First thing in the morning, we set off for the Wine Tunnel where they make persimmon wine. The temperature in the tunnel was supposed to be 15-16 degrees but to tell the truth, it didn't feel like 15-16 degrees in there. Then again, I'm not a thermometer so I don't really know how cold it was in there.
Each of us got to taste the persimmon wine and chomp on cheese with crackers at the same time. As it was just after breakfast, I was impressed by how people could still ingest the cheese crackers. Then again, being Singaporeans, everything also must be kiasu right! Come all the way to Korea, cannot don't try. =D
Li Ming and I bought a bottle of the persimmon wine that the current president of Korea likes very much. Wasn't cheap though. Cost us KRW25000.
After the short visit to the tunnel, we had to take a 3 to 4-hour long bus journey to Ichon. Luckily, the bus was quite comfortable and the roads were smooth so it didn't really bother me that we had to drive for 3 to 4 hours. If it was the lousy bus that we had in Taiwan plus the uneven roads in China, I will confirm curse and swear. Anyway, while sleeping, or rather half-asleep, I heard this interesting conversation between the couple seated behind me.
Wife: Where's the boy who was taking photographs for us yesterday? Didn't see him today.
Husband: Huh? We saw him at breakfast today. The one who helped us move our luggages.
Wife: No, not that one. That one is a man. I'm talking about the boy yesterday. (Actually, they were the same person -_-)
Husband: What are you talking about? You're talking about the one who took photos yesterday for us right? That's him!
Wife: No, not this one.
Husband: It's him okay. There's only one person.
Wife: But...but...
Husband: (in a wtf tone) Don't know what you are talking about. The conversation ends here okay.
I was trying soooo hard not to break out in laughter when I overheard the conversation. In fact, I managed to get somemore interesting conversation in the later days of the tour but, I shall leave that for later. Yes, I am an eavesdropper and I'm proud of it. Woohoo~
It was around noon when we reached Ichon so we were brought to this restaurant called 'San Cheong' to have octopus steamboat. One of the uncles initially thought that it was sotong lor...Seriously, does sotong have the suction thingy on them?!
Didn't really want to eat/touch the octopus at first because it looked freaking slimy but then I realised that it's the octopus or go hungry so ...sorry Mr Octopus, you were damn delicious. =D
Octopus aside, after one day of no eye candy, I finally saw the first cute guy(to me) outside the restaurant. No photo of him because it was weird to do so but he resembled Matsumoto Jun of Arashi. Cute enough? Heh~
After lunch, we went to this place called Duittle Kimchi to taste, make and buy kimchi. They allowed us to try the kimchi that they sold, along with some other Korean goodies. Since it was like 5minutes after we had lunch, I was once again amazed by how people managed to put all these food away into their stomachs.
Me with the kimchi that I made. I am a natural cook man! Wahaha~ The kimchi demonstration was really interesting. Firstly, the lady used Chinese to explain to us how kimchi was made. At the same time, the tour leader, Richie, had to do an English translation because there were a few people on the tour who had difficulties understanding Chinese. It was really funny because there were a few interesting mis-translations which made everyone roar with laughter.
We also got to try on the traditional Korean costume, hanbok, for free~ Okay, I know my face resembles the moon on the 15th of August (lunar calendar)...What to do? Food in Korea was simply too delicious. The hanbok looks damn nice right...in front that is...at the back was...
THIS!
Since all these hanbok are worn by tourists, I guess they didnt bother to let us wear the full hanbok set. I mean, we are just wearing it for the sake of taking photos and feeling Korean for a moment, so no need to let us wear the whole thing. So, everyone looked damn nice in front but the back...was obscene. Haha.
The hat reminds me more of Vietnam than Korea.
Am I cool? One of the men from my tour group actually went to find the exact same piece of clothing and posed the same way as the guy in the photo. It was hilarious. =D
Strawberry picking time! Each one was allowed to pick 5 only but Li Ming and I chose not to because they gave each pair a free box of strawberries anyway. Lalala.
Next up was the spa that Li Ming and I opted not to go and stayed in the hotel room to watch television. Dinner was at the same place where we had lunch but dinner was so much more delicious. If I did not remember wrongly, it was a sotong+beef stew/steamboat. Yummilicious. I ate like 2 freaking bowls of it...or was it 3? See, this is how my face gradually came to resemble a moon. -_-
My favourite was served at dinner too as well. Mushrooms~ I was like smiling whenever I ate a mouthful of mushrooms. My expression must have had been seriously disgusting but who cares man, mushrooms are delicious.
LCD television again in the hotel. =D However, the outside of the hotel room looked really scary because it wasn't lighted up and the whole corridor was pitch black. Didn't help that we were staying right across the laundry room where anybody could have had hid in. We practically ran back to our room.
Night was spent eating the free strawberries and watching 'We Got Married'. Damn funny show but wtf is wrong with Andy's hair? It's totally not flattering lo...at least to me.
End of Day 2~ As usual, more pictures can be found at http://mizu-kioku.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=142.
seriously, i thought you lost quite a bit of weight. you look slimmer in that blue blouse! really! :)
ah, that was because i just finished exams...stress=lose weight
then later eat and eat in korea so....moon face~haha