There's a major holiday in Korea, Chuseok; Korean Thanksgiving Day which also coincides with what we call the mid-autumn festival. It's a 3-day holiday to allow Koreans to travel to and fro their hometown to celebrate with their family and it means joy for us, no school and more fun!
Sherri and I decided to visit a cultural tourist destination to get a feel of the traditional activities going on. Settled on our itinerary for the day to Namsangol Hanok Village just one stop away from Myeong Dong :D
Right after exiting the Chungmuro Station, we came across a food stall selling these cute bung-eo bbang filled with red bean paste and it's only 2 for 1000KRW, simple pleasures!
There we go! The gate was flooded with people before we even went in. I guess such places are crowded on such days since many shops in Chuseok are closed over the holiday so there's no much places to visit anyway.
There were tons for little pop-up tents where you can register for some traditional activities/games at a minimal fee.
E.g. Craft making
BFF and I are both fans of rice snacks so we were so excited to see this stall selling Injeolmi, which is basically glutinous rice cake covered with soybean powder.
This tray costs us 3000KRW but it didn't satisfy like we expected. It was almost tasteless and too dry to our liking, as opposed to the nice mochi/injeolmi found in patbingsu (shaved ice dessert).
Afterwards, we briefly explored the hanok since there weren't much we could do unless we paid to sign up for a course :(
What we always see in dramas eh?
So... I managed to get married into the royal household and become a ma-ma :b
Or maybe only just a commoner's family...
Or born in a normal household...?
We left after a short visit and headed for Myeong Dong's Lotte Mart to get some snacks/groceries before calling it off a day early since we were gonna hike the next day!
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