Anyway, here's an old entry about what we did on Chuseok itself. We originally planned to go Lotte World but we had some miscommunication and so, we shelved Lotte World to a later date. Crystal and I decided to join Gary, our HK friend, to explore Incheon instead. Ariyo was tired and therefore didn't join us on the expedition.
Crystal and I spent 3 hrs in the subway because we forgot to transfer and we landed in Suwon, much to our horror (which was 20+ stops away from our destination) and we had to travel back to Guro and then to Incheon.
Chinatown in Incheon. We arrived there, train lagged.
Chinatown was not quite the Chinatown that I expected. It was unlike the archetypal Chinatowns but rather, it came across as a little obtrusive in terms of architecture and the shops. Mmm. Looks a little sinister right.
There wasn't much to see in Chinatown apart from several shops selling 'authentic' Chinese stuff like tiger skin and China dolls -.- and beads, jades and other accessories that didn't really appeal to jaded tourists like us. The rest of the streets were just lined with plenty of Chinese restaurants. According to the signboard there, Jajangmyun supposedly originated from Incheon Chinatown.
Jajangmyun at some grand looking Chinese restaurant.
We had been wanting to eat some mooncakes badly because we couldn't find any in supermarkets or on the streets. The only place that we could find mooncakes was in Chinatown. However, they only had several flavours of mooncakes and the kind they sold were..er quite different la..its more like 豆沙饼. We bought several back for other Asian friends. The Chinese lady selling mooncakes was damn sly. Damn. Sometimes I hate Chinese for their unethical business practices. Chinese are the worst.
While having our jajangmyun at a Chinese restaurant, Gary suggested that we explore Wolmido which was a distance away from Incheon. After dinner, we took a stroll to Wolmido, a place which I suspect tourists and exchange students hardly venture because its kind off the beaten track. And right at the extreme western end of Seoul.
The stroll was approximately half the distance you take to walk from East Coast to Changi beach. Walk. Walk. Talk. Walk.
At last..!
They were having a carnival there and we went to amuse ourselves by watching people screaming and jumping while taking rides. The games were kind of expensive and furthermore, we just had our dinner and I didn't want to leave noodle puke on viking seats.
Viking about to smash into the building.
Scary movie! WasSuPpzzz
A game stall. Objective was to hit the plastic frogs and get them to land on the revolving metal plates. The more frogs you had the better your prize will be.
Ajumma demonstrating her power. Ppang!
While walking out of the carnival area, we heard exploding noises and we saw lights in the skies. Our eyes momentarily lit up too.
Fireworks ar!
We bought a 13 shots firework gun (? i don;t know the name of it) each and some sparklers.
Gary's explosive shot. My weak shot. Lol
No lanterns on Mid Autumn Festival. Sparklers and fireworks are pretty good substitutes too.
How come the image reminds me of F4. Oh no.
This guy bought 5 boxes of 'dynamites'. And lined them together. Spectacular display of fireworks. A pity fireworks photos are hard to take, so we didn't bother after several tries and ...just watched in awe as the iridescent projectiles exploded into Seoul night sky.
Lovely.
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