Busan Day 2

March 20, 2012

After yesterday's experience, I really hoped for a good nights sleep and start exploring. The sleep was ok except the little one was tossing and turning all night long. She woke up tired. In all the hotels I've stayed in most have blackout curtains. Here, not so much. Our window view was also where the sun rises. At the crack of dawn our room was bright orange. I really thought it was like 10am! It felt really late, but it was only 8am. I've been up before that but was trapped in between kk and Kevin. I didn't want to wake them, so I stayed put. We get up and get ready. It's time to explore.

Jagalchi Fish Market

We started by walking around and exploring the Yongdusan-Jagalchi areas. We are looking for food! We first headed over to the Jagalchi Fish Market, which I believe is the largest fish market there is. It was amazing to see how much fish and seafood there was! The had large clams, mussels, prawns, crab, lobster, king crab and of course fish! We are able to pick out what we wanted and some had restaurants attached to cook them for you. One place had large king crab and large lobster. Kevin says that the large lobster will look good on his plate. Maybe come back for dinner?

Locks couple left at the Busan Tower

We keep walking in search for food. We get into the Gwangbokro Shopping-Fashion street. There were plenty of shops. But we saw Juuwong's Bibimbap. Uh yeah, we are in Korea so we must have Bibimbap. Mmmm... It was so good. After eating we walked some more in the Fashion street. We started heading over to Yongdusan Park and Busan Tower. In the area we were at, they had what I called the stairway to the sun escalators. Three sets of escalators going up up up, but thing about the walk down down down was not looking good. We get up to some great views. We enjoyed the area and walked up to the Busan Tower area. I came here knowing the history , but Kevin had no idea about all the locks. Couples would go up to the towers and write their names and love notes on their licks and attach the locks on the rails at the Busan Tower. Aww yeah so cheesy. So cheesy that I made Kevin take a picture with me in this cheesy lovers bench with a large heart around it. I even made him smile. I did say I was going to lock him up here in Korea and leave him here. He was afraid. He behaved. LoL! I love my hubby.

After the tower we hopped on the Metro towards the Busan Station and to me to the motherland Which was Chinatown! Uh yeah, I was happy to see a Chinatown. The have a foreigners shopping area. We wondered the shops, but alot were not even opened yet. We saw a big sign that says "Welcome US Navy" I immediately thought of my little brother. I bet you that he has been here. They have so many bars and clubs that were catered to these soldiers. Later, we walked over to the Busan Station to check out what it had. We stopped at Dunkin Donuts for some coffee and donuts as we relaxed and discussed what to do next. Most of the time in vacation I would make a plan for everything. However, because we have a short time here and I just wanted to not stress and relax... I was ready to do anything at any moment. No plans, just go and do it.

Time to go and funny how we saw Filipino food and immediately I wanted Lumpia. Lol! We got some Lumpia, pancit and sinigang baboy. Holy cow, the dishes were made for soldiers. I just wanted a snack and we got a giant meal! It was delicious tho. It's time to take the kid back to rest up before heading back out to town at night. Remember that Korean snack stall I wanted to try in Biff Square? I got to try some and ooh it was yummy! It was like a Korea pancake filled with brown sugar and sun flower seeds and other nuts? Not sure but it's so good we are going back. I will be trying all the other food snacks too. Most women want to go shopping to buy things, me? Neh, I love the experience through food. I love it. I told Kevin I'm happy. Lol! We still want to try the Korean BBQ and that seafood place in Jagalchi market. Tomorrow we are off to the Haeundae Beach area. It's suppose to be very nice. I'm looking forward to checking out Centum City the largest department store in the world! Keven wants to go to the beach and the casino. I didn't know Koreans were not allowed to gamble. The Paradise Casino hotel caters to all the international travelers.

After resting for about an hour, kk watched Terminator 2 while Kevin took a short nap. We all get back up to head out to Biff Square for some yummy snacks. Kevin was craving some Korean pancakes while kk and I tried the cream waffles. The waffles were good by the way. It wasn't overly sweet and the crunchy yet soft waffles were just perfect. I turn around and noticed that Kevin was lining up in the "wrong" pancake line. It wasn't the same cart we bought from earlier, but Kevin thought it was all the same. Of course, little did he knew he got harassed in a jokingly way that their pancakes were better. They were actually really cool and always had the long lines... For a reason. We walked around looking at other food stalls. We saw one with candied apples AND candied strawberries on a stick. Kk wanted to try it, so we buy one for her. It was actually really good! The candied strawberries we by far Kevin's favorite snack here. After walking around checking all the stalls, Kevin still felt a bit hungry so we looked around and we ended up at the BBQ beef grill place. We kept wanting to try it, but the problem was that we were not way hungry and they charged by person. Kk made the decision and said "lets stay and eat since you guys have been wanting to try this place. If you don't try now, you guys probably won't." We listened to our daughter and stayed. Man, the side dishes started coming out. I thought, don't let your food beat you Di. It's kinda a motto in my family. It was really cool since we were the only customers at the moment, the guy prepared everything for us and grilled the meat for us. He served us and showed us what to do as far as wrapping the meat with lettuce or grape leaf or just dipping in the different sauces. It was a great experience for me at least because I've seen this in Korean shows and always wanted to try. Well, today I did. Happy Birthday Di! :-)

We head back to the hotel in total food coma. Before calling it a night we stopped by George and Corina's to wish Corina a happy birthday. Her birthday is just one day before mine. We had a slice of cake and chatted about our days here in Busan. Happy birthday to our friend Corina!