With no signs of the pollution letting up, but not wishing to spend my day in the dirty hostel, I decided to first have a long breakfast at McDonald’s, going for the ultimate deluxe breakfast and only leaving when the lunch rush started coming in. Afterwards, I hopped a bus across the river to hang out in the Starfield Mall underneath the Coex Conference/Exhibition Center. Reportedly Asia’s largest underground mall, it certainly provided me an opportunity to stretch my legs without sucking in too my pm2.5.
I walked a loop to explore my food options, getting hungrier by the minute, but I decided to go with a Jamba Juice (wow! haven’t seen one of those in years), so I could keep wondering around. There weren’t any movies at the Megabox I was interested in seeing, I didn’t want to drop 25 bucks on the aquarium, and I couldn’t find anything I could read in the library (!), so I eventually settled in a coffee shop to while away the afternoon.
I took the same bus back to Itaewon in the middle of rush hour, but it wasn’t too bad. I was right starving, but it took me a while to decide what I wanted to eat. Noticing at least a dozen Turkish doner kebab places following the path up to the mosque (I wonder why that is), I picked the one that was full of brown people.
Back at the hostel, I was vegging on the chaise when an American teacher checked in. We chatted a bit, and when she went out to meet a friend for a drink, I went to bed early.
| McDonalds | 5800 |
| Jamba Juice (Carribbean Passion) | 7900 |
| Coffee Bean coffee | 5000 |
| Chicken Rice plate w/ soda | 10500 |
| Total: | 29,200 (176.6 RMB) (USD 26.3) |
Running Total:
6700 RMB
(USD 998)
Daily Average:
257.7 RMB
(USD 38.4)