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Autumn in Korea – Day 1 (Busan) – Beomeosa Temple, Nampo-dong

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Menyambung postingan aku sebelumnya. Kali ini Lil Sis akan menceritakan perjalan Lil Sis di Busan pada hari pertama. Setelah deal deal-an dengan sung Oppa, kami akhirnya akan berkeliling Busan selama 2 hari di sana with Sung Oppa’s Car. Tentunya plus handsome driver, sung oppa sendiri. Setelah mandi, makan, instirahat sejenak. Kami pun turun bersama Sung Oppa. Mobilnya diparkir di basement apartement. Dari stalking Miss Pepz sebelumnya ke social media Sung oppa ini, diketahuilah mobil nya adalah Audi A5. Wow langsung tambah mupeng sama nih oppa ganteng.

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Tujuan pertama kami adalah ke Beomeosa temple. Dari perjalanan dengan Sung oppa 2 hari ini, kami menyadari bahwa mungkin orang Korea itu tidak terlalu hafal jalan, ketergantungan mereka terhadap yang namanya GPS sungguh besar. Busan adalah tempat dimana oppa lahir hingga tumbuh besar menjadi lelaki tampan, mapan, dan semoga siap nikah, namun dia sama sekali tidak terlalu hafal jalanan. Ya, aku juga sih yakin orang Jakarta sendiri mungkin tidak akan hafal jalan sepenuhnya di Jakarta, but I think Sung oppa ini terlalu keterlaluan, selain main road, dia akan sedikit bingung jika GPS nya tiba tiba loading dulu. But some man has some special power in this area, menentukan arah, and somehow he has a good one.

Beomeosa Temple,

Beomeosa temple adalah Buddhist Temple, terletak di Geumjeongsan Mt.. Kuilnya cukup besar, teridir dari beberapa bangunan dan konon kabarnya sudah berdiri dari 1300 tahun yang lau. Sebelum kami sampai ke temple ini, kami berhenti di suatu taman masih disekitar kaki gunung. Saat itu hujan masih turun , tidak terlalu lebat, cuma gerimis kecil saja. Ini merupakan ide Sung oppa, tempatnya cukup bagus, dan dia pikir kami akan menyukainya. Ang that’s right. Kami bisa merasakan autumn pertama di tempat ini, dan untuk aku pribadi aku bisa masuk ke rumah kaca untuk pertama kalinya. nama tempatnya sendiri aku tidak tahu, but mungkin dengan beberapa foto yang aku tampilkan di sini nanti, bisa membatu teman teman yang ingin ke sana menemukannya.

Setelah puas berkeliling di sekitar taman, melihat sungai kecil, bunga bunga, masuk ke rumah kaca, foto foto dengan pemandangan autumn yang cetar.Hmm, sebagai the first place that we visit, it’s quite good. dan mungkin karena hujan juga, sama sekali tidak ada pengunjung lain selain kami. Hanya kami saja dan beberapa ahjussi yang sepertinya merupakan petugas taman itu. Hanya di saat saat terakhir kami menemukan 3 muda mudi asli korea yang juga berfoto foto di sana.

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Big Sis n Lil Sis pose with autumn tree

 

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Roman in the air

Sung Oppa n Miss Pepz Sexy Back

 

Setelah puas berkeliling, kami pun melanjutkan naik bukit dengan super car ke tempat tujuan awal kami. Setelah sampai, Sung oppa pun mengantarkan kami masuk ke templenya. Dia mengajak kami masuk ke salah satu ruang altarnya dan mengajarkan kami cara mereka umat buddhist disana beribadah.  Ketika masuk ke ruang altar utama, kami meliihat ada beberapa orang yang sedang bermeditasi dengan khusyuk di sana, sehingga kami hanya bisa berbicara dengan berbisik bisik pelan. Setelah dia mengajari kami cara ber-namaskara , kami pun keluar dari ruangan dan mulai mengelilingi sisi lain dari Beomeosa. Setelah menunjukan semua, Sung oppa pun memberikan kami waktu sendiri dan dia akan menunggu di dalam mobil.

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Miss Pepz, Big Sis, Mr Damz by Lil Sis

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Somehow, i really love the color, it’s bright and beautiful

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Stack your stone and make a wish

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Drink mountain water

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The architecture is so cool

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Love the roof with bell

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Autumn mountain, grey clouds with Sung oppa n Miss Pep Sexy Back

Setelah puas mengelilingi Beomeosa temple, dan puas berfoto foto. Kami pun kembali ke mobil Sung Oppa. Dan kami tidak menemukannya di san. OMG we are lost without him. Kami pun pergi mencarinya, Beomeosa temple sudah kami kelilingi sekali lagi, tapi tak kami temukan sosok ganteng itu. Sampai akhirnya dia yang menemukan kami. Jadi bingung yang ilang kami atau dia. Hihihi. Dan dari penuturannya, dia dari tadi ada di dalam mobil tidur. Mungkin karena kacanya terlalu gelap kami tidak  menyadari ada dirinya di dalam mobil.

Nampo-dong

Hari sudah mulai sore menjelang malam saat kami turun dari Beomeosa. Kami pun lalu menuju Nampo-dong. Nampo-dong ini serupa Myeongdong jika di Seoul. Merupakan pusat hang out anak anak muda, dari toko baju, sepatu, kosmetik, toko gadget, makanan, semua ada dan jalannya rame sekali, terutama di malam hari. di Nampo-dong ini juga terdapat jalan yang dipenuhi telapak tangan artis artis legenda di Korea. Busan ini dikenal dengan Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) makanya jalanan dengan cap tangan ini menjadi salah satu trademark Busan, dan turis pun banyak yang berkunjung ke sini.

Sung oppa mengajak kami masuk ke sebuah mall di daerah sana dan naik ke rooftopnya. Di rooftopnya terdapat restoran dan deck yang bisa memandang busan dari atas. Karena sudah menjelang malam, pemandangannya bagus sekali. Dia membawa kami ke sana karena permintaan kami ingin ke Busan Tower, tapi menurut Sung oppa, tidak ada istimewanya, hanya melihat Busan dari atas saja, lebih baik di mall ini saja. Menurutnya viewnya bahkan lebih bagus dibanding Busan Tower. Kami pun berfoto foto di atas sana, tapi tidak lama. Karena hujan dan angin yang bertiup kencang sekali sehingga we are frezzing to the death. So, kami turun dan mulai berjalan jalan ke jalan utama Nampo-dong ini.

Ketika kami mulai perjalanan kami, tiba tiba dari kejauhan kami mendengar teriakan teriakan histeris. Semakin dekat semakin jelas saja, sampai akhirnya ketika kami sampai di TKP, ternyata ada sekumpulan anak SMA, yang berkumpul sambil memandang ke toko Adidas di seberang jalan. Ternyata sedang ada idol grup Winner di sana. Sepertinya sedang shooting suatu acara, dan setiap kali salah satu personilnya menengok ke arah siswi siswi ini berkumpul, teriakan membahan pun akan terdengar.

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winner @Nampo-dong

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Nampo-dong

Snack

Hotteok n Sosis and chicken bbq

Everyone that go to Busan, please you must try this Hotteok. I thin k it is the best Hotteok that I taste in Korea, I go to Seoul, Jeju, adn Busan and I think Hotteok in nampo-dong is the best. It’s located near BIFF valley and it’s very good, filled with brown sugar, peanut and seed. Must go back to Busan for this. Yummy to the max

Karena hari sudah mulai gelap, dan perut pun mulai lapar, kami pun memutuskan untuk makan malam. Tapi banyak sekali pilihan, bingung sekali harus makan yang mana. Sampai akhirnya Miss Pepz mengatakan ingin makan Jeokbal atau kaki babi. Sung Oppa pun membawa kami ke suatu restaurant yang memang specialist di Jeokbal. Atas saran Sung oppa, kami pun memesan 1 porsi jeokbal yang terdiri dari original jeokbal dan jeokbal yang sudah dibumbui. Selain itu Sung oppa juga memesankan kami Soju dan Coke. Kebetulan Soju nya gratis untuk hari itu, mungkin dikarenakan malam itu hallowen. So, that night is my first time to taste soju. hihihihi.

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Soju, jeokbal, Side dish… Yummy ^^

Sama seperti resto Korea pada umumnya, banchan atau side dishnya dateng duluan, dan tentunya air putih di teko lock n lock juga datang, free and refillable. Tak lama soju dan coke datang. Mulailah percobaan minum Soju ini. masing masing kami mencoba, aku dan Big Sis bukan pecinta alkohol, jadi setelah minum beberapa teguk, we stop. Sung oppa pun mengajarkan kami, bagaiman cara meminum soju, tapi rasa alkoholnya tidak terlalu berasa. Dia menuangkan coke ke gelas yang lebih besar, kemudian menuangkan Soju ke gelas yang lebih kecil, dan memintaku menjatuhkannya ke Gelas berisi coke, bukan dituang, tapi benar benar menjatuhkan gelas berisi soju tersebut ke dalam gelas coke.  Dan ketika diminum, rasa Coke nya memang lebih berasa dibandingkan alkoholnya. Sung oppa bilang kalau mereka bisa minum banyak soju dengan methode ini, seakan akan minum coke, tapi ternyata akhirnya mabuk karena kebanyakan minum.

And then Jeokbal coming. Hmmm, penampakannya sangat enak. Kami pun  mencobanya, dari yang original, hingga yang berbumbu. Aku, Big Sis dan Miss Pepz lebih menyukai yang original, tapi Mr Damz sebagai penyuka asin nomor wahid, lebih menyukai yang berbumbu karena menurutnya yang original sama sekali tanpa rasa. Setelah selesai makan, kami pun melanjutkan perjalanan kami. Kami diajak Sung oppa ke suatu tempat untuk makan bingsu. Dia membawa kami ke Sulbing, suatu restaurant yang menjual shaved iced khas korea (patbingsu). And that’s on him, kami ditraktir Sung oppa, jadi tambah enak deh makan yang manis manis dingin sambil liatin oppa ganteng apalagi gratisan karena dibayarin sama yang ganteng juga.

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Injeolmi toast n Goguma Patbingsu

Sung oppa membelikan kami Goguma Patbingsu dan Injeolmi toast. Goguma Patbingsu ini adalah shaved iced yang diberi topping goguma (ubi manis) jam, cheese cake, almond. So yummy, bingsu ini dilengkapi oleh segelas kecil susu, jadi misalkan kita merasa kurang manis, bisa dituangkan ke esnya. Rasanya enak banget, jika mau ke Korea, usahakan untuk menyicipi Patbingsu di sana. it’s a must. Restaurant yang menyajikan patbingsu sangat banyak, tapi Seulbing adalah salah satu yang paling terkenal. Salah satunya karena Injeolmi Toastnya. Injeolmi toast ini adalah 2 buat roti yang ditengahnya diberikan injeolmi, kue beras seperti mochi, dan diatasnya diberi taburan almond. Jika dalam keadaan panas, injeolmi nya seperti keju yang mencair, enak beut pokoknya.

Setelah kenyang makan, kami pun memutuskan kembali ke rumah. Sesampainya di rumah, rasanya capek banget. Setelah perjalanan panjang dari Indonesia ke Korea, dengan kurang tidur, kemudian sesampainya di Korea, jalan jalan smabil terkana hujan. Rasanya stamina menurun. makanya kami memutuskan untuk pulang lebih awal saja malam itu. Setelah sampai di rumah, kami pun bergantian membersihkan diri, dan bersiap siap untuk tidur. Tapi kemudian Miss Pepz mengajak pergi ke bawah, ke Seven Eleven di bawah utnuk membeli jajanan khas korea.

So, dengan memakai baju tidur dan berjaket ria, aku dan Miss Pepz turun ke bawah. ketika mau turun kami bertemu Sung di depan, dan dia meminjamkan kami kartu diskon, bisa dipakai di starbuck, seven eleven, GS25 (minimart). Kami punturun ke bawah, berjalan menuju Seven Elven seperti petunjuk Sung, dan we found it. Masuk ke dalam, tidak jauh berbeda dengan seven eleven di Indonesia, cuma jualannya aja yang berbeda. Kami pun membeli banana milk yang terkenal sekali, strawberry milk, dan  samgak kimbap(onigiri  korean version), Pergi membayar ke kasir, tapi karena plastik di korea ini harus bayar, maka kami membawa belanjaan kami dengan tangan.

Sesampainya di kamar, kami pun langsung membukan belanjaan kami, dan eat it again. Kami cuma membeli 2 samgak kimbap, 1 banana milk, dan 1 strawberry milk, yang akan kami share berempat. Sedikit heran, why banana milk dengan merk Bingrae ini sangat populer di kalangan turis yang pergi ke korea. Not so yummy, I thin, even Big Sis think Banana Milk by Cimory is more yummy that this. But, samgak-kimbap is yummy, and it’s become our saviour in manu times we starving in the morning. Samgak kimbap ini merupakan nasi yang dibentuk segitiga dan dibungkus dengan rumput laut. Perhatikan bungkusnya sebelum membuka, karena ada tata caranya sehingga membukanya lebih gampang. Isiannya banyak sekali, ada yang isi kimchi, ada yang isinya tuna, spam, dan ada yang tidak berisi tapi nasinya digoreng dulu dengan kimchi. Tapi yang paling aku sukai selama ini adalah yang sinya tuna mayo dan spam. So delicious.

So, our night is over, after we eat all of aur jajanan in the blink of eyes. We sleep and pray for a good weather for tomorrow, no more rain and gray clouds.

By. Lil Sis

 



Autumn in Korea (Day 2) – Busan – HaeDongYongGung Temple

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Hi, It’s time to continue my story about our trip, Autumn in Korea. After Day 1 part 1 and part 2, Finally I have time and throw away my laziness to write our experience in Korea. So, in Day 2, we still at Busan. The night before, we talk to Sung Oppa that we can start our trip at 10.00 AM. But, because we are so lazy to wake up early and we started at 11.00 AM, it’s already too late I think for traveler, but what can we do, Sung oppa house is too comfortable for us. As always in our trip, Big Sis always wake up first, because we only can use 1 bathroom, we taking turn t0 shower. The first is always Big Sis, and then me or Miss Pepz, and the last (always the last) is Mr Damz. Sung oppa told me that his mom is cooking soup for breakfast, and we can have it for breakfast, but we didn’t see his mom, his sister, so we feel it’s not right to take it without permission, so we just eat another samgak kimbap that we bought yesterday. At 10 am, Sung oppa show up , he slept at her girlfriend house yesterday (this is just our assumption, because he said he go to halloween party with her girlfriend, but we’re pretty sure about this). He said that he afraid that he already too late, and we already wait him to go, but we even not ready yet that time. So he have time to grooming himself first. Finally, we ready and begin our journey. Our first destination is Hae Dong Yong Gung Temple . Haedong Yonggungsa Temple is situated on the coast of the north-eastern portion of Busan. This superb find of a tourist spot and temple offers visitors the rare find of a temple along the shore line and it’s very old temple, it built in 1376, already more than 600 hundred years. I am sorry that I can describe to you how to get there, because we just sit nicely and beautifully inside Sung oppa car. We discussed where we want to go, Sung oppa said yes, and we arrived savely at that place. Just like that, our live in Busan it’s so not traveler I think. Hahahha Before we go to Haedong Yonggusa, Sung oppa take us to the deck observatory. From there we can see Busan from above. So beatiful scenery, but too bad the weather is not so good, the clouds is little bit grey. So the photo we take it’s look like so cloudy becouse the sky is so dark. We go to 3 place. The view is so cool and beautiful, and of course so nice to take a photo. The first and second place we go before we go to Haedong Yonggusa, and the last place we go after lunch.

View from the First Observatorium Deck

View from the First Observatorium Deck

View from the First Observatorium Deck

View from the First Observatorium Deck

The First Observatorium Deck

The First Observatorium Deck

View from the Second Observatorium Deck

View from the Second Observatorium Deck

Second Observatorium Deck

Second Observatorium Deck (Left to right : Lil Sis, Big Sis, Miss Pepz, Mr Damz)

After we arrived at Haedong Yonggusa , Sung oppa lead us to the temple. Along the way to the temple, there are so many people selling something, from clothes, souvenirs, foods, even vegetables. We already tempting to stop and eat in some stand that really really make us drooling. Just for your information, we only have 3 samgak kimbap for breakfast, so we are pretty hungry right now. But, we decided to eat after this. We keep walking after we found Chinese Zodiac statue, Sung oppa gave us some coins, he said that put the coin on the statue and make a wish. So we go to our statue based on our chinese zodiac, Lil Sis is Goat, Mr damz is Horse, Big sis is Snake, and Miss Pepz is Dragon, yes we have different chinese Zodiac. And Sung oppa is chicken. After put the coin, we took a photo with the statue, and found a Traffic Safety monument. I don’t know what for that pagoda there, maybe there are a lot of accident happened there before.

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The Entrance

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Trafic Safety Monument

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Start Line to 108 stairs

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One of corner at 108 stairs.

We must going down 108 steps before we can see the  beauty of the temple. Be careful because the stairs is slippery and there are so many people there. We also find a wishing pond. Sung oppa also gave us some coins, to make we throwed it there. Unfortunately, no one could make a score. It’s too hard. But, It’s fun, if I have more coin, I think i will keep try, but I didn’t have it and to ask Sung oppa to give us more is little bit wrong I think. So, we quitely continue our step to the temple.

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Wishing Pond

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Haedong Yonggung Main building

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Decoration – So cute bikkhu

Maybe, because it was weekend, so it’s so crowded, there are so many people there. So,it’s hard to take a picture with no body behind you or no body in yout photo frame. So, after Sung oppa took us to temple, he said he will wait us in the car (as always), so we cab have our we time. Take photo every where, every spot, even silly photo. And then we going up to see Avalokitesvara, there are so many stairs to going there. From above we can see the whole area, we can see beautiful beach too. So beautiful.

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Start Line to go upstairs

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We took photo a lot in this spot, one by one. And suddenly the ahjumma that had already wait us too long, took our camere and said “you three stand there, I will took the photo of you” And we deligently nod our head and pose there. Thanks Ahjumma and Sorry Ahjumma ^^. Don’t ask where Mr Damz, at that time we alo don’t know where he is.

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Throw the garbage correctly please !!!

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Haedong Yonggung temple and the Avalokitesvare from Sea God area

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Sea God Statue

After that we back to Sung oppa. But, the hungry stomach, made us stop in some food stand. First we buy Grill Octopus Legs. Delicious, not so hard to chew, and maybe because we were very starving, it’s taste very delicious. We also, stop to Oden stall. Eat some Oden and drink the soup. OMG, we are like native korean (It’s what i thought in my head). After full our stomach, we go to parking area to find Sung oppa.

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The Grilled Squid, and Oden. In Oden stall, we can get the soup as much as we want. Just take the galss and fil it with soup, if you want it again, just take it agin, you can serve yourself

Sung oppa offered us to have lunch. and we agree right away. We just had our appetizer at Haedong Yonggung, and still hungry. He took us to the restaurant that sell bibimbap with sashimi. He said he usually go there in the summer if he surfing. It’s near Haeundae Beach and not so far from Haedong Yonggung. We buy 3 bibimbap, 1 sashimi, and 2 fish soup.

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Restaurant

I think the restaurant is quite popular. There are a lot of customer even it’s just a small and old restaurant. Even some actor in Korea have come there. So many autogrpah in their wall.

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Restaurant

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Bancchan. We got Seaweed jeon and Sea weed porridge. it’s so delicious… ^^

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Sashimi Bibimbap

This is so delicous. The best bibimbap that we ever had. And actually we couldn’t fins it in another place, Jeju or Seoul. the fish is so fresh, chewy, so delicious with gocujang and the other vegetables. The restaurant is also generous. The sashimi is a lot.

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Sushi

I don’t know what fish that they use for this. But It’s really fresh and the fish is so chewy. With wasabi between the rice and fish. So delicious. Hmmm, i want go there again. The sashimi is jjang. two thumps up.

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Fish soup

It’s a fish soup. Korean people always have soup in their table. So Sung oppa also order it for us. It contains some tofu, vegetables, and of course fish (head fish). I don’t know why sung oppa just drink the soup, but not eat the tofu, orr the fish. And I followed him, I drink the soup (from the same bowl with him heheheh), and just took a little bit of tofu. The soup is so refreshing, the tofu is so soft. Enak Enak Enak ^^

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We took photo with restaurant ahjumma ^^

After we finished our meal, we took a photo with ahjumma. At first she think that we need her help to take a photo of us with Sung oppa, and we think sung oppa also think like that. So, it’s funny think when we explained it to them what we want. hahaha. but the important thing, we got the photo. And continue our journey. I think, it’s already a long long, very long writing, si i will stop it here. Please wait next posting patiently, I will continue it as soon as possible. ^^ By. Lil Sis


Autumn in Korea – Day 2 (Busan) – APEC House, Mermaid Statue, Oryukdo Skywalk, Seomyeon

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I will continue story about our trip in Korea, Autumn in Korea, this is already part 4 of my story. You can find previous part of my story in this link part 1, part 2, and part 3.

So, We still at Busan in our second day. We start our trip little bit late this morning, we go to Haedong yonggusa temple, and rom then we had lunch not so far from the temple. After lunch, we continue our journey (Every time I type journey, I think about Journey to the West (Tong Sam Cong, Sung Go Kong and friends, I don’t know why :P ), we go to an Observation Deck, from there we can see Haeundae Beach.

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Photo by Sung Oppa – Us with Cloudy sky and not so blue sea

In this deck, we meet a couple that really really sweet. They are not young anymore, maybe already over 50. The man has a love sticker in his cheek,  they walk together with hiking outfit, but the guy bring a radio , play a very old song I think, and walking side by side, holding hand , stop to taking picture, the vibe is so romantic and make you happy to see how happy they are.

After take some time, enjoy the scenery and fresh air there. Sung oppa took us to someplace that actually we don’t know where is this. He just stop in front of a hotel. He will wait us here in the car, and we can going around near the hotel. At first I don’t get it, why he want us to circle this park, It’s look just like a park for me. until I see some sign board, that in the park, I can see APEC house, I can see mermaid statue and many more. it’s so nice park i think.

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Photo By : Lil Sis –  The Sign that open my mind

We decided to go to the right first, to APEC house, 0.5 km it’s not too far, we walking slowly and enjoy the air. the is so fresh and our eyes also spoiled by green and autumn tree. There are so many people walking here like us to enjoy the air , old, young, even baby go there or walking. and the bad news it the road is uphill, so even only a half kilo, it’s pretty tired for us, the youngster who already has elder stamina. So, we decide to just walk slowly, and rest a bit in rest area for answer what a lot of people nature call. And we founs a eally good spot to take a photo near the toilet.

