Hotel food

Jul 20 was a designated lazy day, other than being by the pool side, I don't remember what else we did. It wasn't a bad idea to do that when traveling with a toddler and two retirees.

We started the day by having a BIG breakfast at the hotel. There were so many people at the hotel, it was like a mad house at the reception area. Luckily, a staff asked if we wanted to go to the back room for our breakfast. The decor was "not as grand" according to her description. To me, it was about the food (the front room was pretty good and the back would better serve the same menu), I didn't really mind the decor. It was a pleasant surprise. To make up for the "poor" decor (which in my opinion, the back room was more spacious and delightfully simple comparing to the front), there was a playroom for kids with attentive staff to babysit and a children's buffet table which they didn't have in the front room. The food for children was not bad, fried chicken, french toast, fries, risotto (veg), egg, pancake, banana crepe. I was happy that we moved to the back. The food for adult was good too. They served Korean and Western breakfast. I didn't know why but I loved the chicken teriyaki. The milk was thicker and tastier than the one I could get in Hong Kong. On our first day, there was a big bowl of Banana. It might be very cheap to buy banana in Hong Kong, it is a luxurious item in Korea. People were like ants over honey at the fruit table.

We didn't really wait for long after breakfast. Soon, we were in the pool. Changunnie was happy to play with (or more accurately, approach) the other kids at the pool. I don't really understand why whilst there were tons of kids in the pool, they only played with their parents. It's like they were told to be wary of strangers regardless of the age of the strangers (i.e. include other infants and toddlers). And, there were lots of Russians around. Did I say that in a previous post? They wore really strange swimsuits (tiny speedo and ridiculous bikinis that can't really wrap their relatively large bodies) and they didn't swim. They were slow cooking themselves under the sun until they were red like a cooked lobster.

We had a cheeseburger and a pot bingsu (팥빙수) fruit, red bean and ice cream on ice by the pool. The patty was juicy but my complaint was about the bun. It got very soggy within 2 minutes. The pot bingsu was good though. It was a big enough bowl for the family to share. Grandma and Grandpa were no where to be seen and we only found out later on that they went "eye shopping" (Korean for window shopping) in the tourist area.

By the time we made it back to the room, our skins were all wrinkly and it took a while to wash off the pool water smell. Changunnie was hungry again and we ordered room service. It was hard for Changunnie to make up her mind and so we ordered the spicy wings with salad and a big pizza. She ate the good part and I ate all the left over. I was too full to have a proper dinner and wanted to stay back to take care of some work (i.e. rinse the swimming suits and to do my home spa thing). Daddy, Grandma and Grandpa took Changunnie to town to have a Korean-Japanese meal. Apparently, they had lots of sushi and tempura.....