Seomun Market

I forgot my camera today for the first time so far! So mad at myself. Sorry for the lack of pictures in this post, but maybe I'll go back to Seomun Market sometime and take a few. Seomun Market is a really well known and HUGE market in Daegu. It's a traditional kind, and vendors sell anything from street food to textiles to jewelry and clothing. It's a crazy maze of shops that you could totally get lost in. There is a main archway the serves as the entrance, and there are people selling food all down one street, but if you walk down any of the alleyways, you get into a covered area where there are people selling food and others selling clothing. There are also people selling typical street food that you walk with, but some people were sitting at make-shift restaurants, which were basically just old women making food in front of a few benches. Gianni and I didn't know the protocol about going to one of them, but the food smelled delicious no matter where you went. There's an outside part of the market, a covered part, and an inside part. Inside, there are at least 4 floors of clothing, jewelry, ceramics, and textiles, including a fish market and food court type thing on the bottom floor. I bought a far too expensive jacket for me to be buying right now, but it's soooo cool. It's like a sort of trench on the outside, but you can zip it up, and it has a hood like on a hoodie with stripes on the inside of the hood. Anyway, really cool, but I should have haggled. I got a bit nervous to though. Woops! Live and learn.

After looking around the crazy big market and not being sure if we'd walked past something before or not, we decided to take the train back to banwoldang and go downtown to get some food. My feet were killing me by this time. We ended up at a sushi buffet place. There was tons of sushi on conveyor belts. They just brought sodas over to us, even though we didn't ask, which was a little weird. They gave us tea bags, and I think we found the hot water dispenser on the table, but the water didn't seem to be hot...Anyway, we ate a little, but this was before we knew it was a buffet, so we didn't want the bill to be really high if we ate too much. When we paid, we figured out it was a buffet, so we should have eaten more. Oh well. It was a little pricy for lunch, and the sushi was only alright.

Our feet were dying, so we're back at the apartment now chilling until dinner. I think we are going to cook chicken tonight :). Oh! Forgot to say: I made pancakes this morning. They turned out pretty good in my opinion, and I had some maple syrup at home to eat with them, so yay!