Showing posts with label jimjilbang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jimjilbang. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

splish splash

Autumn took me to the biggest jimjilbang in Busan at the end of August. It has a feel much like this picture.
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The women's area also had frolicking children and it was a very happy place.

Last weekend we visited what might be the *fanciest* jimjilbang in Busan. The inside of the pajama area looks eerily like this:
dollhouse-set
(This is actually the set of Dollhouse. They zap your brain upstairs.)

It's located inside this:
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The world's largest department store (with a Cartier department and a Bvlgari department) also has the fanciest food court I've ever seen. When your meal is ready, the number comes up on the screen.
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My $7 soup was FANTASTIC and yeah, that's a little abalone in there. There were FIVE abalones, and I kinda kept the shells.
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Best food court food ever.

After eating, we went to the jimjilbang and enjoyed the many casino-themed sauna rooms (there's a Roman room and a Pyramid room and a vibrating room and a "liquid dreams" room with a greenish light shining through a pool of water, making interesting designs on the walls and ceiling. Jimjilbangs are kind of amazing.

Korea seems to love rainbow lights, so this happened also.
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