Hongdae Fun Times!

So tonight is our last night at the guesthouse in Hongdae! I'm sure we'll be back to hang out in Hongdae, the nightlife is really fun. There's great food and shops and street performers!

Last night Caitlin and I ate REALLY spicy noodles at Noodle Box, then rushed to find some pat bingsoo to cool down our mouths and stomachs. Pat bingsoo (팥빙수) is kind of like ice cream. It's shaved ice mixed with sweetened condensed milk. It's usually served with sweet red beans, but lots of places have fun flavors like oreo or strawberry, etc. Caitlin and I decided to be daring and try the pumpkin flavor. It wasn't bad, but tasted more like acorn squash than pumpkin.

After that we walked around and watched some street performers. One guy was saying the name of the English song he was going to play and he called Caitlin and me out, "Can you understand my English!?" I responded, "네, 너무 잘 했어요!" (Yes, you spoke very well!) Which made everyone watching laugh. Another group of street performers were middle school or high-school aged boys. They were really flustered and embarrassed, but they were pretty talented. Caitlin and I watched them for awhile because we wanted to encourage them and we also found it funny how we made them kind of nervous. We could hear them talking about us at one point, probably because they didn't know that we understood Korean. XD

Tonight we went to Hongdae again and found the Eat Your Kimchi Nasty Studios! Eat Your Kimchi is a couple who started out as teachers in Korea, but now run a blog all about Korea and kpop and stuff. Caitlin and I are fans, so we took a picture of their studio!

Later, we were approached by some guy who was talking to us in English and asking where we were from. He told us that he was producing a music video and somehow talked us into letting him film us doing a head-bobbing dance. Soooo embarrassing!

But there was a group of a young Korean girls with signs waiting around so Caitlin and I waited around too and a kpop group showed up! Caitlin and I hadn't heard them before, but we read from some of the signs that they're called History. They were pretty cool, and the cutest one waved at us!

We've definitely had a fun time! Will definitely be hanging in Hongdae more in the future!