Yummy Korean Food

As I posted previously, I went to S. Korea last May 28 to June 01, 2013. Here are some food that I tasted there, all yummy.

May 28 I was in Seoul, I visited a good friend, Dr. Chung-ho Kim, an Economics Professor at Yonsei University. He treated me to lunch in one canteen at his university. This meal is only Won 5,000, roughly US$5. Student price indeed, and still delicious.

May 29, we moved from Seoul to Jeju, an island south of Korea mainland. These are some of our buffet lunch food at Haevichi Hotel & Resort, the venue of the Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity. I like the food.

Another set of food at the lunch buffet table.

The three red meat meals below were for our three dinners at the Grand Ballroom of the hotel. The burger meal, lower left, I think it was our lunch at a restaurant at Jeju airport upon landing from Gimpo airport in Seoul.

June 01, departure day. My Malaysian friend, Wan Saiful Wan Jan, treated me to lunch at a small restaurant outside the hotel. Our last meal in Jeju before we flew back to Incheon airport, for our respective flights to Manila and Kuala Lumpur. It is a homy resto.

We were not able to finish our food as more viands came.

Thanks for the lunch treat, Wan. And thanks of course to EFN Asia for bringing us to Jeju for the conference.

Haevichi Hotel & Resort, The Interiors

This sprawling hotel and resort has wide open space, wide alleys, and wide, big guest rooms.

This is my room. It has a complete kitchen facilities – stove, cooking pans, plates, knives, spoon and fork, cups, etc. They are all inside those cabinets. So if people want to cook their own food, they can buy raw food in nearby shops outside the resort, walking distance, and cook inside their guest room.

 The dinning table, which became my work area. There is wifi everywhere in the hotel – guest rooms, lobby, meeting rooms, grand ballroom.

I think all guest rooms have 2 or more bedrooms. This is my bed, with own toilet inside, own air-con, but no tv.

TV room, playroom. Inside the cabinets on the right are many pillows, blankets and bed sheets. So one can lay them down and watch tv or play in this area. One can also watch tv from the sofa, beside the dinning table.

The high tech toilet bowl, yes, this is what I always look forward to when I stay in a Korean or Japanese hotel. The seat bowl itself is heated, and see the various buttons on the left – just push any of them to choose washing your behind: warm water, room temp water, moving sprinkler, warm air to dry your behind, really cool. This same toilet bowl is also present in the toilet inside the bedroom.

The bathroom with two showers but no bath tub. Nice and cool. I like the warm water of course, it was still cold in Korea last month. 

They do not give complimentary toothbrush, toothpaste and shave for men though, only a liquid soap and shampoo.

The buffet breakfast restaurant of the Resort wing. Nice food. The cakes, cookies, other food on display though, are not part of the breakfast, for sale separately.

Haevichi Hotel & Resort, Part 2

When I posted Part 1 of this hotel, I did not realize that there is another swimming pool, an indoor with heated water, in the main hotel building. I was roaming around the resort building areas, in front of my room then.

Children would definitely love this pool as it is heated, so they can swim even during winter or spring time.

That's one beauty of this big and sprawling hotel, it has lots of open spaces.

Inside this structure. The water could be at 35 C or warmer, nice to take a dip. I discovered this after I have checked out, argh.

Side and back view of the hotel building.