28-29th November 2012.
Seoul, South Korea.
On the 28th of November, 13 of us exchange students to Hanyang University had our final gathering at the Classic 500, a serviced apartment located next to Konkuk University (and a similarly named subway station.
The contemporary style apartment was very spacious, boasting a floor area of up to 148 square meters and the best part of the “suite” is its island-style kitchen (with a great oven), a perfect addition for our finale makan fest, making the end of our 4/5-months stay in Korea.
The suite was expansive with ceiling to floor glass windows for maximum natural lighting and there is even a walk-in wardrobe! Other facilities include a smart room infrastructure with a control panel to control room temperature and light levels (besides doubling as a mini TV screen). The only flaw with the suite is the weird control for the showers as well as the toilet doors which could not be locked.
Classic 500 also boast a well-equipped and very spacious gym with free gym lessons provided.
La goutte, their in-house restaurant serves a rather decent breakfast buffet in the morning with cold cuts, salads, breads, eggs of your choice and a modest selection of hot food.
Breakfast at la goutte.
With this great setting and both a Lotte Departmental Store and E-Mart next door, it was the perfect place for our finale makan fest.
The 13 of us whipped up some local dishes like our favourite Hainanese Chicken Rice, Lotus Root Soup, Laksa and a couple of curries.
The Prima Taste food packs were really easy to use and tasted pretty decent actually, the laksa packs came with coconut cream and even bits of laksa leaves. The Hainanese Chicken Rice food packs had dark soy sauce, ginger and the essential chili sauce.
With the oven, it was also possible to serve Roast Chicken with Rosemary and Lemon for dinner and Scones for brunch.
Dinner was not complete without a celebratory wine.
Here we had a bottle of sweet, honey-like 2007 Canadian Dream Estate Winery Ice Wine Vidal from Canada, served with some dried mango and pineapples along with Australian brie, Krispy Kreme doughnuts and Paris Baguette pound cakes.
Like dinner, brunch was quite a feast as well. We cooked Black Pepper Prawns alongside with several classic Western items such as Mushrooms topped with Brie, Sausages, Scrambled Eggs and Omelette. By the end of our stay at Classic 500, we were thoroughly stuffed with food.
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