Okay, today I must write down my special experience.
Whenever we are not in class, all the students speak in English (as expected) and I can't really understand them due to their speed and accent. Besides that, I can't express myself very well in English too, so I end up having no close friend here.
The 'close friend' I mean here is someone who would do almost every non-KIP program-activity with you. As what I observe, normally, girls gang up with someone when they are in new environment.
Never mind, I should accept the fact that I am alone.
Okay, that's not the main point today. I just wanna explain why I had my lonely exploration today :)
Since dorm doesn't provide lunch and dinner on Sat, this is the perfect day to hang out and look for new stuff. So I went to Jyoti Restaurant by walking as it's not too far from Sogang Univ.
I read a blog regarding the restaurant so that's why I decided to give it a try.
Here's the link of the blog I read:
http://thewanderlustproject.com/2013/02/the-best-indian-food-or-really-any-type-of-food-that-ive-had-in-korea/
The instructions given to find the restaurant are straight forward so I managed to get there easily.
Basically, you just need to make a first right turn after you get out from Exit 5 of Sinchon (신천) Station. Then you can easily see Jyoti Restaurant sign board on the building to your right. It’s located on the 3rd floor.
I was welcomed by all those pictures on the wall on my way going up to 3rd floor.
Tadah! Here it is. There's a "Tourist Restaurant' sign on the left of the door. Does that mean the food are meant to be pricey? Hmm......
Let's check out the menu.
I was having hard time to choose as I wanna to try more than one.
There is free wifi provided.
Here's a peek of the interior design.
Here's the window view from my seat. Thanks the waiter to let me have the table for four with window view even after I told him I was alone. I reached there near 2pm, besides of a young Korean couple waiting for their meal, there's no one else. So I think I got that strategic seat because it's not peak hour?
Here's my Korean rice (1500won). I really like Korean rice more than Thai rice and Indian rice (I haven't tried Japan rice yet so no comment about it). Why didn't I try the Naan? Because I wanna save some money, man...
My 1st choice--Banana Lassi was not available :(
So I go for my 2nd choice--Mango Lassi. It tastes really nice, but the amount was just too small, it costs me 4000won for a couple of sip, gosh......
Here's my 'vegetable mix curry'. I was kind of disappointed actually. First of all, it's not spicy at all, nope...not even a little bit. Hey, I was expecting a spicy curry!
And, the ingredients were consisted of what??? this 8 simple things? Okay, I guess I was expecting too much after reading those high recommendations from internet?
A picture of my whole Saturday Indian lunch in Seoul.
As a conclusion, the food wasn't too bad, it's just too expensive for a poor girl like me. I will think of it as a rare luxurious meal (in terms of price not the food). Oh ya, the waiter always filled up your cold water without you asking. But he has no chance to fill up mine as I didn't even have a sip.
P/S: the waiter who served me is quite handsome, I can't really tell if he is an Indian.
Part II is to be continued.
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