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Photo by : Lil Sis – The view in front o our toilet

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Left taken by : Lil Sis Right taken by : Miss Pepz A lot of stairs but the view is so gorgeous

I think this place it’s really good to enjoy autumn, with so many tree that start to turn into red, yellow, and orange. After we feel enough taking photo near toilet, we continue to find APEC house. After we arrived there, we enter that place, it’s free , there is no admission fee. We go to the hall, the lace that all of president or leader from participating country, sit in circle. And sure what i want to find first is where is My president sat when he attend this event in 2005 (at that time, our President is Mr. SBY ) . We walking around that place, we also know this place as one of running man shooting avenue. They ever play name tag ripping here. talking photo every where. We go to the back side of APEC house, we can see a beautiul garden that facing the sea. in the garden there are some podium that used for all of participant to take photo using hanbok (traditional Korean outfit). And of course we find where is Mr SBY place at that time. and take a photo at the same spot like him.

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Photo By : Iam not sure APEC house, please find Mr SBY in hanbok

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Photo by : Big Sis Pretend to see something, I don’t have coin to use. What do you call this binocular, I called it “Teropong Koin”

From APEC house we walked to Observation deck. There are a light house there and some “teropong koin”, I dont know what it called in Indonesia and in Englich, it’s just what I call it “teropong koin”, we can use the binocular after we enter the coin. the description in there, that we can see japan island if the weather is clear with the “teropong coin”. But it’s not that clear, so I think it’s just waste money to use the “teropong coin”. The light house is not so big, but I really don’t like it, so many hand writing in the wall of the light house. It’s make the light house so dirty from outside I think.  from the observation deck, we also can see the APEC house.

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Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis From Observation deck, some sunlight like I will get enlightmen, sea, and APEC house

So smart i think, the Korean people. They make a cool avenue with an international event that hold in their country. Make it so beautiful and when the event is over, it become tourist attraction and can be place for their local to recreation. Indonesia must learn from them in tourism aspect I think. We continue our journey, after walking uphill from the star until the observation deck, we finally walking down hill. We go to mermaid Statue right now. To go there, to see the statue near we must use bouncy bridge. it’s not scary thing, i enjoy to cross the bouncy bridge, but believe me, don’t use the bridge with kids. You will bounce bounce and go to left and right because they Jump in the bridge.

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Photo By : Lil Sis Model : Mermaid Statue

There is story about this statue, I read it in the description sign near the statue but poor me, I forgot it already. What I remember is the king falling in love with a princess from sea, and then they are married, but the princess is miss her hometown,  and the mermaid statue is that princess. but I am not sure, maybe someday when I comeback to Busan I can read the description again and remember it. and edit my story here pr if readers know the exactly stories about this statue, just give comment to my blog.

From The statue we are going back to parking area to meet Sung oppa. The park is pretty cold i think, but because we walk a lot, our body become hot. I got  my first experience see my breath here. When we breath from out mouth something like smoke appeared. i make us so excited, we never can do that before in our hot climate country. Hahahaha. Little bit “Katro”

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Photo By : Big Sis – Model : Lil Sis – The gate to Oryukdo Skywalk

 

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Photo by Lil Sis – Oryukdo Skywalk description

Our next destination is sky walk, Oryukdo Sky walk. It’s located at a cliff, it’s like the extension of the cliff, with glass floor, so we can see sea under us. Not too scary, but an interesting tourismn object i think.  It give us sensation walking in the  sky. And don’t worry because it’s safe. We must take off our shoes or sandal when step on the glass floor because they don’t want our shoes scratch the glass or maybe left some dirt and make the glass is dirty and we can see clear sea under it.

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Photo By : Lil Sis – Oryukdo Skywalk side view

Photo By : Sung oppa Model : Lil Sis, Miss Pepz, Big Sis, Mr Damz  After walking in thesky, pose with the power that gave us the skill

Photo By : Sung Oppa
Model : Lil Sis, Miss Pepz, Big Sis, Mr Damz
After walking in the sky, pose with the power that gave us the power

After taking photo a lot here, we decided to going home. Sung oppa has another appointment tonight with his girlfriend, so we must going home soon. Actually we still have time, so He offered us to go to Viking (it is like “Kora Kora” in “Dufan”) – but we want to go to Taejongdae,  but he told us is very far, if we go there, he willbe vwery late coming to his girl tonight. Really unfortunate, Taejongdae is very famous and beside that we also want to see Sung oppa cafe there (Sung oppa opened a coffee shop in Taejongdae – find him if you go there). So, after so many thought we decide to go home early and the walking to Seomyeon- it’s just 3 min from Sung oppa apartement, so close right.

Because maybe tonight is the last time we meet Sung oppa, because we must go to airport in the morning, and Sung oppa may be not at home yet, so we ask him something. We ask him to call a taxi or us to go to airport tomorrow and we gave him a souvenir from Indonesia , we gave him “Wayang”. He really love it, from his expression, i guess he really really like it. And I think his mom also like it, and to show us how gratitude they are, his mom gave us night snack. After we going home after strolling in Seomyeon area, She gave us a plate full of snack.

Photo by : Lil Sis Night Snack from Sung oppa Mom

Photo by : Lil Sis
Night Snack from Sung oppa Mom

Ok back to Seomyeon, at first we decided to go alone to Seomyeon but Sung oppa said he had a time to taking us around the seomyeon , so at least we know how to get there and how to ind way home. And actually we never imagined that the Seomyeon is so closed by his aprtement. It’s just cross the road and you arrived. At the way to Seomyeon, we ind ahjumma that sell snack that filled with peanut. Sung oppa stop and buy it for us, we actually pretty hungry so we eat it deliciously.

Photo By : Lil Sisnight  Night Snack bought by Sung oppa or us <3

Photo By : Lil Sisnight
Night Snack bought by Sung oppa or us <3

The snack, what should i call this snack? it’s like “kue cubit” or “bolu” in Indonesia, but it illed with peanut. It has peanut shape that filled with peanut paste, and there are walnut shape that maybe filled with walnut paste (I am not sure about what the filling taste like, so I just make some assumption here because o the shap, so correct if somebody know what is it). Sung oppa also bought us tteokbokki, it’s the first tteokbokki we had in South Korea. And we ate it at an ahjumma stall, like native korean. The portion is quite big, so we just bought 1 portion and share it around five of us. We make sure it’s not make us too full before the real dinner.

Photo by : Lil Sis Tteokbokki

Photo by : Lil Sis
Tteokbokki

Sung oppa not just buy us some food, he also take us around. Show us something interest in Seomyeon. SO many restaurant give sample in front of the restaurant. Sung oppa with a lot of energy, point it and pull us to get the sample. It’s so interesting right. It feel like we in the game of treasure hunting, and if we see it, we will be very happy and run there immediately. Interesting to see that side of Sung oppa.

Photo by : Lil Sis Seomyeon  Area

Photo by : Lil Sis
Seomyeon Area

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Photo by : Lil Sis Seomyeon Area

 There are so many thing in Seomyeon, When yoou enter that place, it’s like Nampo dong, but in nampo there are more tourist than here, maybe because nampo dong more amous with BIFF, so many youngster strolling there. But in Seomyeon, majority is local, and not so crowd like Nampo dong. But the neon light it’s really daebak. when you enter the area, you will be welcome by  sign board that shine brightly. There are so many thing there, there are some bar, restaurant, coffe shop, flower shop, even Motel. So, when we want to choose a restaurant for dinner, it’s so hard, really hard, because there are so many restaurant that looks so good and nice. Sung oppa leave us after gave us fast tour at Seomyeon. So, we must walking around alone here.

We decide to eat chicken. Miss Pepz have read an blog that said in Seomyeon there are a restaurant that called Buffalo Chicken. It’s so delicious, so we decided to find it, and have dinner there. And We find a  restaurant that have so funny mascot in front of their restaurant. So we decided to enter that place, we arenot sure about is the restaurant is buffalo chicken or not, Miss  pepz pretty sure about that so we just enter, we are really really hungry by the way. We are welcomed by a girl, she took us to a table inside, and give us the menu,but not talking to much because she know we can speak Korean, and we think she not fluent in english too. Because after that, we order ,we asked something, we pay with a guy that talking english with us, not so good but at least we can communicate well.

We ordered one portion bbq chicken and one portion fried chicken. They gave me porridge at first, the porridge contain black sesame seed i think, it has the sesame aroma and it is black porridge. yummy. They also give us a lot of sauce, I don’t know exactly what the sauce, but i prefer not use any sauce for the chicken, but it’s already so  delicious. The BBQ chicken come first, and it’s very big portion. They also give us a scissors and some tongs to help us eat the chicken without make our hand dirty. The first time I eat fried chicken without getting dirty hand.

Photo by : Lil Sis Last Dinner at busan

Photo by : Lil Sis
Last Dinner at busan – the chicken is so cute ^^

Photo By : Lil Sis Our Last dinner at busan, Chicken party

Photo By : Lil Sis
Our Last dinner at busan, Chicken party

Photo by : Lil Sis BBQ Chicken

Photo by : Lil Sis
BBQ Chicken

BBQ chicken is so delicious, it’s still moist, the maridate is also  very delicious and get along well with the chicken. They also give us some veggie, so we try to make some wrapped chicken meat here, get the perilla leaf, some veggir, kimchi and of course chicken. Hmmm so delicious. Big Sis, Miss Pepz and Mr Damz, don’t like the perilla leaf, but Lil Sis is okay with that. The perilla give some unique aroma i think.

Photo By : Lil SIs Fried Chicken

Photo By : Lil SIs
Fried Chicken

This is the fried chicken, it is also very yummy. The outside is so crunchy, and had some herb there, maybe lemon but i am not sure, but it make a fresh bite of the chicken. the meat also still moist and juicy. At the plate you can see something white and have a tube shape right. Actually it is a fried tteokbokki.  yummy. Overall this restaurant id so recommended for me, I give it 9.5/10. It also have beer here, we know that Korean enjoy eating fried chicken with beer, we also see so many people eat fried chicken with beer.

After very very full eating all of the chicken, we going back to Sung oppa house. But we stopped by at mini mart first. Miss Pepz bought a bottle of soju, coffee, samgak kimbap for our breakfast tommorow. And tonigh, with Sung oppa’s mother Snack with  drink Soju. We just take a sip one by one, and the Miss Pepz and Mr Damz finish it. We also find a Raspberry wine is refrigerator, Sung oppa told us we can get everything from the refrigerator, so we took it. We don’t finish it, we just take a sip to taste it. And for me I prefer the raspberry wine, because it’s more sweet and i think it’s  more traditional wine. But soju is stronger

Photo by : Lil Sis Soju vs Raspberry Wine

Photo by : Lil Sis
Soju vs Raspberry Wine

So, our last night in Busan is like this. Drink alcohol. Not a lot, we just drink a bottle of soju and maybe just a glas of raspberry wine that we shared it for 4 people. No body feel tipsy, but it help us warm our body and sleep easily.

This is it, Our Day 2 in South Korea is finish. We sleep after clean our body for better tommorow. Next day we must go to airport in the morning and catch the flight to Jeju Island. So wait for next post, because it’s about farewell with busan and Jeju do.

Thanks for reading – Keep reading please :D

By : Lil Sis


Autumn in Korea – Day 3 (Busan – Jeju) – Good Bye Busan & Hello Jeju

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Hi, I want to continue my story about Autumn in Korea, It’s already story about out 3rd day in South Korea. Today our itinerary is Go to Jeju Island, from busan to Jeju, That’s why the title is “Good bye Busan & Hello Jeju”. We are so excited too go there, because from what we hear and what we read, Jeju is beautiful island with so many tourist attraction, beach, museum, and a lot of delicious food. We will fly to Jeju with Jeju Air. We already asked Sung oppa to call Taxi for us, we will fly around 12 p.m, but because of afraid with traffic, sung oppa told us to go early. So he book taxi for 10 a.m.

Photo By Lil Sis View from our room @Sung Oppa house

Photo By Lil Sis
View from our room @Sung Oppa house

Photo By : Big Sis Garbage arrangement

Photo By : Big Sis
Garbage arrangement @Sung oppa House

We wake up as always, start from Bis Sis, Me, Miss pepz, and Mr Damz. We take a bath, breakfast with some samgak kimbap and because the house is empty, taking photo everywhere. We are ready before 10, and wait patiently. We will go down to basement at 10 a.m to wait the driver. but before that Sung oppa came with his girlfriend just in time we will go down wait in basement. He told us, the taxi driver will call where he arrived, so just stay at home and go down when he call. So, we sit at the living room and watching TV with Sung oppa and his girl. But 10 am already passed and no call from the driver. Sung oppa call him, but no answer. OMG, we already had panic attack. Sung oppa keep call, and finally taxi driver answer it, Sungoppa talked with Korean language, but with his expression and how he talk, we know that he angry with the driver like “Why you not arrived yet, it’s already late”, He called the driver so many time because the driver seem angry too and closed the phone. At 10.30 am the driver called again and said he already at basement. Sung oppa told us, and help us to brought out luggage to basement. OMG, it’s the time to say good bye to our Oppa, I want to hug him so bad, but shake hand is already enough >_<

Photo By : Lil Sis Waiting Room @ Gimhae Airpport
Photo By : Lil Sis
Waiting Room @ Gimhae Airpport
Photo by : Lil Sis Amazed with this Smart Charity box

Photo by : Lil Sis
Amazed with this Smart Charity box

We found Cafe Pascucci there, and because we just eat little for brakfast, Miss pepz buy sandwich there. After order and pay, they give Miss Pepz beeper, that will beep beep when the sandwich is ready. So, we don’t need to wait in front of the cafe, and can sit anywhere that we like. They allso give garlic bread for complimentary.

Photo By : Lil Sis n Miss Pepz While waiting for fight to jeju

Photo By : Lil Sis n Miss Pepz
While waiting for fight to jeju

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Photo By : Lil Sis before sleep – Busan Air

So, after a while, it’s time to fly. We use Busan Air to go to Jeju.  It’s quite a good plane. The space between our chair with chair in front of us is quite spacious. We also get free drink, I don’t know what kind of drink, because as I  sit at the chair I quickly sleep. I know about this drink because Big Sis told me, the stewardess gave them orange juice, but I already asleep so I didn’t get one. From Busan to Jeju is not take a long time , approximately 1 hour.

Photo By : Lil Sis Miss Pepz with a plane in Jeju Airport

Photo By : Lil Sis
Miss Pepz with a plane in Jeju Airport

After 1 hour we arrived at Jeju. We took all of our baggage and go to our Car Rental booth. We already book a car , we made a booking when we was in Indonesia, We compare so many car rental and finally the cheapest one and have the car that we want is AJ Rent a Car . So, we go there, show them our reservation, but we are really really disappointed . The staff told us that we can not drive with their car because we are from Indonesia, International driving license from Indonesia is not permitted here. It’s really strange, in their website, when we book the car, we already choose that we are from Indonesia, and there is no validation or notification that Indonesia is banned to drive in Korea. From what I read, we Read, all of country that inlcude in Geneva convention can drive at Seoul, AJ car rental also state the condition in their website, and Indonesia is part of Geneve Convention , here is the proof. You can find Indonesia and find it there, Indonesia join at 1958. But they keep reject us because we are from Indonesia, and in their list country, there is no Indonesia. So disappointed. Our plan will absolutely fail if we can not get a car.

Photo by : Lil Sis Miss Pepz and Mr Damz start argue with AJ staff

Photo by : Lil Sis
Miss Pepz and Mr Damz start argue with AJ staff

Then we go to other car rental booth beside AJ, and find Kumho, it’s actually our first option to rent a car, but AJ is more cheap so we went to AJ. But same ther, we rejected once again. We mad, we confused. So, our last option ther, Jeju Rent Car. It’s the best car rent in Jeju, but it’s so expensive, we must pay double from the other car rental. So we never make it as option. But I know why it become the best, because the service is so good. We ask them about can Indonesia drive here, they check their list, they check our driving license, and she said ok. It’s not problem. Wow, it’s so happy to hear, but the problem is quite expensive and will ruin our budget. But we don’t have any choice. So we rent the car from Jeju rent car. But, we must rent a phone too, it’s the condition from Jeju rent car, they said we need handphone so we or they can call us if there some trouble happen. So, we quickly go to Olleh and rent a phone there, not a smartphone type, just a simple phone. It’s really took our time a lot and really took our money a lot. I really really disappointed with AJ, their website, their service, I think they didn’t want to double check it, maybe we are their first Indonesia customer, and they never had before, so they are not sure if Indonesia is Ok or not Ok and reject us.

So, after a long way to wait, angry,mad, and so tired because all of shock that we got. We finnally get the car. Some staff took us to her friend that wait outsite to pick us up to the  car. He drove us to a parking area, show us the car that we will use. But before that, the administrative is must completed first, so Miss Pepz and Mr Damz followed the staff to their office and finish the administrative. It’s just about payment and double check the driving license. After that they back with ahjusi that check the condition of car and help us set the GPS, even teach us how to use it. And then we ready set go. Because it’s the first time we use car with the driver seat in the left, it’s awkward , so Mr Damz, our driver drove it around the parking area before we go to the real road. He told us, it’s confusing at begining, but a man has the drive instinct so he quickly adjusted.

Photo by : Lil Sis The Car that finnaly we got after a long drama

Photo by : Lil Sis
The Car that finnaly we got after a long drama

Well, I think this post is enough, I will continue our story in Jeju and Korea in my next post.

If you wanto to know about drive in korea, you can check this page.

And this is page for jeju rent car, but it in Korean lang, so if you can not read Korean letter, I think it’s hard to understand.

By : Lil Sis


Autumn in Korea – Day 3 (Jeju) – Yongduam Rock, Mysteriuos Road, Love Land

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I will continue my stories “Autumn in Korea”, I think I must be diligent now and try to finish my story before autumn come. In my previous post I already told you how we go to Jeju from Busan, and when we arrived, we rent a car for go around jeju. After the rent process is done, we immediately go to our first destination. When we still in Indonesia, we already made a survey and a list of place we want to go in Jeju, and we also note the phone number. It’s very useful to use in GPS. We got English GPS from rent a car, to find the place we can enter the address, the place name or the phone number, but i think use phone number is more accurate, because sometime we as non native korea have a hard time to write the name even with alphabet. So, with phone number is easier.

Well, the first stop is Yongduam Rock or Head Dragon Rock. Its located near airport, so just in no time we arrived there. We parked and suddenly surprised with the wind, it’s blow hard and so cold. We think Jeju will more warm because it’s an island and be surrounded with beach. But the beach make Jeju the wind so wild. Hahaha. The wind success made our photo is bad that day. No one is good, the wind ruin our hair and our expression. Maybe you can find how hard the wind blow in some of our photo below. Check it out.

Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis The first photo of Lil SIs in Jeju Island

Photo By : Big Sis
Model : Lil Sis
The first photo of Lil SIs in Jeju Island – I just use thin sweater because I think in Jeju will be warmer than Busan, but the cold win make me so damn cold and freezing

After we park, we find this stone, I think the letter means Dragon Head Rock. And some tourist like us queue to take a photo there, so as a good tourist we took a photo there too.

Photo By : Lil Sis Jeju Sea

Photo By : Lil Sis
Jeju Sea

Look how the sea look like, the wave is so magnificient in this weather. And if you can find it, there is a plane in this photo.

Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis Lil Sis with Mermaid Statue

Photo By : Big Sis
Model : Lil Sis
Lil Sis with Mermaid Statue

Photo By : Lil Sis Jeju Souvenirs

Photo By : Lil Sis
Jeju Souvenirs

In this place we also stop at souvenir shop. It’s so packed with visitor that come with one purpose, buying family and friend souvenir from Jeju. The shop sell many thing about Jeju, the cute statue like the picture. The food, the chain key, so many thing. You can find anything there that can proof you that you really go to Jeju.

Photo By : Lil Sis Yongduam Rock Description Board

Photo By : Lil Sis
Yongduam Rock Description Board

Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis Try to photo with Yongduam Rock fight with cold and heavy wind blow

Photo By : Big Sis
Model : Lil Sis
Try to photo with Yongduam Rock fight with cold and heavy wind blow

Photo By : Lil Sis Model : Miss Pepz Look at her messy hasir, so hard to tak e a good phot here because of the wind.

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Model : Miss Pepz
Look at her messy hair, so hard to tak e a good phot0o here because of the wind.

Photo By : Miss Pepz Our snack to fight with cold wind

Photo By : Miss Pepz
Our snack to fight with cold wind

Because ,  we feel cold because the wind, and feel hungrybecause actually we haven’t got the proper meal yet, so when we find this ahjumma sell oden, we immediately go there a buy some. It’s so warm and delicious, the warm soup help us a lot to fight with the wind.

Photo By : Lil Sis Miss Pepz took a photo with Haenyeo Status, Dried Squid, Big Snail, Dried Octopus

Photo By : Lil Sis
Miss Pepz took a photo with Haenyeo Status, Dried Squid, Big Snail, Dried Octopus

Photo By : Lil Sis Yongduam rock from a far, you can see Haenyeo open a pop up restaurand there, so many people going down to eat the fresh seafood there.

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Yongduam rock from a far, you can see Haenyeo open a pop up restaurand there, so many people going down to eat the fresh seafood there.

Photo By : Lil Sis Fruit Stall or maybe Orange Stall near Yongduam rock.

Photo By : Lil Sis
Fruit Stall or maybe Orange Stall near Yongduam rock.

From yongduam rock we go to Mysterious road (Dokkaebi Road) . It has earned its name, as objects and liquid appear to roll and flow up the hill instead of down. A lot of people pour their drink on the road to see the water going up the hill not going down, and some people also ride in their car, and without  start the engine the car is going up to the hill, some people also took empty soft drink can or empty bottle to see the effect. And some people also do something that really really amazed me, and confused me, and really make me thing the mysterious is too mysterious until I don’t get what the mysterious of this mysterious road. I don’t get any thing from what people said and did there. We try pour the drink, try to place the bottle, and also try the weird thing like all people there did, but instead of get the meaning of mysterious road we got zonk, the water is flowing down not going up, the bottle also go down. And the weird thing we never get it on the first place. Let me tell you what the weird thing. So, at first wemust walk backwards going up the hill, and then we try to going down and the effect we will get is we will going down so fast, like running.Some people tried and they get the effeect, going down with scream “kya kya” because it’s too fast, but when we try, it’s just like normal walk for us. something wrong with us or the people just exaggerated this mysterious road.  The thing that save me from mysterious road is the scenery. Because the mysterious road located between 2 mountain, there is rows of pine trees that neatly lines up in the green field, so beautiful. Beside that, the food stall there is also really tempting us. Miss Pepz buy a sausage there.

