna go to Korea! *___* (It is a tragedy that I've never even gone to Asia before. This must be rectified!)

[meiface.livejournal.com]

I think we did eat that! On a different day whereupon I forgot to take pictures. We tried a lot of stuff. I think that was the day we went into a random restaurant, sat down, and pointed to random stuff on the menu, lol.

Oh you most definitely should go to Asia! :D

[ricciolo.livejournal.com]

Did the pointing to random stuff on the menu result in the ordering of any funny foods? ^^;;

I hope I can! I want to a) study abroad there, b) go back-packing in Korea, or c) just take a trip w/ a good friend like you did. :Db

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Well, we were both open to trying everything, so! :D Nothing too weird. Mostly we just kept getting different types of spicy noodles, occasionally with seafood to surprise us, haha.

I think studying abroad there would be fun!

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Ahahah, so many pictures. I'm glad I'm not totally boring everyone. The food was really amazing though! I love food pictures too, even if looking at them tends to make me hungry.

[skadihelias.livejournal.com]

That was really entertaining XDDD Glad to see people had some fun travelling :3 *has no plan for upcoming holiday*

OMG! I love your Slytherin jacket X333333

Gelato & waffles..... *wantsssss*

[meiface.livejournal.com]

I love my Slytherin jacket too, heh. I'm such a Slytherin!fagirl at heart. ♥

[celerywench.livejournal.com]

MEEEEEEEEIIIII ♥ *glompages*

dude. I am so hardcore jealoussss D; you'll have to tell me how you arranged that trip and all that jazz cuz cuz i am SO gonna go...oneday...soon... (I was actually on an airline website and there was a ticket to SK for early August and i dont know why but it was like RIDICULOUSLY CHEAP and during the first week of august so i was all OH HAE I CAN SEE SUJU AND CATCH MY FAVORITEST AMERICAN BANDS- plural mei! PLURAL!!!! in fucking KOREA. adlfkjadlkfj I literally had to be dragged away from the computer ;~; oh woe)


Idk who this is but she reminds me a little bit of [info]lille_bean so I had to take a picture. :D *blink* who me???! hahahahah. really? *tiltshead* haha i guess a little bit?? if I had a mad awesome makeup staff AND photoshop SKILLZ maybe lol


also. NRB IS SO FREAKN GORGEOUS WTH its so not that cool here D;

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Everyone in the world needs mad awesome makeup staff to follow them around, and possibly a lighting crew too, so they always look 100% awesome. :D

Arranging the trip? Ahaha. We mostly just decided we were going to go and so we worked our asses off for a few months to earn the money, then bought tickets and...yeah. Our parents complained but not too much because we were set on it and we were paying for it, so all they could really do was help make sure we did everything right (like get our visas).

Oh man, I so want to go back to Korea and China in the fall/winter but daaaamn school. D:

[forochel.livejournal.com]

IS THAT SLYTHERIN HOODIE I SPY

[meiface.livejournal.com]

IT IS INDEED :Db

[forochel.livejournal.com]

MISHY-APPROVED! :Db aw damn I wish I had a ravenclaw hoodie. ;D

[phasera.livejournal.com]

travel pics! :D you guys seemed to have done a lot of wandering and eating and shopping--any trips to places like Lotteworld or Everland? Cate and I plan to go to those~~

[meiface.livejournal.com]

We thought about going there, but we ended up not - we figured amusement parks are about the same in whatever country. So we mostly ate and shopped and wandered the streets, haha. True. We did hear that Everland was a lot better than Lotteworld, though! Guy in our hostel went to Lotteworld and he said he was disappointed.

[jt-fangirlism.livejournal.com]

the thing is noticed was there were a lot of ice cream pics..XDD

anyway,looks like your trip went pretty well... and you had lots of amazing fangirl stuff...WIN!!!

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's true, we ate a lot of ice cream while we were there! Far more than I usually ever eat at home, hahaha.

It was definitely a fun trip. :D

[incandescence.livejournal.com]

I MISS YOU KOREA.

[meiface.livejournal.com]

YOU SHOULD GO BACK?

[incandescence.livejournal.com]

I think I am supposed to next summer.

[dear-whimsy.livejournal.com]

- alskdjfids those noodles look so good, omg. i love those noodles. But I love spicy things too? :D
- Is bulgogi like hot pot? And laskdjf I WANT TO EAT THOSE TINY MUSHROOMS. forgot what they're called. BUT DELISH.
- Korea's palaces look exactly like China's! YEY.
- Your lacy white shirt is so preeeeeeeeeeeeeetty.
- DOG MEAT. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FEEL ABOUT THAT.
- FAN MERCH. *falls all over self*
- ICE CREAM OMG SLDGIUDSAGUUUGNOMSDGAUGUISDHOSSHOOOOOSHD

[meiface.livejournal.com]

No, no, bulgolgi is thin strips of flavored meat; do not be deceived by the pot it's in - it's more pan than pot and there's no water/soup in it like hot pot.

Golden spindle mushrooms!

AND I have nothing else to say idek. Ugh. My mom's home today and looking over my shoulder a lot lol. Soo...yeah. Maybe I'll go read a book.

[arccie.livejournal.com]

You look like you had heaps of fun (and food :P).
Some of those dishes make your mouth water, and skimming picspam pics of food just before bed is bad, because now I'm hungry.
Totally stomach over mind.
Love the see through worm...and your posing of course.
XD
Actually I'm quite enamoured of your pavement in the rain. Quite picturesque.