We took this airport transfer bus to the Jeju airport. Bus ticket costed 5,000won (~SGD6) each. The bus took longer than expected and we reached Jeju airport later than we predicted. We hastily collected our overnight bags from the bus' baggage compactment and ran all the way to the check-in counter. Luckily, we were still in time for our flight.
Our brunch at Lotteria Fastfood restaurant back in Seoul airport.
We had to clear our own rubbish and there was a specific bin for everything. One is for general trash, one for plastic and one for food waste. There's even a sink for pouring away leftover drinks. Interesting... Compared to other countries, Singapore's recycling effort is really quite backward in this sense.
After re-checking in at Hotel Sunbee, we decided to go for some kimchi making lessons.
We found this kimchi place from an introductory brochure at the tourist information counter near our hotel.
The products sold at the Kimchi World.
The ingredients required for kimchi making. The sauce was already prepared for us.
Our instructor helped us to take a photo before starting. The girl in the photo is from Thailand and she was touring Korea alone. So brave!
We had to coat the sauce on every leaf of the pre-marinated lettuce.
Done! The instructor had to check and make sure it's evenly coated before he 'passed' us.
When the instructor was satisfied with our work, we stuffed the whole lettuce into this plastic container to bring home. I had heard from friends that they were not allowed to bring their kimchi back with them so I was pleasantly surprised to hear that we can bring our kimchi back.
We had to clear our own rubbish and there was a specific bin for everything. One is for general trash, one for plastic and one for food waste. There's even a sink for pouring away leftover drinks. Interesting... Compared to other countries, Singapore's recycling effort is really quite backward in this sense.
After re-checking in at Hotel Sunbee, we decided to go for some kimchi making lessons.
We found this kimchi place from an introductory brochure at the tourist information counter near our hotel.
The products sold at the Kimchi World.
The ingredients required for kimchi making. The sauce was already prepared for us.
Our instructor helped us to take a photo before starting. The girl in the photo is from Thailand and she was touring Korea alone. So brave!
We had to coat the sauce on every leaf of the pre-marinated lettuce.
Done! The instructor had to check and make sure it's evenly coated before he 'passed' us.
When the instructor was satisfied with our work, we stuffed the whole lettuce into this plastic container to bring home. I had heard from friends that they were not allowed to bring their kimchi back with them so I was pleasantly surprised to hear that we can bring our kimchi back.
The man in the background was our instructor, James.
James wrote our names in Korean beside our English name and signed off on the lid.
Posing with our kimchi
Next, we get to cook Tteokbokki which is also known as Korean rice cakes. I like!
Looks yummy~~~
Precious photo... Not many people had seen me cook, you know? Just a short while of cooking and I'm already 披头散发. Haha...
Done! It was delicious! And just nice, I was hungry. According to James, 6 sticks of the rice cake is equivalent to 1 bowl of rice. He was quite surprised when he saw me eating a lot of the rice cake.
They also prepared this pomegranate drink for us to drink while eating the rice cakes.
Actually, they meant for us to drink this rice beer while eating the rice cakes but since we do not like to drink alcohol, they let us bring it home instead.
The whole lesson costed 25,000won (~SGD29) for each person which I think was quite reasonable.
As the kimchi was quite heavy, we walked back to our hotel to deposit the food before going out for shopping.
We went to Namdaemum (南大门) Market for some shopping. There had been rumours that the place was burnt down quite some time ago. Well, it was partly true as the gate itself was burnt down but the market was untouched.
We did not buy much as a lot of the shops were not open. Also, the place was considerably deserted compared to Dongdaemun and Myeong-dong. We only spent quite a short time there and decided to shop at Myeong-dong instead.
There's a dog cafe in Myeong-dong. Ivy and YL took photos with its mascot.
We went to a porride shop to have our dinner. The porridge was quite good but expensive and the portion quite little. One bowl costed average 8,000won (~SGD9). The black colour side dish is some kind of seasoned seaweed and it was really good.
After some more shopping, we went back to our hotel to rest and prepare for the next day's outing.
James wrote our names in Korean beside our English name and signed off on the lid.
Posing with our kimchi
Next, we get to cook Tteokbokki which is also known as Korean rice cakes. I like!
Looks yummy~~~
Precious photo... Not many people had seen me cook, you know? Just a short while of cooking and I'm already 披头散发. Haha...
Done! It was delicious! And just nice, I was hungry. According to James, 6 sticks of the rice cake is equivalent to 1 bowl of rice. He was quite surprised when he saw me eating a lot of the rice cake.
They also prepared this pomegranate drink for us to drink while eating the rice cakes.
Actually, they meant for us to drink this rice beer while eating the rice cakes but since we do not like to drink alcohol, they let us bring it home instead.
The whole lesson costed 25,000won (~SGD29) for each person which I think was quite reasonable.
As the kimchi was quite heavy, we walked back to our hotel to deposit the food before going out for shopping.
We went to Namdaemum (南大门) Market for some shopping. There had been rumours that the place was burnt down quite some time ago. Well, it was partly true as the gate itself was burnt down but the market was untouched.
We did not buy much as a lot of the shops were not open. Also, the place was considerably deserted compared to Dongdaemun and Myeong-dong. We only spent quite a short time there and decided to shop at Myeong-dong instead.
There's a dog cafe in Myeong-dong. Ivy and YL took photos with its mascot.
We went to a porride shop to have our dinner. The porridge was quite good but expensive and the portion quite little. One bowl costed average 8,000won (~SGD9). The black colour side dish is some kind of seasoned seaweed and it was really good.
After some more shopping, we went back to our hotel to rest and prepare for the next day's outing.
