- I'm just going to start talking about South Korean food because it makes me so happy just thinking about it
- For lunch I had Bulgogi which is beef marinated in soy sauce, honey, green onions, garlic, sesame seed salt, and black pepper, and then grilled to absolute perfection and put into a stew
- Then there's Samgyeopsal which goes to prove how great it is to befriend random people at the hostel you stay at
- I befriended a Korean college student who accompanied me on all of my travels today and he was super funny and helpful
- Then he took me to a Samgyeopsal specialty place, paid for my meal, and life was really grand
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| Then you make a little sandwich out of it |
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| Then with what's left you make a rice mix out of it |
- Early Morning Exploring
- I woke up at 6:30 AM and I promised my new friend I'd meet him in front of an ancestral shrine at 9:00 AM, so in the mean time I went exploring looking at the old City Hall, an Anglican Cathedral, and the old Seoul train station
- Gyongmo Shrine
- This is the ancestral shrine in which all of the Korean kings and queens were honored in for the past 500 years
- The thing is, that all of the shrines and temples in Seoul don't have stones in the main courtyard, so it's basically all mud.
- So if it's 40 degrees fahrenheit outside. raining, and you don't have an umbrella because you're an idiot like me, you will be shaking from how big these places are and from hypothermia
- And with this shrine, you have to take a tour or they won't let you in, but the first tour they had was at 9 AM and it was in Japanese, and I didn't feel like waiting until 10:00 AM for the English tour so I took the Japanese tour, it was fun
- Just laugh when they laugh and go when they go
- Changdeokgung and Changgyeonggung Palace along with the Secret Garden
- My new Korean friend accompanied me on this one and they were pretty good
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| This is supposed to be the symbol of the emperor |
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| This is an ugly dog |
- Gyeongbokgung Palace
- This is the granddaddy of them all, this is what Korean middle school students go to first when they come to Korea (as I was told by my new friend)
- South Korea Folk Museum
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| These were used as signposts to signify that a town was nearby. This apparently was the town of the double-chin braided beard tribe. |
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| He's just so happy |
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| Pickled eggplant which looks absolutely amazing |
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| THis represents the rat in the Chinese Zodiac |
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| This was a rope with chili peppers put into the rope put over a door when you were expecting a baby |
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| Your mom |
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| This was an exorcism ceremony |
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| Congratulations you made it to 60 years old! |
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| National Folklore Museum |
- Tteok Museum
- A museum entirely devoted to Tteok-rice cakes, pure brilliance