Photo By : I am not sure Model : Fantastic 4 Mysterious Road that do mysterious for us until now, because it's still a mystery for us why ther road become mysterious road

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Model : Fantastic 4
Mysterious Road that do mysterious for us until now, because it’s still a mystery for us why ther road become mysterious road

Photo by : I am not sure Model : Fantastic 4 The other side of mysterious road

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Model : Fantastic 4
The other side of mysterious road

Photo by :Miss Pepz The food at Mysterious road

Photo by :Miss Pepz
The food at Mysterious roadro

From mysterious road, we go to Love Land. When we park the car, we can see the visitor mostly is middle aged people. There are so many group that consist of ahjussi and ahjumma. We only see a little youngster like us there. Love land is focused on a theme of sex, running sex education films, and featuring 140 sculptures representing humans in various sexual positions. Maybe that’s why we didn’t see any kids there. When I enter the place for the first time, We found a giant naked woman sculpture in flirty pose. We found many naked sculpture there and also in hot pose. Ahjumma that see that sculpture just giggle with their friend, shy smile, even laught while think something funny in their head. I think it’s good place to go with your husband and wife and friend without any love connection. But never bring your parent or your kids there. I am sure it will be awkward . Entrace Fee is 9000 Won for one person.

Photo By : Lil Sis Model : Big Sis We are at Love Land

Photo By : Lil Sis
Model : Big Sis
We are at Love Land

Photo By : Lil Sis Love Land sneak peek

Photo By : Lil Sis
Love Land sneak peek

Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis I think I must pose with my bf here someday and do what the statue do

Photo By : Big Sis
Model : Lil Sis
I think I must pose with my bf here someday and do what the statue do

Photo By : Mr Dams Model : Big Sis, Miss Pepz, Lil Sis Love Love Love

Photo By : Mr Dams
Model : Big Sis, Miss Pepz, Lil Sis
Love Love Love

We leave Love land while sun began to sink. We already very hungry and need to eat as fast as we can. So we go to restaurant that sell black pork. Black pork is popular food in Jeju. We must eat it when we go to Jeju. Actually I don’t know what the different between black pork and not black pork, the only one i know is the black ones is more expensive. This is the reataurant, it’s famous in Jeju, but I forget the name. I am sorry T_T. But if you can read hangul, I think you can read the picture below. The food here is delicious. really really delicious.

Photo by : Lil Sis Model : Elder in our group Our first dinner in Jeju

Photo by : Lil Sis
Model : Elder in our group
Our first dinner in Jeju

Photo by: Lil Sis black Pork reataurant

Photo by: Lil Sis
Black Pork reataurant

Photo by: Lil Sis Crab Kimchi, Rice, Soup, Kimchi

Photo by: Lil Sis
Crab Kimchi, Rice, Soup, Kimchi

We got a lot of side dish, kimchi, salad, soup, crab with kimchi sauce (maybe kimchi crab), white kimchi. And the rice also really surprise me because when we open the lid we got really pink or slightly purple rice not white as normally rice we eat. But the taste it so great, it’s just not rice, there is also some seed and maybe black rice inside. It’s really sticky and yummy. The crab kimchi is also delicious, the crab is so sweet and it is the first time i eat raw crab. The soup also so refreshing. And maybe because we didn’t eat properly today, it became double delicious.

Photo by: Lil Sis Dinner with Pork feast

Photo by: Lil Sis
Dinner with Pork feast

This is the various meat we order, all of it is black pork, we also get the skin and 2 slices of mushroom. They also gime me a sauce in a little bowl that put in the grill to keep it warm. The sauce is little bit salty and spicy but it really compatible with the pork. As korean eat, we also make lettuce wrap to eat kimchi. And the composition is up to you. But I usually use lettuce, rice, meat, kimchi, garlic and sometime gochujang or another veggie in the table, wrap it nicely and eat it in one gulp. So yummy. We service our selves tonight. Usually in BBQ place, there are a waiter who help us to grill, but in this place we grill by our selves, but the thinkk that i really love in Korean food is we can ask more for the side dish and the drink (barley tea). It’s free of charge. So more lettuce and more kimchi please. We spent 49000 Won for dinner.

Photo by: Lil Sis Pork Pork n Pork <3

Photo by: Lil Sis
Pork Pork n Pork <3

After we eat, we decide to find our hotel tonight. We already booked a hotel in hanok style. The name is Kasan Tobang. But we never know where the place and we will just trust the GPS to find the hotel for us. Jeju in night is so quiet. Not so many car in the road, we can drive fast there. In Jakarta the road is like toll road in Lebaran holiday, like desolated road. But, unfortunately we can not drive to fast because the speed limit and camera in the road. The camere will took a photo of us if we exceed the speed limit. And the GPS will said there is camere in 500 m, the speed limit is 80, don’t drive to fast, there is speed bump in 500 m. Sometime the GPS is really annoying because just us in the road but we can not go fast. But we try to follow the rule, we are in another country anyway, we want our trip is save until last day. As I told you before, we just trust the GPS for find our hotel. But it direct us to dead end. The GPS ask us to turn to small road , we trus it and just go until we know that it’s not right, the road is too dark and along the road there are tall grass that I called it “Ilalang” in Indonesia. I don’t know what it in Eglish is. So scary , so we decide to go back to the road before we turn to the dead end. We just going straigt, and the GPS calculate the road, and I think know we are in the correct road. We drive and finally arrive there. After lost in scary road, finally. We can take a rest there.

Photo By : Lil Sis Our room  at Kasan Tobang

Photo By : Lil Sis
Our room at Kasan Tobang

We plan to sleep in Korean traditional way, that’s why in Jeju we book this kind of hotel. That is our room and our bed. The bed actually so thin, and because we never sleep in thin bed before it make our back hurt at the morning when we wake up. Although the hotel is in traditional concept, it still have air con, TV, internet acces, computer, microwave. So if you have frozen food or want to heat some food you can use the microwave that located in the dining room. In kasang tobang, we will get breakfast, it is free already include I think it the room price. The breakfast menu is always Abalone porridge with some side dish like kimchi. There are also some computer with internet access. So, if you want to find some info, or maybe transfer your photo from camera to your portable hard disk you can use the computer freely. The big problem of this place is, the bathroom is like public bathroom in Korea. We will bath together with another guest. Because of that we decide to wake up early in the morning and we take a bath before another guest is wake up. And for tonight, we just clean our face, and brush our tooth, and then go to sleep.

Photo By : Lil Sis n Big Sis Model : Miss Pepz n Lil Sis Our room at Kasan Tobang

Photo By : Lil Sis n Big Sis
Model : Miss Pepz n Lil Sis
Our room at Kasan Tobang

Photo By : Lil Sis Charge Station is opened at Kasan Tobang

Photo By : Lil Sis
Charge Station is opened at Kasan Tobang. Of couse the important thing is to make sure all of our phone and camere is in 100% before we start our journey tommorrow

Photo By : Lil Sis Our discon coupon and Jeju Love Land ticket

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Our discount coupon and Jeju Love Land ticket – We got so many discount coupon in Love land. There is a corner in Love land that have tree with a lot of discount coupon hanging there. You can take it as mush as you want. We took a lot, but we don’t use any i think.

So, our trip in Day 3 is over. I hope it can help anybody that plan to go to Jeju too. Ask me if you want to know something, maybe I can help. ^^

By : Lil Sis


Autumn in Korea – Day 4(Jeju) – Yakcheonsa Temple and Soingook Theme Park

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Well, this post is our 4th day in South Korea. But before I tell you our story that day, I will introduce you our white car, this already took us everywhere in Jeju. In my previous post, I already told you how hard we could rent this car. So this is is white Avante. It’s comfortable for 4 people, and the baggage is quite wide so our big bag is save in there.

Photo By : Lil Sis Our White Car that took us everywhere in Jeju

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Our White Car that took us everywhere in Jeju

As, I told you before, We are slept in Kasan Tobang, it’s a hanok traditional Korean house style Hotel. It’s comfortable and feel homey I think. But, look at our room below. We just get a tiny bed, and because we are never sleep in tiny bed before, it’s hard for us, it’s just feel like we sleep without any bed, so, we wake up with backache. The floor is heated, so it’s warm, but maybe too warm us, and we feel like a steam pig there, but fortunately there is an AC there, so we turn on AC and can feel the cold breeze and neutralized the warm floor.

Photo By : Lil Sis Our room, sorry for the messy here and thee :P

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Our room, sorry for the messy here and thee :P

Because in Kasan tobong, the bathroom has jimjilbang style, so we woke up ealy and took a bath early too. So, before the breakfast ready, we already ready, of cource except Mr Damz that wen to the bad late and also woke up late .So, we have a tour around Kasan Tobang. We arrived at the night yesterday, so we just see the main building, the place that we sleep. But actually, Kasan tobang also have bungalow room and pretty big garden. Of course we took photo at every spot that we find it so beautiful and so Korea. Of couse we took photo with Dol-Haerubang. Look my photo below.

Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis All this photo took at Kasan Tobang, Sun shine so bright in the morning

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Model : Lil Sis
All this photo took at Kasan Tobang, Sun shine so bright in the morning

Do you know, there is a myth about Dol hareubang , If husband and wife traveling to Jeju and want a child. They must find this hareubang. If they want a boy, they must rub the nose, but if they want a girl, they must rub the stomach. You can find Dol Hareubang everywhere in jeju. So just rub it everywhere you can find.

Left Photo by : Lil Sis Model : Big Sis This is our room's door, You must enter the room carefully, fold your body, so your head will save. ~~Right~~ Photo by : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis Kasan Tobang garden, Green and beautiful

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This is our room’s door, You must enter the room carefully, fold your body, so your head will save.
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Model : Lil Sis
Kasan Tobang garden, Green and beautiful

Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis The left one is in front of Kasan Tobang, it's the main door to the receptionistanf the right one is orange tree near Kasan Tobang. So yellow

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Model : Lil Sis
The left one is in front of Kasan Tobang, it’s the main door to the receptionist and the right one is orange tree near Kasan Tobang. So bright yellow. If I see drama or variety show that took place in Jeju, most of them showed tangerine orchard, so wide and full with orange tangerine that look so beautiful. So, when I find tangerine tree , took photo with it is a must. FYI it’s not an orchard, it’s just a tree that fortunately standing there :P

After walking around, we back to the main building and sat in dining room. We wait for

Photo By : Lil Sis Our Breakfast, Yummy Abalone porridge by Kasan Tobang

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Our Breakfast, Yummy Abalone porridge by Kasan Tobang

We got free breakfast at Kasan tobang. The menu is always same, Abalone Porridge. As what you see at the photo above, we can see the rice is still shaped as before. in Indonesia, we can see the rice anymore, it’s already not in rice shape anymore, it’s already disolved and become thick porridge. The abalone porridge that we ate at Kasan tobang is not so thick as indonesian porridge. In Indonesia, we eat chicken porridge for breakfast, but the chicken is not inside the porridge, they not cooked together, the chicken just the porridge topping. But, in this porridge, the abalone is not a topping, the rice and abalone cooked together , so you can see the porridge is look like plan porridge with any topping on it. We also could not see the abalone, but the taste is there. As usual, we got kimchi and soy sauce with some onion there as banchan. they made the porridge plan, no strong flavour, so eat it with kimchi or soy sauce is really make it more delicious. We stay at kasan Tobang 2 days, so we got to eat this porridge 2 times. it’s like a healthy dish because I know there is no MSG there, and abalone is also good for our body.

Photo By : Lil Sis Orange Tree near Yakcheonsa Temple

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Orange Tree near Yakcheonsa Temple

After we finished eat, and because we already ready include mr Damz. We immediately start our journey today. We plan to go to some place that already we listed when we still at Jakarta. Our first destination today is Yakcheonsa Temple.  yakcheonsa Temple is a buddhist temple that already built in 1990s. it’s located at Seogwipo, not so far from kasan tobang. that’s why it’s became our first  stop today.  Because of GPS taht we got from rent this car, we can found this temple easily, just follow the sign well and we arrived safely. The parking area is so wide, and there is no car beside us, there just a bus there. Maybe because it’s too early and it’s not a weekend or holiday, so inot so many visitor whe we came. We found an tangerine or orange orchard near the parking area. We want to go there and take some photo. but I think it’s not appropriate to go there, because we didn’t even know who is the owner, and enter the orchard without permission is like we enter a stranger house without permission like a thief. So, we just took the photo from a far.

Photo By : Lil Sis Yakcheonsa Temple

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Yakcheonsa Temple

The Yakcheonsa temple is huge, the main temple is 2,652 meters squared, but the total area is 3,305 meters squared. The main temple is standing there facing the ocean. When you see inside, you can find a huge Buddha statue, and really wide hall for praying, we find some ahjumma there, praying and some do meditation. It’s so quite inside and really calm aura inside. Maybe meditating in this environment will help us more focus and fast to get the enlightenment. :D .

Photo By : Lil Sis Model : Big Sis and Dol Hareubang Yakcheonsa Temple

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Model : Big Sis and Dol Hareubang
Yakcheonsa Temple

Photo By : Lil Sis Yakcheonsa Temple

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Yakcheonsa Temple. We found  water fountain there. I think every temple in South Korea has this. Because when we go to Beomeosa Temple wwe found it too. but in Yakcheonsa is more cool because they decorated it with dragon, and a beautiful roof

Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis Yakcheonsa Temple

Photo By : Big Sis
Model : Lil Sis
Yakcheonsa Temple

Blue sky without any cloud, from the photo I think you will say the weather is good, warm and cozy. But the wind is so cold, and because of it’s located near beach the wind is pretty strong. So, even the sun shining bright, we still need to use our coat tightly because the cold wind.

Photo By : Lil Sis Yakcheonsa Temple

Photo By : Lil Sis
Yakcheonsa Temple

You can see beach from the temple.  it And I really like this tiny elephant statue, cute elephant.

Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis Yakcheonsa Temple

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Model : Lil Sis
Yakcheonsa Temple

After strolling at Yakcheonsa temple, and taking photo in every corner, we go to our next destination. Soingook Theme Park, it’s located at Seogwipo too, so it’s not so far from Yakcheonsa. Jeju Soingook Theme Park is Jejudo’s major tourist attraction, covering about 20,000 square meters of land, holding various miniature models of famous architecture from all over the world including Korea’s famous building. We paid 9000 Won to enter this theme park.  If you ever go to Mini Siam at Pattaya, Thailand. It’s same, but in Soingook they display miniature of  famous Korean building too. There are so many building there, from all over the world, we alse saw Candi Prambanan there. Indonesia is there. ^_^

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis
Soingook Theme Park

I took a photo with 2 place that become house from the leader of Korea. The picture in the top, is Blue House, the president rule South Korea from there, and the picture below is a palace., the place where King rule the country long time ago. I am not sure what palace is that, maybe Gyoengbokgung Palace. I will visit this place, when I go to Seoul. So just wait, Ii give you the miniature first and then you can feel the real size after that.

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

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Soingook Theme Park – Another Dol Hareubang.

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis
Soingook Theme Park

You can find miniature of building here, but beside that you also can find a cute animal statue there, even bigger than their normal size.

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

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Soingook Theme Park

Lil Sis in left picture trying to pose a mainstream pose, hold the leaning pisa tower, but i think it’s failed, my hand it’s not in the right place. And in the rightpicture you can see Big Sis with not leaning pisa tower.

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

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Soingook Thme Park  (Gwanghamun Gate + Gyeongbokgung , Train Station, Another Palace , Assembly Building)

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

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Soingook Theme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

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Soingook Theme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

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Soingook Theme Park

Photo By : Mr Damz Soingook Thme Park

Photo By : Mr Damz
Soingook Theme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

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Soingook Theme Park – This little train is favourite among kids there.

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

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Soingook Theme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

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Soingook Theme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis
Soingook Theme Park

So, This is our 4th Day. I think this is already long enough, so wait for another post to know more about what we did in Jeju. Thanks for reading. Please comment, any question, criticism,  appreciation are welcome.

By. Lil Sis


Totem Room Escape, Challenge yourself to escape from the fear locked forever

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Well, one day Miss Peps said to us Let’s play Escape Room game. And after she said that, she send us a lot of info about that, the game, the room decoration, hoe to play, the price, the venue, all abount escape room game. Make us really really excited to play. So, on last weekend, Me (Lil Sis), Big Sis, Miss Pepz, and 3 friend of Big Sis and Miss Pepz went to play this game. We choose Totem escape Room, it’s located at Tanjung Duren, Jakarta Barat, near Central park Mall. You can check more about Totem Room escape here.

Before I tell you about our experience there, I will give you briefly explanation about this game. Escape the roomm is actually a game, we usually play it on our mobile phone or our PC. In the game, we locked up at a room, and we must find something to open the door and escape from that room. The game is something like that, if you ever play it on your mobile phone, i bet you know what I mean in my bad explanation.. The point is, we were locked inside the room, and we must find way out to escape from that room and breath a fresh air.

Back to my experience. In Totem, they have 5 room in different Level, The room from level 1 to level 5 are Locked in Darkland, Egyption Secret, Kidnapped, Mission impossible, and Prison Break. To play in The Level 5 Prison Break Room, you must already passed the other room. because it the hardest room, and even we can not use short or skirt if want to play there. It is super hard to escape room according to the staff. Because we are newbie, so we choose Level 2 room Egyption Secret.

Miss Pepz made a reservation from the website, but no confirmation at all. So Miss Pepz called , and the staff said they forget the admin password to login into the web, so they can not look the reservation from the web. OMG. Finally we made a reservation via phone, we booked Egyption Secrret at 2 pm on Saturday 6 people. FYI, The maximum people for Egyption secret is 6 people. We paid 115K IDR for one person. The price is depend on how many people play. Because we play as 6 people, we paid 690K IDR.

So, when the time come, we go to Totem escape room, and made a payment and begged the staff to give us more time. We were only given 50 minutes, it is not enough for newbie like us. But, the staff didn’t budge, she just told us if we find it hard, just wave to the camera, and the staff will come give us a hint. So, the time to enter the room come and we entered. but before that we must, take all of our bag, phone, inside the locker. We cannot bring anything to the room beside our clothes. Even in some room, we can not use belt or watch.

Because we choose Egyption secret, we enter one by one, started from our leader, and we choose Miss Pepz friend who already played there once. But he play Locked in the darkland. And the last person to enter is me. One by one enter, and our foot is locked with chain and they locked it with a pad lock. When Lil Sis enter, the staff want to chain my foot too, but the chain is stuck at the floor so, she can not get it, and Lil Sis is free. No chain on my foot. Hehehehe.

So, the game is we must open the chain in our foot first, the first person that can open the chain is leader, the clue to open the leader lock is in that room. And after that the leader must find the key to open the other chain. because I already free I help the leader. I think they free me because we begged so much before to extend our time, but because thay can  not do that they make it easier for us. Anyway, the room is super dark. and they just give us a small torch. So , it’s pretty hard to find the clue.

Because we are play on the Egyption Secret room, of course there are some mummy coffin there, and a lot of sands like in dessert. Bones, heads, treasure chest with creepy backsound. The room is not have a good air conditioning, very hot inside, and because there are a bunch of sand there, it become dusty. For anyone who claustrophobic, never play Escape Room or you will die inside.

We already escape from the chain room, and we already enter the last stage. but unfortunately we failed, time is over. the staff entered the room to force us to go out. Sad why we can not escape, and really really curious about the clue.

How is my feeling play Escape the room? Hmmm, before I enter the room, i feeling excited, can not wait to play. The moment when one by one enter the room and and wait because i last to enter, really panic and my heart is racing inside. When play, happy when we can solved the clue, excited when we can open something or find something, feeling stupid when we ask for a hint and actually it is so easy to solved. Feeling gloomy when I didn’t know what to do anymore, feeling sad when the time is over and we failed. Feel curious when see the staff outside, and we start to ask where the other clue. So many feeling I fell on 1 hour because play this game.

So, if you like to solve a mystery and maybe bored with playing game on your phone, you must try escape room. Bring your fun friend with you and try to escape the room together. There are so many place that provide the game like this. You can choose to play Totem like us, or anywhere that near your place.

Miss Pepz and Big Sis, play Doraemon theme escape room at Serpong the day after we failed. They got 90 minutes, and they made it. Success. It become addictive I think, even we jokingly said we will play it at least once a month after payday.

 By : Lil Sis


Autumn in Korea – Day 4(Jeju) – Osulloc Tea Museum , Jeju Glass Castle

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Hi, Lil Sis is back. I will continue my posting about Autumn in Korea. Still at Day 4, after we go to Soingook Theme Park, we go to our next destination, Osulloc Tea Museum. It’s still located at Seogwipo, soit’s not so far from Soingook. This museum is so big, it has large green tea farm here, cafe, exhibition hall, the room for learn something about tea, there are also a Innisfree there. The yard and parking area is so big too. You can strolling there, to see green and enjoy the breeze leisurely. Anyway, it’s free to enter this place, no parking fee, no entrance fee. But if you hungry and buy some food there, of course you must pay.

Ossuloc - Tea Museum

Ossuloc – Tea Museum – Entrance to the museum

Ossuloc - Tea Museum Wall Decoration

Ossuloc – Tea Museum
Wall Decoration

Ossuloc - Tea Museum Some of their display

Ossuloc – Tea Museum
Some of their display

The display for the museum is not a lot. there are various style of tea cup and teapot. Some painting too. But that’s it. There is just one room to display all of this, and that room also bring you directly to the cafe and a shop that you can buy tea. The cafe and the shop has more visitor than the display room. Maybe some people will think it’s just an entrance to go to the shop. Not something related to museum. But as I said before, the area is so big, there are some building, separated from the main building. When we walk around, we found some building that full with people learning something. The building has glass wall, so we can see people inside. The seat is full and their face look serious. I think they learn how to make tea well or something related to tea.

Ossuloc - Tea Museum Sponge Cake, Green Tea with vanilla filling and Choco cake with green tea filling

Ossuloc – Tea Museum
Sponge Cake, Green Tea with vanilla filling and Choco cake with green tea filling

After, go to Yakcheonsa temple, and Soingook we didn’t eat anything. And with just porridge  for breakfast. We started to feel hungry. So we stop at the cafe. In Seoul you can find Osulloc tea house. It same with Osulloc tea museum in Jeju, the different is, they just have cafe and shop, no farm, no exhibition hall, and no room for study, no big yard, and no big parking area. In the cafe they sell food and drink related to green tea and of course they also sell the tea. If you are a tea lover, you must buy the tea, or at least you can buy it for a present to your family or friends. Because we need something to fill our stomach,we buy 2 sponge cake. 1 green tea sponge cake with vanilla filling 1 chocolate sponge cake with green tea filling. I really really like this sponge cake, especially the choco one. Because I think the green tea is dry not so moist like the chocolate. But actually both is good. The filling is not too sweet, so it’s perfect.

We also bought green tea ice cream. We buy 1 green tea with red bean , green tea sponge cake and something crispy as topping. The ice cream is also good too. not too sweet but treat our craving with sweet thing. I recommend you to try the sponge cake and the ice cream if you go here.

