Korea Seoul free and easy: Supermarket e mart and lotte mart

More supermarkets and updated information for 2019

Visited emart for the first time.

There is not significant price difference between emart and lotte mart. Usually around 5 won.

There are two levels, they sell a lot of cute household stuffs

rice cake

kimchi

Looks delicious..

If you are staying in an apartment, can buy lot of food to eat..

even have prepacked seafood soup.

and small abalone at $2 per piece..

Lotte mart at seoul station

What we bought.. 

Is a good place to buy cheap snacks and gifts for friends and families and colleagues..

and also to buy food and drinks for long day of sightseeing..

Remember to do your tax refund if you spend more than 30 000 won.

just go to the tax refund counter.

singapore eats: black sheep cafe

The place is not very crowed even on a Friday night.

Good for a girls' night out or dating.

Located in a shopping mall at Thomson, quite accessible.

The staff are very attentive and friendly.

Their bread is very delicious.

warm and chewy.

Escargots with butter and garlic.

My first attempt at Escargots, a bit chewy.

Duck confit on Apple Roesti, Mango Relish

and

chicken in red wine, stuffed field mushrooms, puree potato

I ate the duck confit.. the skin is crisy and the meat is tender but slight chewy.

Not for you if you do not like to chew

My sister said her chicken in red wine is very tender.

Kahlua Souffle, double chocolate ice cream..

The waiter pour the cream in the souffle and then is ready to be consumed..

The chocolate ice cream is not very sweet but the Souffle is crispy and creamy.

Interesting.

I like the souffle especially the bitss with roasted brown sugar.

Exterior.

Korea seoul free and easy : Insadong (to have have tea and look at handicrafts)

Insadong is highly recommended if you want to spend your afternoon resting your tired legs after sightseeing in the morning and trying to gathering energy for shopping at night.

this is near to Gyeongbokgung

We took the subway and got down at Jonggak.

We went to the tourism information counter and ask for the location of both tea museum.

They provided us with a map so it was quite easy for us to locate both tea house.

we took 

The beautiful  tea museum is a modern tea house with some information of tea leaves and etc

Beautiful Tea Museum

Address: #193-1 Insadong Chonglo-gu, Seoul, Korea

It will be a bit hard to locate as you have to turn into a little alley.

Our bill came up to 28 000 won.

Enjoy the beautiful flowers along Insadong

The second tea house we tried is the traditional tea house.

Each of us has to ordered a cup of tea.

We decided to try the traditional snacks, interesting but not memorable

Price come up to 28000 won again.

BEautiful sights of insadong..

Korea Seoul free & easy : Ewha woman's university shopping hair perming and food..

Started our day at Ewha woman's  university by looking for a simple cafe for a delicious breakfast.

A little cafe at a small little alley which Korean girls hang out.

Went to Cecica hair salon as recommended by some blogger.

3 different curls. Did not coloured our hair.

1st is just at the bottom few inches. middle start from the ear. and last is slightly more wavy.

When we walked into the salon, we choose a suitable hair style after discussion with the hair stylist in simple English from images on the computer.

Price is 162 000 won inclusive of perming, treatment and cut.

Although I like the outcome, I did not enjoy the experience..

My friends' hair stylists are attentive and gentle.

Mine hair stylist washed my hair like she was hand washing her dirty clothes, rubbing with so much strength.. it hurts a lot and I told her off after the second wash.

my heart just breaks at the thought of what she done to fragile hair.

My other hair stylist spent more time admiring herself in the mirror..

Will go korea again for perm as the curls are still there after 4 months and I do not have to curl it much at night. 

 Shopping at Ewha woman's university. The dresses are cheap at around 10000 won onwards..There are more expensive and better quality too. and I do like the facts that their dresses are suited for people taller than 160 cm. Sometimes, my loots from Bangkok just end around my butt.. Bags are also from 10000 won onwards and there are shops selling accessories at 1000 won onwards.. There are a lot of things available at the minimum price I stated. For me, I find Ewha shopping the cheapest. I bought one of the dress at 39 000 won, they quoted me 60000 won at dongdaemum and reduce to 40000+ won at their own initative.

We did not eat a proper lunch, but snacked out way through.

My favourite korean snacks, ate it on my previous trip, the chicken on skewers and the cup of chicken, rice cakes and potatoes..

The rice ball was recommended by some blog but I find it so so only.

Oreo and Choco.. nothing can go wrong for such a combination..

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