Firstly, I apologise for the severe lack of blogging recently, what with having horrible phelgmtastic colds gained from teaching young, snotty children and also just from having a lack of time in general so here’s the first of two things we’ve done recently.
We decided to check out a place called Dr Fish with Paige and Forrest, two of the other foreign teachers we work and live with. First we tried to find one in Jungang. As we were walking over there we spotted that one of the huge neon signs had been blown over in the previous night’s storm so we got a hilarious picture:
There’s Forrest pretending like he did it. Oh what a laugh. We also saw a gem of a sign:
Heh heh. So we tried to find one around the Jungang station area but to no avail. So we decided to head over to Gangnam on the subway to try and find it. Luckily we had some directions from a fellow blogger. You have to go to Gangnam station (on the green line) and leave out of exit 6. Head down the street, past the shops until you see this building:
So look for the BSX building and then go to the 2nd floor. Inside is a nice cafe and, hallelujah, Dr Fish! You have to buy a drink in there, but they have a big selection of coffees, teas and soft drinks and then to get your feet eaten you have to pay an extra 2000W – cheap! You can ask the staff, they are nice and recognise that most foreigners don’t go there to buy coffee. So we waited about 20 minutes and drank our coffee and then it was time to get in the fish tank!!
First, the nice attendant lady washes all the grime off your feet so as not to poison the fish (thats what I assume anyway!) Then you sit on the side of the fish tank, which is in the floor like this:
Then the nerve-wracking moment comes where you have to put your feet into the tank. Rich didn’t want to:
But he did and this was his reaction:
Check out the stress veins in his head!! Ahaha. Here’s some more pictures of the fish eating our dead skin:
These are Paige’s feet. The fish LOVED her. She must have had especially tasty dead skin…or something?
See? My foot has maybe one retarded fish on it, Paige’s has millions. However, this turned out to be OK because we were in there for 20 minutes and the sensation was quite weird, especially on the bottom of your feet.
Look at the fish at the top, baying for blood!
Here are the fish again, this time molesting Rich’s feet.
I do have more fish pictures, but unfortunately they are kinda blurry. After our feet were cleansed, we took a walk around Gangnam. It’s a nice area of Seoul, lots of shops, bars and restaurants. It was also very busy. Here’s a picture of one of the main roads through:
The area is really clean and the building are big and extra shiny:
There are also some really big buildings:
We walked around the area for awhile and then looked for somewhere to eat. There were lots of restaurants to choose from and even some Mexican ones, which you can find in Ansan. However, we settled for an irish themed pub because it had the holy grail: fish and chips. I would have taken some pictures but I was so overjoyed at the prospect of fish and chips that I forgot.
The fish and chips were quite good, but the fish was breaded, not battered, so it was lacking authenticity. But something tells me it’s the closest thing we are going to get to it while we are in Korea. We’ll have to wait until we get home for that one.
So that was our day in Gangnam. However, no day in Korea would be complete without some hilarious Konglish to amuse us:
Dodo aesthetic clinic. Yeah……