Ossuloc - Tea Museum Green Tea ice Cream

Ossuloc – Tea Museum
Green Tea ice Cream

After, we eat. We go to innisfree. We know that innisfree have so much product with green tea and volcano things. Mostly of their ingredient is from Jeju. that’s why there are innisfree here. We go there with end in mind want to buy something to  our friend and family that ask us to buy for them. We entered the place, there are a lot of student there. I think they are in study tour, they learn how to make soap there. DIY soap, they can choose what ingredient they want, green tea, volcano, lemon, citrus, orange. They look happy, and I want to try too , but I think we must have a reservation first before. Unfortunately we didn’t buy anything there. We decided to buy when we are in Seoul. So after that, we just do some strolling in the yard and of course took a photo. here they are :

Ossuloc - Tea Museum The YARD

Ossuloc – Tea Museum
The YARD

This yard is exactly near in front of innisfree. there are some bench with table there. And it can rotate, so we can sit there and rotate ourselver 360 degrees to see all around us. But some of them can not rotate anymore maybe because of the rust. We found Ilalang there. Miss Pepz has a desire to take a photo with ilalang. So when we found it, we immediately line up there to took a photo. Pretty isn’t it? Hahahaha

Ossuloc - Tea Museum Fantastic Four with ilalang

Ossuloc – Tea Museum
Fantastic Four with ilalang

Ossuloc - Tea Museum Lil Sis in front of Tea Farm

Ossuloc – Tea Museum
Lil Sis in front of Tea Farm

Look at me, I sat on the rotating bench, right in front of the green tea farm. it’s so  nice right. Sitting around here, look bright blue sky, and really green and neat tea farm. We also can go inside the farm. Took poto with the tea from near and close. Hahahaha. In Indonesia there are tea farm too, in Bogor , Malang, Bandung, or another place with not hot weather. the tea grow well in cold air. One of my wish is took a photo in tea farm there. But I think my wish come true in Korea.

Ossuloc - Tea Museum Lil Sis inside of Tea Farm

Ossuloc – Tea Museum
Lil Sis inside of Tea Farm

After being around this area, we decided to move to another place. We decided to go to Jeju Glass Castle and on the way go there , we will find a place to have lunch.  But unfortunately we didn’t find any restaurant, so we end up eat at restaurant in Jeju glass castle. It is located in front of Jeju Glass castle, near the parking area. The restauranWe order abalone bibimbap for our lunch.

Abalone Bibimbap

Abalone Bibimbap

Miced Abalone Bibimbap and Side Dish

Mixed Abalone Bibimbap and Side Dish

Our Bibimbap consisted of Abalone, fish roe, yellow radish, kimchi, enoki mushroom, dried sea weed, and of course rice. It’s not as good as sashimi bibimbap I ate at Busan, but it’s not bad too, and because we are really hungry, we still finish it until nothing in our bowl. We also got side dish like kimchi, bean, potato salad, fish cake, veggie, and seaweed soup. the fish cake is really good, and the soup also refreshing. Although the bibimbap is just good, not extraordinary, and the abalone is just a little, we still ate our lunch happily.

After we eat, we go to purchase the entrance ticket for Jeju Glass Castle. We need to pay 9000 KRW for that. After got the ticket, we immediately enter. We found a really big beanstalk made from glass in our entrance. With some gold eggs below. This place full of glass, so be careful not to break them.

Glass Castle Miss Pepz with Beanstalk

Glass Castle
Miss Pepz with Beanstalk

Glass Castle Lil Sis dream to become Cinderella, first let me took a photo with pumpkin carriage

Glass Castle
Lil Sis dream to become Cinderella, first let me took a photo with pumpkin carriage

Glass Castle Very Big Diamon ring, Give it to me please

Glass Castle
Very Big Diamon ring, Give it to me please

Jeju Glas Castle

Jeju Glas Castle

There are a lot of something like this in Korea. Pond with so many coins inside. I think Korean People like something like this, testing their luck. We have tried it when we at Busan, with help from Sung oppa, we throw coin t Haedongyonggung Temple. It’s kind addicting i think, but we lack of coin so we didn’t try it here.

Jeju Glas Castle

Jeju Glas Castle

Jeju Glas Castle - Magical Forest

Jeju Glas Castle – Magical Forest

There ara Magical forest section in Jeju glass castle. We will explore forest with a lot of colorful glass there. I think it will be perfect if go there in the evening, when the sky darker, the glass will be lighted and it will feel more magical. We tried back again int the afternoon, too get the effect, but unfortunately they close at 6.00 pm even earlier when late autumn and winter. So we missed it. So for you that want to go here, maybe you can go here around 4.30 pm, so you can get the light effect. Don’t forget to bring a good camera to capture the light.

Jeju Glas Castle - Magical Forest

Jeju Glas Castle – Magical Forest

There are a lot of wind chimes there. It is hanged on top of our head, and when the wind blows, it make a magical sound. it’s so cool I think, sound is so clear and make this forest like a place that you doesn’t want to leave.

Jeju Glas Castle - Magical Forest

Jeju Glas Castle – Magical Forest

Jeju Glas Castle

Jeju Glas Castle

After we took a photo in every side in Jeju Glass castle, we decided to go to next attraction. We went to Teddy bear Museum and after that go to Alive Museum and the last dinner before going back to out hotel. There are so many stories that I want to tell you about this day (4th day Autumn Trip in Korea) so I will finish it here, and make Part 3 of our Day 4. Wait for it. Have fun read and keep reading yah…

XOXO

Lil Sis



Autumn in Korea – Departure

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Setelah di postingan sebelumnya, Lil Sis sudah menceritakan pengalaman kami mempersiapkan apa aja yang sekiranya diperlukan untuk ke Korea, It’s time for tell you our story there. Tentunya dimulai dari hari keberangkatan kami. Kami berangkat hari Kamis, pesawat kami Air Asia akan terbang malam hari, transit di malaysia, kemudian baru terbang lagi ke Korea, tiba di sana pagi hari.

Jadi untuk menghemat cuti, Lil sis pun tetap masuk ke kantor Kamis paginya, tetapi izin pulang cepat sekitar jam 2 siang. Mandi, makan malam yang lebih awal, Lil Sis dan Big Sis pun berangkat ke bandara. Kebetulan Lil sis dan Big Sis tinggal dekat dengna bandara, biasanya 15-20 menit naik mobil sudah sampai di bandara. Sehingga kami pun merasa tidak usah terlalu buru buru berangkat. Tapi kemudian Miss Pepz pun menghubungi kalau dia dan Mr Damz sudah jalan ke bandara. Tidak enak mereka harus menunggu kami, maka berangkatlah kami ke bandara. Untunglah kami memutuskan untuk berangkat lebih cepat, karena macet sekali. Bukan macet menuju bandaranya, tetapi macet di dalam bandaranya. Setelah melewati patuh Soekarno dan Hatta, taxi kami pun stuck tidak bergera. Ada apa gerangan, kami cuma bisa bertanya tanya, banyaknya abang ojek yang menawarkan diri di sisi jalan sudah benar-benar menggoda kami, tapi dengan koper yang besar danbadan kami yang juga besar, kami pun berpikir dua kali untuk naik ojek Sampai akhirnya supir taxi kami ang juga sudah tidak sabar menghadipi macet ini pun membelokkan mobilnya ke sisi kiri dan mulai melaju kencan gmelewati bahu jalan. Dan sampailah kami di bandara terminal 3. Di mana Miss Pepz dan Mr damz yang sudah sampai terlebih dahulu sedang menyantap makan malam mereka.

Setelah mereka selesai makan, naiklah kami ke ruang tunggu. Di runag tunggu, kebetulan ada outlet batik Keris, kami pun ampir sebentar untuk membeli kenang kenangan untuk Host kami selama di Korea. Setelah bingung mau beli batik, takut nggak cukup, akhirnya kami pun membeli wayang wayangan kecil. sambil menunggu tentu saja kami tak lupa berfoto foto ria, selfie, wefie, taking photo every time when we bored. Jangan bingung kenapa di foto narsis kami ini tidak ada Mr damz. Karena dia sedang sibuk menimbang tasnya. So, Mr damz ini tidak mau membeli bagasi. But, dia membawa tas yang banyak, sedangkan yang diperbolehkan masuk kebain itu hanya 1 tas jinjng + 1 koper (cabin size) dengan berat tidak boleh lebih dari 7,5 kg but dia punya 3 tas, 1 backpack, 1 koper cabin size, dan 1 lagi tas jinjing. So, dia sedang sibuk mendistribusikan barang barang di kopernya yg beratnya melebihi 10 kg, ke tas nya yg lain, dan tentu saja nantinya akan kami bantu bawakan karena jumlah tasnya yang berlebihan. Kebetulan di ruang tunggu terdapat timbangan, so ketika kami cewek cewek sibuk narsis, dia sibuk menimbang bawaannya yg merepotkan itu.

waitingSo, I introduce you, Me the prettiest one :P, Big Sis the girl in the middle using black , and Miss Pepz using the blue one. And Mr damz yang ntah ke mana. Di ruang tunggu , sebelum berangkat ke Korea, jangan lupa telepon orang terdekatmu, we don’t know what will be happened to us in this trip, so I call my mom and my dad, say that I will go now, basa basi  bertanya mau oleh oleh apa, dan lain lain. Sent message to my aunt and my bigger sis. Make they pray for our trip. Ini bukan pesimis, mengganggap something bad akan terjadi, cuma selama 14 hari ke depan aku mungkin akan kesusahan menghubungi mereka, mereka mungkin khawatir nasib anaknya di negeri orang, so to make sure mereka tenang akan anak-anaknyaWe did it.

Air Asia CGK - KUL

Air Asia CGK – KUL

Tiba waktunya kami naik ke dalam pesawat. Menaiki bus hingga ke depan pesawat. Kami pun akhirnya bisa duduk di kursi kami. Karena check in di waktu yang berbeda, Lil Sis dan Big Sis duduk berdampingan, miss Pepz dan Mr damz juga duduk berdampingan. But luckily tetap dekat, ka tepat duduk di kursi di depan mereka. So, we fly to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Karena penerbangan malam, dan malam sebelumnya tidak bisa tidur nyenyak karena nervous, so memejamkan mata langsung kami lakukan, walaupun tidak benar benar tidur or just tidur ayam.

Tak lama,  kami pun sampai ke KL. Turun dari pesawat, dan berjalan ke ruang tunggu kami selanjutnya untuk menanti pesawat yang akan membawa kami ke Korea ready. sesampainya di ruang tunggu, area ruang tunggunya masih dibatasi oleh garis dilarang masuk. Sekitar 15 menit kami hanya berdiri di depan area tunggu, sambil mengamati sekitar. Ada pojok yang berisi colokan untuk charge your battery., banyak yg mulai mencharging gadget nya, dari handphonenya hingga notebook nya. Mr damz yang jug a mau ikutan pun sudah tidak dapat colokan kosong lagi. But, don’t worry, setelah kami berhasil masuk ke ruang tunggu, kami pun membuka station pengisian battery sendiri.

Charge ur batt

Charge ur batt

kul-waiting-roomtak terlalu lama, kami pun disuruh masuk ke pesawat. Di dalam pesawat Lil Sis, Big Sis, dan Miss Pepz duduk dibagian ekor pesawat. Benar benar di bagian belakng, dimana pramugari menyiapkan makanan dan bergosip ria ketika tidak ada pekerjaan. So, It’s smell so good when they prepare food, and membuat cacing cacing di perut ini meronta. Sedangkan Mr Damz duduk sangat jauh di depan. Sepertinya pembagian ini berdasarkan kami bertiga memesan makanan di pesawat, sedangkan Mr Damz tidak, sehingga tempat duduknya terpisah dari kami.

aa-cabinPerjalanan dari Kuala Lumpur ke Busan,Korea cukup memakan waktu, perkiraan kami akan sampai di pagi hari. So, we must sleep, so we have energy to walking around ketika sudah samapai di Busan. But, tempat duduknya sempit sekali, kaki seakan tidak bisa digerakkan, sungguh tidak nyaman, tidur pun tak enak, mana berisik dari pramugarinya. Efeknya badan pun pegal pegal, beragam gaya sudah dicoba biar nyama, tapi tak satu pun yang benar benar membuat kita pulas tertidur.

Setelah berjam jam tidur bangun tidur bangun di pesawat, kami pun sampai juga di Busan. AKhirnya bisa meluruskan badan dan kaki juga. Ini penerbangan terlama yang penah aku lalui sejauh ini, dan sungguh melelahkan karena kursinya yang tidak nyaman. Tapi apa bisa dikata, kalo tiketnya murah yah begini lah yang didapat, kalau mau nyaman mesti menggunakan airlines yang mahal juga.

So, this post is over. Aku akan melanjutkannya di postingan ku selanjutnya. Stay tuned ya.

By : Lil Sis


Autumn in Korea – Day 1 (Busan) – Arrival

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Setelah berjam jam di pesawat dari Kuala Lumpur ke Busan, akhirnya kami tiba juga di Gimpo Airport, Busan, South Korea. Kami tiba disambut dengan hujan, tidak terlalu lebat, tapi impactnya dingin banget, angin kencang ditambah suhu yang sudah hampir 1 digit, brrrr dingin banget waktu keluar dari pesawat. Sebagai orang Indonesia yang sepanjang tahun panas, awalnya butuh sedikit penyesuain juga, tapi setelah angin tidak terlalu kencang lagi bertiup dinginnya sekan akan kalau kita lagi di Puncak aja kok, adem adem sejuk.

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Morning Sky

Setelah tiba di Gimpo International airport, kami pun berjalan sesuai dengan arah yang ditentukan, dan berjalan ke arah pos imigrasi untuk menyerahkan Arrival Card dan mendapatkan cap di passpor kami. Antria cukup panjang di sana, antrian dibagi 2, ada yang khusus melayani Warga Korea, dan antrian yang melayani turis asing. Ada peristiwa yang sedikit memalukan tapi lucu juga. Ketika sedang mengantri, aku, Big Sis, dan miss Pepz mengantri di line yang berdekaan, sedangkan Mr Damz agak jauh. Tiba tiba kami melihat ada petugas yang menghampiri Mr damz, dari gerak geriknya dia meminta handphonenya, sedikit memarahi Mr Damz. Rupanya mr Damz ini melakukan apa yang dilarang dilakukan, dia  mengeluarkan Handphone dan jepret jepret sana sini, yang tentu saja didatangi petugas dan ditegur, karena sudah jelas jelas  ada gambar kamera dicoret terpampang nyata di situ. Tidak ada sanksi serius, Mr Damz hanya disuruh menghapus semua foto hasil jepretannya. Setalh itu, masalah selesai, dan kami hanya tertawa tawa setelah selesai dari Imigrasi.

Setelah itu kami pun mengarah ke arah tempat pengambilan bagasi. Tak lama sampai kami sudah melihat koper berdatangan, tidak sampai 5 menit, koper kami sudah di tangan. Kami pun langsung menuju ke arah counter Olleh. Sebelumnya di Indonesia kami sudah melakukan booking untuk menyewa modem dari Olleh. Karena koneksi internet selam di negeri orang sangat penting menurut kami, jadi kami sudah mempersiapkannya dengan menyewa modem di Korea. Kami akan menyewa modem dari Olleh, kami ambil di Gimpo, dan akan kami kembalikan di Incheon. Sesampianya di counter, kami langsung mengantri, setelah mengantri beberapa saat, barulah kami menyadari ternyata kami harus mengambil nomor antrian terlebih dahulu,  percuma mengantri, jika tidak membawa nomor antria. Buru buru kami menekan mesin antrian dan mendapatkan kertas tertera nomor antrian kami. Tak lama nomor kami dipanggil, dan karena sudah booking terlebih dahulu, prosesnya jadi cepat, dan kami pun sukses mengantongi modem yang unlimited dan high speed. Kami langsung mengeluarkan handphone masing masing, konek kesitu, dan taraaa bisa update status deh.

OllehSetelah berhasil terhubung dengan koneksi internet pun, kami langsung menghubungi host kami di busan, Sung oppa. Kami memutuskan akan menggunakan taxi saja, kami meminta sung untuk m,engirimkan kami alamat dalam tulisan Korea, sehingga supir taxi nya dapat mudah mengetahuui kami mau kemana. Kami pun mendektai pangkalan taxi. Banyak supir taxi yang menghampiri kami. Kami pikir kami hanya butuh 1 taxi, but supir taxi yang taxinya sudah hendak kami naiki, berteriak kepada kami, “You are BIG, BIG, BIG, BIG”, sambil menunjuk kmai satu persatu , “bag BIG, 2 taxi”. Dia tidak memperbolehkan kami menggunakan 1 taxi saja, dan ketika dia membuka bagasinya, kmai jauh lebih kaget. bagasinya kecil sekali, mungkin cuma setengahbagasi taxi di Indonesia. Semakin kecil karena ditambah ember alat mandi ahjussi supir taxi, dan handuk handuknya yang dijemur di bagasi. Later, kami tau kenapa ukurannya kecil, hal ini dikarenakan ada tangki gas yang diletakkan di situ untuk bahan bakar.

Akhirnya kami pun menghubungi Sung, sebaiknya kami ke sana naik apa, apa bisa dengna bus, karena jika harus menggunakan 2 taxi harganya menjadi mahal. AKhirnya Sung pun mengirimkan taxi untuk menjemput kami. Taxi nya adalah limousine taxi, bentuknya seperti Van dan cukup besar. harganya lebih murah dibandingkan 2 Taxi. Dan karena Ahjussi supir taxi sudah tau persis di mana lokasinya, jadi kami tinggal duduk manis saja, sambil amaze dengan limousine taxi ini.

Limousine Taxi

Limousine Taxi

Karena hujan turun, kami pun diturunkan di basement apartement. Di bawah Sung oppa ternyata sudah menunggu kami. Dengan rambut yang masih sedikit berantakan, baru bangun tidur, dia menyambut kami. Mengantarkan kami masuk, naik lift, dan menuju ke unit apartement dia. Dia menunjukkan kami kamar kami, mengelilingi apartemen dan menjelaskan dapur, apa yang bisa kmai lakukan, kulkas mana yang bisa kami gunakan, ambil air di mana, kamar mandi, handuk, dsb. Setelah itu dia mengajak kami ke ruang tamu, dan dia mulai menjelaskan ke kami mengenai Busan, mau kemana kami, kira kira tempat mana yang bagus yang patut dikunjungi. Dan dia pun menawarkan bisa jadi supir kami keliling Busan dengan mobilnya tentu saja dengan biaya tambahan. Dengan hujan yang dari tadi turun dan belum reda juga, tawarannya cukup menggiurkan. Tapi dengan perut kosong kami belumbisa memutuskan, kami bertanya padanya restaurant terdekat, tetapi ternyata di Busan kebanyak resto buka jam 11 , hal ini dikarenakan kehidupan malam mereka yang minum minum, bertemu teman, hingga larut malam, mengakibatkan bangun siang dan baru bisa ready sekitar jam 11.

Sung's Apartement

Sung’s Apartement

Atas sarannya kami pun memutuskan untuk delivery saja. Sung oppa akan membantu kami menelepon untuk memesankan makanan.Pilihan pertama kami adalah Jeokbal atau kaki babi, tapi sayangnya restaurant favorit Sung oppa, tidak bisa delivery waktu itu, so we change our choice. Jajjangmyun, champon, Sweet and sour pork menu yang sering banget dipesan di drama drama pun kami pesan. Sung oppa membantu kami memesannya, dan kemudian dia pergi ke bawah, di bawah apartemennya ada StarBuck, sebelum menjemput kami dia sudah memesan kopi di sana, dan dia turun untuk mengambilnya. Kami pun satu per satu mandi dan mengistirahatkan badan yang kaku setelah berjam jam naik pesawat.

Tak lama ahjussi pengantar makan datang, dengan kotak kaleng seperti yang selama ini kami lihat di drama drama dia datang emngantarkan makanan pesanan kami. Kami memesan 2 paket menu yang berisi 1 Jajjangmyun, 1 Champon, dan 1 sweet and sour pork, karena 2 paket, yang artinya semuanya menjadi 2 porsi. banyak bukan, kami pun kewalahan menghabiskannya. Sung oppa berbaik hati juga memberikan kami susu. Dia bilang champon nya akan sedikit pedas, susu bisa membantu meredakan pedasnya, but, mungkin lidah orang Indonesia ini emang beda, pedasnya sih cume geli geli aja di lidah, nggak pake susus pun bisa kok.

Delivery Ahjussi

Delivery Ahjussi

Ahjussi nya masih menggunakan helmet, dan jas huja naik mengantarkan makanan. Dia pun menurunkan semua pesanan yang kami pesan di depan pintu. Wow, senang sekali bisa  merasakan kejadian ini. Sebagai penggemar korea, adegan ini sering banget ditemui di drama atau variety show korea.

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Clock wise , Jjajangmyun, Champon, Seewt and Sour Pork + Gyoza, Side Dish

Inilah Pesanan kami, ternyata porsinya cukup besar. Sweet and Sour porknya pun ternyata dilengkapai gyoza. dan kami juga memperoleh side dish berupa lobak yang sudah diasinkan dan berwarna kuning, dan cocolan untuk fried gyozanya. Rasanya enak. Untuk Jjajangmyun, kami tidak pernah memakan ini sebelumnya, kami hanya pernah merasakan jjajangmyun instant yang saya tidak pernah habis memakannya, karena berujung enek di mulut. Namun yang ini lebih enak, dan lobak kuningnya dapat membantu mengurangi rasa enek akibat jjajangmyun ini. Champon ini merupakan mie dengan seafood dan kuahnya pedas. Karena ada sedikit pesasnya ini, menjadikan champon lebih kami sukai dibandingkan jjajangmyun. Untuk tangsuyuk atau sweet and sour pork, rasanya juga enak, crispy di luar dan lembut di dalam, ditambah saosnya yang asam manis hmm enyak enyak. Gyoza nya juga okay, isinya hanya glass noodle, buat overall makanan ini sanggup memuaskan kami, Dingin karena huj ditambah perut ini yang sudah meraung raung minta diisi. Makanan ini ludes seketika. Wwalaupun di menit menit terakhir, kecepatan sudah menurun, but we still manage to clean it up. Setelah makan, kami pin menyusun kembali piring itu, membuang samapah sampah sisa makanan, dan meletakkannya di depan pintu apartemen, sehingga ahjussi tadi bisa mengambilnya kembali.

Setelah perut terisi, kami pun mengadakan sedikit rapat dan deal kalo kami akan membayar Sung Oppa untuk mengantarkan kami berkeliling. Miss pepz dan Big Sis pun menemui Sung di ruang tamu untuk menyampaikan keinginan kami sembari menawar harga. Setelah deal, dan kami pun memutuskan ke mana tujuan kami hari ini, tentu saja dengan bantuan Sung oppa.  Kami pun langsung cus turun untuk memulai perjalanan ini.

