3 June 2022
Dockside
Jagalchi fish market
This evening I went down to the docks to check out the fish market. There were fish. The wholesale market is inside a big flash building and was closed for the evening, but outside there are old ladies selling left over fish no one wanted earlier in the day.
It is actually a really nice area, the waterfront has been developed, there are big wide walkways and a great view.
I have spotted a few other places I would like to go, you can walk over all the bridges, but it was actually a bit cold in the wind to do that tonight, so instead I went into the Lotte store to find my dinner, which did not go exactly as planned.
You order from the touch screen which is shared by 10 or so food court restaurants, and it gives you a docket, you hand over your docket at the place your ordered from, you get a buzzer. The docket it gave me had the price on it, but it was not the price for what I ordered. A confused Korean couple were nearby looking at their dockets. I wandered over to show them mine and they ran off frightened. Meanwhile another guy ordered, and got my docket. I did hand gestures to explain that was actually mine, and got down to look in the docket hole (there is probably a better term for that). We fiddled with the machine and managed to get his docket out by shoving a credit card in the docket hole and forcing it out. Problem solved for us, but now I had my docket and a bonus docket. I could have had 2 dinners I guess... Instead, I go and take it to the place the other couple had ordered for, and hand it to the lady and tell her it is not mine, she did not understand and tried to give me a buzzer, I put my hands in the air then pointed randomly at other people and shrugged my shoulders, I could no longer see the couple who ran off frightened.
So some time later, I am eating my dinner, my correct dinner, and the lady from the store where I could have claimed bonus dinner, and the male half of the couple that ran off come over and start talking aggressively at me. This was a face saving move on his behalf, his girlfriend was watching.
But, hilarious backfire! The guy who I helped retrieve his docket races over, jumps in front of them, and presumably tells them about how I figured out the issue, and helped him, the lady who I handed the docket to starts apologising to me, and the guy and his girlfriend, fled again! They left without eating a meal they had paid for.
Long story was long.
Here is the fish market on the docks. The fish looked a bit old and tired from a day in the sun. Although as mentioned, it was now cold.
The fleet is tied up for the evening. I enquired as to who would provide me safe anonymous passage to Siam. No one answered.
Dock area is now instagram area.
Lots of great views. I need to study the map, are there actual islands or does it all join up.
The local Lotte mall is sufficiently enormous. I am standing on a bridge here, it goes below the bridge then underground, and also around a corner, and they are building new bits of it too.
Future small hill to climb.
Inside the Lotte thing, a shame I was not in the middle, but the make up counter girls were not thrilled I was taking a photo.
The place is a big department store, then a mall with other shops, then restaurants and a cinema and an ice skating rink etc. This is the mall area, last time I was here it had a different display that resulted in me getting wet.
And here is my dinner. Mandu dumplings. Or I thought they were, not sure whats up with the Chinese writing. Actually it is a mix of Chinese and Korean writing. Fusion Jiaozi and Mandu then, not that there is much difference. Regardless, pretty bland, soup was flavourless, dumplings were huge and fell apart. Tomorrow no hiking, might go to the beach.