Busan - Busan Air cruise

I was deciding if we should go for Haeundae Blueline park or Songdo and after much thinking decided on Songdo as Haeundae BlueLine park rquires booking and coordinating the travel time for Sky Capsule and Beach train and its more of IG worthy photos and I reckon Dinos might be more interested to take cable car than the slow moving Sky Capsule. 

And Songdo is nearer to where we stayed this time while BlueLine park is across the city. 

We didn't make any reservation for the cable car though and I really did not know what to expect since information was not too much.

Anyways we did tell Dinos that there isn't any play here, we are here to enjoy the sceneries and outdoor today.

Bus stop to take bus to Busan Air cruise is very near to where we stayed. Using my best friend in Korea - Naver, I am able to see which bus to take, estimated arrival time, number of stops to destination and even real time tracking of the stops if location is on. 

It is so useful that we rely heavily on Naver while navigating our way in Korea and did not get lost even once.

We got on bus 26 and to ride 7 stops to Amnamdong community service center where we will have to find our way to Busan Air Cruise. But I mistakenly thought we should ride to Songdo beach and therefore missed the stop.

This stop will allow you to walk to the beach though but we wanted to take the cable care to Amnam park so we crossed over to take bus 26 again to back track 2 more stops.

We met the bus driver who drove us here just now as this is the terminal stop and he is driving back again, he was very kind to wavie off our fares and directed us where to drop when I showed him the picture of Busan Air cruise. 

We walked 10min from the bus stop to this cable car station. If searching by Naver, it is called Busan Air cruise.

Operating hours. 

We came on a Sunday Morning and it is not crowded at all save for groups of elderly who is looking to trek at Amnam park.

Prices of the ride.

We took the normal cabin as I am actually super terrified of taking cable car. TAking crystal cabin would have made me hyper ventilate. 

We did not pre book tickets too and got the tickets here easily without fuss.

We were given lollipops while waiting to board.

I took it to calm my nerves while Dinos took it just because they love lollipop.

The ride took around 10min and we crossed a sea to a hilltop. The ride is still ok if without wind.

Later during return trip, where the skies started to get dark, the cabin was swinging while moving and I nearly burst into tears.

Busan food - Gojip Chicken with Green Onion－Nampo branch

I didn't really planned on all the food we going eat in Korea because there is no knowing where and when we will be at. 

I usually will use Naver and search nearby eateries to decide what's for next meal when we decided on where to go.

On our 2nd night, we went back to hotel 1st to put down our purchases from Lotte Mart and then walked over to BIFF square for dinner. 

I've found a eatery that sells fried chicken with Green spring onions. Had read in XHS this is quite a popular way of eating in Busan but never really got around fixing a eatery to go to.

Since there is 1 near us, we decided to go try it out since fried chicken is also Mr Love's favourite.

Front of the eatery. Pretty unassuming and is located at 2nd floor. 

We went by it twice and didn't realised this is the shop we are looking for.

They have these 2 banners displayed but we don't read Korean. 

Interior of the eatery. The owners here are a middle age couple and they can speak simple English. 

Threre is also Chinese and English menu available and the owner will check with you which language you want to see.

There is a also a translated menu on the wall.

Korean fried chicken are sold as a whole chicken where they will cut into parts and deep fried. Therefore it is not possible to order a few pieces. But it is possible for 2 pax to finish up 1 whole chicken though.

Here they allowed to mix 2 flavours while ordering but we choose the green onion on chicken flavour only as we are not a fan of the sauced versions.

We also ordered 1 portion of fries to go along as there are 4 of us. The funny thing is the uncle who took our orders called it potatoes instead of fries.

Bancha and sauces.

Uncle is nice enough to separately serve the green onion garnish that is supposed to be placed on top of the fried chicken as he saw dinos with us.

He told us in simple English that in case the kids are not used to taste of the green onion. 

I was more worried that I might not like it though as I am not a fan of green onions too. 

But as I took a small mouth of the green onions, I was blown away by the taste. 

They have seasoned it with chilli, sesame oil and sprinkled with sesame seeds on top. 

There is also onions and carrots mixed with it. 

I have never tasted such nice tasting green onions and onion and was very in love with the taste.

And finally the fried chicken and fried are served piping hot!

They will only start to deep fried upon ordering and therefor had to wait at least 10 min for the food to be served.

Fries are thick cut but you can taste the potatoes in it.

And the fried chicken, even without garnish of green onions tasted heavenly and when paired with the green onions, gave it a refreshing taste what we never tried before.

In the end, I decided to order a beer too to go with the fried chicken as this is how they eat in the Korean dramas. 

Total bill came out to be 34,000 won. 

This is 1 of the more economical meal we had in Korea.

Korea food- BBQ @ Haeundae

We reached Haeundae at 11am from Jagalchi after travelling for 40min. 

This time round, I have chosen to stay at the other side of Busan as we had previously stayed in Haeundae area when we first visit Busan in 2015.

Still we have to cross travel the city as the places of interests are spread out throughout the city. 

Mr Love had wanted to try BBQ for 1 meal and after searching, I decided to have our first meal at a BBQ restaurant in Haeundae as I have planned to bring Dinos to nearby aquarium.

