DAY 3 in SEOUL: Spamming photos in Gyeongbokgung!

Day 3:
• Eat home-made traditional korean breakfast in hanok
• Explore Samcheongdong
• Visit Gyeongbokgung Palace
• Eat Ginseng Chicken at Tosokchon
• Head to Bangsan Market
• Shop at Insadong & take hanbok neoprints at Ssamzie-gil complex (Went in Day 2 instead)

Moving on to Day 3! Time for some traditional korean breakfast!For my detailed review of my stay, click >>here<<

Dishes are slowly being served

Time to eat!

After the simple and nice homemade breakfast, it's time for our hanbok experience. The hanbok is basically worn over our clothes. We went outside of the hanok to take some photos.

Then it's time to check out of the hanok! Our first stop for the day is O'sulloc tea house (오설록티하우스 삼청점)! For detailed directions & review, read >>here<< It was quite a bit of walk from the hanok.

Store front

Display 

Our food

When you visit Korea, O'sulloc tea house is a place you need to go and try! After that, we walked around Samcheongdong, at the same time, heading towards Gyeongbokgung Palace. There are quite a lot of shops along Samcheongdong and you might find something you like that is unique and not too expensive if you are lucky.

When we reached Gyeongbokgung, i think there was a guard changing ceremony. Immediately took out my camera to snap some photos.

Out they went~

After buying the tickets, it's time to go in! Random pictures of the palace below. We liked this palace better. The place is very pretty and we spent quite some time taking photos here.

Entrance

Us and our backpacks >.<

Garden area

Jump-shot!

For lunch, we went to Tosokchon (토속촌)! Ginseng chicken! The best ginseng chicken I've had! For detailed directions & review, read >>here<<

Store front

Free flow kimchi and radish

GINSENG CHICKEN!

Then the 2 coffee addicts (my friend and I) went to get some coffee! If I'm not wrong, I ordered cinnamon mocha. This time we tried Ediya coffee. I don't have the exact direction since this is not a place I researched beforehand, but it is somewhere along the left side of this street.

Our group then split up. The 4 of us went to Bangsan market. It seems that I didn't take any photo of Bangsan market... Most likely cause we were to busy trying to find where the baking stuffs are sold. It also rained when we were there. We walked to Bangsan from Euljiro 4(sa)-ga station.

 The baking stuffs were sold somewhere around here

Rain, rain, rain... We initially wanted to cab down to Myeongdong since it is a bit of walk to the station and we still need to transfer train and we are also carrying quite a lot of things since we stayed overnight at the hanok, but we couldn't get a cab. We ended up taking the train anyways. We walked around a bit in Myeongdong but we know we will be heading here again, we didn't buy much since we are already carrying a lot of things. We headed to Yoogane Chicken Galbi (유가네 닭갈비) for dinner. For detailed directions & review, read >>here<<

Store front

Free flow side dishes

We shared a serving for 3 people and it was good! However, I have never tried the Yoogane in Singapore so I can't compare if there is any difference. For dessert, we had ice cream from Milky Bee! It is nearby the Yoogane branch we ate at! For detailed directions & review, read >>here<<

Store front

Rose-shaped ice cream!

Yummy! Nice way to end our day! We head back to our Seoul apartment after that!

And... that's the end of Day 3!

*Continue to Day 4!~

DAY 2 in SEOUL: A night stay in hanok!

Day 2:
• Visit Changgyeonggung Palace (Decided to sleep in!)
• Guided Secret Garden Tour at Changdeokgung Palace 창덕궁
• Walk around Bukchon Hanok Village
• Check in Bukchon Maru (Hanok)
• Shop at Insadong & take hanbok neoprints at Ssamzie-gil complex

We slept in and made sandwiches in the morning for breakfast! Egg with cheese and bacon! Somehow, I can't find photos of our banana milk? Oh well...

Breakfast!

Time to start the day! We alighted at Hyewha station, which was apparently not a good idea.. It was quite a walk to Changdeokgung. Oh well.. Let's have a morning stroll~ Google map doesn't want me to see what is the name of the hospital we walked passed >.< But anyways, we cut through a hospital to reach the palace and we saw a coffee place, Black mug! Time to grab my cup of caffeine! The menu is all in Korean,so my friend and I just ordered standard drinks i.e. Cappuccino and Mocha. The mocha was good! 

Black mug

Random shots taken on the way to Changdeokgung.

And we finally arrived at the entrance!

We bought the tickets: Changdeokgung entrance tickets & secret garden tour tickets. Just pass the counter the printout of your online reservation!

Queuing to enter secret garden!

ONWARDS! Start of our guided tour~

Pretty autumn leaves~

Cute girl picking fallen leaves!

Finally on our way out!

The place is rather big and definitely a lot of walking with stairs and slopes. Make sure you wear proper shoes when going for this tour! Then we decided to drop our bags in the hanok first before we do more walking! But, we still need to walk a bit before we reach Bukchon Maru...

More autumn colours along the way~

And we finally arrived! For my detailed review of my stay, click >>here<<

Bukchon Maru!

We dropped our bags, rest a bit and it's time for us to go for a late lunch! Tteokbokki at Meokswidonna (먹쉬돈나)! Yummy! For detailed directions & review, read >>here<<

Store front

tteokbokki 

There were quite a number of shops around where Meokswidonna is located. So we walked and shopped a bit. I can't recall why we went back to the hanok since our photos shows we went back... So for some reason or another, we are back in the hanok.

Sunset seen from the hanok

Then we went out again since the night is still young :P We saw this sweet potato stall earlier on and we decided to buy one this time!

Fried sweet potato! Yum!

It's located along this street

We headed back to the area where Meokswidonna is located as there are a number of shops there. We found Street Churros! For detailed directions & review, read >>here<<

Store front

 

Churros

We ordered 3 flavours (cause there was some promo), cinnamon, chocolate and soy bean. I especially like the cinnamon one, chocolate is good and last is the soy bean. But 1 of my friends' favourite is soy bean though! So depends on your preference.

After we were done walking around this area, we saw that we still have time and decided to walk down to Insadong to take our neoprints in hanbok! The neoprint shop is located at Ssamzie-gil complex (쌈지길).

Store front

The neoprint shop is rather small with I think around 3 or 4 machines and it was managed by only 1 staff. It was very busy when we went there so we didn't get to take photos of ourselves in the hanbok using our camera or phones other than the picture taken by the neoprint machine.

neoprint

Along the streets of Insadong, there were a few stalls selling dragon floss candy! They even show customers how it is made.

The store we bought from

Dragon floss candy (peanut!)

Since one of our friends was craving for some Korean fried chicken, we bought one to share when we were heading back to the hanok. I can't recall the exact place where we bought it from already though. Since we just happen to see the stall..

The fried chicken comes with fried tteokbokki and potato wedges

And... that's the end of Day 2!

*Continue to Day 3!~