Was a Bust
It was pretty awful. I mean there was very little food that you could eat, but plenty of plastic representations of food.
It was also very small. There were only 5 or 6 tents for each section and there wasn't anything special going on. There was one tent where you could make dukk (rice cake) with dozens of screaming kids and then there was another tent where you could get a warmed elmer's glue like drink that tasted like...warm elmer's glue.
Besides that not much else was happening.
It's really a shame too, but I thought it was going to be a food festival. Instead it turned out to be a food disappointment.
On the flipside, I got to see my good friend Lily and my new good friend Verena. We had our own Seoul Food festival and walked around.
Dan
It was pretty awful. I mean there was very little food that you could eat, but plenty of plastic representations of food.
It was also very small. There were only 5 or 6 tents for each section and there wasn't anything special going on. There was one tent where you could make dukk (rice cake) with dozens of screaming kids and then there was another tent where you could get a warmed elmer's glue like drink that tasted like...warm elmer's glue.
Besides that not much else was happening.
It's really a shame too, but I thought it was going to be a food festival. Instead it turned out to be a food disappointment.
On the flipside, I got to see my good friend Lily and my new good friend Verena. We had our own Seoul Food festival and walked around.
Dan
word to yer freaking moms!
ReplyDeletethe OAF and I went to the Cheonggye part of this thing and it was "festival" food at best....
when the best thing you eat is a "NY" hot dog?
The food festival might not have festived...
I am wondering, did you see a schedule? Of course, maybe there is some boring things to foreigners. But also, there were many things like contests. Some people ate many lemons and coke and hot dogs - I think this was American style? I saw the same at county fair when I visited the US. Anyway, also there were demonstrations of tado (Korean traditional tea ceremony) and king's table manners and wedding ceremony and traditional mask dances. Why don't you write about these?
ReplyDeleteThats too bad...Something like that could be really great...kind of like the BBQ cookoffs they have in Kansas and Texas or chili cookoffs...it would be sweet!
ReplyDelete지영, I was under the impression it was a food festival and my friends and I were under the impression that they would have food to taste. The "Royal food tasting event" didn't have any food to taste. Overall, I was disappointed with the organization. I felt they mislead tourists. The write up on their brochure and their website states, "you can taste Korean royal foods."
ReplyDelete지영,
ReplyDeleteWhy in the world would I want to go to a Korean food festival and see things that were "Western Style?"
And, yeah, we looked at the schedule and made a trip up to Seoul to check it out. Completely worthless..
Now, I did discover the Hae Jang Kook restaurant in Jongno has moved, so that was worth knowing. l0(
I do not know if you want only Korean style or American style. I think though that it is wrong to say the festival is not good if you do not go to see any event. My foreign friends (one is Japanese and one is American) went to see many different things and said it was very funny, so I think probably you did not go to the events. It sounds like you went to one place and did not see anything, so you left and did not understand.
ReplyDeleteI do not understand. There are many many haejangguk places in Jogno! which one???
The Namsangol Hanok Traditional Village site was fun. I enjoyed the drum and dance performances, along with the tteok-making and samples. I didn't expect the festival to have TOO many foods to try: it would have been very expensive!
ReplyDeleteThe Seoul Tower location was not so interesting, though the walk is always worthwhile.
I look forward to going again next year!