After spending an afternoon at Changdeokgung Palace near Insadong, I decided to drop a visit to one of my favorite areas in Seoul-Insadong. Something about this place always warms my heart. The galleries, the street food vendors, traditional tea houses as well as the amazing Korean restaurants that won’t kill your budget! For 5,000-6,000 won, you can eat until your stuffed! Now that’s my kind of meal 🙂
This day was spent to pamper Sarah…I found the mandoo place that I so craved for all these years! ‘Sadong Myunok – 사동면옥’ is a famous mandoo (Korean dumpling) restaurant that my cousin took me to 4 + years ago, and couldn’t find it a few months ago. But this day, I just couldn’t leave Insadong until I found it. Their mandoo soup totally hit the spot, then picked up a ‘hoduk’ on my way to a tea house.

these handmade soaps are amazing! everything from ginseng soaps to ginger soaps...prices average 13,000-15,000 won

'hoduk' made out of corn...center filled with sugar syrup base. yum!!! my favorite street food in seoul!

mittens i bought for 10,000 won ($10)! too cute...but as soon as i bought it, i reached into my bag to grab the ones i brought only to find i lost one...oh the irony!
Hi, i love reading your blog, i was recently in Insadong (22Nov) and loving every bits of it, too bad i didnt get to try the mandoo that you where posting. Coincidentally, i also took the same pic (Insadong-gil 14 and the soap shop in Ssamszegil). Anyway, i am back to Malaysia and hope to revisit soon to spend more time in Insadong + SamChung-dong. Keep up the blog!
thanks for reading my blog! glad you had a great time in seoul! i’ll do my best in adding more posts, so stayed tuned 🙂
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