161220 Hongdae

had lunch at semaeul sikdang as i wanted to try the dwaengjang there (on the right). however, it is a little salty for my taste, and the kimchi stew is still the best (right)

also wanted to visit onepiee cafe and to shop around as well, so we went to hongdae today.

the queue in is pretty crazy so we only dropped by the gift shop and went off.

there's a castella shop that smelt so good just near the cafe! waited for the cheese version, which came out in less than 15mins.

walked around the area looking for dinner place, but there's long queues everywhere and i wasn't very hungry. passed by a bbq place that's featured in jealousy incarnate!

eventually settled on a stew place. i can't remember the name of the place, as usual, but we ordered a soup and chicken. it wasn't too bad. there's also dokboggi as side dish, but it was really spicy.

after that we headed home.

161118 Hongdae

for breakfast today - dunkin!! somehow they gave free pepsi for their hot bread selection before 12pm if you use their app. not that pepsi goes well with it... and anyway there was a promotion for craftholic foot mat if you buy above 10,000 won, so we ordered an extra drink to top it off. hurhur.

stopped by the office for a while, then decided to visit hongdae for dinner. was walking all over the place to look for it, and passed by kiss the tiramisu so couldn't help but get one.

last time i visited hongdae with mong, she brought me to a very nice place to eat - the prawn ganjjang! i missed that, as well as the choco cafe that pion brought us to. so i'm revisiting for all these!! fortunately, there wasn't much queue, and there was actually a second place that seats more guests, so we got seated pretty fast.

my greedy mr k decided to order 3 sets of food............................ he says that since this place is famous and he's hungry, why not.........

so here's the best-selling prawn ganjjang set!

the salmon set

and finally the crab meat eggy set. there was no place to put any side dish so it just came as a single order.

i can only say, please only order 1 set each if you're coming next time... i was bursting already and had no space for chocolate after that..

BUT STILL WE WENT ANYWAY.

and we ordered the fondant and hot choco. hahahah. it was drizzling anyway so we decided to stay in a while.

but gosh i feel like i gained 2kg from all the eating today =_= still, it was all good food!!! still, good food can't be eaten in excess, really........

161013 Hongdae

met up with Mong today at hongdae! yay! she was telling me about this prawn set (se-u ganjjang) at hongdae that she wanted to try out, which was featured on a local show. i was late for like 30mins... and reached around 12. oops... but at least we found the place! it opened around 12pm and there was already a queue!

we waited for almost an hour before we got in, and our meal came almost immediately (they prepped it while we were in the queue).

the prawns are raw and i saw mong ate up every single part. not even the shell or the head was left, like mine:

we ate everything in a mere 15mins?! there's persimmon given as a side fruit. love the entire meal!!!!!!

and of cos, what is meal without dessert? the chocolate cafe was just a minute walk away from this place, the one i last went with pion and the rest.

BUT IT WAS CLOSED,

on a day that's not a holiday, that was just like any other day. T______________T

luckily, Mong said there's a #2 shop that sells cheesecake, opened by the same person. so we walked over to check. it wasn't opened till past 2pm, so we walked around first before coming back again. chanced by a gacha shop and a cafe that makes rings. there's all sorts of cafes in hongdae where you can make jewelry, dolls etc...

well anyway we went back to the cheesecake place and there was this parfait thingy i wanted to try but they had no ice cream that day. NO ICE CREAM. i can't image cafe without ice cream. zzzz. ended up just ordering tea and a cheesecake souffle. *sniffs*

took a photo this time! Mong dressed up for me and her hair was looking nice! must take pic! haha.

thankfully, there was a bunch of other things along the streets of hongdae, and there was this really neat tiramisu ice cream!! we just saw people eating while walking and decided we'll look for it. it pays to have nice packaging as free advertisement...

we shared a cone! and i took the plastic glass home. it was so delicious!!

after walking around a bit, we passed by a castella shop that has a queue but it was closed... it seemed like shop will only open around 4pm?! since it was just 5mins away from 4pm... we joined in too...

bought 2 and gave one to Mong! i forgot to take a pic of how the castella looked like but i distributed it to the csl people and it disappeared in the hungry depths of myeong seon...

then we went home and i had dinner with 00. continuously eating for the whole day... went to a pizza place where we chanced upon previously after eating at misoya. was kinda craving for honey pizza, and it was there!

honey gorgonzola~

and hamburg!

they all tasted so awesome..... but it was kinda pricey for yongin so we probably wouldn't be back again, since olive offers something similar at 30% lower price.

we had desserts at paik's coffee. tbh i was seriously super full but i wanted to sit and nua somewhere at a coffee shop. i think i picked the wrong combi though. pumpkin soup was too filling and it was too cold for ice cream too =_=

at least dear enjoyed everything!

151226 Hongdae Chocolate

we drove pion back to her house to retrieve new clothes, and then went over to hongdae to have lunch/dinner. i think it was already past 4pm when we were there. wasn't very hungry, but kinda wanted to eat that very spicy ramen we had when we were here once, called teum-se-ramen.

this shop has the spiciest ramen, but to save our poor lips we only chose the moderate spicy level. hehe. love having cheese and egg in my ramen.

after that we went to this really awesome chocolate cafe recommended by pion. at first i was kinda doubtful because chocolate is filling and you can get quick sick of it easily. however, each of us ordered a very chocolatey drink and we shared orange choco cake + lava cake. and after eating all of those, it wasn't filling and i didn't get sick of any of them!! in fact i wanted to eat more. i think i will so come back here another day... the drink i had has baileys inside and it was so yummy. the thick chocolatey drink that pion and namchin had with a little scoop of ice-cream was heavenly... best chocolate cafe i've ever had, and that lava cake!!!!!!!! *_* i'm in love.

we walked the streets a little and met up with lumen, who recommended another ramen shop (japanese-style), so we ordered 2 bowls to share amongst the 5 of us (me, namchin, lumen, pion and ark). so fullllllllllllllllllll.

and since we had a photo, what's better than to make use of him for couple pictures. hahah!

150710 Trick Eye Museum

today's a double date with ark and pana at hongdae~

and we are late again by almost an hour... oops. had a quick katsudon lunch before we found our way over.

kim soo hyun came here~

the tickets we bought comes with the ice room too so we went to explore it first. if you're going.. bring a jacket and wear pants!!!!!

couple throne!

and omg i had to sit here for so long for 00 to take a proper pic

fancy having an iced living room, toilet and bedroom??

and the way to the exit is via an ice slide!

all right, we're finally getting to a warmer place now. phew.

and uh, not much to say i'm just gonna spam the pictures... enjoy!

really like this room!

 

we tried to shoot all of us with the piranha using the little sony camera 00 had

and some more pics i quite like!

and some augmented reality punching game..

tripping~

tea with the king!

delusional mirror...

hmm something stinks??!

there's even a mirror maze here before you get out

kungfu fighting

and a little greece outside

picture that appears different from 3 sides

some desserts after the museum

next progran of the day - escape room situated at an underground bar

unfortunately we weren't able to escape from the room... ugh. not that i would come back again. too brain wrecking. ooh discovered a hello kitty cafe in hongdae. seems pretty grand!

and then i gotta rush off to meet my rikkyo friends minkyung and junho. so nice to see them again! ate my cabonara chicken too~

went to a bingsu shop too

got tricked into eating one whole milk tea bingsu by myself... whoaaaa

thanks palsss!!!!!!