We started our trip at the YangPyeong Soomyland (양평수미마을) with this ajumma's outfit. It was very awkward for us to wear the flowery pants but we got used to it very soon since everyone of us was wearing the same pants and the hat is indeed very useful to block the scorching sun.
We gathered at Samsung Station 6th exit on 8.15am that morning. It was Sunday and was a very good day for me to catch up on sleep for the lost of sleep for the past two days. I was having ache all over my body because we went to the annual KoYonZhon. BUT, to get a firsthand experience at the village, I woke up very early on that day and reached Samsung Station on time. The Korean Farm Village Tourism Organization rented a bus to bring us here and there.
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Soomyland
As soon as we reached Soomyland, we were given a big hat and a flowery pants.
Here starts our first experience of making Korean-style steamed bun.
At Malaysia, we call it as 'Pau'. I had ate a lot of steamed bun in my 20 years of life but i had never make it myself. Here come the ingredients for making the steamed bun.
Jangjangjangjang!!
Then, one of the staff there demonstrate on how to make a delicious and nice-looking steamed bun.
The first step is taking a small part of the dough and make it flat and put some red bean paste on it.
After that, pinch the dough and wrap it up nicely.
Next, flip the pinched up part and put it on a steam bun paper.
We, four people in a group made the steam bun with our creativity.
The bun have to be steamed for 20 minutes before we can eat them.
While waiting for the bun to be cooked, we went to a stream beside and had a pebble-throwing competition. The people, whose pebble can skip more will win.
But, we were busy taking photos by the stream.
After 20 minutes, our steamed buns were cooked. They were very hot but was the best to eat it hot.
The snowman bun I made. The red bean paste inside was not as sweet as I imagined and the steamed bun texture was totally different from Malaysia's steamed bun.
After eating the 'Pau', it's time for us to do some work! We took a sweet potatoes net each and heading to the sweet potatoes farm. After the Ajoshi who works at the farm demonstrated on how to pick a sweet potato, we start to pick the sweet potatoes using a small shovel.
The shovel.I was very happy and satisfied when we discover a sweet potato in the ground and after a few minutes we had picked many sweet potates.
After that, we went for a ride on a traktor.
After the traktor ride, we had lunch buffet.
쌈밥 (Ssambap) means various of vegetables and meat are wrapped in a vegetable leaves together with samjang (the paste). Wrap it up in a bite-size so that it won't spill out the fillings.
The dishes are also available for Muslims. If you cannot eat pork, you can just wrap the rice with the vegetables. The vegetables and the tofu are also very delicious.
Our Soomyland trip ended with the delicious lunch. I will definitely come here again during winter for the ice fish festival.
P/S: Soomyland is famous for its festival 365 days.
If you are interested in paying a visit to Soomyland to experience the village life you can refer this webpage:Check the experience packages here!!
The reservation should be made before you pay a visit. Reservation can be made at website or by phone call.
Our next destination is the Sanmeoru Farm at Paju.
If you are travelling from Seoul, I will suggest you to go in a group by rented bus or driving there because the public transportation is very inconvenient.
We went for a winery tour as soon as we reached the farm.
We took some pictures at the mural outside the brewery.
If you watched 'The Hotel King', a Korean drama before, then you will definitely know the winery. One of the scene were filmed at the winery of Sanmeoru Farm.
We also bottled up the wine and everyone of us bring one bottle of wine home.
Filling up the bottle with wine.
Sealing it with cork using a machine.
And, it's done!
Next, we made the Sanmeoru soap and chocolate.
I strongly recommend you to experience the jam making process. The jam is totally DIFFERENT from the jam in the mart. I love the sweet and sour taste.
The best experience at Sanmeoru Farm is the wine sampling session!!!
The owner of the farm was too kind to let us enjoy the wine.
The winery tour and the wine sampling session only cost you 3000won.
For more information, you can visit the Korea Tourism Organization website This website is in English version.
or the Sanmeoru Farm website This website is in Korean version.
P/S: If you have motion sickness remember to bring some medicine because the road to the Sanmeoru farm was quite crooked.
Posted by Lai Yu Han http://yuhansoulintravel.blogspot.kr/2015/09/one-day-trip-at-village-as-korean-ajumma.html?spref=fb
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