Day 3: Gwangjang Market and Insadong

Day three of our adventure in Seoul took us to Gwangjang Market with Lindsay and her hubby Ryan!

Alex and I made our way to the Swoboda's apartment and met up with them to start our walk to the subway. This was my first day really ridding the subway. It was great to travel with the Swobodas who know their way around the busy city.

I was in for quite a surprise once I got to the market. There was people everywhere! I have never seen so many people crammed into so little space! I would soon learn that this was a common thing in South Korea.

There were booths set up creating isles for us to stroll down. People were selling anything you could think of. My favorite part was all the different kinds of food that were being offered. They were selling seafood, soups, deserts, meats, fruits, vegetables, anything your heart desired. 

We stopped for lunch while we were here as well. We picked a booth that looked good and sat down and ordered a dumpling like soup called mond guk. The soup was pretty spicy but so yummy! We gobbled it up and then started on our potato pancakes. They. Were. AMAZING! 

They make the pancakes right in front of you. It was so interesting to watch them make the yummy cakes!

We strolled around the market for a little after we ate and looked at what people were selling. 

Our next leg of the trip that day was to Insadong. Insadong has to be my favorite market that we went to the entire time I was there. So it was a quick ride on the subway and we were in Insadong. We did a little souvenir shopping and stopped at a unique tea house for a little warming up!

Lindsay wanted to take us to the Bird Tea House but the owner was on vacation so instead we went to the tea shop next door.

It was nice and worm inside, a welcomed change from the chilly weather outside. We all settled into a booth once we were inside. I was not surprised that we needed to take off our shoes to sit in the booth and I was more than happy to take them off and relax and enjoy some tea. I ordered the hot pear tea and Alex ordered the cold lemon tea. 

It was a great way to end a day wondering around Seoul chatting and catching up with good friends. I'm so glad that we had Lindsay and Ryan with us to show us around some very interesting parts of the city.