Korea Day 2

First meal of the day: 烏骨參雞湯 at a restaurant near 景福宮 palace called 土俗村.

The chicken was stuffed with 人參 ginseng and 糯米.
More kimchi was offered, neither of us wanted to try because of the strong after taste, but 2 Korean salary men sitting beside us kept on telling us that we have to try it, so we had some just to be polite.
I had the radish kimchi, it was good!
Think this is the point where I started to like kimchi.
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Walking around 景福宮 palace area after meal.
Unfortunately, the palace doesn't open on Tuesdays, so we didn't get to see the inside of the palace.


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Since the palace wasn't open, we decided to move on to 仁寺洞.
At 仁寺洞 there were many shops that sells traditional crafts and fabrics.
I bought myself a mother of pearl inlayed jewery box.


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We took a break at a traditional tea house 傳統茶院 in the 仁寺洞 area.



We ordered chrysanthemum tea, pear tea, and 2 dishes of traditional sweets.
I found the sweets the same as Taiwanese traditional sweets 發糕 and 麻老.
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In the afternoon we went back to our hotel to take a break.
Had dinner @ a restaurant called Yung Yang Centre 營養中心 recommanded by Alex.
That restaurant only sells baked chicken or ginseng chicken soup.

And more kimchi was offered :]
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After dinner, we went to the City Hall area to see a traditional musical performance.


The performance is a musical play of a love story. It includes traditional drumming, dancing, singing. Very impressive. I think this performance might be more interesting than the NANTA performace.

At the concert hall, we also had a chance to dress up. But it was a bit of a pressure to have to pick an outfit quickly and take a picture infront of many others.