Seoul Food

Since I’m already pretty behind on my posts, I figured I’d summarize my trip. I pretty much spent most of my time visiting various districts of Seoul just soaking in the city.

I ate lots and lots of random bakery and street food, pretty much everything I saw that was vegetarian, went into my mouth!

It’s actually really hard to get a vegetarian meal in Korea, pretty much everything has meat in it, but substitutes can be made pretty easily.
Of course without English menus, you have to make sure you don’t accidently order a dish that is all meat.

I did visit a few vegetarian restaurants, although the food was fairly disappointing.

There was one brunch in Itaewon, which is the sketchy foreigner (multicultural) area of Seoul, hoping to get some traditional breakfast from home, this was what we ended up with.

Asia is full of awesome snacks and drinks that aren’t available back home.

My absolute favourite would have to be Banana flavoured Milkis. Milkis is a carbonated milk-soda that’s similar to Japan’s Calpico/Calpis. I could only find Banana milkis at the one convienience store near my friend’s house, nowhere else in Seoul!
There’s also lots of banana flavoured uyu (the Korean word for milk!)

One crazy splurge I made was buying a $4.5 cupcake from the Hyundai department store in Apgujeong (the rich Yorkville area of Seoul, like Yorkville, pretty much all the shops, including the burger shacks had Valet!). It was unfortunate that the cupcakes weren’t fresh and actually rather stale :(.

Lots of other random foods here:

The Krispy Kreme and Dunkin Doughnuts are a million times better and have a much more diverse menu than back home.