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We went to the first day opening of Lucky Chinatown Mall in Chinatown!
STARBUCKS!!!!!! Right in front!
It was nice to see CJ Jesena and Kevin Tan with my sister, Maricar!
Love the beautiful Chinese inspired interior of the store
What a nice opening day with all the clowns
and dancing statues 🙂 in the mall
On the Third floor
there is a Pancake House!!! YUMMY!!!
Still on dry run on the first day! Mom and her friends with Martin Lorenzo! 🙂
I ordered the House Specials Set which is too much for me but has everything that I like in pancake house!!
Beautiful Skylight!
and stopped by Payless which was on SALE!!!!
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We didn’t really do much shopping, but we were able to visit some places quickly mentioned to us by some friends. As mentioned previously, branded imported items are 30% more and other imported items in general. So I would recommend doing local shopping or buying Korean brands or Korean made items.
Near Mc Donald’s in Itaewon is an underground market, you might find some nice export overruns here if you are patient enough to look
Crocodile and python skin products! 🙂
James wanted a wallet, but ended up buying a cheaper version using eel skin 🙂
I think he just liked the vendor so much since he was very kind,
he ended up buying things he did not really need. Even Javier got an eel skin belt for himself. Yikes! 😉
and I saw this store that looked exactly like The Pink store by Victoria’s Secret
Clothes for dogs! how cute! 🙂
I think Daddy misses Japan, he asked Nana our tour guide to take him to electronics shopping
While Dad was there, we went to COEX Mall which is an underground mall. This was good for us because it’s so cold outside that mall shopping is much better! We only had 30 minutes though so we did not get to see and shop much
There is an aquarium and a megabit theater which we were not able to see. My friend Steve says the Aquarium is not that great though
many facial masks all over!!!! You will go crazy!! Especially during winter when you need all the moisture that you can, you want to buy all of these!! 🙂
Myeong dong is very near our hotel – a very crowded street, mostly young people shopping here. The shopping carts in the street come out mostly at night. Many street food carts as well
Love all the local korean brands for make up and skin care!!
Banana Republic? 🙂
Winter accessories!!!
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This is one of my favorite spots in Seoul! Thanks to my friend, Keri Zamora, for recommending this! It’s one street full of nice quaint coffeeshops and hip stores! I think i took a photo of almost every store in the street
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After the Korean Folk Village, we went back to the city to visit another shopping area. If you really want to buy cheap in Korea, the best is to buy Korean made products. Imported items are very expensive -up to 30% more for imported items especially the branded ones. According to our tour guide, Koreans are very nationalistic and they really patronize their own products.
In Insa-dong, you will find many local handicrafts and Korean stores
While walking, I saw this, it’s like a mall with more little shops. I had no time anymore to go in but there were many many people here also shopping
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After the Palace, we went to Namdaemun Market
which reminded me of our Divisoria, but very clean and no smell
Many items for winter which I was so tempted to buy!! because it was soooo cold!!!!
Korean made products
Yummy seaweed snack, all kinds!
More snacks by the bulk!
They have many buildings for the indoor shopping and really like divisoria style
Love the display!
Housewares floor
fashion jewelry section
We only allotted one hour for this as part of the tour so we did not buy anything! I wish i had a whole day or more to go around for shopping. Next time
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James did everything for the newly renovated house. There were only a few specifications I asked for and one of them was to order for me the mattress from the Four Seasons Hotel! I have stayed in two Four Seasons Hotel ( Singapore and Vancouver ) in my life and in those two times, I remember having a comfortable experience and slept very well during my stay there.
The mattress is so comfortable because it is plush yet firm at the same time. The reason for this is that it has a pillow top layer on top of the mattress
Other important components of our bed:
1.) Down comforter
2.) Comforter cover with the highest thread count that you can get! We got ours from Rustan’s department store
To order you need to contact the hotel that is nearest to your shipping address. So for us, it was the one in San Francisco:
Gordon Yee – Director of Purchasing
Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco
757 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: 415-633-3463 Fax: 415-633-3512
Mailto:gordon.yee@fourseasons.com
Web Site: http://www.fourseasons.com/sanfrancisco
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Heart2Heart loves notepads and any kind of stationary!!! I was so happy to bump into Triccie and Gia in the Assumption Bazaar and all they sell are notepads!!! ( Sorry photos are not too clear)
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Ron was so proud to show his new toy store to me which carries all educational toys! It had just opened two weeks ago! He told me that he put up this toy store for his kids. Playing and learning go hand in hand. It’s a FUN way to learn. Every afternoon, after office, Ron picks up Rianna to go to the store to play and spend time with her. Congrats Ron!! MORE POWER on your new business venture!!
on told me that he chose toys that the whole family can play together rather than the type of toys or gadgets that you play or use individually
One of the family games is Katamino. It’s made specially for the store as it is branded FundMentals
I particularly like this brand which are handcrafted wooden toys
More educational toys
All kinds of Monopoly!
Classroom toys
The gang came over to support Ron on his new toy store, so we did some christmas shopping
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