Here are some photos from Busan, Korea! I brought my DSLR with me, but ended up not taking any photos with it. I love my camera, but it’s so chunky and heavy, and I had so much other baby stuff to carry..so all these photos were taken with my iPhone.
Looking back on the trip, most photos are food photos. I love Korean food, and Andy’s aunt made sure that we ate a lot..
Above photos are “Korean traditional course meal” as Andy’s aunt described it. For 45 straight minutes the restaurant staff brought endless different dishes and we were super stuffed by the end.
After that meal, we ended up going to a cafe for coffee and desert. While in Busan I kept seeing this thing (left bottom picture). It was what looked like a huge piece of toast with gobs of whipped cream on top. Is that a Korean thing? I’ve never seen that in Japan or the States! We were trying to be good but the next morning, we could not help trying it! It was delicious. I plan on imitating that some morning..it seems super easy, just toast a huge piece of bread, put butter, caramel or chocolate syrup and whipped cream on top of it and eat. The simple pleasures in life!
We took a stroll in the morning near beach.
Here are some shots of hotel we stayed. It was facing the beach, but it was a bit too cold to get in the water.
Next day, we went to a place called Nampodong. It is a shopping area, full of small shops next to each other. It was a bit hard to move around with a stroller. I found some fabric and notions shops. I usually like to buy some fabric whenever I travel to a new place, but I could not find anything uniquely Korean there.. so I ended up buying some invisible zippers! (boring). They were signfiantly cheaper than the ones in Japan though.
Andy ran out of clean underwear during the trip, so he picked some up. Much to his chagrin, Korean male underwear as it turned out, does not have a pee hole cut out in the front?! So I asked the sales lady why that’s the case, and she said Korean guys don’t like that the fabric flops open when they sit, so that is why there was no hole. So strange!
The onigiri (rice balls) pictured above was our sad dinner when it poured outside, as mentioned in previous posts we had a war with Kiko and could not go out for dinner. We picked those onigiri up at the 7-11 that was conveniently located downstairs of our hotel.
The last day we went to Lotte department store in downtown Busan. It was very nice, there was a musical water fountain thing going on, and we had some supersized Cold Stone ice cream!
Already looking forward to our next vacation 🙂
Sue says
Hi, Chie
It’s nice to see your korea trip photos. It makes me feel home sick.especially many Korean food photos. I love love that one rice cake in red spicy sauce(we call tuck- pok-ki). I never ever can find in Switzerland where i’m living in.
I’m not fom Busan but love to go there. many cute stuffs and nice places to go.
I went to Busan with my hubby and kids too. Luckily my family has a holiday house there and they helped us to stay comfortably.
I understand it’s not that easy to travel with little baby. But you seem did very well.
I went to Osaka and Tokyo when my first son was 2 year old. well… Tokyo wasn’t easy place travel with baby too. We couldn’t go out to eat dinner so we brought Onigiri to room too. I had to laugh when i read your Onigiri story. You can believe me. It will be getting better and better to travel with kid. You shouldn’t stop to bring baby out. She needs to practice too.
Chie says
hi sue, aww sorry that the food pics made you feel home sick! i hope you have a good access to asian food in where you live?! the tuck-pok-ki was delicious! i have to get some of those again in korea town here in japan!
Hana K. says
LOL at the underwear thing! Maybe it was just at that store? Cuz my husband definitely has some that do have the openings…
Do you know any Korean or did you just get around with English?
Chie says
hi hana! yea the underwear thing was so weird! my husband bought a couple of pairs not knowing that there were no holes, and i kept seeing the very tight underwear for men at stores. so i asked andy’s aunt, who speaks korean to ask the store clerk why. no i dont speak any korean! :p