Korea Travels - Day 9, COEX and Hyundai Department Store

For lunch, we had pimbeembap. It is a mixture of rice, beans and barley with various vegetables on top. Added to it is sesame oil and red pepper paste. This was by far my favorite dish in Korea. Along with it, we had miso and a bowl of some sort of cooked bean that tasted similar to turkey, but had a texture like couscous. After having some wonderful pimbeembap, we headed to the Techno Mart. Techno Mart is an electronic shopping center. I highly recommend checking this out. It is floors and floors of electronics. The basement and 1st floor contains other department store items.

After Techno Mart, we headed to the COEX building. We were very surprised at all the shopping that can be done here. Especially surprising for me was the Hyundai Department Store. I have never seen a GM department store in the US. The department store was very nice. The basement level had all sorts of food that smelled wonderful. There was a place that only grilled toast. You could get it with cheese or other toppings. I thought that was funny; we wouldn’t see anything like that in the US, either.

Here are some skyline pictures from this area.