[Suwon City Tour] - Haewoojae Mr Toilet House

We left Gwangjang market at around 7:30 and walked to Jongno 5-ga station. Then we took the subway to Suwon. It supposed to take about 1 hour 15 minutes for 26 stations.

We took longer because we thought we'd to transfer at Guro station, 

we went up and down and waited for the next train and worried 

we might be late to join for Suwon City Tour.

We reached Suwon Station Exit 5 at 9:15am

and saw the Tour bus parked there.

 The driver told us to buy the ticket from Suwon Tourist Information Center.

Lucky that it still have available seats for us. Phew~!^^

 
 On the bus, the tour guide distributed headsets and City Tour Course leaflets to everyone.

There's a lady guide following and guided us along the course. She apologized because she normally only guiding Japanese and domestic tourists, so she only can speak a little bit of English. Well, it's actually our fault for not reserved the tour earlier. I believe they'll arrange an English tour guide if we booked it earlier.

We really appreciated her effort and tried her best to briefly introduce the places to us in English. Well, we're quite surprised as the rest joining this tour were Korean local tourists!

Actually, it's totally fine for us, there's audio guide on each seat with 4 languages option. You can select your preferred language, and listen to the introduction of the next destination.

Our first destination - Haewoojae ( 해우재 ) Mr Toilet House

These two poopies welcoming us at the entrance...

Ate Poop Bread (Ddong Bbang) at Insadong yesterday, and today we're visiting Mr Toilet with a lot of poopies similar shape with ddongbbang.

‘Haewoojae’ literally means a place where one can solve one’s worries.

 Gaeddong-yi is a name given as the person was born in a toilet of 

his mother's  parents' home! Maybe it was the reason that 

Mr Sim Jae-duck was so attached to toilets.

When he was the Mayor of Suwon City, he started a campaign 

to improve toilets. He contributed to the improvement of 

the Korean toilet culture movement.

  Sim Jae-duck or Mr. Toilet destroyed his house where he lived for 30 years,

and built this gigantic toilet bowl-shaped house that he could actually live in it.

It's constructed on 1,994.00m2 land with a building size of 239.09m2 and a total floor area of 418.17m2. The museum’s rooftop is shaped like a toilet seat, lined with flags from some of the 66 member nations of the WTA.

 

potties and unsanitary toilet facilities...

Fun time pooping

How to use those weird shape (toilet) bowl hah?

Hello... what's going on here?

Uppss... gold poop!!!

 

This toilet is kinda interesting...

"Oink oink oink... palli come here, we got food to eat"

 

Hot ddongbbang from oven for these piggie pig pig~~~

  

Please help me push this gigantic monster poop

(as tall as me 1.7m?)  blocking my way to...

Haewoojae Mr Toilet House

458-9 Jangan-ro, Jangan-gu

Suwon(Imok-dong 186-3) Korea 440-310.

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~ Trazy Haewoojae Mr Toilet House

Early Morning Food Hunting at Gwanjang Market

That morning was the 1st of March,  initially our plan was just indulging ourselves with heart-healthy food and a bit of shopping before flying back to Singapore the next afternoon.

I decided to make a trip to Suwon which we cancelled on the second day because we went to Soraepogu instead after Fusion Hanbok photoshoot.

The day before, we found out from 1330 and KTO that we can visit Seodaemun Independence Park and Tapgol Park to know more about March 1st Movement Day.

Suwon City Tour starts at 10am, so we need to be there by 9:30 at latest because we didn't manage to book the tour online.

 Standing in front of Gwangjang Market at 6:30 am.

We took taxi here to minimize the time for walking up and down the subway stations and possibly facing difficulty to find the correct direction to get to Gwangjang Market.

History of Gwangjang Market - nation’s first permanent
traditional market which established in 1905.

We're at the West Gate, and to get to the  Food Zone
we have to walk to North Gate 2 or South Gate 1.

Hanbok~ Hanbok~~!! I want Hanbok~~~!!! 

 "Ehm... where are we now?!"

"Search me~!!!" (blur blur)

 "It's ok... I'll check it out myself!"

"Turn to right to Food Zone! See... clever me~!^^"

'The early bird catches the worm'

This pink bird was so disappointed for getting no warm food at Food Zone!!! ㅠㅠ

 Majeongyo (마전 = Horse Market) Underground Shopping Center...

 Opposite Cheonggyecheon Stream.

 

Finally found this restaurant that one of kind ahjussi recommended us

as we're wandering at the market, as he said other stalls not open so early. 

The problem is I don't really like to have these type of food for breakfast.

This Gwangjang Toast Bread was opened early, 

and few people were waiting for their orders.

Actually I wanted to buy, but hubby said should try 

some specialties in this Gwangjang market...

Hooray! Finally could see life at Food Zone when yellow bulbs were lighted...


  and vapor from the big pots with nice smell came from some of the stalls around 7:00 am.


But most of them still preparing and open for business yet
including this friendly stall owner.




Finally this shop was ready to serve us...


Japchae, Odaeng, Tteokbokki, bite-sized Gimbap, Sundae, Jokbal,...

 

I ordered small pack of Narcotic Gimbap.
Don't be scared of the name 'Mayak' (마약 = Drug) Gimbap.


Wanna try this cute Mayak Gimbap?
Dont worry! The ingredient has 0% narcotic in it, just pickled radish and carrot.
It's named Mayak Gimbap because it's just so addictive that you can't stop eating!

Pig's feet Jokbal (족발), Assorted Blood sausage Sundae (순대고기모듬) and liver (간)!

I only tried a bite of jokbal, and left the rest because I don't really fancy eating these pig's organs, especially after seeing the veins inside the liver. OMG! totally lost my appetite... Ok, let me just focus on my cute mini gimbap!

We'd Sundae in soup as our first meal on our first visit to Korea in 2012.

Forgot how much we paid... should be around 12,000 Won - $15,000 Won for Mayak Gimbap and these assorted plate of pig's organs and...

 

Free Seaweed soup (미역국 = Miyeok guk) as 'service'

   Happy face after had our breakfast.

just wanna take photos with these toilet tissue paper rolls ㅠㅠ


 Bindaetteok pancake is one of the speciality here...

We wanted to eat this, but the stall just opened after we'd our breakfast. We like this mug bean pancake after we had it at Seobichon Village in Yeongju.

Soy raw crabs (간장게장 = Ganjangejang) and

others fermented / marinated side dish.

 Gwangjang Market (광장시장)
88, Changgyeonggung-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea
서울특별시 종로구 창경궁로 88 (예지동)
 Operating Hours: 08:30-18:00

 Going to Jongno 5-ga Subway station
opposite Gwangjang Market.
See you in Suwon soon~^^

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~ Trazy Gwanjang Market

~ Suwon City Tour