BONJUK (본죽)
You can find this restaurant easily; come out from Exit 8, turn left and left again at the first intersection. Walk straight and look out for the restaurant on the second floor. We ordered the Chicken Abalone Porridge and also the Seaweed Scallop Mushroom Porridge. Each bowl of porridge costs about 12 SGD, which is extremely expensive!
Hmm. For me personally, the porridge wasn't really fantastic; the porridge was less watery than our Singapore-style porridge and it felt like...bland Risotto? Well, I'm not a porridge-lover to begin with so I could be a little biased here. But I guess no harm trying if you would like to opt for a healthier breakfast? :P
The sign and the store (:
After the porridge, we were feeling lazy and we walked aimlessly around Myeongdong, and made our obligatory visits to ZARA, Forever 21 etc. The streets were lined with cosmetic shops such as Nature Republic, Etude House, Faceshop, Skinfood etc and the products are much cheaper than in Singapore!
As promised, I took a picture of my cosmetic hauls! Gave away most of my masks already. As you can see, I didn't really buy a lot but I did get 5 lipsticks! Well, kind of regretted not buying more...! At that time, I felt that it would be more worthwhile to spend all my money on clothes! I know most of the girls will probably go crazy in these cosmetic stores and would have bought more in an hour than what I bought for 1 week!
P.S. Bought the Pearl Aura Brightening lotion from Etude House and can't wait to use it and share with you guys! Its highly raved in Korea right now.
And as usual, we can't walk for very long and we decided to take a short coffee break at Caffe Bene, also at Myeongdong.
Caffe Bene is a coffeehouse chain based in Seoul; you can see them almost everywhere!
The photos say everything about this cafe. It is a perfect place to chill out. Totally love the serene environment where you can have a quiet time to do some work too.
After resting at the cafe for about 1.5 hours, we decided to head to Ewha Women's University to explore the campus!
Directions: Ewha Women's University subway station, exit 2/3. Walk straight and you will see a lot of stores on both sides of the street. The university is at the end of the street!
The school is just so AMAZ-ING. Everything about this schools just spells pretty and I was saying that I wouldn't mind going to school everyday if my school were to be like this. NTU and Ewha - totally incomparable! How can Ewha be a school! Every corner in the school is so ootd-friendly :P
Time for some shopping in Ewha!
It is a huge shopping area surrounded by many boutiques selling clothes and a lot of shoes! So if you are shopping for shoes, this should be the place you are heading. Nothing much for clothes; I bought only a few basic cotton tops @ only $6-10 each? The basics here are definitely cheaper than the other areas since it is catered mainly for the students.
After spending close to 1.5 hours at the university, we decided to head nearby for an early dinner. We did a quick search online, asked the local students for directions and ended up at this fantastic Jjimdak (Braised Chicken with Korean vermicelli) restaurant 'Ewha Andong Jjimdak'.
It's a little difficult to locate this restaurant and I'll provide the directions at the end of this post. We ordered their famous Jjimdak (for two) and rice. We paid a little bit more for boneless chicken and it was delicious!
The chicken was tender and well-marinated; the vermicelli (dong-fen) was very chewy (很有口感) and goes perfectly well with the chicken.
This is the shop! I swear this is the BEST Jjimdak I have eaten so far in Seoul. The other Jjimdak that most people are raving- Yeolbong Jjimdak, cannot be compared to this.
Directions:
Line 2 at Edae station, exit #2. Go straight down and turn left on the fifth alley where you see 'Olive Young' store.Hope you all are able to find it!
Will be blogging on Part 3 soon :P
xoxo
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