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As mentioned in my previous post, it was too late to visit Bulguksa, so we went to dinner.  Dinner is at this restaurant with a name I’m not sure how it reads… GeoKeuJang?  That sounds like hot pepper past spelled differently.

I’m able to read Hangul lately, though I can’t understand most of the words.  Anyway, we had beef stew with petchay, mushroom and vermicelli.  The kimchi in this restaurant has a stronger alcoholic taste.  Hmm… kimchi can ferment to this point?  Our tour guides also bought commercially packed dried and seasoned seaweeds, or kim for short.  I put some into our seaweed soup.  I thought it was going to expand.  Silly me, the kim has become too different from the original seaweed to be the same.

After dinner, we checked in at the Daemyung Resort of Gyeongju.  The hotel is pretty big.  Our next day’s stay will also be at another Daemyung Resort.  Things that are common with this resort: very spacious rooms with a mini-kitchen, souvenir shop, a basement section that contains supermarket, cybercafe, game parlor, karaoke bar, a Korean restaurant, a fried chicken restaurant, and Daemyung’s pride - Aquaworld.  I’ll detail Aquaworld in the future.  As I said, the rooms we slept in are spacious.  there’s a mini-kitchen and another bedroom where there is no bed because you have to sleep on the floor.  The room is warmed with steam pipes underneath the floor.  Irene recommends sleeping on the floor, special convection makes for very comfy sleeping.

It is still rather early, so James and I went out for a walk even though it’s rather cold.  There are lots of people walking by the lake.  Some old people, plenty of teenagers.  Some are preparing firecrackers for an event I assume.  We walked the radius of the block.  I don’t see any taxis, so getting by seems a bit of a challenge?  I heard Gyeongju bean bread is a specialty in the region, but a bakeshop doesn’t seem to be near, so we didn’t get to sample one. 
I’d like to try another any Korean delicacy, but we’re still feeling full.  So, we just kept walking and looking around and the scenery.  There’s another hotel nearby with a concert.  We could see pretty ladies dancing from a distance.

The picture shows another restaurant but with signs announcing their specialty as saengsamgyeopsal (barbecued belly) and dwaejigalbisal (pork ribs). 

After walking a big round, we retire back to our room.  Tomorrow is another trip.