Breakfast today was the chocolate log bread that I had been dying to try from PB! It wasn't extremely chocolatey to the point where you felt you gained ten pounds from a single bite, but it wasn't chocolatey enough to satisfy your inner chocolate demons. I don't know what exactly I was expecting from the bread, but it sure didn't taste as mind-blowing as I envisioned it to be.
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| This thing cost me 3,000W. |
I stayed in my room the entire morning and I didn't even go out for lunch because I was too engrossed in the Internet. I can't even remember what it was that I did today oh my gosh. If not for my room mate, I don't think I would have stepped out of the house at all today.
She came back in the late afternoon and said that they were trying to claim their transport fees and asked if I wanted to tag along. Well of course I did, it's free money. So I finally took my first step out of the house and thankfully I wasn't looking too dishevelled because we ended up staying outside for a couple of hours and even had to visit the school's office to submit our applications. Special mention goes to David, a Korean buddy of ours who is the nicest person I have ever met, I can't believe such a person exists actually. (and it was his birthday today I didn't even know until a few days later)
The cavewoman caved in (yay punny!) to her hunger so she bought an ice cream from the convenience store for 1,000W. I love ice cream cakebreads (actually I just love ice cream) like this and this one is blueberry-cheesecake-flavoured! I made it a point to try every single prepacked ice cream from the convenience stores here and I am nowhere close to even half the list because I keep rejecting those temptations.
Anyway, the ice cream was cold, creamy and smooth, deliciously sandwiched by the soft spongy cake slices but I don't think I should eat it again. There're too many other ice creams waiting in line. But this one was really good!
We spent an hour bumming around after we went to the office (I learnt that guys can be as indecisive as girls sometimes) and by this time, the cavewoman has evolved into a hungry monster and we all know what she's like when she's hungry! So she fled down the mountain to grab herself some food.
I've always wanted to try Mom's Touch, but I didn't have the guts to go in and order a takeout I don't know for what reason since I have been through much worse embarrassments. But since David was around, he could help me order and I finally got to try the highly raved Mom's Touch! I got the mango chicken burger, which was huge (true to its picture) and tasted like a non-spicy version of the Zinger burger back home. It wasn't half bad but I was disappointed because I couldn't taste any mango in all of my bites. Are they not in season? The fries were fantastic though! Best fries I've had in Korea!
My room mate wanted a drink so we all got bubble teas! I try not to drink bubble so often but I've been wanting to try the bubble tea here in Korea to see how it differs from the ones back home. The shop we went to was called Bubble Tok (bad pun) and each cup bought is worth one chop on the loyalty card. The cute part was that you could play rock-scissors-paper with the staff and if you win, you get an additional chop! And we both won. (grins)
I ordered an iced pumpkin latte which costs a crazy 4,300W and only tasted so-so. The tapioca (that's what they call it here) was really chewy, but it was kind of tasteless so it was a chore for me to avoid the pearls when drinking the latte. I ended up throwing the drink away at the halfway mark. Although I would like to try their sweet potato drinks, I probably wouldn't go in again.
After dinner, I joined my friends for bird-watching at the Eulsukdo Bird Sanctuary. It's just round the corner from Hadan and across the Nakdong River. It's within walking distance actually from Hadan Station but if you don't like to walk, you can take Bus 58 from the station but it only comes once every twenty minutes.
Through a series of misfortunate events, by the time we got there, it was really dark and the birds were all gone. Well, not all the birds, we managed to see one crane and three unidentified flying creatures but that was it. We have to come back another day. (sigh) I read online that the birds are not always around throughout the year and that October is the best time for bird-watching.
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| It was really dark but I managed to spot a crane perched on top of a wooden gate! (happy) |
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| I'm glad we got to see the beautiful night view of Hadan though. |
My friends were hungry and they wanted to have dinner at 본죽, a franchise porridge house they found online. We walked for miles and miles no thanks to Google Maps but we finally found it! The long search whetted our appetites and we wasted no time ordering our food.
As the servings were huge, us three girls got two bowls to share whereas the guys happily polished off one bowl each. The girls wanted to try the popular Bulgogi-Octopus Porridge so we had that and I picked Pumpkin Porridge for our other choice. The guys were boring and both got Mushroom-Chicken Porridge. Each bowl of porridge ranges from 8,000W to 15,000W and I felt that it was really too expensive to be justified even though the servings were very generous.
The bulgogi-octopus porridge (9,000W) had lots of ingredients in it and looked really appetising, but tasted very bland. The pumpkin porridge (8,000W) had more flavour, but it lacked the abundance of ingredients. It tasted more like a dessert than a proper meal, especially with the rice dumplings inside it. I'm not a porridge person, so I guess I'll not be coming back, but it was definitely worth a try.
xoxo, ❀
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