Karena sudah cukup panjang Day 1 ini aku bagi 2 Part ya, selanjutnya akan menyusul, stay tuned . ^^

By : Lil Sis

 


Autumn in Korea – Day 1 (Busan) – Beomeosa Temple, Nampo-dong

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Menyambung postingan aku sebelumnya. Kali ini Lil Sis akan menceritakan perjalan Lil Sis di Busan pada hari pertama. Setelah deal deal-an dengan sung Oppa, kami akhirnya akan berkeliling Busan selama 2 hari di sana with Sung Oppa’s Car. Tentunya plus handsome driver, sung oppa sendiri. Setelah mandi, makan, instirahat sejenak. Kami pun turun bersama Sung Oppa. Mobilnya diparkir di basement apartement. Dari stalking Miss Pepz sebelumnya ke social media Sung oppa ini, diketahuilah mobil nya adalah Audi A5. Wow langsung tambah mupeng sama nih oppa ganteng.

Sung's Car

Tujuan pertama kami adalah ke Beomeosa temple. Dari perjalanan dengan Sung oppa 2 hari ini, kami menyadari bahwa mungkin orang Korea itu tidak terlalu hafal jalan, ketergantungan mereka terhadap yang namanya GPS sungguh besar. Busan adalah tempat dimana oppa lahir hingga tumbuh besar menjadi lelaki tampan, mapan, dan semoga siap nikah, namun dia sama sekali tidak terlalu hafal jalanan. Ya, aku juga sih yakin orang Jakarta sendiri mungkin tidak akan hafal jalan sepenuhnya di Jakarta, but I think Sung oppa ini terlalu keterlaluan, selain main road, dia akan sedikit bingung jika GPS nya tiba tiba loading dulu. But some man has some special power in this area, menentukan arah, and somehow he has a good one.

Beomeosa Temple,

Beomeosa temple adalah Buddhist Temple, terletak di Geumjeongsan Mt.. Kuilnya cukup besar, teridir dari beberapa bangunan dan konon kabarnya sudah berdiri dari 1300 tahun yang lau. Sebelum kami sampai ke temple ini, kami berhenti di suatu taman masih disekitar kaki gunung. Saat itu hujan masih turun , tidak terlalu lebat, cuma gerimis kecil saja. Ini merupakan ide Sung oppa, tempatnya cukup bagus, dan dia pikir kami akan menyukainya. Ang that’s right. Kami bisa merasakan autumn pertama di tempat ini, dan untuk aku pribadi aku bisa masuk ke rumah kaca untuk pertama kalinya. nama tempatnya sendiri aku tidak tahu, but mungkin dengan beberapa foto yang aku tampilkan di sini nanti, bisa membatu teman teman yang ingin ke sana menemukannya.

Setelah puas berkeliling di sekitar taman, melihat sungai kecil, bunga bunga, masuk ke rumah kaca, foto foto dengan pemandangan autumn yang cetar.Hmm, sebagai the first place that we visit, it’s quite good. dan mungkin karena hujan juga, sama sekali tidak ada pengunjung lain selain kami. Hanya kami saja dan beberapa ahjussi yang sepertinya merupakan petugas taman itu. Hanya di saat saat terakhir kami menemukan 3 muda mudi asli korea yang juga berfoto foto di sana.

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Big Sis n Lil Sis pose with autumn tree

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Roman in the air

Sung Oppa n Miss Pepz Sexy Back

Setelah puas berkeliling, kami pun melanjutkan naik bukit dengan super car ke tempat tujuan awal kami. Setelah sampai, Sung oppa pun mengantarkan kami masuk ke templenya. Dia mengajak kami masuk ke salah satu ruang altarnya dan mengajarkan kami cara mereka umat buddhist disana beribadah.  Ketika masuk ke ruang altar utama, kami meliihat ada beberapa orang yang sedang bermeditasi dengan khusyuk di sana, sehingga kami hanya bisa berbicara dengan berbisik bisik pelan. Setelah dia mengajari kami cara ber-namaskara , kami pun keluar dari ruangan dan mulai mengelilingi sisi lain dari Beomeosa. Setelah menunjukan semua, Sung oppa pun memberikan kami waktu sendiri dan dia akan menunggu di dalam mobil.

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Miss Pepz, Big Sis, Mr Damz by Lil Sis

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Somehow, i really love the color, it’s bright and beautiful

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Stack your stone and make a wish

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Drink mountain water

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The architecture is so cool

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Love the roof with bell

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Autumn mountain, grey clouds with Sung oppa n Miss Pep Sexy Back

Setelah puas mengelilingi Beomeosa temple, dan puas berfoto foto. Kami pun kembali ke mobil Sung Oppa. Dan kami tidak menemukannya di san. OMG we are lost without him. Kami pun pergi mencarinya, Beomeosa temple sudah kami kelilingi sekali lagi, tapi tak kami temukan sosok ganteng itu. Sampai akhirnya dia yang menemukan kami. Jadi bingung yang ilang kami atau dia. Hihihi. Dan dari penuturannya, dia dari tadi ada di dalam mobil tidur. Mungkin karena kacanya terlalu gelap kami tidak  menyadari ada dirinya di dalam mobil. Nampo-dong Hari sudah mulai sore menjelang malam saat kami turun dari Beomeosa. Kami pun lalu menuju Nampo-dong. Nampo-dong ini serupa Myeongdong jika di Seoul. Merupakan pusat hang out anak anak muda, dari toko baju, sepatu, kosmetik, toko gadget, makanan, semua ada dan jalannya rame sekali, terutama di malam hari. di Nampo-dong ini juga terdapat jalan yang dipenuhi telapak tangan artis artis legenda di Korea. Busan ini dikenal dengan Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) makanya jalanan dengan cap tangan ini menjadi salah satu trademark Busan, dan turis pun banyak yang berkunjung ke sini. Sung oppa mengajak kami masuk ke sebuah mall di daerah sana dan naik ke rooftopnya. Di rooftopnya terdapat restoran dan deck yang bisa memandang busan dari atas. Karena sudah menjelang malam, pemandangannya bagus sekali. Dia membawa kami ke sana karena permintaan kami ingin ke Busan Tower, tapi menurut Sung oppa, tidak ada istimewanya, hanya melihat Busan dari atas saja, lebih baik di mall ini saja. Menurutnya viewnya bahkan lebih bagus dibanding Busan Tower. Kami pun berfoto foto di atas sana, tapi tidak lama. Karena hujan dan angin yang bertiup kencang sekali sehingga we are frezzing to the death. So, kami turun dan mulai berjalan jalan ke jalan utama Nampo-dong ini. Ketika kami mulai perjalanan kami, tiba tiba dari kejauhan kami mendengar teriakan teriakan histeris. Semakin dekat semakin jelas saja, sampai akhirnya ketika kami sampai di TKP, ternyata ada sekumpulan anak SMA, yang berkumpul sambil memandang ke toko Adidas di seberang jalan. Ternyata sedang ada idol grup Winner di sana. Sepertinya sedang shooting suatu acara, dan setiap kali salah satu personilnya menengok ke arah siswi siswi ini berkumpul, teriakan membahan pun akan terdengar.

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winner @Nampo-dong

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Snack

Hotteok n Sosis and chicken bbq

Everyone that go to Busan, please you must try this Hotteok. I thin k it is the best Hotteok that I taste in Korea, I go to Seoul, Jeju, adn Busan and I think Hotteok in nampo-dong is the best. It’s located near BIFF valley and it’s very good, filled with brown sugar, peanut and seed. Must go back to Busan for this. Yummy to the max Karena hari sudah mulai gelap, dan perut pun mulai lapar, kami pun memutuskan untuk makan malam. Tapi banyak sekali pilihan, bingung sekali harus makan yang mana. Sampai akhirnya Miss Pepz mengatakan ingin makan Jeokbal atau kaki babi. Sung Oppa pun membawa kami ke suatu restaurant yang memang specialist di Jeokbal. Atas saran Sung oppa, kami pun memesan 1 porsi jeokbal yang terdiri dari original jeokbal dan jeokbal yang sudah dibumbui. Selain itu Sung oppa juga memesankan kami Soju dan Coke. Kebetulan Soju nya gratis untuk hari itu, mungkin dikarenakan malam itu hallowen. So, that night is my first time to taste soju. hihihihi.

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Smile #snap #snap #snap

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Soju, jeokbal, Side dish… Yummy ^^

Sama seperti resto Korea pada umumnya, banchan atau side dishnya dateng duluan, dan tentunya air putih di teko lock n lock juga datang, free and refillable. Tak lama soju dan coke datang. Mulailah percobaan minum Soju ini. masing masing kami mencoba, aku dan Big Sis bukan pecinta alkohol, jadi setelah minum beberapa teguk, we stop. Sung oppa pun mengajarkan kami, bagaiman cara meminum soju, tapi rasa alkoholnya tidak terlalu berasa. Dia menuangkan coke ke gelas yang lebih besar, kemudian menuangkan Soju ke gelas yang lebih kecil, dan memintaku menjatuhkannya ke Gelas berisi coke, bukan dituang, tapi benar benar menjatuhkan gelas berisi soju tersebut ke dalam gelas coke.  Dan ketika diminum, rasa Coke nya memang lebih berasa dibandingkan alkoholnya. Sung oppa bilang kalau mereka bisa minum banyak soju dengan methode ini, seakan akan minum coke, tapi ternyata akhirnya mabuk karena kebanyakan minum. And then Jeokbal coming. Hmmm, penampakannya sangat enak. Kami pun  mencobanya, dari yang original, hingga yang berbumbu. Aku, Big Sis dan Miss Pepz lebih menyukai yang original, tapi Mr Damz sebagai penyuka asin nomor wahid, lebih menyukai yang berbumbu karena menurutnya yang original sama sekali tanpa rasa. Setelah selesai makan, kami pun melanjutkan perjalanan kami. Kami diajak Sung oppa ke suatu tempat untuk makan bingsu. Dia membawa kami ke Sulbing, suatu restaurant yang menjual shaved iced khas korea (patbingsu). And that’s on him, kami ditraktir Sung oppa, jadi tambah enak deh makan yang manis manis dingin sambil liatin oppa ganteng apalagi gratisan karena dibayarin sama yang ganteng juga.

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Injeolmi toast n Goguma Patbingsu

Sung oppa membelikan kami Goguma Patbingsu dan Injeolmi toast. Goguma Patbingsu ini adalah shaved iced yang diberi topping goguma (ubi manis) jam, cheese cake, almond. So yummy, bingsu ini dilengkapi oleh segelas kecil susu, jadi misalkan kita merasa kurang manis, bisa dituangkan ke esnya. Rasanya enak banget, jika mau ke Korea, usahakan untuk menyicipi Patbingsu di sana. it’s a must. Restaurant yang menyajikan patbingsu sangat banyak, tapi Seulbing adalah salah satu yang paling terkenal. Salah satunya karena Injeolmi Toastnya. Injeolmi toast ini adalah 2 buat roti yang ditengahnya diberikan injeolmi, kue beras seperti mochi, dan diatasnya diberi taburan almond. Jika dalam keadaan panas, injeolmi nya seperti keju yang mencair, enak beut pokoknya. Setelah kenyang makan, kami pun memutuskan kembali ke rumah.

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Strawberry Milk , Banan Milk, Samgak-Kimbap

Sesampainya di rumah, rasanya capek banget. Setelah perjalanan panjang dari Indonesia ke Korea, dengan kurang tidur, kemudian sesampainya di Korea, jalan jalan smabil terkana hujan. Rasanya stamina menurun. makanya kami memutuskan untuk pulang lebih awal saja malam itu. Setelah sampai di rumah, kami pun bergantian membersihkan diri, dan bersiap siap untuk tidur. Tapi kemudian Miss Pepz mengajak pergi ke bawah, ke Seven Eleven di bawah utnuk membeli jajanan khas korea. So, dengan memakai baju tidur dan berjaket ria, aku dan Miss Pepz turun ke bawah. ketika mau turun kami bertemu Sung di depan, dan dia meminjamkan kami kartu diskon, bisa dipakai di starbuck, seven eleven, GS25 (minimart). Kami punturun ke bawah, berjalan menuju Seven Elven seperti petunjuk Sung, dan we found it. Masuk ke dalam, tidak jauh berbeda dengan seven eleven di Indonesia, cuma jualannya aja yang berbeda. Kami pun membeli banana milk yang terkenal sekali, strawberry milk, dan  samgak kimbap(onigiri  korean version), Pergi membayar ke kasir, tapi karena plastik di korea ini harus bayar, maka kami membawa belanjaan kami dengan tangan. Sesampainya di kamar, kami pun langsung membukan belanjaan kami, dan eat it again. Kami cuma membeli 2 samgak kimbap, 1 banana milk, dan 1 strawberry milk, yang akan kami share berempat. Sedikit heran, why banana milk dengan merk Bingrae ini sangat populer di kalangan turis yang pergi ke korea. Not so yummy, I thin, even Big Sis think Banana Milk by Cimory is more yummy that this. But, samgak-kimbap is yummy, and it’s become our saviour in manu times we starving in the morning. Samgak kimbap ini merupakan nasi yang dibentuk segitiga dan dibungkus dengan rumput laut. Perhatikan bungkusnya sebelum membuka, karena ada tata caranya sehingga membukanya lebih gampang. Isiannya banyak sekali, ada yang isi kimchi, ada yang isinya tuna, spam, dan ada yang tidak berisi tapi nasinya digoreng dulu dengan kimchi. Tapi yang paling aku sukai selama ini adalah yang sinya tuna mayo dan spam. So delicious. So, our night is over, after we eat all of aur jajanan in the blink of eyes. We sleep and pray for a good weather for tomorrow, no more rain and gray clouds. By. Lil Sis


Autumn in Korea – Day 2 (Busan) – HaeDongYongGung Temple

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Hi, It’s time to continue my story about our trip, Autumn in Korea. After Day 1 part 1 and part 2, Finally I have time and throw away my laziness to write our experience in Korea. So, in Day 2, we still at Busan. The night before, we talk to Sung Oppa that we can start our trip at 10.00 AM. But, because we are so lazy to wake up early and we started at 11.00 AM, it’s already too late I think for traveler, but what can we do, Sung oppa house is too comfortable for us. As always in our trip, Big Sis always wake up first, because we only can use 1 bathroom, we taking turn t0 shower. The first is always Big Sis, and then me or Miss Pepz, and the last (always the last) is Mr Damz. Sung oppa told me that his mom is cooking soup for breakfast, and we can have it for breakfast, but we didn’t see his mom, his sister, so we feel it’s not right to take it without permission, so we just eat another samgak kimbap that we bought yesterday. At 10 am, Sung oppa show up , he slept at her girlfriend house yesterday (this is just our assumption, because he said he go to halloween party with her girlfriend, but we’re pretty sure about this). He said that he afraid that he already too late, and we already wait him to go, but we even not ready yet that time. So he have time to grooming himself first. Finally, we ready and begin our journey. Our first destination is Hae Dong Yong Gung Temple . Haedong Yonggungsa Temple is situated on the coast of the north-eastern portion of Busan. This superb find of a tourist spot and temple offers visitors the rare find of a temple along the shore line and it’s very old temple, it built in 1376, already more than 600 hundred years. I am sorry that I can describe to you how to get there, because we just sit nicely and beautifully inside Sung oppa car. We discussed where we want to go, Sung oppa said yes, and we arrived savely at that place. Just like that, our live in Busan it’s so not traveler I think. Hahahha Before we go to Haedong Yonggusa, Sung oppa take us to the deck observatory. From there we can see Busan from above. So beatiful scenery, but too bad the weather is not so good, the clouds is little bit grey. So the photo we take it’s look like so cloudy becouse the sky is so dark. We go to 3 place. The view is so cool and beautiful, and of course so nice to take a photo. The first and second place we go before we go to Haedong Yonggusa, and the last place we go after lunch.

View from the First Observatorium Deck

View from the First Observatorium Deck

View from the First Observatorium Deck

View from the First Observatorium Deck

The First Observatorium Deck

The First Observatorium Deck

View from the Second Observatorium Deck

View from the Second Observatorium Deck

Second Observatorium Deck

Second Observatorium Deck (Left to right : Lil Sis, Big Sis, Miss Pepz, Mr Damz)

After we arrived at Haedong Yonggusa , Sung oppa lead us to the temple. Along the way to the temple, there are so many people selling something, from clothes, souvenirs, foods, even vegetables. We already tempting to stop and eat in some stand that really really make us drooling. Just for your information, we only have 3 samgak kimbap for breakfast, so we are pretty hungry right now. But, we decided to eat after this. We keep walking after we found Chinese Zodiac statue, Sung oppa gave us some coins, he said that put the coin on the statue and make a wish. So we go to our statue based on our chinese zodiac, Lil Sis is Goat, Mr damz is Horse, Big sis is Snake, and Miss Pepz is Dragon, yes we have different chinese Zodiac. And Sung oppa is chicken. After put the coin, we took a photo with the statue, and found a Traffic Safety monument. I don’t know what for that pagoda there, maybe there are a lot of accident happened there before.

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The Entrance

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Trafic Safety Monument

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Start Line to 108 stairs

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One of corner at 108 stairs.

We must going down 108 steps before we can see the  beauty of the temple. Be careful because the stairs is slippery and there are so many people there. We also find a wishing pond. Sung oppa also gave us some coins, to make we throwed it there. Unfortunately, no one could make a score. It’s too hard. But, It’s fun, if I have more coin, I think i will keep try, but I didn’t have it and to ask Sung oppa to give us more is little bit wrong I think. So, we quitely continue our step to the temple.

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Wishing Pond

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Haedong Yonggung Main building

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Decoration – So cute bikkhu

Maybe, because it was weekend, so it’s so crowded, there are so many people there. So,it’s hard to take a picture with no body behind you or no body in yout photo frame. So, after Sung oppa took us to temple, he said he will wait us in the car (as always), so we cab have our we time. Take photo every where, every spot, even silly photo. And then we going up to see Avalokitesvara, there are so many stairs to going there. From above we can see the whole area, we can see beautiful beach too. So beautiful.

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Start Line to go upstairs

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We took photo a lot in this spot, one by one. And suddenly the ahjumma that had already wait us too long, took our camere and said “you three stand there, I will took the photo of you” And we deligently nod our head and pose there. Thanks Ahjumma and Sorry Ahjumma ^^. Don’t ask where Mr Damz, at that time we alo don’t know where he is.

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Throw the garbage correctly please !!!

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Haedong Yonggung temple and the Avalokitesvare from Sea God area

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Sea God Statue

After that we back to Sung oppa. But, the hungry stomach, made us stop in some food stand. First we buy Grill Octopus Legs. Delicious, not so hard to chew, and maybe because we were very starving, it’s taste very delicious. We also, stop to Oden stall. Eat some Oden and drink the soup. OMG, we are like native korean (It’s what i thought in my head). After full our stomach, we go to parking area to find Sung oppa.

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The Grilled Squid, and Oden. In Oden stall, we can get the soup as much as we want. Just take the galss and fil it with soup, if you want it again, just take it agin, you can serve yourself

Sung oppa offered us to have lunch. and we agree right away. We just had our appetizer at Haedong Yonggung, and still hungry. He took us to the restaurant that sell bibimbap with sashimi. He said he usually go there in the summer if he surfing. It’s near Haeundae Beach and not so far from Haedong Yonggung. We buy 3 bibimbap, 1 sashimi, and 2 fish soup.

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Restaurant

I think the restaurant is quite popular. There are a lot of customer even it’s just a small and old restaurant. Even some actor in Korea have come there. So many autogrpah in their wall.

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Restaurant

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Bancchan. We got Seaweed jeon and Sea weed porridge. it’s so delicious… ^^

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Sashimi Bibimbap

This is so delicous. The best bibimbap that we ever had. And actually we couldn’t fins it in another place, Jeju or Seoul. the fish is so fresh, chewy, so delicious with gocujang and the other vegetables. The restaurant is also generous. The sashimi is a lot.

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Sushi

I don’t know what fish that they use for this. But It’s really fresh and the fish is so chewy. With wasabi between the rice and fish. So delicious. Hmmm, i want go there again. The sashimi is jjang. two thumps up.

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Fish soup

It’s a fish soup. Korean people always have soup in their table. So Sung oppa also order it for us. It contains some tofu, vegetables, and of course fish (head fish). I don’t know why sung oppa just drink the soup, but not eat the tofu, orr the fish. And I followed him, I drink the soup (from the same bowl with him heheheh), and just took a little bit of tofu. The soup is so refreshing, the tofu is so soft. Enak Enak Enak ^^

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We took photo with restaurant ahjumma ^^

After we finished our meal, we took a photo with ahjumma. At first she think that we need her help to take a photo of us with Sung oppa, and we think sung oppa also think like that. So, it’s funny think when we explained it to them what we want. hahaha. but the important thing, we got the photo. And continue our journey. I think, it’s already a long long, very long writing, si i will stop it here. Please wait next posting patiently, I will continue it as soon as possible. ^^ By. Lil Sis


Autumn in Korea – Day 2 (Busan) – APEC House, Mermaid Statue, Oryukdo Skywalk, Seomyeon

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I will continue story about our trip in Korea, Autumn in Korea, this is already part 4 of my story. You can find previous part of my story in this link part 1, part 2, and part 3.

So, We still at Busan in our second day. We start our trip little bit late this morning, we go to Haedong yonggusa temple, and rom then we had lunch not so far from the temple. After lunch, we continue our journey (Every time I type journey, I think about Journey to the West (Tong Sam Cong, Sung Go Kong and friends, I don’t know why :P ), we go to an Observation Deck, from there we can see Haeundae Beach.

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Photo by Sung Oppa – Us with Cloudy sky and not so blue sea

In this deck, we meet a couple that really really sweet. They are not young anymore, maybe already over 50. The man has a love sticker in his cheek,  they walk together with hiking outfit, but the guy bring a radio , play a very old song I think, and walking side by side, holding hand , stop to taking picture, the vibe is so romantic and make you happy to see how happy they are.

After take some time, enjoy the scenery and fresh air there. Sung oppa took us to someplace that actually we don’t know where is this. He just stop in front of a hotel. He will wait us here in the car, and we can going around near the hotel. At first I don’t get it, why he want us to circle this park, It’s look just like a park for me. until I see some sign board, that in the park, I can see APEC house, I can see mermaid statue and many more. it’s so nice park i think.

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Photo By : Lil Sis –  The Sign that open my mind

We decided to go to the right first, to APEC house, 0.5 km it’s not too far, we walking slowly and enjoy the air. the is so fresh and our eyes also spoiled by green and autumn tree. There are so many people walking here like us to enjoy the air , old, young, even baby go there or walking. and the bad news it the road is uphill, so even only a half kilo, it’s pretty tired for us, the youngster who already has elder stamina. So, we decide to just walk slowly, and rest a bit in rest area for answer what a lot of people nature call. And we founs a eally good spot to take a photo near the toilet.

