4 April 2024
Comprehensive salad
Bupyeong market
Rest day today. I decided to go back into neighbouring Incheon city again to Bupyeong. It is most known for what is called the Bupyeong comprehensive market.
I had been there once before, many years ago, when it was so cold that I purchased a beanie because my ears were freezing. No such issue today, 20c again.
Getting there took way too long, and getting back took even longer. They really need a better fast train that goes to these major centres in the Seoul outer suburbs west of Seoul. It would have been quicker to go to a major city on the other side of the country by bullet train.
Once I was there, it was much as I remembered, a labyrinth of underground shopping malls, a sad above ground shopping street called culture street, and the aforementioned market, that is full of little old lady hunchbacks, doing not much at all. So very interesting.
Then I had a salad.
On my way to the station, I passed many piles of the whore flyers distributed by scooter riders every night around the Gangnam area. This is all great for the environment.
This statue is out the front of the Sony store, which has big signs all over it advising people they no longer sell playstations. Did Sony cancel the playstation? I doubt it.
I wonder what specific incident caused the banning of carrying pants on the subway? Luckily I chose to wear my pants today.
Behold, the concrete lined streets of Bupyeong. I got off at a station north of the main area and started my walk south.
Here is the sad old mall, culture street. Later I tried to get my salad from a place along here, but their card reader rejected both my cards, first time that has happened, so I went elsewhere. It was a machine of course, you never order from a human.
I get all my jewellery from Bling Bling.
There are numerous underground shopping areas. The most confusing one is 8 lanes of concentric octagons. You read that right.
This whole area including the market really only opens at lunch time. There is actually a different night market that opens at 8pm as well, which is pretty close to my bed time.
The nearby Lotte department store is also a train station. Looks a bit dated.
A very busy area, full of Adult shops, I just read the signs in this photo.
Here is the inside of the comprehensive market. I do not really know what those little old ladies are doing. The whole time I was there I could not stop thinking about how comprehensive it was.
Yes.
And then here is my salad. A strange combo of an entire avocado, cranberries, olives, muesli as well as a few more standard salad ingredients. The machine was happy to take my card so I was happy to eat their salad.
Not too many pics today, maybe I will try harder tonight.