I know I am so late... ㅠㅠ

I am writing it now ok!

#30 Day Challenge with Melli

Sushi buffet in Gangnam. It costs around 20000won (RM60+) per pax I think and this was where I began to fall in love with salmon sashimi and salmon aburi. Yummmmmmssssss

Absolute bestest pizza I have ever had in my life. Younggu's Pizza! I don't know if I was super duper hungry when I first tried this or what but seriously, this pizza killed me. Now I can never have a pizza without thinking in my mind, "This ain't got nothin' on Younggu!" Haha!

It has bacon in it, which already adds 100 points (because pizza franchises in Malaysia are mostly halal, meh) but the main point is, the dough is soft and chewy, and the abundance of stuff on the pizza makes it impossible to be held horizontally with one hand! It has to either be folded or laid flat on your palm because it is too heavy!

YUMMSSSSSSS

My favourite alcoholic beverage Makgeolli (막걸리) which is a Korean rice wine! This drink ignited my love for alcohol haha now I can drink anytime anywhere whereas before when I was in Malaysia, I usually have zero interest in drinking anything alcoholic.

The reason why I like this drink is because it is a little bit carbonated, creamy and sweet with a mild alcohol after taste. Perfect for soda-loving me haha!

Chinese seafood noodle!

Korean spicy pork which you can find in almost all Korean restaurants or food stalls! It is called 제육볶음 which simply means fried pork haha it is sweet and spicy and perfect to go with a bowl of steaming hot white rice!

Bibimbap! 비빔밥 which literally means mixed rice haha I guess everyone knows this food right!

Tour Les Jour ham and cheese sandwich yums!

Ee Vonne and another version of Korean spicy pork, which you cook yourself! Hehe this is from a restaurant called 일이삼 which means 123 haha

We love the side dishes here and the aunty loves us too haha! The side dishes here include the standard kimchi, sliced omelette, mashed sweet potato, fish cake in sweet sauce etc

Close-up. Does it look good or what!!!

Cheapest and most value-for-money food in Korea ever - RICE BURGER! Haha 밥버거, yum! Only 1500won (RM5) ok!!! Cheap!!!

Chinese seafood fried rice!

Tofu with fried kimchi! 두부 김치! Beer food hehe! I love it!

KFC in Korea haha!

Curry pork rice!

Rice and potato! Famous for fries with special dipping sauce, kimchi fried rice and tomato sauce omelette! Badrane's favourite hehe! Omg I miss Badrane!!! T____T

Last but not least, Vietnamese beef noodle, Pho.

Now, do you know why I am posting all these good food in my blog?

Because I made a pact with Melli that we would start eating healthily in order to lose weight!!! We are doing a 30 Day Challenge where we are not allowed to eat anything sugary or carby or unhealthy for 30 days!

Alcohol too is included in the banned-food list haha but we gave ourselves allowance of 4 days per 30 days because we will go clubbing lah! How to go clubbing without drinking???

So this post signifies the end of my delicious and crazy food journey here in Seoul, at least for 30 says. U___U It is ok! When we lose weight it will all be worth it!!!

I am aiming to lose 10kg and I will begin going to gym again after midterms, so I CAN DO THIS!!!

Everyone wish me luck please!!!

See you soon!!!

Flea Market & Noryangjin Food Street - 12 October 2014

So I've decided that instead of writing down my posts chronologically, I will just randomly write whichever post that I want to first, so that I will be more motivated to blog haha but I love writing actually, so I am always down for it, problem is finding the correct photos to post. 

I think the reason I stopped blogging before was because I was always too lazy to edit my photos before blogging them. I always wanted my photos to look great in the blog, but this time I decided to just ignore it and post them as they are haha

So don't feel nauseated if you see ugly photos ok haha the good thing is, what you see here is what you get in real life! ;)

Flea Market & Noryangjin Food Street - 12 October 2014

Flea Market

About a month ago, my Vietnamese friend Thao Duong, Korean name Ji Young 지영 told me and Ee Vonne about this flea market that her friend went to before where she bought clothes and accessories and shoes within the price of 1000won - 3000won (RM3.20 - RM9.60)!!! Most of the clothes are second-hand, naturally, but since we could check them and feel them before purchasing, I think it is ok lah!

This flea market happens every Saturday I think from 11am - 4pm and is located at the Ttukseom Resort (뚝섬유원지) stop of subway line 7. I can't remember which exit it was, but remember it is located at a riverside (Han River, I'm sure) park, so look out for that.

So last week, we finally managed to find time to go! 

Many people spread out mats on the floor and just arranged all their pre-loved items to be sold. Ee Vonne went to ask a girl from whom she bought a skirt whether it was difficult and expensive to secure a spot for the flea but to our surprise, all we have to do is just register online and best of all, no payment is required!

So then we all decided that we would also come here one day to sell all our stuff before we return to our own countries because we have soooo much stuff. Selling them off would not be so much for the profit, but rather to ease our journey back home because then we would not have to lug everything back haha

On the left (in the army green trench) is my Japanese friend Moe and on the right is Ji Young who told us about the flea.

Ee Vonne, Moe and Ji Young amongst the crowd of people at the flea.

We actually only arrived at 3pm and so many of the stuff were already gone and the crowd was diminishing but we still managed to find some good stuff I think.

