The rice cake is soft and chewy, slightly spicy in the mouth but not in the throat, very satisfying, not at all the sweet and greasy feeling that Yunluo and An Chuyu had in Korean restaurants in China. It is very refreshing to pair it with boiled skewers in the winter. The price is about 2,000 won. A must try. Recommended index Myeongdong snacks In addition to shopping, don't forget to save some space for snacks when you go to Myeongdong.
There are many snack stalls here, and there is one detail about these snack stalls that needs to be praised again and again. Myeongdong is basically a pedestrian street, and motor vehicles cannot enter. It is always bustling here, but at the same time you will find that the pedestrian street here is very, very clean, even though there are snack stalls everywhere.
The owners of snack stalls will lay a circle of cardboard around their stalls to prevent the soup and oil from the food from dripping onto the road and being unable to be washed off. After closing the stall, they will put the cardboard away and put it out again the next day. Most of the locals will eat the food they buy within the area covered by the cardboard.
Throw the leftovers and garbage into the trash can prepared by the stall owner. This small detail is really amazing. This is the quality of the people. The fried potato rings are so delicious, especially the cheese flavor. Haha, Yunluo ate one skewer and ate another one. It was so satisfying. There are pure potato ones and ones with sausages. The pure potato ones are 2,000 won.
The sausage is 3,000, you must try it if you see it. There is also this pomegranate juice, freshly squeezed and drunk, the hygiene is average, it tastes a bit like a vampire, haha. The snacks are very rare. There are really many traditional snacks in Korea. In addition to Myeongdong, the traditional market is also a good choice.
Regretfully, I can only leave it for next time. By the way, fried chicken is also very popular. Yunluo and An Chuyu plan to order beer fried chicken for supper every night when they return to the hotel. As a result, they are so full that they can't walk every night. Yunluo really likes the food here. Don't think that Koreans only know how to eat kimchi. It is also their ability to eat kimchi in various ways.
What's more, it's not just kimchi. Banana milk has come to Korea. One of the most satisfying things is to drink banana milk to your heart's content. Yunluo bought this imported short fat man at Walmart in China for 60 yuan for 4 bottles, and the shelf life is more than half. Here it's 1,300 yuan per bottle, all of which are made on the same day or the next day. There are also many flavors.
You can buy it anywhere in supermarkets and convenience stores. There are some on the supermarket shelves at the airport. Yunluo saw it when she started packing her luggage, so she bought another dozen and put them in her luggage. Then she packed them again and brought them back to China. For my husband to drink. Hahahaha. In fact, after the exit security check, I found that the coffee shop inside also sells it.
The price is slightly higher by 500 won. Shopping and tax refund shopping Yunluo and An Chuyu did not focus on shopping this time. Basically, they just bought whatever they found suitable. So Yunluo will just talk about her feelings.
Yunluo and An Chuyu also bought skin care products, which were really cheap. They were sold in Myeongdong and Hongdae, as long as they were brand stores. They probably bought hundreds of facial masks on Gogo alone. If they didn't buy enough in one day, they would go again the next day. She also carried several bottles of shampoo back home, which was really admirable.
Most of the things Yunluo bought were small accessories and gadgets, and there were also many skin care products. You can take a look at Yunluo's luggage when she came and when she left. There is also a little story about the luggage, which once again proves that Yunluo has good luck as soon as she leaves the country. Let's talk about the luggage packing first. The luggage packing at Incheon Airport is still very user-friendly.
The price is reasonable. The cardboard box + packing cost Yunluo 8,000 won, less than 50 yuan. Remember that a box at Sydney Airport costs 10 Australian dollars. I bought a lot of things. Naturally, the luggage is overweight. If there are many people sharing it, it should not be a big problem, but Yunluo alone is a tragedy.
At the check-in counter, the beautiful Ouni said that Yunluo had to pay 180,000 won for the overweight part! What does 180,000 won mean? It's more than 1,000 RMB. Yunluo was stunned at the time. She thought quickly about what to do. Then Yunluo used her poor Korean and English to communicate with Ouni and asked her if there was any other way.
