18 April 2023
Fire chicken
Buldak in Seomyeon
Last night in Busan. 45k step day. Better go back to Seomyeon.
If I ever come here again I would like to stay in Seomyeon, it has all the best places to eat. Tonight I ate in a place I have eaten at twice before, but I had something different because it is a fancy food court with many choices.
Buldak is a notorious flavour of instant noodles. Notorious for being too spicy to eat or something. I do not believe this to be true at all, although according to wikipedia 'It is considered one of the spiciest instant noodles available in the Korean market, with the original packet having 4,404 Scoville units'.
Of course the instant noodles flavour is based on an actual dish, which is a delicious bowl of boneless chicken on rice.
The waitress did the usual too spicy song and dance routine but I just kept giving a thumbs up to her warnings until she agreed. It was delicious, but nothing I would consider ridiculous.
Anyway, tomorrow I go back to Seoul, the full length of the country on the train. It takes less than 3 hours.
The Lotte store at Seomyeon is gold coloured and has grown a hotel out of it's roof.
Late afternoon blue hour. The air quality index is still in the 300's but it does not look too bad in this photo. They have AQI readers and LED signs on street corners and in subways. In the subway it is about 100.
This line of orange tents are all street food stalls. They stay open all winter when they seal them up and you all smoke and breath charcoal smoke and each others lung excretions together. That was a fun sentence.
Ahhh, this is the place with the great food court, I remembered it from previous visits. I knew once I saw it that my dinner would come from here.
There are a few food levels, my choice is the one with the fake food trucks. The formal dining level is of course off limits to the likes of me.
A shabu shabu train. Like a sushi train except you take the hot pot ingredients off the train. So much plastic!
And here is my Buldak. It kind of looks like something I might make myself.
All that was left to do was a few more shots of neon. Like I said, Seomyeon seems like the place to be.
I cannot quite figure out what was going on inside Fantasia, they have an indoor merry go round and a limited edition zero calorie soft drink. And yet they have crowd control. I suspect it is just somewhere to pay to go and take your photo?
2nd to last Busan neon shot.
And a vertical one for my final one. A lot of the streets around here are very reminiscent of Japanese neon streets, lots of Japanese food places too.