Friday, July 14, 2017

Seoul 2017 Day 5 Part 2: CoEx Mall, Gangnam Underground Shopping and Sinchon Dinner

From common ground we headed to CoEx Mall.


Online a lot of people liken this to Singapore's Suntec City mall... and I agree. The mall is HUGE AND CONFUSING. Like there is only one floor but the floor space is.... sooooooo huge. Got lost a couple of times, coz we walk walk walk until we somehow ended up at the casino and cannot go back. When you enter the mall... look left AND TAKE AN ENGLISH MAP. PLS LOL.

We also... did not find this place very interesting for shopping:/ The most interesting thing was actually this amazing display of books. Supposedly it was a library... really wonder how does it works??


Like wowwwww


There were too many restaurants elsewhere and coz we hungry we ended up going to the food court and just ordering all the korean food haha.




We skipped the aquarium... coz we lazy.


aiyo this place is just seriously huge larrrrr


one of the main attractions for CoEx mall was the SM Town area. There were displays to see for costumes etc as well as the awards won by SM Artists. This place is quite easy to spot once you exit the mrt, but we went there last.

Not bad lah! Quite a lot to see :D



But the merch. lol. super ex. like who can even afford these?! Oh but anyway you can get albums here too. Even albums as old as 2012... I think


I was stopped from taking photos and videos so okay.

There was a cafe as well but.... nope

on the top floor there was even a movie theater for like holograph movie what not, and also a panel of posters that you can actually purchase and put in your room O_O


We then headed to Gangnam Shopping Centre which is located just above gangnam station. We were a bit confused as to which exit, but just anyhow leave la haha...



Look at the crowd wahhh


There is actually a lot of shops but... I see a lot of repetitions in terms of the clothing, the layout was quite confusing as well and the design of the clothes.... seemed to pale in comparison to goto mall. Perhaps I have already bought a lot of stuff, so that is why it was boring. But please do not go during the peak hour... it is a mess.

We walked up to ground level of gangnam and walked from gangnam station to sinnonhyeon station. Along the way there is actually a lot of place to eat... but tbh there is very little blogs talking about gangnam area and the food...

sooooo we headed to Sinchon instead to look for samgyupsal and other bbq food.
We thought every branch would be good. NO. Tbh we cannot know which restaurant is really the best and we were looking around for a restaurant..... argh whatever

I must say though, we ate beef twice at two different restaurants... and it was terrible. Even if they call it premium whatever nonsense... it tasted bad. Only the pork tasted good enough...


We ate here.... not nice. Not recommended :/ Though it looks good la


Sinchon has a lot of things to see and eat like cafes and bingsu and mostly bbq places. But we were very very very tired and it was already like 10pm wow...

And that ends out second last day in Seoul!