Maybe Yunluo was really anxious and couldn't hide it. Plus, she was all alone and looked pitiful. Then a miracle happened. Yunluo's good luck really came out this time. Ouni told Yunluo to forget about it this time, but next time she must pay attention to the weight of the luggage. Yunluo was so moved that she almost cried.
Ouni, Naomunaomu Kangsanghamida! 180,000 is waived, Ouni you are awesome. Duty-free shopping at the airport is still very convenient. Yunluo thinks that if you can buy it at the airport, don't buy it in the city. First, you can avoid the trouble of tax refund, and second, you can carry it directly on the plane without taking up the weight of your checked luggage, skin care products.
Bags, MCM and so on, the prices are very good. In Korea, credit card purchases are basically made with electronic signatures, which is a thing like this. After you swipe your card, you sign on this thing, and then your handwriting will appear on the printed bill. Yunluo and An Chuyu also encountered a strong discount at Teenwine in Myeongdong.
A hoodie is only 100 RMB, and a sweater is only 200 RMB. It's a great deal. I quickly bought 4 pieces. Yunluo and An Chuyu also went to Dongdaemun and doota... doota was packed with people, it was difficult to walk, and the air was not very good. I gave up decisively, and I rested on the bench outside for 5 minutes before I recovered. Okay.
It's very bad. Here I would like to recommend my friend's travel notes in Korea again. There is a more detailed shopping guide in Dongdaemun, which you can refer to. She is a travel note expert, and her posts are much more practical than Yunluo's. After reading her Yunluo, I feel that Yunluo seems to have gone there in vain. Her travel notes have good content, good photos, and she is pretty, hahaha, everyone is welcome to harass her.
The most difficult and annoying thing about tax refund is left for last. Yunluo will try to simplify it and tell you the simplest and most practical method. In Seoul, you can enjoy tax refund benefits if you spend more than 30,000 won (about less than RMB 180) in shopping stores with relevant signs.
When checking out the blue 'globalbluetaxfree' and orange 'globaltaxfree', ask the store clerk for a tax refund receipt, then go to the corresponding tax refund service office, show the tax refund receipt, passport and credit card, and you can apply for a tax refund in cash on the spot. There will be a bill amount on the tax refund receipt.
And the amount of tax refund for this order, then the clerk will put the tax refund receipt in the corresponding color envelope for you, please keep your envelope properly. Orange envelope Blue envelope Tips: Yunluo knows that there are places where tax refunds can be made in the city. However, Yunluo still recommends that you keep all tax refund envelopes in a centralized manner and finally go to the airport for centralized tax refund.
Yunluo's method is: 1. Every day when you return to the hotel, you should sort out the shopping bills and lists, handle the tax refund forms, and mark the tax refund amount of each bill on each envelope. On the last night, you can probably easily calculate how much tax you can get back in total. P.S. The hotel has pens. Don't say you are lazy and don't want to write, otherwise you deserve not to get your money back.
2. Organize the blue and orange envelopes separately, because you will not refund at the same window. On the day you leave for the airport, put all the tax refund envelopes in a convenient and safe place; 3. On the last day of departure, go to the airport a little earlier, check in as soon as possible after arriving at the airport, get your boarding pass but do not check in your luggage.
Next, find out the customs counter and tax refund counter. Generally, you will see a lot of people queuing there. In my personal experience, it is easier to find. Then take your luggage to the customs counter to get stamped, because they may ask to see the goods. 4. After the stamp is stamped, you can pack your luggage and check it in.
Or if you are willing to drag your luggage to the tax refund window to queue up to get the money, Yunluo has no objection. If you are in a hurry and don't care whether you get the tax refund in cash, you can also use Alipay to refund the tax. The premise is that you must first bind Alipay with your mobile phone, then fill in your mobile phone number, and put the tax refund form with the revised stamp and the envelope into the tax refund box.
