A trip to Seomyeon

After visiting Gamcheon Culture Village, I made my way to Seomyeon, another district in Busan. There was supposedly a picturesque cafe street there, but not being on top of my list, I somehow forgot to look for it. :P

First I went around looking for lunch. There were plenty of restaurants there, and I settled on a spicy stir-fried squid place. It was one of the better meals I had in Korea (most were lackluster :P ) Except that…the intestines were unchewable; I regretted taking a mix of squid, prawn, and intestines. Squid would have been enough…or squid and prawn.

rice and side dishes

there was a jar of seaweed at the table

that's the jar with the seaweed

they come and stir (cook) it for us

ready to dig in!

It looks yummy...and it is! Except that the intestines were really too tough, I couldn't even bite through them. And what's more, they seemed to be coated with a lot of fat. See this piece below:

I loved the seaweed mixed into the rice together with the spicy sauce. So I still liked the meal. I just wished I hadn't added intestines!

After this experience, I swore off eating intestines in Korea (I had had another dish earlier where the intestines were also a little too chewy for my taste). 

Lunch concluded, I walked around the streets. There wasn't very much that I found interesting. I visited the Lotte store, which was not exactly interesting either, except that I found Lee Junho there. 

But first, outside Lotte there were these statues:

The lifts were interesting (and confusing), because some lifts had even floors only, some had odd floors only, and this one goes directly to the Lotte duty free (if I remember correctly) on the 8th floor. I managed to take a photo when there was no one in the lift.

And here we have Lee Junho as the Lotte ambassador!

selfie with him

Super Junior was there too, and a few others...but I don't care about them. :P

There are some cute Hello Kitty wearing Korean costumes...

...and Pokemon!

While walking around Seomyeon I saw a road with some food stalls...but it's not like I had any more space in my stomach :P I didn't really go and take a proper look because it looked deserted (I guess people were working; it was a Friday afternoon!)