Seoul Day 2

We visited Dongdaemun Design Plaza. The building was designed by Zaha Hadid, super cool and fluid. Cross between a jelly bean and spaceship, with cool statues scattered throughout.  It's hard to tell the scale here, but the photo below with Zoe in it gives you a better sense.

Splitting nude

Zoe is the tiny girl in blue...statue in the background gives you a sense now for how big it is.

The inside is just as cool, it reminded me a bit of the Guggenheim in New York.

Too many cool things to take photos of, here's a brief summary:

The girls also got 3D printed at the design center. They use about 100 cameras to capture your whole body.  We haven't received them yet, though, as it takes a couple of weeks to get printed. Phoebe had to take out her pony tails since those could break off from the figurine. We'd heard about this through a friend back in the States - there's a store on University Avenue in Palo Alto that does this, but we never got around to doing it (plus I think it was a lot cheaper in Korea).

Hundreds of cameras...better smile, Phoebe.

We headed to lunch afterwards, this time we went to a beef place. The bulgogi was shaped in hearts. It's interesting that all the restaurants have their own specialty: this restaurant only served beef, there was no other meet to be had. And the dinner place yesterday only served pork, and the lunch place only served chicken. It's very specialized. Also, not all places serve the classic kimchee cabbage that we're used to eating outside of Korea. They each have their own specialty. It was very good meat, so good that we had to re-order the bulgogi as it got inhaled by the girls (I barely had any of the stuff pictured here, and was too impatient to order yet another batch).

The girls took a break after lunch outside the restaurant. 

After lunch, we headed to the COEX Mall. It's Korea's largest underground shopping mall. We headed to the aquarium. Some pretty cool ways of showing fish: fish in paintings, a fridge, and a phone booth. And some others like a mail box and vending machine. The underground tunnel was pretty cool. Huge rays and sharks. For a tiny area, they really were able to showcase lots of fish. 

By now you may or may not know that we are obsessed with tiny things. Anything small is cute, in our book (except for bugs). So when we stumbled upon this toy store with tiny food toys, we went a bit nuts. The sushi set was the cutest.

Girls playing with tiny food while we have drinks at the Grand Intercontinental lounge.

We did spot an Orbit which was pretty cool. It's the white edition...which is only sold in Korea and is pretty dope. It also had panniers on, which means these people probably spent $1500+ on this stroller.

Dinner was at JungSik, which also has a location in NYC. Really innovative and memorable, creative Korean fusion with unique presentation.