Myeongdong and Namdaemun

Lotte Department Store

I can't say I did a lot of shopping at the Lotte Department Store in Myeongdong.  Located on green line 2 at the Euljiro 1 it has it's own entrance on the same level as the subway. It has a wide variety of brand name items. Brand name which would make it like prices you would find at typical American stores like Nordstrom or Neman Marcus. Shopping for more of the upper class people but what they do have for everyone is a full scale market and food court with a huge variety of different foods.

Mandoo and Fish cake wrapped hot dogs and Sushi

The food is also a little higher then what you find outside but they have a such a wide variety and it is very neat, clean and well presented. Very visually pleasing to make you tempted to try just about everything there is. Here are a few of the foods we tried. We tried a sushi dish with some California rolls and kimbaps, mandoo with kimchi and regular pork kind, a mixed fishcake wrapped in hotdog, and some spicy honey chicken with sweet potato.

Chicken with Sweet Potato and sushi pack

What it looked like was pretty much just street food in a fancier place. It was still really good. I think because everything just looked so visually appetizing it made it taste even better. The chicken was similar to the kind you can get on the street just more honey flavored with sweet potato pieces instead of tatar-tots. Also the hot dog was really good snack kind of like oden or fish cake you get on the street was what it was wrapped in.

Strawberry Frozen Yogurt

Americano

To finish the day we ended up at Homestead Coffee which is one of many cafe located in the Lotte Department store. I got an Americano and we also got a small frozen Yogurt with Strawberry which for 3,000 between four people wasn't bad but we did not realize it was so small so we ended up with only a few bites each still it was worth it because it was pretty good.

Myeongdong Gyoja Restaurant 
(Popular noodle Restaurant)

This restaurant mentioned here on the Korea Tourism Website is a pretty well known restaurant in Myungdong that makes homemade noodles and has a really good broth. They basically have a small menu pretty much everyone eat the mandoo and the mandoo kooksoo and that's pretty much it. It is really simple but really good.

Myungdong Gyoja on Korea Tourism Website

Mandoo

Mandoo Kook Soo

Shopping Around Myeongdong & Namdaemun 

Some Shopping I did around Myeongdong and Namdaemun in the area and around the station. The First item in the picture I got a grey zip up wallet at "Redeye" a small shop in the station to Myeongdong for 9,900 won and I also got Hot Burning Cream which supposedly is suppose to help you lose fat and what not if you put it on areas while you exercise. Still in the process of finding out if that's true with that I got a few sample of different cream and cottons for make up remover. All this was from Missha in Myeongdong.

Wallet fro RedEye and Hot Burning Cream from Missha

Namdaemun Market is one of the best places to shop to get a good deal on clothes, souvenirs, jewelry, hats, household item and Ginseng. They have a wide range of vendors selling all different kinds of things. I didn't find too many things I really really wanted to buy because it was really choosing what I wanted to buy because there were so many cute things.  What I did get were these Tory Burch Faux shoes for 15,000 and a Hat that was a faux of one that the cast of the variety show sbs Running Man wore for 15,000 won as well.

Tory Burch Shoes from Namdaemun

Running Man Faux Hat

Bonus !! Depending on who is adverting the brand sometimes store will have magazines or postcard with kpop idols on them that people can take. I happen to get Hats On postcards with B1A4 on it and a sports brand that had ZE:A magazines. Also took a picture of the Pancoat sign which also had picture of Idols wearing their brand clothes.

Pancoat with KARA, INFINITE, ETC..

ZEA and B1A4