Friends and shots (홍대어딘가)

On an "early" morning we found ourselves at Itaewon, which is a type of foreign-friendly area in seoul (meaning, lots and lots of foreign food..and people^^') Annika had found this vegan restaurant she really wanted to try so we were on our way to check the place out~

The vegan restaurant was called "Plant" and being quite small, it can only fit around 10-13 people at a time.

UPDATE: They have launched a second shop closer to the Itaewon station, called cafe&kitchen with tons of space, leaving the first shop to represent the bakery-side of the Plant-chain.

Plant -restaurant in Itaewon

We ordered humus avocado salad and some tea~ the salad was okay, but because acovados were a little raw, I didn't enjoy the food so much. The bread and the humus were great though!^^

Afterwards we headed for a stroll in the near streets finding ourselves at garosu-gil, next to the line store and so~ well, we just had to go (again) and see what's new^^)/

LINE x muurla :O finnish design!

LINE x Arabia (!!) also Finnish design! What is happening here XD Finland represented way too well here XD

Also, before the garosu-gil adventure, Annika's amazing talent to find cute little cafes got us to this amazingly cute Banana tree -cafe near garosu-gil. It's quite small and pretty much has space for the maximum of 8 people in total so you need to go OFF-lunch and -coffee hours to fit in^^ But they offer one of the cutest desserts so you just HAVE to pay a visit to this one if you are in town!

flowerpot-dessert and cottoncandy-matcha with lattes were heavenly~ Totally recommended^^

Also, if you find this sop too tiny and cramped there are other shops around seoul-city, the newest one (and probably the biggest too) opened near Ttukseom station~

After our shopping-tour in garosu-gil it started raining and so we headed to hongdae-area where we were supposed to meet some of Annika's friends from Japan~ thankfully the rain stopped pretty soon and we were able to do some window-shopping while trying to find a place to eat and well~ drink^^ because it seoul and hongdae after-all~

All-in-all we went to 3 different restaurants/bars and had pretty fun time with our new friends, though~ because of the lateness while coming back, all the trains were out of service already and we needed to take a taxi^^' well luckily in seoul, taxis are SO CHEAP(!!) so our 3-4km taxi-ride cost only ~3€ (3,000 won) and we got home safe~

One of the bars we went offered a shot-plate (you can choose either 8,12 or 24 shots) and because there were so many of us, we decided to take the 24^^ all-in-all we took two of them plates~ so one person got 6-7 shots. I have to say, because the shots consisted mainly of vodka, and because we were in korea, they were not so strong (at least for us europeans~) so 7 shots was like drinking a glass of strong red-wine^^'

I'm so grateful we met these awesome people and that hopefully we can meet them again in japan~ but for now~

All the best,

Laura