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Photo by : Lil Sis – The view in front o our toilet

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Left taken by : Lil Sis Right taken by : Miss Pepz A lot of stairs but the view is so gorgeous

I think this place it’s really good to enjoy autumn, with so many tree that start to turn into red, yellow, and orange. After we feel enough taking photo near toilet, we continue to find APEC house. After we arrived there, we enter that place, it’s free , there is no admission fee. We go to the hall, the lace that all of president or leader from participating country, sit in circle. And sure what i want to find first is where is My president sat when he attend this event in 2005 (at that time, our President is Mr. SBY ) . We walking around that place, we also know this place as one of running man shooting avenue. They ever play name tag ripping here. talking photo every where. We go to the back side of APEC house, we can see a beautiul garden that facing the sea. in the garden there are some podium that used for all of participant to take photo using hanbok (traditional Korean outfit). And of course we find where is Mr SBY place at that time. and take a photo at the same spot like him.

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Photo By : Iam not sure APEC house, please find Mr SBY in hanbok

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Photo by : Big Sis Pretend to see something, I don’t have coin to use. What do you call this binocular, I called it “Teropong Koin”

From APEC house we walked to Observation deck. There are a light house there and some “teropong koin”, I dont know what it called in Indonesia and in Englich, it’s just what I call it “teropong koin”, we can use the binocular after we enter the coin. the description in there, that we can see japan island if the weather is clear with the “teropong coin”. But it’s not that clear, so I think it’s just waste money to use the “teropong coin”. The light house is not so big, but I really don’t like it, so many hand writing in the wall of the light house. It’s make the light house so dirty from outside I think.  from the observation deck, we also can see the APEC house.

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Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis From Observation deck, some sunlight like I will get enlightmen, sea, and APEC house

So smart i think, the Korean people. They make a cool avenue with an international event that hold in their country. Make it so beautiful and when the event is over, it become tourist attraction and can be place for their local to recreation. Indonesia must learn from them in tourism aspect I think. We continue our journey, after walking uphill from the star until the observation deck, we finally walking down hill. We go to mermaid Statue right now. To go there, to see the statue near we must use bouncy bridge. it’s not scary thing, i enjoy to cross the bouncy bridge, but believe me, don’t use the bridge with kids. You will bounce bounce and go to left and right because they Jump in the bridge.

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Photo By : Lil Sis Model : Mermaid Statue

There is story about this statue, I read it in the description sign near the statue but poor me, I forgot it already. What I remember is the king falling in love with a princess from sea, and then they are married, but the princess is miss her hometown,  and the mermaid statue is that princess. but I am not sure, maybe someday when I comeback to Busan I can read the description again and remember it. and edit my story here pr if readers know the exactly stories about this statue, just give comment to my blog.

From The statue we are going back to parking area to meet Sung oppa. The park is pretty cold i think, but because we walk a lot, our body become hot. I got  my first experience see my breath here. When we breath from out mouth something like smoke appeared. i make us so excited, we never can do that before in our hot climate country. Hahahaha. Little bit “Katro”

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Photo By : Big Sis – Model : Lil Sis – The gate to Oryukdo Skywalk

 

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Photo by Lil Sis – Oryukdo Skywalk description

Our next destination is sky walk, Oryukdo Sky walk. It’s located at a cliff, it’s like the extension of the cliff, with glass floor, so we can see sea under us. Not too scary, but an interesting tourismn object i think.  It give us sensation walking in the  sky. And don’t worry because it’s safe. We must take off our shoes or sandal when step on the glass floor because they don’t want our shoes scratch the glass or maybe left some dirt and make the glass is dirty and we can see clear sea under it.

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Photo By : Lil Sis – Oryukdo Skywalk side view

Photo By : Sung oppa Model : Lil Sis, Miss Pepz, Big Sis, Mr Damz  After walking in thesky, pose with the power that gave us the skill

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Model : Lil Sis, Miss Pepz, Big Sis, Mr Damz
After walking in the sky, pose with the power that gave us the power

After taking photo a lot here, we decided to going home. Sung oppa has another appointment tonight with his girlfriend, so we must going home soon. Actually we still have time, so He offered us to go to Viking (it is like “Kora Kora” in “Dufan”) – but we want to go to Taejongdae,  but he told us is very far, if we go there, he willbe vwery late coming to his girl tonight. Really unfortunate, Taejongdae is very famous and beside that we also want to see Sung oppa cafe there (Sung oppa opened a coffee shop in Taejongdae – find him if you go there). So, after so many thought we decide to go home early and the walking to Seomyeon- it’s just 3 min from Sung oppa apartement, so close right.

Because maybe tonight is the last time we meet Sung oppa, because we must go to airport in the morning, and Sung oppa may be not at home yet, so we ask him something. We ask him to call a taxi or us to go to airport tomorrow and we gave him a souvenir from Indonesia , we gave him “Wayang”. He really love it, from his expression, i guess he really really like it. And I think his mom also like it, and to show us how gratitude they are, his mom gave us night snack. After we going home after strolling in Seomyeon area, She gave us a plate full of snack.

Photo by : Lil Sis Night Snack from Sung oppa Mom

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Night Snack from Sung oppa Mom

Ok back to Seomyeon, at first we decided to go alone to Seomyeon but Sung oppa said he had a time to taking us around the seomyeon , so at least we know how to get there and how to ind way home. And actually we never imagined that the Seomyeon is so closed by his aprtement. It’s just cross the road and you arrived. At the way to Seomyeon, we ind ahjumma that sell snack that filled with peanut. Sung oppa stop and buy it for us, we actually pretty hungry so we eat it deliciously.

Photo By : Lil Sisnight  Night Snack bought by Sung oppa or us <3

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Night Snack bought by Sung oppa or us <3

The snack, what should i call this snack? it’s like “kue cubit” or “bolu” in Indonesia, but it illed with peanut. It has peanut shape that filled with peanut paste, and there are walnut shape that maybe filled with walnut paste (I am not sure about what the filling taste like, so I just make some assumption here because o the shap, so correct if somebody know what is it). Sung oppa also bought us tteokbokki, it’s the first tteokbokki we had in South Korea. And we ate it at an ahjumma stall, like native korean. The portion is quite big, so we just bought 1 portion and share it around five of us. We make sure it’s not make us too full before the real dinner.

Photo by : Lil Sis Tteokbokki

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Tteokbokki

Sung oppa not just buy us some food, he also take us around. Show us something interest in Seomyeon. SO many restaurant give sample in front of the restaurant. Sung oppa with a lot of energy, point it and pull us to get the sample. It’s so interesting right. It feel like we in the game of treasure hunting, and if we see it, we will be very happy and run there immediately. Interesting to see that side of Sung oppa.

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Seomyeon Area

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Photo by : Lil Sis Seomyeon Area

 There are so many thing in Seomyeon, When yoou enter that place, it’s like Nampo dong, but in nampo there are more tourist than here, maybe because nampo dong more amous with BIFF, so many youngster strolling there. But in Seomyeon, majority is local, and not so crowd like Nampo dong. But the neon light it’s really daebak. when you enter the area, you will be welcome by  sign board that shine brightly. There are so many thing there, there are some bar, restaurant, coffe shop, flower shop, even Motel. So, when we want to choose a restaurant for dinner, it’s so hard, really hard, because there are so many restaurant that looks so good and nice. Sung oppa leave us after gave us fast tour at Seomyeon. So, we must walking around alone here.

We decide to eat chicken. Miss Pepz have read an blog that said in Seomyeon there are a restaurant that called Buffalo Chicken. It’s so delicious, so we decided to find it, and have dinner there. And We find a  restaurant that have so funny mascot in front of their restaurant. So we decided to enter that place, we arenot sure about is the restaurant is buffalo chicken or not, Miss  pepz pretty sure about that so we just enter, we are really really hungry by the way. We are welcomed by a girl, she took us to a table inside, and give us the menu,but not talking to much because she know we can speak Korean, and we think she not fluent in english too. Because after that, we order ,we asked something, we pay with a guy that talking english with us, not so good but at least we can communicate well.

We ordered one portion bbq chicken and one portion fried chicken. They gave me porridge at first, the porridge contain black sesame seed i think, it has the sesame aroma and it is black porridge. yummy. They also give us a lot of sauce, I don’t know exactly what the sauce, but i prefer not use any sauce for the chicken, but it’s already so  delicious. The BBQ chicken come first, and it’s very big portion. They also give us a scissors and some tongs to help us eat the chicken without make our hand dirty. The first time I eat fried chicken without getting dirty hand.

Photo by : Lil Sis Last Dinner at busan

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Last Dinner at busan – the chicken is so cute ^^

Photo By : Lil Sis Our Last dinner at busan, Chicken party

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Our Last dinner at busan, Chicken party

Photo by : Lil Sis BBQ Chicken

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BBQ Chicken

BBQ chicken is so delicious, it’s still moist, the maridate is also  very delicious and get along well with the chicken. They also give us some veggie, so we try to make some wrapped chicken meat here, get the perilla leaf, some veggir, kimchi and of course chicken. Hmmm so delicious. Big Sis, Miss Pepz and Mr Damz, don’t like the perilla leaf, but Lil Sis is okay with that. The perilla give some unique aroma i think.

Photo By : Lil SIs Fried Chicken

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Fried Chicken

This is the fried chicken, it is also very yummy. The outside is so crunchy, and had some herb there, maybe lemon but i am not sure, but it make a fresh bite of the chicken. the meat also still moist and juicy. At the plate you can see something white and have a tube shape right. Actually it is a fried tteokbokki.  yummy. Overall this restaurant id so recommended for me, I give it 9.5/10. It also have beer here, we know that Korean enjoy eating fried chicken with beer, we also see so many people eat fried chicken with beer.

After very very full eating all of the chicken, we going back to Sung oppa house. But we stopped by at mini mart first. Miss Pepz bought a bottle of soju, coffee, samgak kimbap for our breakfast tommorow. And tonigh, with Sung oppa’s mother Snack with  drink Soju. We just take a sip one by one, and the Miss Pepz and Mr Damz finish it. We also find a Raspberry wine is refrigerator, Sung oppa told us we can get everything from the refrigerator, so we took it. We don’t finish it, we just take a sip to taste it. And for me I prefer the raspberry wine, because it’s more sweet and i think it’s  more traditional wine. But soju is stronger

Photo by : Lil Sis Soju vs Raspberry Wine

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Soju vs Raspberry Wine

So, our last night in Busan is like this. Drink alcohol. Not a lot, we just drink a bottle of soju and maybe just a glas of raspberry wine that we shared it for 4 people. No body feel tipsy, but it help us warm our body and sleep easily.

This is it, Our Day 2 in South Korea is finish. We sleep after clean our body for better tommorow. Next day we must go to airport in the morning and catch the flight to Jeju Island. So wait for next post, because it’s about farewell with busan and Jeju do.

Thanks for reading – Keep reading please :D

By : Lil Sis


Autumn in Korea – Day 3 (Busan – Jeju) – Good Bye Busan & Hello Jeju

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Hi, I want to continue my story about Autumn in Korea, It’s already story about out 3rd day in South Korea. Today our itinerary is Go to Jeju Island, from busan to Jeju, That’s why the title is “Good bye Busan & Hello Jeju”. We are so excited too go there, because from what we hear and what we read, Jeju is beautiful island with so many tourist attraction, beach, museum, and a lot of delicious food. We will fly to Jeju with Jeju Air. We already asked Sung oppa to call Taxi for us, we will fly around 12 p.m, but because of afraid with traffic, sung oppa told us to go early. So he book taxi for 10 a.m.

Photo By Lil Sis View from our room @Sung Oppa house

Photo By Lil Sis
View from our room @Sung Oppa house

Photo By : Big Sis Garbage arrangement

Photo By : Big Sis
Garbage arrangement @Sung oppa House

We wake up as always, start from Bis Sis, Me, Miss pepz, and Mr Damz. We take a bath, breakfast with some samgak kimbap and because the house is empty, taking photo everywhere. We are ready before 10, and wait patiently. We will go down to basement at 10 a.m to wait the driver. but before that Sung oppa came with his girlfriend just in time we will go down wait in basement. He told us, the taxi driver will call where he arrived, so just stay at home and go down when he call. So, we sit at the living room and watching TV with Sung oppa and his girl. But 10 am already passed and no call from the driver. Sung oppa call him, but no answer. OMG, we already had panic attack. Sung oppa keep call, and finally taxi driver answer it, Sungoppa talked with Korean language, but with his expression and how he talk, we know that he angry with the driver like “Why you not arrived yet, it’s already late”, He called the driver so many time because the driver seem angry too and closed the phone. At 10.30 am the driver called again and said he already at basement. Sung oppa told us, and help us to brought out luggage to basement. OMG, it’s the time to say good bye to our Oppa, I want to hug him so bad, but shake hand is already enough >_<

Photo By : Lil Sis Waiting Room @ Gimhae Airpport
Photo By : Lil Sis
Waiting Room @ Gimhae Airpport
Photo by : Lil Sis Amazed with this Smart Charity box

Photo by : Lil Sis
Amazed with this Smart Charity box

We found Cafe Pascucci there, and because we just eat little for brakfast, Miss pepz buy sandwich there. After order and pay, they give Miss Pepz beeper, that will beep beep when the sandwich is ready. So, we don’t need to wait in front of the cafe, and can sit anywhere that we like. They allso give garlic bread for complimentary.

Photo By : Lil Sis n Miss Pepz While waiting for fight to jeju

Photo By : Lil Sis n Miss Pepz
While waiting for fight to jeju

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Photo By : Lil Sis before sleep – Busan Air

So, after a while, it’s time to fly. We use Busan Air to go to Jeju.  It’s quite a good plane. The space between our chair with chair in front of us is quite spacious. We also get free drink, I don’t know what kind of drink, because as I  sit at the chair I quickly sleep. I know about this drink because Big Sis told me, the stewardess gave them orange juice, but I already asleep so I didn’t get one. From Busan to Jeju is not take a long time , approximately 1 hour.

Photo By : Lil Sis Miss Pepz with a plane in Jeju Airport

Photo By : Lil Sis
Miss Pepz with a plane in Jeju Airport

After 1 hour we arrived at Jeju. We took all of our baggage and go to our Car Rental booth. We already book a car , we made a booking when we was in Indonesia, We compare so many car rental and finally the cheapest one and have the car that we want is AJ Rent a Car . So, we go there, show them our reservation, but we are really really disappointed . The staff told us that we can not drive with their car because we are from Indonesia, International driving license from Indonesia is not permitted here. It’s really strange, in their website, when we book the car, we already choose that we are from Indonesia, and there is no validation or notification that Indonesia is banned to drive in Korea. From what I read, we Read, all of country that inlcude in Geneva convention can drive at Seoul, AJ car rental also state the condition in their website, and Indonesia is part of Geneve Convention , here is the proof. You can find Indonesia and find it there, Indonesia join at 1958. But they keep reject us because we are from Indonesia, and in their list country, there is no Indonesia. So disappointed. Our plan will absolutely fail if we can not get a car.

Photo by : Lil Sis Miss Pepz and Mr Damz start argue with AJ staff

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Miss Pepz and Mr Damz start argue with AJ staff

Then we go to other car rental booth beside AJ, and find Kumho, it’s actually our first option to rent a car, but AJ is more cheap so we went to AJ. But same ther, we rejected once again. We mad, we confused. So, our last option ther, Jeju Rent Car. It’s the best car rent in Jeju, but it’s so expensive, we must pay double from the other car rental. So we never make it as option. But I know why it become the best, because the service is so good. We ask them about can Indonesia drive here, they check their list, they check our driving license, and she said ok. It’s not problem. Wow, it’s so happy to hear, but the problem is quite expensive and will ruin our budget. But we don’t have any choice. So we rent the car from Jeju rent car. But, we must rent a phone too, it’s the condition from Jeju rent car, they said we need handphone so we or they can call us if there some trouble happen. So, we quickly go to Olleh and rent a phone there, not a smartphone type, just a simple phone. It’s really took our time a lot and really took our money a lot. I really really disappointed with AJ, their website, their service, I think they didn’t want to double check it, maybe we are their first Indonesia customer, and they never had before, so they are not sure if Indonesia is Ok or not Ok and reject us.

So, after a long way to wait, angry,mad, and so tired because all of shock that we got. We finnally get the car. Some staff took us to her friend that wait outsite to pick us up to the  car. He drove us to a parking area, show us the car that we will use. But before that, the administrative is must completed first, so Miss Pepz and Mr Damz followed the staff to their office and finish the administrative. It’s just about payment and double check the driving license. After that they back with ahjusi that check the condition of car and help us set the GPS, even teach us how to use it. And then we ready set go. Because it’s the first time we use car with the driver seat in the left, it’s awkward , so Mr Damz, our driver drove it around the parking area before we go to the real road. He told us, it’s confusing at begining, but a man has the drive instinct so he quickly adjusted.

Photo by : Lil Sis The Car that finnaly we got after a long drama

Photo by : Lil Sis
The Car that finnaly we got after a long drama

Well, I think this post is enough, I will continue our story in Jeju and Korea in my next post.

If you wanto to know about drive in korea, you can check this page.

And this is page for jeju rent car, but it in Korean lang, so if you can not read Korean letter, I think it’s hard to understand.

By : Lil Sis


Autumn in Korea – Day 3 (Jeju) – Yongduam Rock, Mysteriuos Road, Love Land

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I will continue my stories “Autumn in Korea”, I think I must be diligent now and try to finish my story before autumn come. In my previous post I already told you how we go to Jeju from Busan, and when we arrived, we rent a car for go around jeju. After the rent process is done, we immediately go to our first destination. When we still in Indonesia, we already made a survey and a list of place we want to go in Jeju, and we also note the phone number. It’s very useful to use in GPS. We got English GPS from rent a car, to find the place we can enter the address, the place name or the phone number, but i think use phone number is more accurate, because sometime we as non native korea have a hard time to write the name even with alphabet. So, with phone number is easier.

Well, the first stop is Yongduam Rock or Head Dragon Rock. Its located near airport, so just in no time we arrived there. We parked and suddenly surprised with the wind, it’s blow hard and so cold. We think Jeju will more warm because it’s an island and be surrounded with beach. But the beach make Jeju the wind so wild. Hahaha. The wind success made our photo is bad that day. No one is good, the wind ruin our hair and our expression. Maybe you can find how hard the wind blow in some of our photo below. Check it out.

Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis The first photo of Lil SIs in Jeju Island

Photo By : Big Sis
Model : Lil Sis
The first photo of Lil SIs in Jeju Island – I just use thin sweater because I think in Jeju will be warmer than Busan, but the cold win make me so damn cold and freezing

After we park, we find this stone, I think the letter means Dragon Head Rock. And some tourist like us queue to take a photo there, so as a good tourist we took a photo there too.

Photo By : Lil Sis Jeju Sea

Photo By : Lil Sis
Jeju Sea

Look how the sea look like, the wave is so magnificient in this weather. And if you can find it, there is a plane in this photo.

Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis Lil Sis with Mermaid Statue

Photo By : Big Sis
Model : Lil Sis
Lil Sis with Mermaid Statue

Photo By : Lil Sis Jeju Souvenirs

Photo By : Lil Sis
Jeju Souvenirs

In this place we also stop at souvenir shop. It’s so packed with visitor that come with one purpose, buying family and friend souvenir from Jeju. The shop sell many thing about Jeju, the cute statue like the picture. The food, the chain key, so many thing. You can find anything there that can proof you that you really go to Jeju.

Photo By : Lil Sis Yongduam Rock Description Board

Photo By : Lil Sis
Yongduam Rock Description Board

Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis Try to photo with Yongduam Rock fight with cold and heavy wind blow

Photo By : Big Sis
Model : Lil Sis
Try to photo with Yongduam Rock fight with cold and heavy wind blow

Photo By : Lil Sis Model : Miss Pepz Look at her messy hasir, so hard to tak e a good phot here because of the wind.

Photo By : Lil Sis
Model : Miss Pepz
Look at her messy hair, so hard to tak e a good phot0o here because of the wind.

Photo By : Miss Pepz Our snack to fight with cold wind

Photo By : Miss Pepz
Our snack to fight with cold wind

Because ,  we feel cold because the wind, and feel hungrybecause actually we haven’t got the proper meal yet, so when we find this ahjumma sell oden, we immediately go there a buy some. It’s so warm and delicious, the warm soup help us a lot to fight with the wind.

Photo By : Lil Sis Miss Pepz took a photo with Haenyeo Status, Dried Squid, Big Snail, Dried Octopus

Photo By : Lil Sis
Miss Pepz took a photo with Haenyeo Status, Dried Squid, Big Snail, Dried Octopus

Photo By : Lil Sis Yongduam rock from a far, you can see Haenyeo open a pop up restaurand there, so many people going down to eat the fresh seafood there.

Photo By : Lil Sis
Yongduam rock from a far, you can see Haenyeo open a pop up restaurand there, so many people going down to eat the fresh seafood there.

Photo By : Lil Sis Fruit Stall or maybe Orange Stall near Yongduam rock.

Photo By : Lil Sis
Fruit Stall or maybe Orange Stall near Yongduam rock.

From yongduam rock we go to Mysterious road (Dokkaebi Road) . It has earned its name, as objects and liquid appear to roll and flow up the hill instead of down. A lot of people pour their drink on the road to see the water going up the hill not going down, and some people also ride in their car, and without  start the engine the car is going up to the hill, some people also took empty soft drink can or empty bottle to see the effect. And some people also do something that really really amazed me, and confused me, and really make me thing the mysterious is too mysterious until I don’t get what the mysterious of this mysterious road. I don’t get any thing from what people said and did there. We try pour the drink, try to place the bottle, and also try the weird thing like all people there did, but instead of get the meaning of mysterious road we got zonk, the water is flowing down not going up, the bottle also go down. And the weird thing we never get it on the first place. Let me tell you what the weird thing. So, at first wemust walk backwards going up the hill, and then we try to going down and the effect we will get is we will going down so fast, like running.Some people tried and they get the effeect, going down with scream “kya kya” because it’s too fast, but when we try, it’s just like normal walk for us. something wrong with us or the people just exaggerated this mysterious road.  The thing that save me from mysterious road is the scenery. Because the mysterious road located between 2 mountain, there is rows of pine trees that neatly lines up in the green field, so beautiful. Beside that, the food stall there is also really tempting us. Miss Pepz buy a sausage there.

Photo By : I am not sure Model : Fantastic 4 Mysterious Road that do mysterious for us until now, because it's still a mystery for us why ther road become mysterious road

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Model : Fantastic 4
Mysterious Road that do mysterious for us until now, because it’s still a mystery for us why ther road become mysterious road

Photo by : I am not sure Model : Fantastic 4 The other side of mysterious road

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Model : Fantastic 4
The other side of mysterious road

Photo by :Miss Pepz The food at Mysterious road

Photo by :Miss Pepz
The food at Mysterious roadro

From mysterious road, we go to Love Land. When we park the car, we can see the visitor mostly is middle aged people. There are so many group that consist of ahjussi and ahjumma. We only see a little youngster like us there. Love land is focused on a theme of sex, running sex education films, and featuring 140 sculptures representing humans in various sexual positions. Maybe that’s why we didn’t see any kids there. When I enter the place for the first time, We found a giant naked woman sculpture in flirty pose. We found many naked sculpture there and also in hot pose. Ahjumma that see that sculpture just giggle with their friend, shy smile, even laught while think something funny in their head. I think it’s good place to go with your husband and wife and friend without any love connection. But never bring your parent or your kids there. I am sure it will be awkward . Entrace Fee is 9000 Won for one person.

