Tea, tea and more tea.

[cerealjoe]

No matter how rave reviews are, you really can't bake a good pie on a large scale. There is this bakery, Tartine, in the "foreigner" part of town that's supposed to be one of the best Western style bakeries but really I could bake a pie with better crust and less starchy filling than what I'm eating. But hey, this is all done in the interest of science! Finding the best spots in Seoul where to bum around... and from what I can see this bakery has its regulars who already know the specials and damn I should have gone for today's special instead of rhubarb pie! It was one of those pot pies! This brings to today's main subject: I've made the decision to only go to touristy places if they're on the way. Otherwise it's just walking around streets and looking for good places where to sit. I'm starting to develop "jambes lourdes", I'm definitely starting to get old and feel the heat. I'm tired all the time, even though I'm drinking a lot I always feel that bad dehydration headache (the hangover kind of headache but without the alcohol). I will learn one day just how people around here survive, I will! Earlier, along what is possibly the most touristy street in the Anguk part of town I saw a sign for a "tea museum". Like I could miss that kind of thing! The sign ended up showing me down this shady street but the place was pretty awesome. It wasn't really a museum, just a place with lots of tea and I happened to arrive right before brunch hour was over. I got a plater of stuff, from the description I understood it would have red bean stuff and ice cream. It ended up being green tea ice cream, a little cake thing filled with red bean stuff and covered in jelly, some sesame rice cakes and whipped cream... and a cup of herb tea, I figured that if I was going to ingest huge amounts of tea, I might as well have some of the healthy kind. I then ended up at this other place at the end of another alley, they had all kinds of funky-sounding tea... I went for plum tea. And when you order tea you also get little cakes. BTW, if you get a card from Seoul this is the place where they were written! Tomorrow I'm going to be a total grown up and I'm going to go to Lotte World which is the local DisneyLand and it's indoors (except for one part). Let's say it's my way of putting off acting my age. OMG LOTTE DAMN WORLD! I haven't been to an amusement park in years. Like literally years. I can't even remember when was the last time. And this is like just ten metro stops or so away. Just look at all the stuff they have! I've been on that site for about an hour and I can't wait to get a map tomorrow and to explore. I'm thinking of going somewhere around 11am so that I can get lunch there (yes, in the overpriced places, I am silly like that)... I'm not sure if I'll be able to hang in there till the 9pm light show but who knows! OMG OMG OMG OMG *squee* (Korea is getting to me. I've never been excited to go to a huge structure like that. It must be the heat.)