I'm so bad at this blogging thing.
I either blog a million posts at a time, or I disappear and come back after 2 weeks.
Anyways, Day 5 of Seoul!
After going to SM Townland at Coex Mall, which made my entire trip, I was ready to pack up and go home. I was so sure I've done everything I had to do here, my trip was complete.
Or so I thought.. (refer to next post - Day 6)
Today was a more chilled day, since we were out the entire day yesterday. Left the apartment at 9am, and got home at almost 8pm, traveling from Mapo-gu all the way to the Gangnam district.
So, we had a late start to the day. Got Starbucks for breakfast and hanged in the apartment for a bit.
We, then, Googled halal restaurants to try around the area. Korean food, to be specific.
We've heard only the most amazing things about the Korean barbecue, especially on K-Shows where the idols would go on and on about the barbecue.
It's so raved about by the locals to the point where Korean BBQ is considered a prize in gameshows and reality shows.
Like c'mon lek ah, we Malaysians love our nasi lemak, but you don't see us giving up a trophy for that..
We were curious, obviously, so we searched the nearest Halal Korean BBQ restaurant, and Eid popped up. In every search result.
It's even highly talked about by Malaysians visiting Seoul, reviews on their Facebook page is filled with only nice things to say about the food and the family that owns the restaurant.
So off we went to Itaewon!
Though it wasn't so far, we still had to transfer at a stop to change to the line that took us straight to Itaewon station.
I've mentioned Itaewon in my previous post, I also touched a bit about the restaurant there, too.
But I'm gonna talk about it again, because it was just that good.
Since it was summer, they didn't have two of their 6-dish menu. It's not much of a variety, but the ones that they have, they were enough.
We were served by the son of the owner (who was, by the way, a cutie pie).
He explained the menu because we were first time customers, and we decided on the bulgogi set.
It comes with a side of Kimchi, salad and sweet honey-ish achovies (SO GOOD!!), the Korean barbecued beef, a bowl of white rice and a vegetable soup.
Again, no fork. I give up, Korea!!
Sweet, honey-fied anchovies update 5 minutes later: GONE!
In the midst of our "Hoooooly smack, this is so good!", the cute son of the owner came by our table to check up on us. Of course we told him this was the best meal we've had throughout the trip.
He, then, gave us this tea. I repeat: the tea. The tea that saved my life.
The Omijacha tea.
Gurl. Give me a second.
This tasted so good, I don't think anything I've ever tasted has ever tasted so good.
Omijacha literally translates to "Five Flavor Tea", but it just tasted sweet to me.
It's a traditional berry tea, can be served cold or hot, but I loved it cold. You can apparently buy more from the restaurant, but let's be real here I ain't carrying a liter of tea up the hill to Itaewon Station.
I would actually go back to Seoul, by hook or by crook, just for this.
Or maybe for that cute son of the owner (Goddamn it, I've really got to look his name up)
*Update: His name is Saad*
After that, we headed back to Hongdae to look for K-Pop albums.
The store (which was a bookstore) that the Hongdae Tourist Information counter recommended had very limited albums, and probably double the price we could get elsewhere.
While we walking out of the store, we saw magazines.
Oh, someone up there must really love us.
Coincidentally, we visited Seoul on the month Chanyeol & Sehun were the cover of CeCi magazine, Taemin, Kai & Krystal were on the spread of W Magazine, Big Bang was in GQ Magazine, and Suho, Chen & Baekhyun were on the front page of Star Magazine.
So we bought all. In twos. Duh!
We didn't feel like exploring too much of Seoul that day because we had a whole full day planned out the next day.
'Til then!
xoxo
Tania
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