The tax will be returned to your Alipay account within 3-5 working days. Yunluo is a conservative person, so he still feels more at ease when he sees cash. And the refunded Korean won can be spent at the airport, so it is in Yunluo's itinerary to set aside time for tax refund. P.S. Yunluo saw that the guide and tax refund instructions all said that the refund should be made near the boarding gate.
But in fact, Yunluo refunded the money near the counter L in the airport lobby. At that time, there was no customs clearance and security check, and there was a customs officer who stamped each one with a stamp, which saved time, but there was no guarantee that they would do this every time, so when you arrived at the airport, you should find out clearly first. Attached below is a tax refund amount table.
This is a more intuitive way to show how much money you can get back. The tax ratio varies with the amount of consumption. For example, if you spend 30,000-49,999 won, you can get 1,500 won back; if you spend 50,000-74,999 won, you can get 3,500 won back. So you can also find that if you spend 49,000 won in a single transaction, you can only get 1,500 won back, but if you spend 50,000 won, you can get 1,500 won back.
You can get a refund of 3,500, which is close to the critical amount. If you spend 1,000 more, you can get an extra 2,000. Of course, if you want, you can also get a refund at the tax refund service center in downtown Seoul, but Yunluo personally does not recommend this approach. You have to go there every time and look for it, which wastes more time and energy.
The Korean visa should be the simplest and easiest one among all the countries Yunluo has applied for. Just prepare according to the information on the official website of the embassy. The certificate will be issued in 3 days, and the single entry is within 90 days. The visa fee is RMB 195 (Yunluo doesn’t know whether the price has increased now). Yunluo has two visas, one in Beijing and the other in Beijing, and she handles them herself.
Non-local residents can check the embassy website. On the plane, the flight attendant will give you an entry form to fill out. It's all in Chinese, so easy. After arrival, you can just take the filled-in form and passport to enter the country. Air tickets Yunluo and An Chuyu did not really study the issue of air tickets. Based on the principle of convenience and saving trouble, they checked the round-trip routes on Ctrip and Qunar.
Then Yunluo asked a friend who had studied in Korea for many years, and he said it was basically 2000-3000 round trip, and the price rarely fluctuated, so he booked it immediately because he was worried that if he didn't book it, he would lose everything. gogo Beijing-Seoul-Beijing Air China round trip including tax ￥2089.-jessie-Seoul-China Southern Airlines round trip including tax ￥2779.
The flight was only 2-3 hours in total. I won't talk about the service. I only had to watch a movie, eat a meal, and go to the bathroom twice before landing. However, because I booked late, I could only book a Korean house for one night. But I was very lucky because Yunluo and An Chuyu had only one room available during their trip.
Check-out time: before 11:00 on the same day Breakfast for two (Korean breakfast) Free wifi Transportation: Get off at Anguk Station on Seoul Subway Line 3 Bukchon Rakkojae is a famous Korean house. Located in Bukchon, many celebrities have lived here, and Jang Keun Suk's "Pretty Man" was filmed here.
Later, when they checked out, the boss told Yunluo and An Chuyu that the room Yunluo and An Chuyu stayed in was once occupied by Uncle So Ji-sub. Oh. Yunluo was stunned for a moment, hahaha. The price of this restaurant seems to have always been the same, and has not been adjusted due to holidays. The only way to make a reservation is through the official website email. Yunluo just wanted to give it a try, but she didn't expect to get a reply soon.
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The boss is a very nice old lady, and there is a housekeeper named Ajiaxi who can speak Chinese. He knocked on the door early in the morning and brought tea and abalone porridge for Yunluo and An Chuyu. I will introduce them in the food section later. If you take the subway, get off at Exit 2 of Anguo Station on Line 3 and continue walking forward for a while, and you will pass a crossroads with a school.
After crossing the road, you can see the school basketball court. Then continue walking forward and turn right at the intersection where you see a convenience store. It is not easy to find after going through the alleys. There is a simple map on the official website. In the end, Yunluo asked a passerby, Halabji, in his poor Korean. He personally led Yunluo and An Chuyu there.