As we exited from Haeundae station exit 3, the restaurant is around 5min walk down the street.

Shop front is this.

Menu, they do have set meals but we chose to order ala carte.

Their menu is in Korean but with Google translate, we can order easily.

Also there are pictures on the tablet that is used for ordering so even if we didn't translate, we can just order from just seeing the photos. 

We find it more convenient to travel around Korea this time round as most shops/ places of interest would have English/ Chinese translation. And Naver has English version to use which makes things much more easier as compared to relying on Google which doesn't work well in Korea. 

We ordered one portion of pork belly, pork, pork ribs and mushroom to try first and see if the portions are enough for us.

Staff will help you to cook the meat though and placed on the small stone by the side of the pan to keep the meat warm as you eat.

The meats are very well marinated and we all love the pork ribs most. Dinos requested to have another portion even before finishing all the food.

We ordered 1 steam egg to try though and luckily we ordered 1 only because the portion is pretty big as they had used the normal stone bowl.

And of course I got excited see ramyeon because it is my comfort food at all times and more so in this cold weather. 

Dinos tried a mouthful each and decided to ditch the white rice they are sharing with their dad, end up we have to order another bowl of noodles.

Total damage 84,000 won.

I did not opt to go for the more popular BBQ joints but decided to just randomly pop into 1 to try.

And just like Japan, Korea did not disppoint us with their food as whatever we had on this trip was delicious despite not having done much research.

Legoland Day 2

Woke up at 8am next morning to prepare to go breakie and then slowly pack and check out since the park will only opens at 10am, we have some time to slowly eat.

The lift at the hotel was very cool. It will transform into a disco once the door closes. Complete with techno music and disco changing lights. The parents were very entertained by it unlike the kids.

This is the only place where we were told to put on our masks before entering and since we didnt bring ours down, they gave us disposable ones on the spot. Staff were very polite when requesting.

The buffet were quite child friendly. Having colourful plates/cutlery helps to make children feel more excited in using them to get their own food.

There were plenty of bread/danish to choose from for the kids. Japanese porridge and side dishes and western choices like eggs, ham ,sausage for adults.

I think this is made specially for kids since it's placed on much lower counter top and Dinos took their time to choose what they want from here.

There's also a stand at the juice counter where kids can choose andge their own drinks.

There's also a small playground right outside the restaurant and Dinos spent some time here while I went up to finish up packing. 

We left our luggage with the concierge while we go back to Legoland for another day of fun.

There's also a small Legoshop here that sells limited stuff and have limited opening time if you want do last minute shopping.

We were shocked to see the Saturday crowd as we stepped out of the hotel. Unlike the emptiness yesterday, it was crazily crowded. All the ticket counters were open unlike yesterday where only 1 or 2 is  in service. And we braced ourselves for the long queue time ahead.

Thankfully we covered half the park yesterday and had to concentrate on the other half today.

But the thing is this other half of the park is more interesting in my opinion. Haha.

We should have played from the most inner area out but I didnt do any homework at all. 

 We went straight for here after entering the park, this is considered located in the middle area and had 1 of the most interesting rides.

Because most of the people are still struck at the front part, the queue if relatively short as of now.

Dinos wanted to try the pirate ship and I had a phobia of it.

 But thinking that it should be a kiddy ride since the rides here are catered more to younger children, I decided to go up with them. 

Can still smile so happily during waiting.

Its later while on the ride that I know it turns 360 around!

As we were the 1st batch, I didn't get to watch how the ride moves and got on happily.

I think my face turned 2 shades whiter by the end of the ride and I shouted the loudest while on it.

My stomach was churning so badly that the breakfast was threatening to come out soon. 

Had to get some candies from dinos to munch on.

Next we went on this ride where we got on a boat that will travel around a stream of water and on it are water guns that you can use to shoot at the various lego build ups around the waterway or at other boats or at the outside park goers.

Similarly there are water guns placed outside for other park goers to shoot at the passing boats. 

Sun was shining so brightly that it was hot to be in outdoors. We ditched our outer wear here the whole time and was even sweating a bit even though the air was cooling.

Staff will do a simple wipe down everytime passengers disembarked but the seats will still be a bit wet from all the water shooting.

The best we could manage for a group shot.

Went into Ninjago area but none of the rides interest Dinos. Took photos and left for other areas.

They did play awhile at this interactive wall since there was no queue. 

This ride will required you to peddal your way up. I was sitting with SD and similar to me, he got freaked out when we got too high and will request me to make the ride come down. 

BD on the other hand can be heard requesting his dad to keep at the highest level througout the ride.

Dinos wanted to try roller coaster next and we mistakenly went to the kiddos' version - Dragon's Apprentice.

Mr Love and I was still wondering why the roller coaster here is so unexciting. The speed is slower, the slopes are milder and also it goes for 2 short rounds for each trip.

It's much later then we realised there's another more exciting one beside this ride.

The Dragon is the more exciting roller coaster but it is still within children's acceptance limit as Dinos both like the ride alot.

