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Today we are visiting the Shin Old Tea House where we will be enjoying a cup of traditional
tea.
Right now we find ourselves in a very cozy little tea house. It is very cute. They have
low dim lighting and tapestries and pillows on the ground, so we've ordered ourselves
some nice fruity teas.
This tea house is located just off of Insadong, which is known as sort of the cultural hub
street of Seoul. We've found this quaint little place. As we've placed our orders we have
some delicious looking snacks. This looks like rice cake and maybe another rice cake
covered in honey with little cereal chunks on top maybe.
Let's try this. Crunchy huh? Okay. It is like puffed rice - like rice popcorn maybe. It
has like honey on the outside and it is very sweet and airy.
Here is the ginger tea and the masilcha is the plum tea. How is the plum tea? It is delicious.
Mine is so sweet it is almost like liquid honey but it is not too overwhelming. It is
really nice. There is plenty of flavor aside from it being sweet.
What kind of tea did you get over there? I got ginger tea. The same thing - it is a nice
sweet tea with a really strong ginger flavor. It is just a perfect way to warm-up on a winter
day. Oh, yeah.
I'm going to try one of these now. It is a rice cake with a green swirl in it. I'm not
sure what the green swirl is because I can't taste any difference. Is it kind of plain
tasting? It is just a regular rice cake.
We're receiving heat from two different sources - an electric fan up above us and then we
also have the ondul system on the floor. The heated floors by the heated pipes underneath.
We're as toasty as you can get. I feel like I could take a nap in here. I probably could
too.
Getting off of Insadong's main strip is a really good idea because it is usually in
the back alleys where you can find traditional restaurants, traditional tea houses and just
quieter places. It is much better value and also has traditional homes as well which is
the same as here.
We are finished sadly our tea is gone. It is time to wrap things up and head back into
Insadong for a little shopping and maybe some cake.