Ate lunch at...McDonalds! What? We really wanted to try the bulgkogi burgers. They looked really good on the ads. They were better than the ones at Burger King in my opinion at least. We also got Coke cups and had fries. Ah McDonalds.
We ended up spending a lot of time there. We were supposed to also go back to the apartments to drop off our backpacks and stuff. By the time we got there, we realized that we were probably not going to make it to the cemetery on time. That gave us some free time before we had to meet Auntie Maureen for a show. This large amount of free time bothered us, so we decided to go to COEX Mall.
For those of you unfamiliar with COEX, it's a giant mall. Picture that large indoors mall near you (for example, Oakridge) and inject it with steroids and add about a thousand people. Then you get COEX. We went for the Kimchi Museum.
The Kimchi Museum was not as big as we thought it would have been. The first room is all kimchi-inspired art.
Next room goes over the various types of kimchis and their origins. They also go over a little bit of how kimchi is made.
Also, you get free samples of kimchi. That's kind of legit. Any place that gives you free kimchi usually is pretty legit.
They also had a wall of various kimchi dishes, including kimchi bread. This is intriguing and I'm curious to try this some day. They also had a wall of other pickled dishes from around the world.
They also had a lengthy explanation of how kimchi has super powers.
Pretty much this museum taught me the obvious: kimchi is awesome.
We were running pretty late, so apart from a quick stop at Artbox while others were in the bathroom, we didn't spend much more time at COEX. I think we were all okay with that.
We met with Auntie Maureen in front of her building. It took us a while to find her because while she told us to walk along the fence, Umma was looking for red senses somewhere. Umma and Auntie Maureen have very entertaining conversations, we've learned.
We made our way through Myeong dong, which was extremely hectic and crowded. We went to this restaurant where they served this amazing, but spicy dish. I don't remember the name of it, but it's so good. I have better pictures of it, but I want to show you how big the plate was.
It was so spicy, but so good. I cannot emphasize this enough. You knew the food was going to be good because as soon as you stepped into the restaurant, you were bombarded by the smell of garlic and happiness.
Also, it's super messy so you have to wear bibs.
We had to rush out of the restaurant and run with very full stomachs to the City Hall area for our show. Like run. It wasn't a plesant experience. We also like made it right at 8. That was fun.
The show was Miso.
It's a show with a lot of traditional Korean performances. It's basically a love story that takes place over the four seasons during the Joseon dynasty. There's Korean dancing (like the stuff Mia used to do), a lot of farmer's dancing, Korean drumming, and some singing. It was a very pretty show and kind of made me guilty for missing Samulnori that day. Seriously, some of the drumming in the show was way intense. It was also a very colorful show because Korean dresses are extremely colorful, as we've noticed.
After the show, we got to take pictures with some of the drummers. A lot of the other performers were out there too, but they all disappeared almost as soon as our group made it upstairs.
After the show, we went to try to book Nanta tickets, but the box office was closed. We were sad, so we indulged in our daily dose of ice cream. This felt especially good because it offset the very spicy dinner we had.
Then we took the bus home and that was about it for the day.
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