Jeju Island (Part 2)

Day 3 in Jeju continue our tourist journey with Seogwipo Maeil Olle Market. Not much shop lots are open in the morning, probably suggest you to come in the afternoon. After a few walks around the area, we decided to had a simple brunch in a random restaurant. The food is good though with moderate price.

 

 

Next stop to Cheonjeyeon Waterfalls, this place needs a lot of walking and climbing stairs with normal view and forest. Sad to say that Jeju is all about tourist spot with admission fee 2500 won for adult and 1350 won for teenager or children. Three different beautiful spots to take photos and here I have it all for you.

We are lucky to spot a double rainbow. *make a wish*

I know all three waterfalls look the same as they are all water falling from the top to the bottom. You can skip this tourist spot though, I personally don't enjoy. Anyway, I love this bridge with orange colour and beautifully carved with white for the nymphs, it's beautiful. Snap some jump shots for my sister and posted below is the best one out of all. My siblings' jump shot are all indeed good, not like those multiple shots and choose one kind, it's a one jump one shot, I call it professional :P

Continue to O'sulloc tea museum which is also where the Innisfree shop located but no discount though. I bought my Innisfree products in Jeju International Airport while waiting for our flight, the duty free shop there is worth to shop, all with good discount, a better deal compared to Seoul. Coming back to talk about the tea here, it's so so good! I like almost everything here though it's expensive compared to other cafes definitely worth it! The cafe is full of people, you do find a hard time to find a place to seat

We ordered a bit of everything to try. We later bought three more ice cream to munch on, that green tea crave is real, you get a mouthful of rich green tea flavour. One cup of green tea ice cream price at 4500 won. The green tea roll price at 15000 won per roll, you can opt to buy an individual size cake for the price of 4500 won. This green tea roll is good too! The cream is not the oily feel you normally get, it's so rich that it literally melt into in mouth with the combination of green tea, it's perfect together. Given if you are a green tea lover, you might not want to miss this cafe. We bought also two different teas to try which are green tea and oolong if not mistaken each cost 7000 won. I bought back also three packs of ice green tea bags cost 15000 won containing 20 sachets each. I found this amazing as it works with cold water, not the usual tea bag you need hot water to heat up the leaf for good aroma. I suspect it's a freeze dried concept but kinda impossible to see the texture of it and the price of it.

Took some photo with all the good background. My candid photo looks better compared to those I smile awkwardly in front of the camera, in need to learn how to pose, learn and always forget, I need a great tutor and photographer :P

Pass by this Hyeopjae beach which is beautiful and decided to come down from the car and relax for awhile before we continue our journey to Lotte Mart to buy some Korea food. I love shopping in grocery even in Malaysia to the cold storage, noodles and biscuit section. You get a little surprise every time you explore new things and good food. Now that I started to learn a bit on reading food labels, I get to explore more.

Our dinner is indeed an expensive and luxurious meal, costing us 93000 won. It's a 5 star Michelin black pork restaurant, all the dishes served here is indeed high class even the utensil used. Look at all the side dishes below, it's more than the usual including two steamed egg and two big bowls of salad too. And the variety of wrap vegetable is unique where you can see herbs and fern type such as perilla leaf where it gives the mint flavour to the pork make it taste a lot healthier. The owner served us with lots of vegetables refill letting us try different varieties of wraps which magically do differ from one another. The one on top on the frying pan side dishes are suppose to absorb the fats from the pork and making it more flavourful but it turns out quite oily we don't dare to eat much. Overall it's a great experience got treated like a princess as it's quite late at night and we turn out to be the last customer before they close shop, we got all the attention and services all by ourselves.

 

 

Checking out our Airbnb early in the morning on Day 4 in Jeju as it's a one hour journey from where we stayed to the airport. But before that, we do go to check out another market before returning the rented car. Jeju Dongmun Traditional Market is it! Lot's of fresh seafood you can see here but we didn't try any so do braised pork knuckles, blood sausage and even pig's head which is very scary! I'm here just to find Omegi rice cake which said to be a must try here in Jeju. Sadly the expiry date is short as I planned to buy it back as Souvenir back to Malaysia but it's not a preserved food so we randomly bought a few flavours to try out there.

Had a simple lunch in the airport before we leave to Busan, our last station in Korea. Try out bibimbap and jajangmyeon where both of these dishes are the one we haven't get to try and it's mean to be the signature dish of Korea. Both are good. In Korea, I find out the meal we had in airport is usually cheaper but all are self-service, you need to pay first, wait for your alarm to vibrate and collect your food from the counter.

 

Next up will be my favourite place of all in Korea - Busan!

Jeju Island (Part 1)

Flight delay so reaching Jeju airport near 10 pm. We later then proceed to Jeju auto house car reservation with the shuttle bus they had and finally got our car after 30 minutes. We are the last customer, they are all waiting for us to settle so that they can close shop and go back home. So sorry for that waiting as we took quite some time to confirm everything, thought it's 24 hours working.

So this is our car driving at midnight with GPS on our first day, our Airbnb rented house located one hour journey from the airport. With a different driving side (left), we actually drive quite slow to be safe. While me trying to connect to the free wifi in Korea to contact with our host here. She is really kind to stay up late just to welcome us, thank you very much. Her actual house is just beside the rented ones, she responds very fast to our request and enquiry, highly recommend this stay! Do have a look, it's a pretty neighbourhood with facilities we cooked instant noodles that night for our late dinner. She even help us with the big spider we screamed our lungs just looking at it :P

Had a simple breakfast at home and depart to Seongsan Ilchulbong as our first tourist spot. Read further here, the view is magnificent! A must go in Jeju if you had limited time, it had to be on the list.

Went to Kimyoung Maze Park with an entrance fee of 6000 won. We spent less than 10 minutes to walk out from the maze anyway. Are we too smart or it's just luck? We even played for the second round on competition base and finish the whole track within or less than 5 minutes. We actually spent time on taking photo more with this green background which is really pretty.

Another random chance to bump into this restaurant for lunch, it's located beside the road. The owner doesn't speak English, we literally order whatever from the menu, food turns out good and not really expensive tourist price.

This nature beauty I come upon, the web and spider built a stunning piece of art I decided to had a close up on it.

Manjanggul next, super cold you gotta bear with it because it turns colder as you step in. 2000 won for the entrance ticket, 1000 won or teenagers. Maybe someone who loves those stone, lava, pillar, stalactites or geography stuff will love it, as for me I just walk till the end, snapping some photo on the way, mind my step avoiding falling down as it's slippery and dark inside. Reaching the end, lots of people gather there snapping photo with that tall stone turtle they called it, a tall pillar formed by stalactites.

Dinner is the best food here in Jeju, a cannot miss too in Jeju recommend by our host. We queue for more than an hour in the cold weather strong wind to get into the restaurant for this awesome food! We take turn to hide from the wind in the car, we even visited the fruit stall and convenient stall nearby before we got served. Most of the customer is Korean, it's really famous among the local. This bowl of noodles with pork, the Korean called it the gogi guksu (pork noodle soup) and bibim guksu (mixed spicy noodle) taste really good! Too bad the plate of pork slice sold out, but the generous serving of pork slices comes with this big portion of noodles it's yet a big steal. Indeed really yummy, the wait with cold wind blowing till we freeze is not wasted at all, I would definitely come and wait for the second time :P

Bibim guksu 7000 won

Gogi guksu 7000 won

That's all for day 1 and 2 in Busan :)