Out of Norm Travels

I had a beautiful evening joining fellow foodies (and alcoholics) on the O'ngo Night Dining Tour organised by O'ngo Food Communications . My guide Amy was new but peppered her tour guiding with little walks around town area and showing us snippets of Korean life such as where to get the dog meat (if you are into such things), customary way of drinking different types of Korean wine (rice wine, filtered rice wine, plum wine and beer with coke and shoju).  We started the evening binge with traditional Korean BBQ with pork pancreas along the back alley of Seoul. That got my attention as i usually eat that with beef or normal parts of the pork. Worth a try and a super Sumptuous start to the tour nevertheless since Amy paired the BBQ meal with beer with coke and shoju which we had to down in 1 gulp. My Hong Kong companion commented that it reminded her of the old 'Tai Pai Dong' or street food stalls in old Hong Kong. Indeed she was spot on for that.  ...

My quick snap reviews of the things done in my short visit to Seoul - this is part 1 which will cover:  (1) Seoul Airport Transit Tour - 5 hour Seoul Culture Tour This is a literally a hop-skip-jump type of tour in a bus - after you make your way to the transit tour desk, you are gathered to travel to Dongdaemun Design Plaza to get your record shots before heading to Gyeongbokgung ( 경복궁 ), also known as Gyeongbokgung Palace or Gyeongbok Palace , is a royal palace located in Seoul. The name means "Palace" [ Gung ] "Greatly Blessed by Heaven" [ Gyeongbok ]- h ere's some record shots of this transit tour: Dongdaemun Design Plaza Pano of Gyeongbokgung Palace Gyeongbokgung Palace (2) Hanok Stay at WWOOF Guesthouse  A hanok stay came highly recommended by friends familiar with Korea so I took the plunge to get into WWOOF , a Hanok traditional Korean house stay for the 3 nights I was in Seoul. Mind you, it's an e...