June 2005 Archives

the night before i left korea, seungjin, minae, and i dropped by the good ole heavenly sauna down the street from minae's house. i went to this one at least twice last year, and another one close by as well.

jeju island, day 3... our tour group stops by "miniworld," a tourist site completely unrelated to the culture and history of jeju island where they put up scaled-down models of the world's largest building. in all honesty, it wasn't all that interesting, but we did get to sport new trendy $2 raincoats~ blue for boy, pink for girl!

this is a relatively new cafe that opened up - want something made from green tea? you name it, they've got it... green tea ice cream, green tea cheesecake, green tea smoothies, and, of course, green tea..

one of my favorite resteraunts ^^ take exit 6 gangnam stn, go up two blocks, turn left - it's right across from red mango. i first went there with soojin after getting hammered the night before, so you can imagine how good it was :p

korea has a lot of these food carts where they sell pretty much the same kinds of food you see in these pictures. we got a pretty sizeable portion for only 3500W ($3.50)... so cheap! (and so yummy!!)

joyce, seung-hoon, hyun-sook, ji-hye, joyce, minae, minae's sister, and i all met up in gangnam for dinner (찜닭) and some yummy frozen yogurt at a new joint called "pearl berry". they're clearly direct competitors of red mango, and actually that day MBC (i think) interviewed all of us for one of their food shows :p we all had to say something like "요구르트 너무 맛있어요!" or something like that, and then they made joyce say in english "mmm... very delicious!!" and then they made me say "excellent!!"

it was good seeing everyone after a year... of course, the first thing everyone said when they saw me was "you've gotten fat!" ㅠㅠ

so minae has always dreamed of eating at this restaurant in coex mall called "deep blue." it has a great view of the aquarium, and is pretty famous among the famous actors/actresses in korea (they have a board of photos of people who've eaten there, like Song Hye Kyo (Full House girl))...

on our trip to jeju island, we stopped by a large lake and took an hour-long boat cruise that was absolutely beautiful. check out how blue the water is!