We headed to the Namsan area to the back of our guesthouse for coffee and breakfast since the cafes there look so cute when we passed it the other evening on our way to Namsan Park. We settled at Coffee Antique, and realised that the cafes at that area don't really serve much food, except of cakes and biscuits to go with their coffees. Nevertheless, we were quite happy to settle a light breakfast at such a nice atmosphere.
I noticed that a lot of cafes in Seoul use white paint to decorate their glass windows. According to the ahjussi at Coffee Antique, he gets the decorated window from this website, which is unfortunately in Korean. I did a search and realised Chalk Ink pens do the same too, and went Art Friend to purchase a similar ZIG Posterman Wet Erasable white pen to experiment on my mirror.
I really like the decor in this cafe!
They even sell homemade accessories in Coffee Antique!
After that, we went to Lotte Mart to do grocery shopping for Korean snacks to lug back home! :)
Check out the CUTEEEEE toilet seat covers on display! I'm gonna get it (I know it's impractical but it's so cute!!) the next time I go there.
The wide range of GoJuJung (spicy sauce)
Fresh Dak (Korean rice cakes)! Too bad they only last for a day... there's doesn't seem to be any fresh rice cakes sold in Singapore. The rice cakes in Korea all taste so nice, chewy and Q-Q, unlike the hard and seemingly uncooked al dente ones in Singapore.
A packet full of samgyetang (ginseng chicken) goodness! Too bad we can't hand carry liquid back home, else it would have gone back with us!
All the spicy red hot kimchi/ radish Koreans always have as their banchans (side dish)
Chong Gwan Jung - the renowned Korean Ginseng brand.
Different flavoured soju. We were searching for ginseng soju after the very potent one we had at the samgyetang restaurant.
Total loot = SGD74 worth of groceries
And then we lugged our bags to the nearby (okay, not so nearby, maybe like 400m) Siloam Sauna. It's actually one of those Korean public bathhouse/ sauna (zzimzilbang) where people go to shower/bathe/sauna. I was quite impressed that they actually have their very own building!
As you can see, the changing rooms are on the 1st floors (men and women separate - duh), showers are in the basement. The common area starts from the 2nd floor onwards, where there's a lounge, children's play area and a small cafe. 3rd and 4th floors are all the sauna rooms and even a small eating place, where we had Jajungmyeon (the Korean equivalent of zhajiangmian). 5th floor is the sleeping room. I think I can just spend an entire day there doing nothing or rather sleeping. We spent close to 4 hours there.
The mentioned eating place and jajungmyeon
Thereafter, we cabbed back to the guesthouse to put our groceries. There was this pretty cafe near our guesthouse that was open but we didn't actually eat there. I thought it looked nice so here're a few pics
Andong Jjimdak - upon recommendation from Huisian.
It's basically a big plate of chicken in some spicy glass noodle sauce with vegetables - quite yummy
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