I spent Valentine's Day with a few girlfriends - Mel, Liisa and Sarah. We spent the day exploring Myeongdong, eating street food and shopping. Liisa just arrived to Korea from Canada so it was a fun day to show her some parts of the city and one of Sarah's last weekends.
Myeongdong Cathedral
Street food!
Myself with Liisa, Mel and Sarah
Some sort of Korean treat, forget what it's called, but it it had a nut taste and was very fun to watch them make it.
Busy shopping streets of Myeongdong
Sarah really wanted to check out a place called Times Square so we headed in that direction. I was surprised to find out that Times Square is a mall! I really reminded me of the malls back home, so I wasn't super interested in being there but we walked around a bit and took a few shots. Joe Fresh (the Canadian Superstore clothing brand) has become super popular here so it was funny to see a Joe Fresh store in the mall.
From there, we headed to Itaewon for dinner. We decided on a place called Zelena, a Bulgarian restaurant. Forgetting in the moment that it was Valentine's Day, we walked in surprised how busy it was and confused why the front staff asked if we had a reservation. Obviously we did not have a reservation but they still happily fit us in ... on a makeshift table in the corner, beside the door, kitchen and bathroom. It became a running joke throughout the night that we got the reject table since we didn't have dates. Once our food arrived, we became aware that our table also wobbled and my plate of food kept spinning every time I tried to cut my chicken. Jokingly I commented, laughing how not only did we get a reject table, we got a wobbly one and I got a reject plate. I was unaware that the waiter was behind me, so I was humiliated as I would never say that in front of a staff member. In good humour, he asked if I wanted him to hold my plate and cut my chicken. We all killed ourselves laughing and he returned with a proper knife for me. Delicious food though.
To finish off the night Sarah took us to one of her favourite hip hop bars for a drink where we had awkward conversations with fascinated Korean guys.
The next day we had planned on doing a few touristy things with our friend Naomi as she leaves Korea soon. We started the day in Insadong, one of the old traditional parts of Seoul. She really wanted to go to a Hanbok cafe, so a bunch of us met up and wore hanboks together.
Liisa, Mel, Naomi and Me
As we waited for the rest of our friends to arrived we painted our names in Hangul
The whole lot of us, Sarah, me, Liisa, Noelia, Naomi, AJ and Mel
As I have done this before, I went with a traditional hanbok in simple colours.
After taking about a million pictures we went to the Hello Kitty Cafe in Hongdae. It was super cute and they just changed locations so it is even bigger now. Unfortunately the food wasn't great, or at least the frozen yogurt wasn't!
Thankfully after that busy weekend we all had a two day week because of Lunar New Year!!
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