I have to praise the quality of the Korean people, especially the elderly. They are very friendly when they hear that you are from China. Let's start posting photos. The inner courtyard of Leguzhai. This is the main entrance. It has a simple door lock. When Yunluo and An Chuyu went out, the boss gave Yunluo and An Chuyu a key.
After returning home at night, I opened the door and entered the house with a terrace. This is the house where Yunluo and An Chuyu live. Recently, Choi Siwon and Liu Wen cooked on the terrace of the house where Yunluo and An Chuyu live. I will take a look at the indoor photos later. TripAdvisor's best evening in 2013: looking at the yard from the terrace inside the house.
Standing in the yard in the evening, I looked at Yunluo and An Chuyu's room. The room felt great. The floor heating was warm and comfortable. The door lock was simple and rustic with a unique feel. The bathroom was small but clean. Everything seemed just right. When Yunluo saw the quilt, his first reaction was a stone. "Excuse me, can I take this home?"
Guess what these two are? A trash can and a humidifier, haha, did you guess it right? In addition to delicious Korean breakfast, Leguzai also provides free hanbok photo taking service. Haha, I finally saw the face photo. Ignore the overexposure and guess which one is Jessie and which one is Gogo, hahahaha.
Now it's time for a mini-theater. The Crown Prince's Pick-up Story. Can anyone come up with a joke? In fact, there are many similar Hanok B&Bs in the Bukchon area. Friends who like Korean culture and fans of Korean dramas must not miss this great experience. It would be a pity not to stay for a night. There are many signatures of celebrities who have stayed in the hotel on the wall in the owner's room.
gogo is an eel. She took this photo for personal reasons. In addition, the boss said that Zhang himself was very nice and friendly, and the praise index was five stars. When Yunluo and An Chuyu were about to leave the store, the boss was adding firewood to the boiler. The whole yard was filled with the aroma of mugwort, which was very comfortable. For the next 4 nights, Yunluo and An Chuyu chose an apartment hotel in Namdaemun.
fraserplacenamdaemunseoul is translated as Namdaemun Square Fraser Hotel or Fraser International Apartments. Price: KRW646,800.- including tax and service charge for 4 nights, equivalent to about RMB 3,800, or RMB 950/night. Check-in time: after 14:00 on the same day. Check-out time: before 12:00 on the same day. Includes two breakfasts, free WiFi and transportation.
Exit 9 of City Hall Station on Seoul Subway Line 1, walk 500 meters. There are two pictures stolen from the Internet, one is the exterior of the hotel, and the other is the hotel lobby. These two pictures are relatively real. The following is the interior picture taken by Yunluo. This room of Yunluo and An Chuyu should be considered a standard room, which is different from the apartment rooms posted on the booking website.
Basically, the toilets in Korean hotels are the same as those in Japan, all of which are fully automatic seat heating with cleaning and drying functions. Gogo said this is her favorite toilet. Yunluo's overall feeling of the hotel can only be described as average. The breakfast is a Western breakfast with few varieties and the taste is also average. On the third day, Yunluo and An Chuyu went out to eat breakfast by themselves.
The only advantage is that the transportation is very convenient. Walk straight 500 meters from the City Hall subway station. It takes about 20 minutes to walk straight from Gwanghwamun. It is also very convenient to go to Myeongdong. Then you can take the airport bus directly to the airport by bypassing the main entrance of the hotel. However, under the same conditions, Yunluo believes that it is possible to find a hotel with a better cost-effectiveness.
You can find hotel accommodation, attraction tickets, coupons, guides, etc. here. The information is comprehensive and can be solved in one stop. Needless to say, Yunluo prepares the belongings for departure. Every time he travels, he has the habit of making a list. Money exchange: Gogo first exchanged 160,000 won in Beijing, and then after arriving in South Korea, Yunluo withdrew 100,000 won from the ATM.
Basically, pocket money is enough, and everything else can be paid by credit card, even taxis can be paid by credit card directly, which is really convenient. After returning, Yunluo made a comparison and it seems that it is more cost-effective to withdraw money from the ATM. ATMs have Chinese operating instructions. I also heard that it is most cost-effective to exchange money in Mingdong. (To be continued...)
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