Ghost Town

It's the Lunar New Year (about a week ago).

For the New Year everybody goes to visit their families.

Apparently everyone except for this shop selling assorted lighting.

It's the Lunar Holiday and as we have no family in the area we think this is a great opportunity to explore Seoul. The slight problem being that everything is closed because it's a holiday.

While searching for food in a very quiet city of 24.5 million people we wandered into what seemed like a very quiet market.

Apparently the "food court" was still open.

Each area seemed to offer a different exotic dish.

For instance mysterious meat,

steaming noodles,

dried fish,

or cute Americans.

We settled on a traditional Korean pancake.

Plus some festive side dishes.

The meal is traditionally washed down with Makkoli (a milky white fermented rice drink).