Photo By : Lil Sis Model : Big Sis We are at Love Land

Photo By : Lil Sis
Model : Big Sis
We are at Love Land

Photo By : Lil Sis Love Land sneak peek

Photo By : Lil Sis
Love Land sneak peek

Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis I think I must pose with my bf here someday and do what the statue do

Photo By : Big Sis
Model : Lil Sis
I think I must pose with my bf here someday and do what the statue do

Photo By : Mr Dams Model : Big Sis, Miss Pepz, Lil Sis Love Love Love

Photo By : Mr Dams
Model : Big Sis, Miss Pepz, Lil Sis
Love Love Love

We leave Love land while sun began to sink. We already very hungry and need to eat as fast as we can. So we go to restaurant that sell black pork. Black pork is popular food in Jeju. We must eat it when we go to Jeju. Actually I don’t know what the different between black pork and not black pork, the only one i know is the black ones is more expensive. This is the reataurant, it’s famous in Jeju, but I forget the name. I am sorry T_T. But if you can read hangul, I think you can read the picture below. The food here is delicious. really really delicious.

Photo by : Lil Sis Model : Elder in our group Our first dinner in Jeju

Photo by : Lil Sis
Model : Elder in our group
Our first dinner in Jeju

Photo by: Lil Sis black Pork reataurant

Photo by: Lil Sis
Black Pork reataurant

Photo by: Lil Sis Crab Kimchi, Rice, Soup, Kimchi

Photo by: Lil Sis
Crab Kimchi, Rice, Soup, Kimchi

We got a lot of side dish, kimchi, salad, soup, crab with kimchi sauce (maybe kimchi crab), white kimchi. And the rice also really surprise me because when we open the lid we got really pink or slightly purple rice not white as normally rice we eat. But the taste it so great, it’s just not rice, there is also some seed and maybe black rice inside. It’s really sticky and yummy. The crab kimchi is also delicious, the crab is so sweet and it is the first time i eat raw crab. The soup also so refreshing. And maybe because we didn’t eat properly today, it became double delicious.

Photo by: Lil Sis Dinner with Pork feast

Photo by: Lil Sis
Dinner with Pork feast

This is the various meat we order, all of it is black pork, we also get the skin and 2 slices of mushroom. They also gime me a sauce in a little bowl that put in the grill to keep it warm. The sauce is little bit salty and spicy but it really compatible with the pork. As korean eat, we also make lettuce wrap to eat kimchi. And the composition is up to you. But I usually use lettuce, rice, meat, kimchi, garlic and sometime gochujang or another veggie in the table, wrap it nicely and eat it in one gulp. So yummy. We service our selves tonight. Usually in BBQ place, there are a waiter who help us to grill, but in this place we grill by our selves, but the thinkk that i really love in Korean food is we can ask more for the side dish and the drink (barley tea). It’s free of charge. So more lettuce and more kimchi please. We spent 49000 Won for dinner.

Photo by: Lil Sis Pork Pork n Pork <3

Photo by: Lil Sis
Pork Pork n Pork <3

After we eat, we decide to find our hotel tonight. We already booked a hotel in hanok style. The name is Kasan Tobang. But we never know where the place and we will just trust the GPS to find the hotel for us. Jeju in night is so quiet. Not so many car in the road, we can drive fast there. In Jakarta the road is like toll road in Lebaran holiday, like desolated road. But, unfortunately we can not drive to fast because the speed limit and camera in the road. The camere will took a photo of us if we exceed the speed limit. And the GPS will said there is camere in 500 m, the speed limit is 80, don’t drive to fast, there is speed bump in 500 m. Sometime the GPS is really annoying because just us in the road but we can not go fast. But we try to follow the rule, we are in another country anyway, we want our trip is save until last day. As I told you before, we just trust the GPS for find our hotel. But it direct us to dead end. The GPS ask us to turn to small road , we trus it and just go until we know that it’s not right, the road is too dark and along the road there are tall grass that I called it “Ilalang” in Indonesia. I don’t know what it in Eglish is. So scary , so we decide to go back to the road before we turn to the dead end. We just going straigt, and the GPS calculate the road, and I think know we are in the correct road. We drive and finally arrive there. After lost in scary road, finally. We can take a rest there.

Photo By : Lil Sis Our room  at Kasan Tobang

Photo By : Lil Sis
Our room at Kasan Tobang

We plan to sleep in Korean traditional way, that’s why in Jeju we book this kind of hotel. That is our room and our bed. The bed actually so thin, and because we never sleep in thin bed before it make our back hurt at the morning when we wake up. Although the hotel is in traditional concept, it still have air con, TV, internet acces, computer, microwave. So if you have frozen food or want to heat some food you can use the microwave that located in the dining room. In kasang tobang, we will get breakfast, it is free already include I think it the room price. The breakfast menu is always Abalone porridge with some side dish like kimchi. There are also some computer with internet access. So, if you want to find some info, or maybe transfer your photo from camera to your portable hard disk you can use the computer freely. The big problem of this place is, the bathroom is like public bathroom in Korea. We will bath together with another guest. Because of that we decide to wake up early in the morning and we take a bath before another guest is wake up. And for tonight, we just clean our face, and brush our tooth, and then go to sleep.

Photo By : Lil Sis n Big Sis Model : Miss Pepz n Lil Sis Our room at Kasan Tobang

Photo By : Lil Sis n Big Sis
Model : Miss Pepz n Lil Sis
Our room at Kasan Tobang

Photo By : Lil Sis Charge Station is opened at Kasan Tobang

Photo By : Lil Sis
Charge Station is opened at Kasan Tobang. Of couse the important thing is to make sure all of our phone and camere is in 100% before we start our journey tommorrow

Photo By : Lil Sis Our discon coupon and Jeju Love Land ticket

Photo By : Lil Sis
Our discount coupon and Jeju Love Land ticket – We got so many discount coupon in Love land. There is a corner in Love land that have tree with a lot of discount coupon hanging there. You can take it as mush as you want. We took a lot, but we don’t use any i think.

So, our trip in Day 3 is over. I hope it can help anybody that plan to go to Jeju too. Ask me if you want to know something, maybe I can help. ^^

By : Lil Sis



Autumn in Korea – Day 4(Jeju) – Yakcheonsa Temple and Soingook Theme Park

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Well, this post is our 4th day in South Korea. But before I tell you our story that day, I will introduce you our white car, this already took us everywhere in Jeju. In my previous post, I already told you how hard we could rent this car. So this is is white Avante. It’s comfortable for 4 people, and the baggage is quite wide so our big bag is save in there.

Photo By : Lil Sis Our White Car that took us everywhere in Jeju

Photo By : Lil Sis
Our White Car that took us everywhere in Jeju

As, I told you before, We are slept in Kasan Tobang, it’s a hanok traditional Korean house style Hotel. It’s comfortable and feel homey I think. But, look at our room below. We just get a tiny bed, and because we are never sleep in tiny bed before, it’s hard for us, it’s just feel like we sleep without any bed, so, we wake up with backache. The floor is heated, so it’s warm, but maybe too warm us, and we feel like a steam pig there, but fortunately there is an AC there, so we turn on AC and can feel the cold breeze and neutralized the warm floor.

Photo By : Lil Sis Our room, sorry for the messy here and thee :P

Photo By : Lil Sis
Our room, sorry for the messy here and thee :P

Because in Kasan tobong, the bathroom has jimjilbang style, so we woke up ealy and took a bath early too. So, before the breakfast ready, we already ready, of cource except Mr Damz that wen to the bad late and also woke up late .So, we have a tour around Kasan Tobang. We arrived at the night yesterday, so we just see the main building, the place that we sleep. But actually, Kasan tobang also have bungalow room and pretty big garden. Of course we took photo at every spot that we find it so beautiful and so Korea. Of couse we took photo with Dol-Haerubang. Look my photo below.

Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis All this photo took at Kasan Tobang, Sun shine so bright in the morning

Photo By : Big Sis
Model : Lil Sis
All this photo took at Kasan Tobang, Sun shine so bright in the morning

Do you know, there is a myth about Dol hareubang , If husband and wife traveling to Jeju and want a child. They must find this hareubang. If they want a boy, they must rub the nose, but if they want a girl, they must rub the stomach. You can find Dol Hareubang everywhere in jeju. So just rub it everywhere you can find.

Left Photo by : Lil Sis Model : Big Sis This is our room's door, You must enter the room carefully, fold your body, so your head will save. ~~Right~~ Photo by : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis Kasan Tobang garden, Green and beautiful

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Model : Big Sis
This is our room’s door, You must enter the room carefully, fold your body, so your head will save.
~~Right~~
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Model : Lil Sis
Kasan Tobang garden, Green and beautiful

Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis The left one is in front of Kasan Tobang, it's the main door to the receptionistanf the right one is orange tree near Kasan Tobang. So yellow

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Model : Lil Sis
The left one is in front of Kasan Tobang, it’s the main door to the receptionist and the right one is orange tree near Kasan Tobang. So bright yellow. If I see drama or variety show that took place in Jeju, most of them showed tangerine orchard, so wide and full with orange tangerine that look so beautiful. So, when I find tangerine tree , took photo with it is a must. FYI it’s not an orchard, it’s just a tree that fortunately standing there :P

After walking around, we back to the main building and sat in dining room. We wait for

Photo By : Lil Sis Our Breakfast, Yummy Abalone porridge by Kasan Tobang

Photo By : Lil Sis
Our Breakfast, Yummy Abalone porridge by Kasan Tobang

We got free breakfast at Kasan tobang. The menu is always same, Abalone Porridge. As what you see at the photo above, we can see the rice is still shaped as before. in Indonesia, we can see the rice anymore, it’s already not in rice shape anymore, it’s already disolved and become thick porridge. The abalone porridge that we ate at Kasan tobang is not so thick as indonesian porridge. In Indonesia, we eat chicken porridge for breakfast, but the chicken is not inside the porridge, they not cooked together, the chicken just the porridge topping. But, in this porridge, the abalone is not a topping, the rice and abalone cooked together , so you can see the porridge is look like plan porridge with any topping on it. We also could not see the abalone, but the taste is there. As usual, we got kimchi and soy sauce with some onion there as banchan. they made the porridge plan, no strong flavour, so eat it with kimchi or soy sauce is really make it more delicious. We stay at kasan Tobang 2 days, so we got to eat this porridge 2 times. it’s like a healthy dish because I know there is no MSG there, and abalone is also good for our body.

Photo By : Lil Sis Orange Tree near Yakcheonsa Temple

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Orange Tree near Yakcheonsa Temple

After we finished eat, and because we already ready include mr Damz. We immediately start our journey today. We plan to go to some place that already we listed when we still at Jakarta. Our first destination today is Yakcheonsa Temple.  yakcheonsa Temple is a buddhist temple that already built in 1990s. it’s located at Seogwipo, not so far from kasan tobang. that’s why it’s became our first  stop today.  Because of GPS taht we got from rent this car, we can found this temple easily, just follow the sign well and we arrived safely. The parking area is so wide, and there is no car beside us, there just a bus there. Maybe because it’s too early and it’s not a weekend or holiday, so inot so many visitor whe we came. We found an tangerine or orange orchard near the parking area. We want to go there and take some photo. but I think it’s not appropriate to go there, because we didn’t even know who is the owner, and enter the orchard without permission is like we enter a stranger house without permission like a thief. So, we just took the photo from a far.

Photo By : Lil Sis Yakcheonsa Temple

Photo By : Lil Sis
Yakcheonsa Temple

The Yakcheonsa temple is huge, the main temple is 2,652 meters squared, but the total area is 3,305 meters squared. The main temple is standing there facing the ocean. When you see inside, you can find a huge Buddha statue, and really wide hall for praying, we find some ahjumma there, praying and some do meditation. It’s so quite inside and really calm aura inside. Maybe meditating in this environment will help us more focus and fast to get the enlightenment. :D .

Photo By : Lil Sis Model : Big Sis and Dol Hareubang Yakcheonsa Temple

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Model : Big Sis and Dol Hareubang
Yakcheonsa Temple

Photo By : Lil Sis Yakcheonsa Temple

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Yakcheonsa Temple. We found  water fountain there. I think every temple in South Korea has this. Because when we go to Beomeosa Temple wwe found it too. but in Yakcheonsa is more cool because they decorated it with dragon, and a beautiful roof

Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis Yakcheonsa Temple

Photo By : Big Sis
Model : Lil Sis
Yakcheonsa Temple

Blue sky without any cloud, from the photo I think you will say the weather is good, warm and cozy. But the wind is so cold, and because of it’s located near beach the wind is pretty strong. So, even the sun shining bright, we still need to use our coat tightly because the cold wind.

Photo By : Lil Sis Yakcheonsa Temple

Photo By : Lil Sis
Yakcheonsa Temple

You can see beach from the temple.  it And I really like this tiny elephant statue, cute elephant.

Photo By : Big Sis Model : Lil Sis Yakcheonsa Temple

Photo By : Big Sis
Model : Lil Sis
Yakcheonsa Temple

After strolling at Yakcheonsa temple, and taking photo in every corner, we go to our next destination. Soingook Theme Park, it’s located at Seogwipo too, so it’s not so far from Yakcheonsa. Jeju Soingook Theme Park is Jejudo’s major tourist attraction, covering about 20,000 square meters of land, holding various miniature models of famous architecture from all over the world including Korea’s famous building. We paid 9000 Won to enter this theme park.  If you ever go to Mini Siam at Pattaya, Thailand. It’s same, but in Soingook they display miniature of  famous Korean building too. There are so many building there, from all over the world, we alse saw Candi Prambanan there. Indonesia is there. ^_^

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis
Soingook Theme Park

I took a photo with 2 place that become house from the leader of Korea. The picture in the top, is Blue House, the president rule South Korea from there, and the picture below is a palace., the place where King rule the country long time ago. I am not sure what palace is that, maybe Gyoengbokgung Palace. I will visit this place, when I go to Seoul. So just wait, Ii give you the miniature first and then you can feel the real size after that.

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis
Soingook Theme Park – Another Dol Hareubang.

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis
Soingook Theme Park

You can find miniature of building here, but beside that you also can find a cute animal statue there, even bigger than their normal size.

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis
Soingook Theme Park

Lil Sis in left picture trying to pose a mainstream pose, hold the leaning pisa tower, but i think it’s failed, my hand it’s not in the right place. And in the rightpicture you can see Big Sis with not leaning pisa tower.

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis
Soingook Thme Park  (Gwanghamun Gate + Gyeongbokgung , Train Station, Another Palace , Assembly Building)

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis
Soingook Theme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis
Soingook Theme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis
Soingook Theme Park

Photo By : Mr Damz Soingook Thme Park

Photo By : Mr Damz
Soingook Theme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

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Soingook Theme Park – This little train is favourite among kids there.

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis
Soingook Theme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis
Soingook Theme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis Soingook Thme Park

Photo By : Lil Sis
Soingook Theme Park

So, This is our 4th Day. I think this is already long enough, so wait for another post to know more about what we did in Jeju. Thanks for reading. Please comment, any question, criticism,  appreciation are welcome.

By. Lil Sis


Totem Room Escape, Challenge yourself to escape from the fear locked forever

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Well, one day Miss Peps said to us Let’s play Escape Room game. And after she said that, she send us a lot of info about that, the game, the room decoration, hoe to play, the price, the venue, all abount escape room game. Make us really really excited to play. So, on last weekend, Me (Lil Sis), Big Sis, Miss Pepz, and 3 friend of Big Sis and Miss Pepz went to play this game. We choose Totem escape Room, it’s located at Tanjung Duren, Jakarta Barat, near Central park Mall. You can check more about Totem Room escape here.

Before I tell you about our experience there, I will give you briefly explanation about this game. Escape the roomm is actually a game, we usually play it on our mobile phone or our PC. In the game, we locked up at a room, and we must find something to open the door and escape from that room. The game is something like that, if you ever play it on your mobile phone, i bet you know what I mean in my bad explanation.. The point is, we were locked inside the room, and we must find way out to escape from that room and breath a fresh air.

Back to my experience. In Totem, they have 5 room in different Level, The room from level 1 to level 5 are Locked in Darkland, Egyption Secret, Kidnapped, Mission impossible, and Prison Break. To play in The Level 5 Prison Break Room, you must already passed the other room. because it the hardest room, and even we can not use short or skirt if want to play there. It is super hard to escape room according to the staff. Because we are newbie, so we choose Level 2 room Egyption Secret.

Miss Pepz made a reservation from the website, but no confirmation at all. So Miss Pepz called , and the staff said they forget the admin password to login into the web, so they can not look the reservation from the web. OMG. Finally we made a reservation via phone, we booked Egyption Secrret at 2 pm on Saturday 6 people. FYI, The maximum people for Egyption secret is 6 people. We paid 115K IDR for one person. The price is depend on how many people play. Because we play as 6 people, we paid 690K IDR.

So, when the time come, we go to Totem escape room, and made a payment and begged the staff to give us more time. We were only given 50 minutes, it is not enough for newbie like us. But, the staff didn’t budge, she just told us if we find it hard, just wave to the camera, and the staff will come give us a hint. So, the time to enter the room come and we entered. but before that we must, take all of our bag, phone, inside the locker. We cannot bring anything to the room beside our clothes. Even in some room, we can not use belt or watch.

Because we choose Egyption secret, we enter one by one, started from our leader, and we choose Miss Pepz friend who already played there once. But he play Locked in the darkland. And the last person to enter is me. One by one enter, and our foot is locked with chain and they locked it with a pad lock. When Lil Sis enter, the staff want to chain my foot too, but the chain is stuck at the floor so, she can not get it, and Lil Sis is free. No chain on my foot. Hehehehe.

So, the game is we must open the chain in our foot first, the first person that can open the chain is leader, the clue to open the leader lock is in that room. And after that the leader must find the key to open the other chain. because I already free I help the leader. I think they free me because we begged so much before to extend our time, but because thay can  not do that they make it easier for us. Anyway, the room is super dark. and they just give us a small torch. So , it’s pretty hard to find the clue.

Because we are play on the Egyption Secret room, of course there are some mummy coffin there, and a lot of sands like in dessert. Bones, heads, treasure chest with creepy backsound. The room is not have a good air conditioning, very hot inside, and because there are a bunch of sand there, it become dusty. For anyone who claustrophobic, never play Escape Room or you will die inside.

We already escape from the chain room, and we already enter the last stage. but unfortunately we failed, time is over. the staff entered the room to force us to go out. Sad why we can not escape, and really really curious about the clue.

How is my feeling play Escape the room? Hmmm, before I enter the room, i feeling excited, can not wait to play. The moment when one by one enter the room and and wait because i last to enter, really panic and my heart is racing inside. When play, happy when we can solved the clue, excited when we can open something or find something, feeling stupid when we ask for a hint and actually it is so easy to solved. Feeling gloomy when I didn’t know what to do anymore, feeling sad when the time is over and we failed. Feel curious when see the staff outside, and we start to ask where the other clue. So many feeling I fell on 1 hour because play this game.

So, if you like to solve a mystery and maybe bored with playing game on your phone, you must try escape room. Bring your fun friend with you and try to escape the room together. There are so many place that provide the game like this. You can choose to play Totem like us, or anywhere that near your place.

Miss Pepz and Big Sis, play Doraemon theme escape room at Serpong the day after we failed. They got 90 minutes, and they made it. Success. It become addictive I think, even we jokingly said we will play it at least once a month after payday.

 By : Lil Sis


Autumn in Korea – Day 4(Jeju) – Osulloc Tea Museum , Jeju Glass Castle

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Hi, Lil Sis is back. I will continue my posting about Autumn in Korea. Still at Day 4, after we go to Soingook Theme Park, we go to our next destination, Osulloc Tea Museum. It’s still located at Seogwipo, soit’s not so far from Soingook. This museum is so big, it has large green tea farm here, cafe, exhibition hall, the room for learn something about tea, there are also a Innisfree there. The yard and parking area is so big too. You can strolling there, to see green and enjoy the breeze leisurely. Anyway, it’s free to enter this place, no parking fee, no entrance fee. But if you hungry and buy some food there, of course you must pay.

Ossuloc - Tea Museum

Ossuloc – Tea Museum – Entrance to the museum

Ossuloc - Tea Museum Wall Decoration

Ossuloc – Tea Museum
Wall Decoration

Ossuloc - Tea Museum Some of their display

Ossuloc – Tea Museum
Some of their display

The display for the museum is not a lot. there are various style of tea cup and teapot. Some painting too. But that’s it. There is just one room to display all of this, and that room also bring you directly to the cafe and a shop that you can buy tea. The cafe and the shop has more visitor than the display room. Maybe some people will think it’s just an entrance to go to the shop. Not something related to museum. But as I said before, the area is so big, there are some building, separated from the main building. When we walk around, we found some building that full with people learning something. The building has glass wall, so we can see people inside. The seat is full and their face look serious. I think they learn how to make tea well or something related to tea.

Ossuloc - Tea Museum Sponge Cake, Green Tea with vanilla filling and Choco cake with green tea filling

Ossuloc – Tea Museum
Sponge Cake, Green Tea with vanilla filling and Choco cake with green tea filling

After, go to Yakcheonsa temple, and Soingook we didn’t eat anything. And with just porridge  for breakfast. We started to feel hungry. So we stop at the cafe. In Seoul you can find Osulloc tea house. It same with Osulloc tea museum in Jeju, the different is, they just have cafe and shop, no farm, no exhibition hall, and no room for study, no big yard, and no big parking area. In the cafe they sell food and drink related to green tea and of course they also sell the tea. If you are a tea lover, you must buy the tea, or at least you can buy it for a present to your family or friends. Because we need something to fill our stomach,we buy 2 sponge cake. 1 green tea sponge cake with vanilla filling 1 chocolate sponge cake with green tea filling. I really really like this sponge cake, especially the choco one. Because I think the green tea is dry not so moist like the chocolate. But actually both is good. The filling is not too sweet, so it’s perfect.

We also bought green tea ice cream. We buy 1 green tea with red bean , green tea sponge cake and something crispy as topping. The ice cream is also good too. not too sweet but treat our craving with sweet thing. I recommend you to try the sponge cake and the ice cream if you go here.