Shit just realised as I typed that I forgot to snap photos of our purchases ahhhhhh I am to lazy to do it lah ok so you just use your imagination when I list them down later haha

Moe and I sneaked a selfie when we lost both Ee Vonne and Ji Young in the crowd. Turned out they both bought a pair of shoes each at 3000won per pair. <____<

So by then it was already 4pm so we had to leave. But it was good too because neither me, Ee Vonne nor Moe had had anything to eat before we came and we were starving!

Purchases:

Ee Vonne: Milk-coloured Converse high-tops (3000won), cotton A-line mid-length skirt (2000won)

Ji Young: Black velvet heeled pumps (3000won), daisy dukes (1000won defug), thick-material (and apparently branded) sweater (5000won)

Me: Necklace (2000won), net top (1000won defug)

Moe: Didn't get anything! I presume she must have been to hungry to feel excited about buying anything haha

Noryangjin (노량진) Food Street 

Next we went to Noryangjin Food Street located at Noryangjin (노량진) stop of subway Line 9 and Line 1. Ji Young, again was the one who introduced us to this place haha and it was such an awesome place!

From the subway, I think the exit is at Exit 3, and just walk along the street and you will find all these independent food stalls scattered everywhere! Remember to turn into corners and alleys too because there will also be food stalls lined up there.

Besides the abundance of food variety, from Vietnamese noodles, Korean spicy pork rice (제육덥밥), sausages in pancake, Korean traditional porridge, Korean kimchi rice (김치덥밥), waffles, chicken on skewers, Korean spicy rice cakes (떡볶이) etc, what's good about this food street is that everything is cheap!!!

A bowl of noodles is only 3000won??? For Malaysian standards yes quite pricey for street food, but for Korea, super cheap! Around CAU campus, what that is termed cheap usually costs around 5000won, so for 3000won, STEAL! And they are delicious and filling meals, not just dainty light street food ok! 

I had Vienamese soup noodle named Pho, according to my very Vietnamese friend, Ji Young haha.

We bought it from this stall here! The chef is a Vietnamese-Korean I think! And Ji Young spoke Vietnamese to them so I guess their food is quite authentic haha. According to Ji Young, the soup of the Pho tastes almost the same as Pho in Vietnam, just that the noodles that they use here in Korea is a little bit more flat than the rounded ones used in Vietnam. 

Neh, me with my noodle soup hehe

Greedy Ji Young put too much chili into her Pho so now she is tearing hahahaha

Ee Vonne and Moe decided to have Kimchi rice and they were soooo good too and only 3000won for a bowl! Coming here made us want to move from Heuk Seok to Noryangjin haha!

Sorry lah didn't manage to show what it looked like from the start because once it was in our hands, we immediately started to devour it haha!

Swore to stay off rice for a bazillion times. Still failed. Haha blame the Asian in me!

After we had out fulfilling dinner, we decided that it was too early (8 plus pm) to go back to our dorms so we went to have dessert! Moe decided that we should go to 설빙 Dessert shop (Seol Bing? - which I guess is a short form of Seoul Bingsu) because they had a new flavour: SWEET POTATO!

<Note: Bingsu (빙수): Shaved ice dessert>

Ee Vonne and I delegated the task of ordering to the half of us who were more fluent in Korean haha

But sweet potato bingsu ran out ㅠㅠ so we compromised with mango bingsu which was damn good anyway!!!

Mango pieces, yogurt, shaved ice, mango sauce and whole almond nuts!

Ending this blog post with a photo of our arrow rings which we got for 1000won each! Guess who is the spoilsport who didn't want to get one? I guess our friendship is not even worth 1000won for her hmpf!!! 

All in all, it was a really fun day with everyone hehe! Let's do it again! :D

6 months late but not too late!

Hello!

This is new blog I am starting to pen down my experience here in Seoul as an exchange student in Chung-Ang University. I got the idea from my German friend Melli (link: abroadinseoul.blogspot.com) who has started keeping a blog since she came. She says it is for her family back home who wants to keep up with her life abroad and also for her to look back on in future.

I thought it was a great idea! And also how stupid I was to not have done the same. These few months here in Seoul have been the best of my life and chances are slim that I will ever get to experience something as great as this anymore in my life. So, recording it down would allow me to travel back down memory lane in future, whenever I feel the pinch of nostalgia about my time here in Seoul.

I was here since the previous semester which was 6 months ago, and I am only starting this blog now hahahaha but it is ok! I will have a lot to right here too for the remaining months I have in this second semester. So far, about a month and a half into my second semester here in CAU, I think I have done much more than all of the stuff I did last semester combined haha!

So I will begin by listing all the eventful activities I have done so far, and then take the time to write down a blog post for each. Maybe if I am quick enough, in two weeks I would not have to do backlog posts anymore, and can begin writing blog posts as my day happens haha

So here is the list (based on the photos I have stored in my phone haha):

1. Biking at Han River
2. Korea Club
3. Korea Annual Fireworks Festival
4. Clubbing
5. Bungee Jumping at Bundang!
6. Flea Market and Noryangjin Street Food
7. Jin Hyung's hometown

So far that is all I have to write I guess haha but as usual after one blog post (this one) I am too lazy to start another in the same time frame. So I will put it off till the next time I have the mood to write haha

But I will be quick lah don't have much time to procrastinate because midterms is in 4 days wtf

Anyway stay tuned ok!!!