After a well needed sleep from the night before, we decided to explore the Hongdae area. Where alleys upon alleys of restaurants and clothes shops spill off of the main high street. The streets are full of students from the local university and they bustle about in groups and couples. Further down the alleys, street food stalls sell chicken and fish sticks, tempura vegetables and rice cakes. Arran tells us often there are performers, who decide to dance or sing in the street but strangely this is mostly a hobby for them. I found some cool street art but unfortunately photographs are as far as I got in terms of social interaction and after a couple of hours we decide to stock up on noodles at the local 7/11.

Dinner is always a new experience for me here. Tonight we ate Korean BBQ, where they give you the meat to cook yourselves. In my head I imagined big barbeque stations bordering the walls but the fire pits are in the middle of every table! It was a fun way to eat authentic food and besides the meat there were lots of other dishes such as, kimchi (which I’m not sure if I like yet), chestnut jelly, quail eggs, salad leaves and a peanut sauce (which I did like). Apparently in Korea it’s customary to eat and drink at multiple restaurants. Now I’m fairly liberal when it comes to trying different foods, so when Arran ordered chicken bum for us, I definitely wanted a taste. Do not order chicken bum. Neither Lily nor I could stomach it and I discreetly spat it out. The texture is similar to cartilage, rubbery and it tasted exactly how you think it would taste, dirty.

After some beer pong and cocktails at ‘Thursday Night’, we headed to over to my first ever taste of karaoke. Disappointed, I was not! The building was huge and every group had a separate room, where you could get drunk and sing, horrendously, to your favourite songs. Ours included backstreet Boys ‘My Way’ and Queen ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. By the time my throat started to feel like sand paper and we had downed the last beer it was 7.30am and everyone was glad to go home.