thoughts escaping my mind
29th December. I woke up super hungry in Seoul.
Out of the hotel, we turned around the corner and found noodles. We pointed at pictures without any real idea of what we ordered.
While waiting, we had the kimchi. Out of all the restaurants, I enjoyed this version of the kimchi best. The cold soup of raw vegetables reminded me that I’ve had very few greens and fruit on my US trip.
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Unlike my earlier trip to Hong Kong where I did a little reading on the country, I visited Seoul with zero expectations of it, except for my already-booked tour to the DMZ.
Besides the confusing names, arriving in about an hour late at around 6:45pm, it was dark, and after a flight where I barely got sleep, it felt like it was 11pm.
Okay, so off to Yosemite we head after LA.
At the famous Ahwahnee, with its massive (taller than me) fireplace, large dining hall etc, we were faced with a very limited yawn-inducing lunch menu of mainly sandwiches.
The service was slow. In this grand hall of 50 tables, only 5 were taken at the time we went in and most tables only had two-somes – we still had to wait a good twenty minutes for our sandwiches. Perhaps the assumption is that we’d love the grandeur of the dining hall so much that we would wait.
But hungry people do not have the stomach for good views. We were just waiting and wondering when food would come.
So some people have been bugging me about updates about my trip.
Since I’m already back for two days, I guess it’s long overdue. But this will only cover the US portion of the trip. Most food photos were taken with my mobile phone, in available lighting, no flash, so some were really crappy.
Anyway, here goes: