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Celebrating My Birthday: Food, Art, and Friends!

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August 19th is my birthday! ๐ŸŽ‰

Since it was the Liberation Day holiday from the 15th, I had a great time with family and friends.

The Lotte Mall in Jamsil is always crowded on weekends, so I made a lunch reservation in advance at <Cheese Room & Tasting Room>.

Our order included:

โœ”๏ธ Sundried Tomato Flatbread

โœ”๏ธ Honey Anchovy Arrabbiata

โœ”๏ธ Abalone Risotto in a Stone Pot

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Honestly, the risotto was not great, but the other two dishes were delicious. But a can of coke was 5000 won...lol. Three dishes + three drinks came out to about 100,000 won.

Next door, at Museum 209, I visited an exhibition with friends.

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Elizabeth Langreiter: Every Day is a Holiday

- Exhibition Dates: 2025.5.1 - 9.28

- Location: Jamsil Museum 209 (3rd floor, Sofitel Ambassador Seoul Hotel, 209 Jamsil-ro, Songpa-gu, Seoul)

- Hours: Tue-Sun 10:00 - 19:00 (Closed Mondays / Last admission and ticket purchase at 18:00)

- Admission: Adults 18,000 won, Children 15,000 won

Shall we go in?

Here's a greeting you see upon entering:

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"'Joy' is not just a fleeting emotion, but the will and choice to discover beauty in everyday life and not let go of the light even when the world feels heavy."

Lots of canvases with this acrylic texture!

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Many of the works have a strong ocean vibe.

There are also winter-themed pieces, and spring-themed ones.

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After this mirror zone, it's over...

The exhibition was smaller than I expected, and there weren't many goods to buy. It's a bit pricey for 18,000 won...

Back to Lotte Mall, I got a Pochacco t-shirt from Uniqlo.

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There were 155 teams waiting to make it myself~~

While looking for a cafe, we had a birthday party at Kim's Deli Market, famous for its tomato bagels.

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We make candles every year, lol.

They're also famous for peach bingsu, but we gave up because they said we'd have to wait two hours due to it being sold out.

A friend recommended a croissant place.

They limit croissant sales to 5 per person, so I bought 3 croissants and a chocolate thing. It tastes like Ferrero Rocher. I should have bought two...

All four were gone the very next day, haha. The next day, I cleaned up my room, went to Unjeong Busan Restaurant, ate cake, and finished it off~~

It was so nice to have a holiday before my birthday! โ‰ฝ^โ€ข ห• โ€ข เพ€เฝฒโ‰ผ

ย ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ์‹ ๋น„๋กœ์šด ๋ชจ์Šต ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ํ™˜์ƒ์ ์ธ ์žฅ๋ฉด ํ–‰๋ณตํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์ธ์ƒ ๊นŠ์€ ๋ชจ์Šต ๋ฐ์€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ์žฅ๋ฉด ๊ฟˆ๊ฐ™์€ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์ถ”์–ต ย ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ํ‰ํ™”๋กœ์šด ํ’๊ฒฝ ย ํ–‰๋ณตํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ธ์ƒ ๊นŠ์€ ๋ชจ์Šต ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ๋†€๋ผ์šด ๊ด‘๊ฒฝ ย ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ํ‰ํ™”๋กœ์šด ํ’๊ฒฝ ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์–ต
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