Ossuloc - Tea Museum Green Tea ice Cream

Ossuloc – Tea Museum
Green Tea ice Cream

After, we eat. We go to innisfree. We know that innisfree have so much product with green tea and volcano things. Mostly of their ingredient is from Jeju. that’s why there are innisfree here. We go there with end in mind want to buy something to  our friend and family that ask us to buy for them. We entered the place, there are a lot of student there. I think they are in study tour, they learn how to make soap there. DIY soap, they can choose what ingredient they want, green tea, volcano, lemon, citrus, orange. They look happy, and I want to try too , but I think we must have a reservation first before. Unfortunately we didn’t buy anything there. We decided to buy when we are in Seoul. So after that, we just do some strolling in the yard and of course took a photo. here they are :

Ossuloc - Tea Museum The YARD

Ossuloc – Tea Museum
The YARD

This yard is exactly near in front of innisfree. there are some bench with table there. And it can rotate, so we can sit there and rotate ourselver 360 degrees to see all around us. But some of them can not rotate anymore maybe because of the rust. We found Ilalang there. Miss Pepz has a desire to take a photo with ilalang. So when we found it, we immediately line up there to took a photo. Pretty isn’t it? Hahahaha

Ossuloc - Tea Museum Fantastic Four with ilalang

Ossuloc – Tea Museum
Fantastic Four with ilalang

Ossuloc - Tea Museum Lil Sis in front of Tea Farm

Ossuloc – Tea Museum
Lil Sis in front of Tea Farm

Look at me, I sat on the rotating bench, right in front of the green tea farm. it’s so  nice right. Sitting around here, look bright blue sky, and really green and neat tea farm. We also can go inside the farm. Took poto with the tea from near and close. Hahahaha. In Indonesia there are tea farm too, in Bogor , Malang, Bandung, or another place with not hot weather. the tea grow well in cold air. One of my wish is took a photo in tea farm there. But I think my wish come true in Korea.

Ossuloc - Tea Museum Lil Sis inside of Tea Farm

Ossuloc – Tea Museum
Lil Sis inside of Tea Farm

After being around this area, we decided to move to another place. We decided to go to Jeju Glass Castle and on the way go there , we will find a place to have lunch.  But unfortunately we didn’t find any restaurant, so we end up eat at restaurant in Jeju glass castle. It is located in front of Jeju Glass castle, near the parking area. The restauranWe order abalone bibimbap for our lunch.

Abalone Bibimbap

Abalone Bibimbap

Miced Abalone Bibimbap and Side Dish

Mixed Abalone Bibimbap and Side Dish

Our Bibimbap consisted of Abalone, fish roe, yellow radish, kimchi, enoki mushroom, dried sea weed, and of course rice. It’s not as good as sashimi bibimbap I ate at Busan, but it’s not bad too, and because we are really hungry, we still finish it until nothing in our bowl. We also got side dish like kimchi, bean, potato salad, fish cake, veggie, and seaweed soup. the fish cake is really good, and the soup also refreshing. Although the bibimbap is just good, not extraordinary, and the abalone is just a little, we still ate our lunch happily.

After we eat, we go to purchase the entrance ticket for Jeju Glass Castle. We need to pay 9000 KRW for that. After got the ticket, we immediately enter. We found a really big beanstalk made from glass in our entrance. With some gold eggs below. This place full of glass, so be careful not to break them.

Glass Castle Miss Pepz with Beanstalk

Glass Castle
Miss Pepz with Beanstalk

Glass Castle Lil Sis dream to become Cinderella, first let me took a photo with pumpkin carriage

Glass Castle
Lil Sis dream to become Cinderella, first let me took a photo with pumpkin carriage

Glass Castle Very Big Diamon ring, Give it to me please

Glass Castle
Very Big Diamon ring, Give it to me please

Jeju Glas Castle

Jeju Glas Castle

There are a lot of something like this in Korea. Pond with so many coins inside. I think Korean People like something like this, testing their luck. We have tried it when we at Busan, with help from Sung oppa, we throw coin t Haedongyonggung Temple. It’s kind addicting i think, but we lack of coin so we didn’t try it here.

Jeju Glas Castle

Jeju Glas Castle

Jeju Glas Castle - Magical Forest

Jeju Glas Castle – Magical Forest

There ara Magical forest section in Jeju glass castle. We will explore forest with a lot of colorful glass there. I think it will be perfect if go there in the evening, when the sky darker, the glass will be lighted and it will feel more magical. We tried back again int the afternoon, too get the effect, but unfortunately they close at 6.00 pm even earlier when late autumn and winter. So we missed it. So for you that want to go here, maybe you can go here around 4.30 pm, so you can get the light effect. Don’t forget to bring a good camera to capture the light.

Jeju Glas Castle - Magical Forest

Jeju Glas Castle – Magical Forest

There are a lot of wind chimes there. It is hanged on top of our head, and when the wind blows, it make a magical sound. it’s so cool I think, sound is so clear and make this forest like a place that you doesn’t want to leave.

Jeju Glas Castle - Magical Forest

Jeju Glas Castle – Magical Forest

Jeju Glas Castle

Jeju Glas Castle

After we took a photo in every side in Jeju Glass castle, we decided to go to next attraction. We went to Teddy bear Museum and after that go to Alive Museum and the last dinner before going back to out hotel. There are so many stories that I want to tell you about this day (4th day Autumn Trip in Korea) so I will finish it here, and make Part 3 of our Day 4. Wait for it. Have fun read and keep reading yah…

XOXO

Lil Sis


Autumn in Korea – Departure

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Setelah di postingan sebelumnya, Lil Sis sudah menceritakan pengalaman kami mempersiapkan apa aja yang sekiranya diperlukan untuk ke Korea, It’s time for tell you our story there. Tentunya dimulai dari hari keberangkatan kami. Kami berangkat hari Kamis, pesawat kami Air Asia akan terbang malam hari, transit di malaysia, kemudian baru terbang lagi ke Korea, tiba di sana pagi hari.

Jadi untuk menghemat cuti, Lil sis pun tetap masuk ke kantor Kamis paginya, tetapi izin pulang cepat sekitar jam 2 siang. Mandi, makan malam yang lebih awal, Lil Sis dan Big Sis pun berangkat ke bandara. Kebetulan Lil sis dan Big Sis tinggal dekat dengna bandara, biasanya 15-20 menit naik mobil sudah sampai di bandara. Sehingga kami pun merasa tidak usah terlalu buru buru berangkat. Tapi kemudian Miss Pepz pun menghubungi kalau dia dan Mr Damz sudah jalan ke bandara. Tidak enak mereka harus menunggu kami, maka berangkatlah kami ke bandara. Untunglah kami memutuskan untuk berangkat lebih cepat, karena macet sekali. Bukan macet menuju bandaranya, tetapi macet di dalam bandaranya. Setelah melewati patuh Soekarno dan Hatta, taxi kami pun stuck tidak bergera. Ada apa gerangan, kami cuma bisa bertanya tanya, banyaknya abang ojek yang menawarkan diri di sisi jalan sudah benar-benar menggoda kami, tapi dengan koper yang besar danbadan kami yang juga besar, kami pun berpikir dua kali untuk naik ojek Sampai akhirnya supir taxi kami ang juga sudah tidak sabar menghadipi macet ini pun membelokkan mobilnya ke sisi kiri dan mulai melaju kencan gmelewati bahu jalan. Dan sampailah kami di bandara terminal 3. Di mana Miss Pepz dan Mr damz yang sudah sampai terlebih dahulu sedang menyantap makan malam mereka.

Setelah mereka selesai makan, naiklah kami ke ruang tunggu. Di runag tunggu, kebetulan ada outlet batik Keris, kami pun ampir sebentar untuk membeli kenang kenangan untuk Host kami selama di Korea. Setelah bingung mau beli batik, takut nggak cukup, akhirnya kami pun membeli wayang wayangan kecil. sambil menunggu tentu saja kami tak lupa berfoto foto ria, selfie, wefie, taking photo every time when we bored. Jangan bingung kenapa di foto narsis kami ini tidak ada Mr damz. Karena dia sedang sibuk menimbang tasnya. So, Mr damz ini tidak mau membeli bagasi. But, dia membawa tas yang banyak, sedangkan yang diperbolehkan masuk kebain itu hanya 1 tas jinjng + 1 koper (cabin size) dengan berat tidak boleh lebih dari 7,5 kg but dia punya 3 tas, 1 backpack, 1 koper cabin size, dan 1 lagi tas jinjing. So, dia sedang sibuk mendistribusikan barang barang di kopernya yg beratnya melebihi 10 kg, ke tas nya yg lain, dan tentu saja nantinya akan kami bantu bawakan karena jumlah tasnya yang berlebihan. Kebetulan di ruang tunggu terdapat timbangan, so ketika kami cewek cewek sibuk narsis, dia sibuk menimbang bawaannya yg merepotkan itu.

waitingSo, I introduce you, Me the prettiest one :P, Big Sis the girl in the middle using black , and Miss Pepz using the blue one. And Mr damz yang ntah ke mana. Di ruang tunggu , sebelum berangkat ke Korea, jangan lupa telepon orang terdekatmu, we don’t know what will be happened to us in this trip, so I call my mom and my dad, say that I will go now, basa basi  bertanya mau oleh oleh apa, dan lain lain. Sent message to my aunt and my bigger sis. Make they pray for our trip. Ini bukan pesimis, mengganggap something bad akan terjadi, cuma selama 14 hari ke depan aku mungkin akan kesusahan menghubungi mereka, mereka mungkin khawatir nasib anaknya di negeri orang, so to make sure mereka tenang akan anak-anaknyaWe did it.

Air Asia CGK - KUL

Air Asia CGK – KUL

Tiba waktunya kami naik ke dalam pesawat. Menaiki bus hingga ke depan pesawat. Kami pun akhirnya bisa duduk di kursi kami. Karena check in di waktu yang berbeda, Lil Sis dan Big Sis duduk berdampingan, miss Pepz dan Mr damz juga duduk berdampingan. But luckily tetap dekat, ka tepat duduk di kursi di depan mereka. So, we fly to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Karena penerbangan malam, dan malam sebelumnya tidak bisa tidur nyenyak karena nervous, so memejamkan mata langsung kami lakukan, walaupun tidak benar benar tidur or just tidur ayam.

Tak lama,  kami pun sampai ke KL. Turun dari pesawat, dan berjalan ke ruang tunggu kami selanjutnya untuk menanti pesawat yang akan membawa kami ke Korea ready. sesampainya di ruang tunggu, area ruang tunggunya masih dibatasi oleh garis dilarang masuk. Sekitar 15 menit kami hanya berdiri di depan area tunggu, sambil mengamati sekitar. Ada pojok yang berisi colokan untuk charge your battery., banyak yg mulai mencharging gadget nya, dari handphonenya hingga notebook nya. Mr damz yang jug a mau ikutan pun sudah tidak dapat colokan kosong lagi. But, don’t worry, setelah kami berhasil masuk ke ruang tunggu, kami pun membuka station pengisian battery sendiri.

Charge ur batt

Charge ur batt

kul-waiting-roomtak terlalu lama, kami pun disuruh masuk ke pesawat. Di dalam pesawat Lil Sis, Big Sis, dan Miss Pepz duduk dibagian ekor pesawat. Benar benar di bagian belakng, dimana pramugari menyiapkan makanan dan bergosip ria ketika tidak ada pekerjaan. So, It’s smell so good when they prepare food, and membuat cacing cacing di perut ini meronta. Sedangkan Mr Damz duduk sangat jauh di depan. Sepertinya pembagian ini berdasarkan kami bertiga memesan makanan di pesawat, sedangkan Mr Damz tidak, sehingga tempat duduknya terpisah dari kami.

aa-cabinPerjalanan dari Kuala Lumpur ke Busan,Korea cukup memakan waktu, perkiraan kami akan sampai di pagi hari. So, we must sleep, so we have energy to walking around ketika sudah samapai di Busan. But, tempat duduknya sempit sekali, kaki seakan tidak bisa digerakkan, sungguh tidak nyaman, tidur pun tak enak, mana berisik dari pramugarinya. Efeknya badan pun pegal pegal, beragam gaya sudah dicoba biar nyama, tapi tak satu pun yang benar benar membuat kita pulas tertidur.

Setelah berjam jam tidur bangun tidur bangun di pesawat, kami pun sampai juga di Busan. AKhirnya bisa meluruskan badan dan kaki juga. Ini penerbangan terlama yang penah aku lalui sejauh ini, dan sungguh melelahkan karena kursinya yang tidak nyaman. Tapi apa bisa dikata, kalo tiketnya murah yah begini lah yang didapat, kalau mau nyaman mesti menggunakan airlines yang mahal juga.

So, this post is over. Aku akan melanjutkannya di postingan ku selanjutnya. Stay tuned ya.

By : Lil Sis


Autumn in Korea – Day 1 (Busan) – Arrival

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Setelah berjam jam di pesawat dari Kuala Lumpur ke Busan, akhirnya kami tiba juga di Gimpo Airport, Busan, South Korea. Kami tiba disambut dengan hujan, tidak terlalu lebat, tapi impactnya dingin banget, angin kencang ditambah suhu yang sudah hampir 1 digit, brrrr dingin banget waktu keluar dari pesawat. Sebagai orang Indonesia yang sepanjang tahun panas, awalnya butuh sedikit penyesuain juga, tapi setelah angin tidak terlalu kencang lagi bertiup dinginnya sekan akan kalau kita lagi di Puncak aja kok, adem adem sejuk.

Morning Sky from Plane

Morning Sky

Setelah tiba di Gimpo International airport, kami pun berjalan sesuai dengan arah yang ditentukan, dan berjalan ke arah pos imigrasi untuk menyerahkan Arrival Card dan mendapatkan cap di passpor kami. Antria cukup panjang di sana, antrian dibagi 2, ada yang khusus melayani Warga Korea, dan antrian yang melayani turis asing. Ada peristiwa yang sedikit memalukan tapi lucu juga. Ketika sedang mengantri, aku, Big Sis, dan miss Pepz mengantri di line yang berdekaan, sedangkan Mr Damz agak jauh. Tiba tiba kami melihat ada petugas yang menghampiri Mr damz, dari gerak geriknya dia meminta handphonenya, sedikit memarahi Mr Damz. Rupanya mr Damz ini melakukan apa yang dilarang dilakukan, dia  mengeluarkan Handphone dan jepret jepret sana sini, yang tentu saja didatangi petugas dan ditegur, karena sudah jelas jelas  ada gambar kamera dicoret terpampang nyata di situ. Tidak ada sanksi serius, Mr Damz hanya disuruh menghapus semua foto hasil jepretannya. Setalh itu, masalah selesai, dan kami hanya tertawa tawa setelah selesai dari Imigrasi.

Setelah itu kami pun mengarah ke arah tempat pengambilan bagasi. Tak lama sampai kami sudah melihat koper berdatangan, tidak sampai 5 menit, koper kami sudah di tangan. Kami pun langsung menuju ke arah counter Olleh. Sebelumnya di Indonesia kami sudah melakukan booking untuk menyewa modem dari Olleh. Karena koneksi internet selam di negeri orang sangat penting menurut kami, jadi kami sudah mempersiapkannya dengan menyewa modem di Korea. Kami akan menyewa modem dari Olleh, kami ambil di Gimpo, dan akan kami kembalikan di Incheon. Sesampianya di counter, kami langsung mengantri, setelah mengantri beberapa saat, barulah kami menyadari ternyata kami harus mengambil nomor antrian terlebih dahulu,  percuma mengantri, jika tidak membawa nomor antria. Buru buru kami menekan mesin antrian dan mendapatkan kertas tertera nomor antrian kami. Tak lama nomor kami dipanggil, dan karena sudah booking terlebih dahulu, prosesnya jadi cepat, dan kami pun sukses mengantongi modem yang unlimited dan high speed. Kami langsung mengeluarkan handphone masing masing, konek kesitu, dan taraaa bisa update status deh.

OllehSetelah berhasil terhubung dengan koneksi internet pun, kami langsung menghubungi host kami di busan, Sung oppa. Kami memutuskan akan menggunakan taxi saja, kami meminta sung untuk m,engirimkan kami alamat dalam tulisan Korea, sehingga supir taxi nya dapat mudah mengetahuui kami mau kemana. Kami pun mendektai pangkalan taxi. Banyak supir taxi yang menghampiri kami. Kami pikir kami hanya butuh 1 taxi, but supir taxi yang taxinya sudah hendak kami naiki, berteriak kepada kami, “You are BIG, BIG, BIG, BIG”, sambil menunjuk kmai satu persatu , “bag BIG, 2 taxi”. Dia tidak memperbolehkan kami menggunakan 1 taxi saja, dan ketika dia membuka bagasinya, kmai jauh lebih kaget. bagasinya kecil sekali, mungkin cuma setengahbagasi taxi di Indonesia. Semakin kecil karena ditambah ember alat mandi ahjussi supir taxi, dan handuk handuknya yang dijemur di bagasi. Later, kami tau kenapa ukurannya kecil, hal ini dikarenakan ada tangki gas yang diletakkan di situ untuk bahan bakar.

Akhirnya kami pun menghubungi Sung, sebaiknya kami ke sana naik apa, apa bisa dengna bus, karena jika harus menggunakan 2 taxi harganya menjadi mahal. AKhirnya Sung pun mengirimkan taxi untuk menjemput kami. Taxi nya adalah limousine taxi, bentuknya seperti Van dan cukup besar. harganya lebih murah dibandingkan 2 Taxi. Dan karena Ahjussi supir taxi sudah tau persis di mana lokasinya, jadi kami tinggal duduk manis saja, sambil amaze dengan limousine taxi ini.

Limousine Taxi

Limousine Taxi

Karena hujan turun, kami pun diturunkan di basement apartement. Di bawah Sung oppa ternyata sudah menunggu kami. Dengan rambut yang masih sedikit berantakan, baru bangun tidur, dia menyambut kami. Mengantarkan kami masuk, naik lift, dan menuju ke unit apartement dia. Dia menunjukkan kami kamar kami, mengelilingi apartemen dan menjelaskan dapur, apa yang bisa kmai lakukan, kulkas mana yang bisa kami gunakan, ambil air di mana, kamar mandi, handuk, dsb. Setelah itu dia mengajak kami ke ruang tamu, dan dia mulai menjelaskan ke kami mengenai Busan, mau kemana kami, kira kira tempat mana yang bagus yang patut dikunjungi. Dan dia pun menawarkan bisa jadi supir kami keliling Busan dengan mobilnya tentu saja dengan biaya tambahan. Dengan hujan yang dari tadi turun dan belum reda juga, tawarannya cukup menggiurkan. Tapi dengan perut kosong kami belumbisa memutuskan, kami bertanya padanya restaurant terdekat, tetapi ternyata di Busan kebanyak resto buka jam 11 , hal ini dikarenakan kehidupan malam mereka yang minum minum, bertemu teman, hingga larut malam, mengakibatkan bangun siang dan baru bisa ready sekitar jam 11.

Sung's Apartement

Sung’s Apartement

Atas sarannya kami pun memutuskan untuk delivery saja. Sung oppa akan membantu kami menelepon untuk memesankan makanan.Pilihan pertama kami adalah Jeokbal atau kaki babi, tapi sayangnya restaurant favorit Sung oppa, tidak bisa delivery waktu itu, so we change our choice. Jajjangmyun, champon, Sweet and sour pork menu yang sering banget dipesan di drama drama pun kami pesan. Sung oppa membantu kami memesannya, dan kemudian dia pergi ke bawah, di bawah apartemennya ada StarBuck, sebelum menjemput kami dia sudah memesan kopi di sana, dan dia turun untuk mengambilnya. Kami pun satu per satu mandi dan mengistirahatkan badan yang kaku setelah berjam jam naik pesawat.

Tak lama ahjussi pengantar makan datang, dengan kotak kaleng seperti yang selama ini kami lihat di drama drama dia datang emngantarkan makanan pesanan kami. Kami memesan 2 paket menu yang berisi 1 Jajjangmyun, 1 Champon, dan 1 sweet and sour pork, karena 2 paket, yang artinya semuanya menjadi 2 porsi. banyak bukan, kami pun kewalahan menghabiskannya. Sung oppa berbaik hati juga memberikan kami susu. Dia bilang champon nya akan sedikit pedas, susu bisa membantu meredakan pedasnya, but, mungkin lidah orang Indonesia ini emang beda, pedasnya sih cume geli geli aja di lidah, nggak pake susus pun bisa kok.

Delivery Ahjussi

Delivery Ahjussi

Ahjussi nya masih menggunakan helmet, dan jas huja naik mengantarkan makanan. Dia pun menurunkan semua pesanan yang kami pesan di depan pintu. Wow, senang sekali bisa  merasakan kejadian ini. Sebagai penggemar korea, adegan ini sering banget ditemui di drama atau variety show korea.

Delivery food

Delivery food 1

Clock wise , Jjajangmyun, Champon, Seewt and Sour Pork + Gyoza, Side Dish

Inilah Pesanan kami, ternyata porsinya cukup besar. Sweet and Sour porknya pun ternyata dilengkapai gyoza. dan kami juga memperoleh side dish berupa lobak yang sudah diasinkan dan berwarna kuning, dan cocolan untuk fried gyozanya. Rasanya enak. Untuk Jjajangmyun, kami tidak pernah memakan ini sebelumnya, kami hanya pernah merasakan jjajangmyun instant yang saya tidak pernah habis memakannya, karena berujung enek di mulut. Namun yang ini lebih enak, dan lobak kuningnya dapat membantu mengurangi rasa enek akibat jjajangmyun ini. Champon ini merupakan mie dengan seafood dan kuahnya pedas. Karena ada sedikit pesasnya ini, menjadikan champon lebih kami sukai dibandingkan jjajangmyun. Untuk tangsuyuk atau sweet and sour pork, rasanya juga enak, crispy di luar dan lembut di dalam, ditambah saosnya yang asam manis hmm enyak enyak. Gyoza nya juga okay, isinya hanya glass noodle, buat overall makanan ini sanggup memuaskan kami, Dingin karena huj ditambah perut ini yang sudah meraung raung minta diisi. Makanan ini ludes seketika. Wwalaupun di menit menit terakhir, kecepatan sudah menurun, but we still manage to clean it up. Setelah makan, kami pin menyusun kembali piring itu, membuang samapah sampah sisa makanan, dan meletakkannya di depan pintu apartemen, sehingga ahjussi tadi bisa mengambilnya kembali.

Setelah perut terisi, kami pun mengadakan sedikit rapat dan deal kalo kami akan membayar Sung Oppa untuk mengantarkan kami berkeliling. Miss pepz dan Big Sis pun menemui Sung di ruang tamu untuk menyampaikan keinginan kami sembari menawar harga. Setelah deal, dan kami pun memutuskan ke mana tujuan kami hari ini, tentu saja dengan bantuan Sung oppa.  Kami pun langsung cus turun untuk memulai perjalanan ini.

Karena sudah cukup panjang Day 1 ini aku bagi 2 Part ya, selanjutnya akan menyusul, stay tuned . ^^

By : Lil Sis

 


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