Gyeongju Rice Cake and Korean Traditional Drink Festival

This weekend there was another Festival here in Gyeongju. It's pretty fun being in such a cultural little city. The festival was at the same venue as the KPOP one a few weeks ago, which is about 7 minutes from me! So fun.

Rice cakes are these super glutinous bricks of chewiness. You may be able to tell I am not a huge fan haha. The worst is when they appear to be something farmiliar, like a brownie, but then you take a bite and it's just chewy chewy raisin rice cake. Bleh. There were some really pretty ones at the festival though!

Rice cakes

Adri and me in front of the Gyeongju King and Queen. I love them.

Traditional alcohol includes various rice based drinks. Soju is the hard liquor or Korea and it tastes like watered down Vodka. It's also unpleasant. There's also a rice wine called Makgeolli (I don't know why the romanisation is so crazy. It's pronounced Makoli) which is actually quite nice. It's a cloudy sort of sweet sort of tart drink. I drank some really interesting ones, including a black bean one that tasted a little like peanut butter. There were also regular types of wine, including a super delicious apple wine and a way less delicious tomato wine. We were given little shot glass necklaces and could walk around trying all these different makolis. It was lot of fun! We were even followed by a camera crew as we tried the different kinds haha.

Tasted a little like a Cesar, but I don't like those either.

Korea game at the festival.
People were throwing sticks
into it. 

Other than the rice cakes and alcohol, there was a lot going on. There were food stalls, jewelry and clothing stalls, and little performances. I even found a guy selling Turkish shawarmas. I obviously had one. Here are some more photos. In total it was a super successful weekend. Also I tried duck for the first time. It is the bacon of fowl: I loved it.

Women dancing outside to extremely awful music.

Really cool place called Art Box that has all these beautiful
sculptures and moving sculptures make out of recycled stuff.
Here is a sea turtle. 

These butterflies were flapping.

And a cool garbage fish.