This is one of my favorite spots in Seoul! Thanks to my friend, Keri Zamora, for recommending this! It’s one street full of nice quaint coffeeshops and hip stores! I think i took a photo of almost every store in the street
For New Year’s day, Mom chose the Korean restaurant in the hotel
They had a private room enough for us which had a beautiful view
It’s Traditional Korean as well so it was set meals
And this is what most chose
Restroom
To veer away from korean bbq, we wanted to have other korean dishes like beef stew, chap chae and others. So we asked help from the concierge and they recommended this place. I don’t have the name anymore, it was in Korean! What I want to show here is a Traditional Korean meal. It’s like having a degustation or Chinese Lauriat meal
They have different set menus and varying price ranges
We just chose the cheapest 
since we just wanted to try and see what it was all about. Some couples ordered one meal and just shared. It’s a good thing they allowed
There were many food stalls all over the city and because it was winter and freezing, it was so tempting to really just grab something hot in the street! I have no idea what they are and did not even bother to ask due to the language barrier. We did not get to try any except for the siopao looking one and the castañas
Another Korean BBQ restaurant!! YUMMY!!!!! My brother was in the food committee so he was in charge of the restaurants. He read about this from the internet It was near the hotel. After this, we had to take a break from all the beef we have been eating. But we love korean BBQ!!!
Before going up to the room, we saw the chefs slicing the beef :-)
You have to remove your shoes to enter the room ;-)
The only beauty about going to Korea wintertime is the SNOW! Day2 was spent at the ski resort which was around an hour away.
As soon as we arrived, we went to rent suits for the snow
the ski resort has different slopes
My handsome boys skiing! James trying to teach the two how to ski by the beginner slope
While Mom warmed herself by the bonfire
And this was everyone else’s slope- the Sledding slope! :-) The kids just went up and down non stop sledding. They enjoyed!! We all enjoyed!!
Only James was the one who could ski so he was going up and down while we were enjoying sledding
click below to go to their website:
We saw this first at the Korean Folk Village, but saw them in most tourist areas. Quite interesting. Just like how they make those noodles in the Chinese restaurants We actually bought some and it tasted good
Click below to watch how they do it. I was not able to take a video so I looked for one in youtube:-)
After a tiring tour day, we just wanted to eat nearby the hotel. So we just asked the concierge for recommendations for Japanese restaurants. We walked near the hotel in a nearby mall and tried Kisara. Japanese food in general is expensive in Korea, from what we heard. And based on our experience in this restaurant, it is nothing that great. It’s regular Japanese food.
My favorite dish was the one my brother Quito ordered!! SUPER CRISPY UNAGI! He ordered two dishes with unagi and wow!!! I wish I ordered it.
The rest of the Japanese dishes which were okay, nothing spectacular. But presentation is good.
Dessert is always fruit with a little pastry
meritz tower B1 (yeoksamdong), Seoul,
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After the Korean Folk Village, we went back to the city to visit another shopping area. If you really want to buy cheap in Korea, the best is to buy Korean made products. Imported items are very expensive -up to 30% more for imported items especially the branded ones. According to our tour guide, Koreans are very nationalistic and they really patronize their own products.
In Insa-dong, you will find many local handicrafts and Korean stores
While walking, I saw this, it’s like a mall with more little shops. I had no time anymore to go in but there were many many people here also shopping