There's a gift shop outside the ride and Dinos spent sometime there checking and playing with the merchandise.

A kind Japanese man offered to help us take group photo when he saw us struggling to get a decent welfie.

We were hungry by the time we came out of the gift shop and went check out the restaurant here.

But there's nothing that caught Mr Love's eyes and also the price is on the high side here.

So we decided to move to the next area to check out what is available. 

If all else failed, we will walked back to the entrance because I've seen a fried chicken joint there and initally planned to take lunch there today.

But the walk out and later back again is gonna cost us some time.

Each set meal here costs 20 over SGD and we weren't even interested in getting rice for lunch today.

Legoland Hotel/ Dinner @Nagoya station

Went back to the hotel to put on our coats 1st before making our way to Nagoya station for dinner.

Staff had already placed our luggage back into our room.

We were assigned to 5th level because I've opted for the adventure theme room. Not that we have much choice though as other theme were either sold out or price higher. 

Upon entering, there's a partition where a bunk bed is located. There is a small light at the sides of the bed for children to use at night. 

Dinos didn't on it during bedtime though as it was too bright, I dimmed the hallway lights and it was just nice for them to fall asleep. 

They also placed a air purifier here.

There's a treasure box here where you need to solve a puzzle to unlock the number lock to get the prized inside. I didn't managed to unlock though. But the cleaning staff took it out and placed it with our lost items and passed to us when we went back to retrieve. Thankfully or not, SD left his camera behind and I went back prior to leaving Nagoya and got the freebies. 

A tv for the children but we didnt use it since Dinos played with their toys for a while and turn in for the night. 

Adullt's room. A queen bed.

Initally my mummy had wanted to join us on this trip and I tried checking if a roll out bed can be added at the bunk bed side but nope, it's  not possible.

So if the occupants are more than 4, you will have to book 2 rooms.

Hallway joining the 2 partitions. 

There's an open closet beside this cabinet where we can hang our clothes and as like all other Japan hotels, there isn't much space for you to open up your luggage. This room is however bigger than average already where I can keep 1 luggage open by the side of the window.

I kept  1 of the luggage open right by the end of the wall in this photo.

There's also a TV here for the adults and most of the channel is in Japanese. The table is useful though for our nightly snacks. Haha

Toilet is small but well equipped.

I realised most Japanese hotels/ airbnb  have bathtub. Dinos are so excited to see 1 but were disappointed when we didn't allowed them to soak long because of the cold weather.

Another thing they were impressed with is the toilet bowl of Japan when they realised the seats are heated and it feels great to sit on it during this cold weather. We 

Took the train back to Nagoya station where we walked around to search for this fried chicken wings joint(Yamachan) that I was planning  to get our dinner from.

I've read that this is 1 of the more famous fried chicken in Nagoya and thought that Mr Love would love to give it a try.

It's not far from the entrance of the Aonami line at Nagoya station, but it can be easily missed as it was located at 2nd floor of a building.

When we got there,  the restuarant is already full and had a long waiting list and we did not make any reservations.

We were told that waiting time is up to 90min and Mr Love did  not want to order take away back to our accomodation as the chicken might turned soggy already from the long ride back.

Well, better luck next time though.

Walked back to Nagoya station to try find other options because we were all famished. Friday crowd was crazy and every other restuarant had a long queue. 

There were bento shops in the station but we had no where to sit and eat. Eating while walking/standing is frown upon  in Japan and we did not dare to risk it. 

Dunno what striked me but I randomly took a stairs down in the middle of the station to explore if there's anything to offer and chanced upon a ramen street. 

On top of it, it's pretty empty too. Jackpot! I was so relieve to see a few shops inside that we can sit down to eat. 

And this is the 1st shop that greeted us when we entered the street. 

Just an hour ago, Mr Love was just asking if I intended to have Ippudo in Japan because he had remembered me gushing about how delicious it is when I 1st had it 18years ago when I visited Japan.

I know this is just a very normal  ramen but when I 1st had this, we queued for 45min out in the cold and when I took the 1st sip of the soup, I was blown away  by how tasty it is.

When  they 1st opened up a branch in SG, I excitedly brought Mr Love to try only to be disappoint by the taste haha.

Price list. Costs  half of what it is in SG.

The shop is catered more to couple or single diners, having a board in between the seats or counter top  for privacy. It took a while for them to arrange seats for us at the counter.

Ordered 3 of the same. White ramen.

Frankly speaking, I cannot remembered the taste already but this sure tastes good. Not sure if it is because we were all cold and hungry already.

Even Mr Love and Dinos enjoyed it and are devouring it in record speed.

All the Japan entries we been too are quite child friendly. i.e. they all readily provide children's utensils upon seated.

The irony is, we have never met any Japanese children having their meal in any of the eateries we have been to.

Ordered a side dish to share and  it was yummy!

The total bill came up to be below  JPY4000 and we were satisfied with the meal and price.

We then went up to the bento shop to buy their chicken wings for supper and also brought snacks and drinks from the convenience store before going back.

  1thing to note is that there isnt any convenience store around Legoland, not as far as we can see though since we didn't  venture  far from the hotel too.