My friend/roommate Michelle has a favorite cafe she frequented last year to study in located in a cute neighborhood called Samcheongdong, which is surrounded by hanoks, traditional Korean houses, because it's right next to Bukchon Hanok Village - one of my favorite places I went last year. It's called Cafe Dodo, and when she took me there last week, it lived up to the hype.
Citrus herbal tea, homework, and a view of hanok rooftops. I like this.
The inside of the cafe was very quaint and rustic.
I guess they're stockpiling for a huge bonfire?
Later that evening, I met up with a group of ladies at the Seoul English Branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for a girls' night to eat Korean-style shabu shabu. We met up on the campus of Ehwa Women's University, since it was close by.
Not gonna lie, this campus is cuter than Sogang - sorry, not sorry.
The most famous part of the campus, which is built into a hill and known as "Moses Parting the Red Sea", which leads to some classrooms built below.
Korean style shabu shabu - my favorite kind - comes with all sorts of vegetables and thinly shaved meat, which you dip for a short time in boiling broth and can dip in a flavorful sauce when it's cooked. But the magic is that the broth cooks down and the meat/veggies flavor it as you go, so after you eat all that, you put in dumplings and noodles or rice last and it soaks up the intensely flavored broth...mmm.
Afterwards, we stopped by a dessert cafe - they're seriously everywhere in Seoul - called C'lucy, which I have no clue how to pronounce. They have a deal where if it's after 9pm, everything's 40-50% off. This pleases me.
Different flavored macarons in a case, but the best part was...
...that it spun around. Don't know why, but it seemed to feel right.
My friend's chocolate cake on the left, my chocolate banana mousse cake in the middle, and my sweet potato steamed milk latte (no coffee) on the right. The last one was an experiment, and when I got my stuff, I wondered why something smelled like a potato, then I remembered it was my drink. It wasn't bad, but the potato-smell experience will probably stop me from getting it again.
On the way home that night, I passed by a movie theater in Sinchon and remembered our teacher told us something special was inside, so I went in to take a peep and saw...
Bumblebee from Transformers. Don't know how legit it is, but it looks pretty awesome and it's taller than me, so I'm gonna dub it cool.
2 comments:
You make everything look so good and fun. Great photo taking! Can't wait to see if Nik has seen Bumblebee--that is one of the Rescue Bots that he has.
Bumblebee is awesome-it's one of my favorite Transformers-from Rod. That spinning candy DOES seem right and looks delicious!
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