Dynamic Busan: Jalgalchi Market!

We went to Jalgalchi Market on the last day of the Jalgalchi Festival 2011, which falls on a Sunday 16th Oct.

my 1st time at the biggest wet market in korea, busan!

and boy, am I impressed:

HUGE lobster!

eew slimy octopus!

loads of fish!

pretty sight! but stinky too!

 squids! eew

the harbour:

they were sunning these fishes:

somehow there is a huge blown-up balloon turtle:

I knew about the event where they want to make the world's biggest bibimbap. everyone gets a bowl of it free. so we went to queue up for this free lunch too!

very spicy for me, but it was nice:

another free event was to go onboard this sailboat for FREE!

 but the queue for it was too long no one wanted to go. sadded. so I couldn't have a chance to go onboard it =(

 so we moved on to the stalls. and came across this auntie selling grilled/bbq eel.

he is a famous sashimi chef who appeared on TV numerous times:

we came across this event, whereby u signup with 5000won, and get a chance to get into this waters to catch fish:

rais went to try and he caught one of them! (after a very long struggle, hahaha, but the onlookers were very enthusiastic in cheering this foreigner on!)

this is his catch!:

the eel we ordered:

bbq-ing it:

and along the way back, I saw these abalone! like what the channel8 show back in singapore was talking about. its 10 abalone for S$30!

scallops!!!

 way back to the station, there are a row of petshops as we stand there and are bewildered by the puppies' cuteness again. and this dog is sooo unglam:

ok thats all for the day!

Dynamic Busan: cooking up a storm!

on one of the weekends, the office of international affairs decided to give us some lessons on traditional korean food making. Both Anqi and my buddy came with us to the cooking lesson!

Firstly, the teacher demo-ed her version:

this is called Gujeolpan 구철판

 this dish consists of 9 different food assorted on a wooden plate with 9 divided sections in an octagon shape on the plate itself. There are (from the top middle, anti-clockwise) vegetables, egg yolk, beef, prawns, carrots, egg whites, mushroom, squid. In the middle is a stack of pancakes made of wheat flour, meant to wrap all the 9 ingredients in to eat together! 

The 2nd dish is called hwajeon 화전

this dish is a small sweet pancake, with leaves as the leaves of the flower petals, and red dates cut to make the flower shape! Sprinkle some sugar over the dish and its done. Very easy to make! delicious too!

ok. so heres our version!

it was delicious!

Dynamic Busan: food, hair, shopping! part 2

After our friends went to dye their hair successfully at this hair salon called Gong-ju, we decided to go too!

I dyed my hair!!! and trimmed the fringe abit. the person helped me to blow dry it until it had a bit of wave. so damn nice can!!! haiz miss it now. the hair was so smooth and silky back then!

ok. we went to this cat cafe. There were at least 5 cats!?

sooo cute rite!?

My caramel drink, which was more of an ice cream drink than coffee?

but it was nice.

hahaha and on to another round of shopping. I bought this comfy socks which I saw jess bought last time. It can really keep warm u know!

And this is some cake the dorm gave me for doing their survey. Quite a different taste. but luv the heart shape there! And I luv it when there is this yakult drink at lunch time!

hehe. the first time I ordered from gmarket. bought a pair of fake toms and 3 bags. in this picture are also 3 other bags of stuff I bought from Nampo again. not really worth mentioning since its another clothes or cardigan or scarf! hahaha

my 3 bags were smaller than I thought. but at least they were cheappp! Less than $10 for each! and the toms was less than $10 too when in shops they are selling for bout $18?

hees. I'm so happy after shopping!

Dynamic Busan: food, hair, shopping! part 1

Another cafe we went is Aesop's Fables.

It just looks too fairytale-looking from the outside so we decided to go there 1 evening.

As usual, I ordered my caramel frappe

and there I met new friends! There are Jess and Gerry's buddies, and Nick's 'new' buddy, and another buddy who brought his Japanese buddy! ooh japanese! but I sort of forgot all my jap so I couldnt really converse with her. ohwells.

After that Gerry's buddy, Jaemin, recommended we go to this restaurant that sells all things pumpkin:

beef with pumpkin

pork with pumpkin

and even seafood with pumpkin!

it was a little more ex than usual, but it was nice!

After that, we went noraebang again! KTV!

this ktv had a clean white victorian image to it. quite nice. but as usual, the mtv was not the original. sucks big time. I'm not gonna go ktv for awhile then...

ok I'm so happy when I talk bout this. As usual, we went Nampo to shop again.

my loots! a dr. martens lookalike for ard $28!

oh and this was bought from a shop in the PNU shopping street. only $15!!! how very nice rite!

And 1 day I decided to meet my buddy Seran for dinner. And before that, I asked her to bring us girls to cut fringe. She brought us to this place called Hair Manager.

heres me with Seran after cutting the fringe:

by the way its only $2 for cutting the hair. SO CHEAP.

After cutting our hair, we met up with the other SMU ppl and their buddies for dinner. It was actually a dinner between me, Seran, Anqi and her buddy but somehow it escalated into a dinner with 17 ppl. LOL

so in order to accommodate so many ppl, and with Rais who did not eat pork, and Isaac who did not eat beef, we had to eat chicken....

yea. thats all for the day. part 2 tml!

thank u seran!

Seran passed me her used hp to use in Korea!

shes so nice can. and the hp is in super good condition coz she only used it for like a few months only!

hahaha I'm such a lucky person to have her as my buddy. =)