Day 2 - First Full Day

I woke up pretty jetlagged, but I had not eatten since my dinner on the plane which was 10am(ish) Korea time on Saturday.  So, I was pretty excited to get up and get my first meal in Korea.  A group from my apartment were heading out to go get some lunch and some items for our rooms (towel, trash can, toilet paper, etc.  We took the subway (which was my first time in Korea) one station over to Anam which is the foodie district.

We ate at a little hole in the wall Korean restaurant.  I ordered a traditional Korean meal, bibimbap, which is rice with some pickled vegetable topped with a over easy egg.  It also came with a side of kimchi which is seasoned/vinegared cabbage (the most traditional food of Korea).

In this picture from left to right (all live in my apartment), Lei, Stuart, Me, Anouk (from Paris), Marelisa (from Vienna), Becky (from Canada), Jo (from Hong Kong), and Mischa (from Arizona).  After lunch, we went Daiso (Korean Walmart) to get some stuff for my room.  We went back to the apartment and took a break before we headed out to Dongmyo.  Dongmyo is most known for the river that runs through the middle of the district.  

We walked around and explored for a while down the outdoor market they have.  For dinner, we decided to go somewhere random and ended up at the place we did because the owner was yelling on the street to come eat his amazing food.  For dinner, we ended up having maybe the most adventurous meal possible.  I had noodles with ox intestines.  I did not know what it was beforehand, but I did not care because it tasted good.  

New people in the picture on the left (more from the apartment) are the front two.  On the left is Johaness and on the right is Roberto.  The third from the right is Frank.  And the guy in the middle is the owner of the restaurant who yelled at us from the streets to come eat in his place.  The picture on the right is the side bowls they served for the meal.  It was referred to at the table as a "bowl of mess your mouth up".  After dinner, we went down to the river where they have a path to walk on that leads all of the way down the river and some stones that occasionally allow you to cross the river and back.  Then, we went back to the apartment and went to sleep.