Korea Time! (Lots of pictures)

[drksolest]

omg I'm so eating korean today at lunch... bul dak here i come!

[Razi]

Mmm speaking of that, we have a local place that does that.
You sit on the wooden floors and sit at a "table" which is made of marble and it's heated by a flame underneath it and all the food (first being the seasoned duck meat), is cooked on it.

I really should take more pictures of the places I go to.

[drksolest]

oh please do. I've never been to korea so I really enjoy the pix!

[sentrastace]

I went to seoul but only for a day so I didnt get to see much this looks so cool. One thing ive wanted to try more of is the food. what else did you eat there?

[Razi]

I tried the stuff at the local bakeries, but that's all the same stuff they have in the Korean bakeries back in America so that wasn't anything new.

The seasoned duck meat was new to me, the way we ate it was the same way we might eat bulgogi though.
You put it on top of a lettuce leaf and put in whatever else you'd like and wrap it up and eat it.

A market near out house has a lot of icecream bars I've never tried, and they are really cheap as well.
I think some of them are around 300 Won, that's like 30 cents haha.

Today we met with my other aunt and uncle and had some bbq ribs, I ate so much!
I'm probably gaining a ton of weight lately, but will probably lose it after surgery.

I'll be sure to take more pictures of the different foods here, I didn't take pictures before because a lot of the food I've eaten in America before, but I'm plenty of you guys haven't seen them and would be interested in it.
The cars are much more interesting though, so many weird things.

One cool thing about the restaurants (and pretty much everything else) is that you can get the food delivered from just about anywhere.
Like bicycles to messengers in New York, here the delivery people ride small mopeds to get them quickly through the city and are small enough to quickly get through the narrow alleyways.

[numbnuts240]

A market near out house

how bad does that market smell?

[Razi]

One section smells like bread, the rest like nothing, and one section like seafood.

[numbnuts240]

ahhh that joke went way over your math processing head.

[Razi]

Yeah it did. :\

[sentrastace]

bahahahaha.

[Jesda]

Travel pics that involve food! This guy knows how to make a good thread

[MellowZ32]

Going to InsaDong again this weekend.
Before the.....

you said dong!

[Razi]

A few days ago we went downtown to buy some clothes and things, then we found an oldschool fish bread vendor.
3 for 1000 Won, Around 1 dollar!
Also, a peak at the shopping bag from where I bought some t-shirts.


Then, today I ate a muffin:

With some banana milk:

Then ate a watermelon icecream bar while watching a rerun of the match between Korea and Nigeria.

The "seeds" were little round bits of chocolate, the icecream did not taste anything like watermelon though.
Still liked it, might buy it again, I kept nibblin the green part of the bar to see if it tasted any different.
I couldn't be for certain, but I think it tasted the same as the rest of the bar.

Then later in the day we went off to another part of Anyang to go to a large park on a mountain.
These tiny trucks are popular here:
The Hyundai Porter, funny little things.

Also, these rear window mirrors are on a lot of vans and SUVs:

I'm guessing it's used to gauge your bumper distance when parking in tight spaces, and making sure there are no small children or animals behind you when you reverse.

I saw a few interesting things along the way but couldn't take pictures as we passed by them too fast.
One included some sort of Hyundai, some of the new ones come with a badge that says "VVT" on them to show off their coolness.
The owner flipped the letters so the v's looked like "^^" happy eyes, and the upside "T" looked like it was flipping it's middle finger. Funny.
There was also a VW convertible Beetle in a disgusting shade of orange near the entrance to the park, yuck!

Anyways, we arrived at the park and paid our parking fees and started walking.
Here's a shot looking back towards the parking lot:

Then we kept walking and saw this gigantic set of stairs:

We decided to take another way up, via the sidewalk you can see on the right side of the above picture.

Shot of the sidewalk we took:

Shot down towards the bottom:

Another shot of the sidewalk as we got in further:

I also noticed that there were little signs that told you the type of flowers and some more information about it.

Large apartment buildings are everywhere in Korea.
If you don't have enough land to expand sideways, expand up towards the sky and into the ground!

Cool clock tower:

And a few more shots towards the bottom:



Then we finally made it up to the actually park.
That large thing of rocks is an artificial waterfall, turns out we were there on the day where they clean the waterfall once a month.

Towards the right was a children's playground.


Near the waterfall was a traditional Korean hut thing. :P

Here are some stepping stones you can take to get closer to the waterfall, usually you'd have to worry about slipping and falling into the water but no water today.
You can also see the entrance to a small tunnel on the left.

Picture of said tunnel:

The tunnel also had some stones for you to skip on inside, it must look awesome when they turn on the water.
On other side of the tunnel:

"Do not go in!" [Into the water]

Here is the area to the left of the waterfall, we sat here for a while afterwards.

The waterfall itself:

There is a small circuit you can walk or run around the park, and they had this funny sign up with some instructions on exercising.

Along the path you circle around the children's playground area, but I later found out it also has a few other things.
Like this funny mushroom-like thing.

Korea also has exercise machines in parks and along exercising routes near the rivers, and looks like this park had them too.


Playground!

Vending machines!

As we kept walking along the route we spotted this random train track thing inside the park.


Turns out they mined this mountain for the rocks used near the track tracks to cover the dirt.
The top right picture shows how the place looked like before, then the bottom right picture shows how the mountain looks after building the park.

When we made it all the way around, they turned on the lights to the waterfall.
I bet it looks awesome when the waterfall has some water falling....

Random bird!

Then my aunt and I decided we should eat some icecream up here and headed down to the markets at the bottom of the park.
Another shot of the stairs.

A shot of the restrooms at the bottom of the park, that wall in front is supposed to have water running down it.
None today.

Bought this funny looking icecream cone.

All kinds of Korean snacks!

A look back towards the restroom from the streets.

After buying the cone, we started heading back up to the waterfall to meet up with my uncle and sit at the tables and eat our icecream.
I spotted another vending machine and took a few pictures of the drinks inside.
Gatorade in a can. LoL

Some more drinks at the vending machine, I want to try them all!

Then we reached the top and it was pretty dark so I used my flash for once and the pictures turned out..meh.
We sat down at the tables and I popped the cap open off the icecream cone and saw this!

Then I took the bottom part off of the cone:

And then I ate it! The cone wasn't all the crispy and the icecream tasted alright, nothing special but I still liked it for the coolness of it. :P

The end!

[drksolest]

Yay, love the pix. also i think i've had something like that banana milk... like a flavored yogurt drink?

[Razi]

It's banana flavored milk, if there isn't a Korean store near you, I think Nesquik makes them too and maybe you can find them at a gas station or something.
You know what happens when you drink one of these...
You turn into a Korean girl, have a fun time, then your fridge barfs up a millions of Banana milk cartons for you to drink.

[drksolest]

[numbnuts240]

my penor spits out shots of banana juice.

[Razi]

my penor spits out shots of banana juice.

[JLAUDIO85]

Razi! did u see the game yesterday! lmaooo

[Razi]

I fell asleep an hour before it started.
So I watched a rerun on TV while eating that watermelon bar, haha.
My uncle slept until game time and watched the whole thing, I should've done that.

[JLAUDIO85]

oh yea wasnt it like 3am when it started? lol
it started at 2:30pm here in toronto. Mannnn what a game...we got sooo lucky
did u see that miss by Nigeria? actually those wide open misses hahaha soo jokes

[Razi]

Yeah it was about 3am here when it started. zzZZZ
And yeah Nigeria made a lot of misses when they had wide open opportunities.
So very lucky for Korea.