Seoul 人飛首爾 + Again......in 2016

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The village is very quiet, except those laughs and yells from tourist, Chinese tour group especially.

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On our way back to MTR station, we walked through the cultural area near 駱山公園. There are some cultural centers and parks with lot of different sculptures. The weather was so freezingly cold. Even a small ditch was freezed.

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We had our lunch at 明洞, the city center area like Causeway Bay in HK. We had 部隊湯 there, a hot pot with lots of different vegetable, meats, etc in korean style. This pot was originated during wartime that the army put everything they had into a pot and boiled it for dinner. Now it turns to be a famous korean dish.

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We went shopping in the afternoon. Our dinner was at 弘大 area, a place having its name from a university. This is a place for youngsters. We were having BBQ pork at a shop opened by a Korean artist named HAHA. The shop offers only pork, no beef. The menu is simple, food is ok but not very nice. The setting is quite comfortable tho.

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The restaurant is full of picture of that artist, from his childhood till now, good advertisement.

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The 弘大 area has a night market, which is a bit like those in Taiwan, a lot of food stall selling snack, different shops for a large variety of cosmetic, accessories, etc. We bought a big fried squid, larger than my face.....

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The next day morning we went to 仁寺洞, it is usually a place for old stuff but now it mixes with some modern shops. On the way to there, the MTR station has a wall tile art, as in the following picture.

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You can find a lot of shops selling antique at 仁寺洞 but some modern shopping malls are built. I found a Chinese tea shop.....

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三清洞 is just opposite to 仁寺洞. This is a place like Soho area in HK. The area has some designer artwork hanging on the street, quite funny place with lots of cafe, very relaxing indeed. We had our lunch there at a shop offering all day breakfast. We were attracted by this shop because of a variety show "Running Man". Food is very nice too

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The cafe also showed that pictures of artists during the filming of the show. (A side story, after we were back to HK, we watched the Running Man episode about this cafe again, and we found that the all-day-breakfast that the artists had had 2 more eggs than mine....)