Last day in Busan & 10 hours in Shanghai

DarKFoRcE

Germany1215 Posts

January 03 2012 22:15 GMT

First of all sorry for the delay with this last blog entry, the truth is that we lost the cable so we couldn’t upload the pictures >_<
So it was sadly our last day in Korea, after two amazing weeks. We definitely weren’t looking forward to it but we had to leave. We decided to choose our favorite places and go back for our last meals. In the morning the Spicy Bulgogi and Dumplings, and in the evening Shabu Shabu and “some” sweets from the amazing Paris Baguette.
The dumplings were as good as always, and the guys there were incredibly nice to us, they told us we should definitely come back and see other parts of Korea, and we got our dumplings for free as a goodbye gift ^^ . When we got to the Bulgogi place, everything was reserved, so they let us sit in the back room. It was a funny experience to sit there between coats, boxes and such. The sides were completely different from the previous times… they were better :D
Shabu shabu, which we only (sadly) discovered 2 days before leaving, was amazing. The first time we failed kinda hard cause we didn’t season the broth, and just found out til the end (it was still good though). So this time we were decided to make it right this time, and we think we did. Not only the food was amazing, but just like in general (something we felt several times while in Korea) the overall relaxed and friendly environment in which meals take place was really nice, just sitting on the floor is a nice experience already.
Next day we flew really early to Shanghai, where we had a 10 hour stop, before flying to Germany. We thought, due to visa requirements and such, that we would have to spend the time in the airport and we were so not looking forward to that. We decided to ask nonetheless, and to our surprise the guy who helped us spoke really good German ^^ He told us we were allowed to go out, and told us how to get to the city, we had to take the Maglev!
After we had to take the subway, we thought we would get horribly lost, but to our surprise, Chinese subway is super friendly, and people are always willing to help. We managed to get to People’s Square Plaza without getting lost. Shanghai is such an impressive city, you stand the in the middle of the plaza just looking everywhere.
We found a restaurant not so far from there, and we tried Sweet & Sour Pork Chops, which were outstanding, and some Szechuan Beef, it was good but spicy. We walked around Shanghai, tried some street vendors stuff, like dumplings, breads, candies, etc. and in the night we went back to the same place and try Soy Sauce Chicken, which was some weir part of the chicken so it was a bit annoying to eat, and some Honey Glazed Pork, which was quite good. And then our vacations were over, but we really look forward to going back and trying more of that amazing food ^^

Spicy Bulgogi

Shabu-Shabu

Ready to start cooking ^^

Bakery

People's Square in Shanghai

Szechuan Beef... so spicy

Dumplings

Nighttime in Shanghai

Toy shop ^^

Honey Pork

So tired

Check out the entire album in FB (around 50 pics ^^ ... we took more than a 100 of China alone )

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Seeker

Where dat snitch at?36905 Posts

January 03 2012 22:27 GMT

........................ Now..... I'm..... hungry.....

AMAZING BLOG DARKFORCE!!!

Mr. Wiggles

Canada5894 Posts

January 03 2012 22:43 GMT

I came for pictures of food. I was not disappointed.

Honey pork looks especially delicious!

GoSuChicken

Germany1726 Posts

January 03 2012 23:13 GMT

wholy shit that looks so delicious, want to eat asian right now!

monk

United States8476 Posts

January 03 2012 23:25 GMT

szechuan beef so good

MasterMonkey

United States96 Posts

January 04 2012 06:04 GMT

People's square is always an awesome place to go! I was roaming around there on New Year's Eve with some friends and it was packed! Did you get to see the Bund while you were here?