Barbecue Action

All I have to say is yum-yum.

This was the first place we visited this evening. Thankfully I skipped lunch knowing that I'd be tucking away quite a bit of food tonight (I did have massive breakfast though). Only 3 more places to go after this one!

Food and Booze

I had my own private foodie tour this evening.

I'd booked to go on a 'Night time food tour' which normally only runs with 2 or more people. Well there was supposed to be me an a group of 4 others tonight. However, the group of 4 cancelled. Their loss. Instead of cancelling the whole thing they decided to go ahead with the tour with just me and a guide.

It was superb. We visited 4 different restaurants serving different types of food (with a common theme of kim-chi). Also I tried 4 (I think) different types of 'alcoholic beverage'. Very interesting!

The white stuff pictured is called Makgeoli. It actually tasted pretty good, and was only about 6 or 7% abv. I'd hate to think what kind of hangover it would give you if you had a proper 'session' on it!

Palaces

Well actually just one Royal Palace today -- the other ones were shut (it being a Monday). To be honest I'm not sure I'll bother with the other places. To the untrained eye once you've seen one Palace I think you'd struggle to differentiate it from the others!

Sundae

Well I made it to my hotel in Seoul without any problems.

The airport at Incheon was super efficient and it didn't take much time at all from getting off the plane to waiting for the bus to take me to my hotel in Seoul.

The bus journey took about an hour and it was about 5.30pm by the time I checked-in. I unpacked and then set off with a bit of trepidation to try and get some dinner.

I headed for Gwangjang Market to sample some Seoul 'street food'. The place was a bit daunting but in the end I sat down at a place and with a bit of pointing ordered some Sundae (pictured) and Tteokbokki. Sundae is a sausage made from pig’s intestines stuffed with cellophane noodles, pork blood, garlic and onions. It was served with some slices of mystery meat (heart, liver, kidney?) which I wasn't too keen on.

Tteokbokki is a Korean rice cake stew, cooked with red hot peppers and onion and was pretty good.