Sapundong, my neighborhood
I haven't posted pictures of my neighorhood in all the time I've been here! Before I post anything else, I thought I should do this before it gets away from me and I forget completely. It's been a long work day so bear with me!
To the left, picturess 1, 2, & 4 are shots around my apartment building. #2 is the main entrance to my building. To get in you either use a card or punch in a passcode. Picture #3 is my main mode of transportation although right now the chain's broken so I've been walking to work for the past several days. Apparently there's some old guy I can take the bike to, just haven't done it yet.
Below these is our new neighborhood coffee shop, Sleepless in Seattle. It's not my favorite cafe in Korea, that honor goes to DaVinci's Coffee, but it's nice to have this place where I can go on the weekends to sip at a latte and study Korean. Sometimes I bug the baristas for pronunciation help and they're always super nice and happy to help. Admittedly, business is a little slow there so they're probably happy to have something to do with the lag of customers.
The place with the orange sign is... well, there's no US equivalent. I guess if I was going to compare it to anything it'd be like a diner. These places serve food like the ever popular kimbap, bimbimbap, mandu, ramyen, just to name a very few of the many and all for affordable prices, generally 4000 won or less.
The Bread Baking Happiness is also right across from my apartment where you can buy any assortment of pastries, from muffins, to cookies, to breads, and even Spam sandwiches! I kid you not. I still prefer Paris Baguette which is more of a chain so more variety, but since I'm lazy I generally go the Happy Bakery.
Last picture is of a Korean BBQ! Yum! They serve galbi, marinated pork. The servers send the seasoned meat to your table and you cook it yourself on the burners situated in the middle. Then you dip your meat in the various seasonings, add some garlic or rice and wrap it up in a lettuce leaf and it is amazing yumminess.
Which reminds me. Gotta eat!
