Seoulscapade

I’ve mentioned these roving apartment-complex fairs before. They setup for a day or two, featuring stalls with things for the kitchen and domestic life in general, plus a large range of specialty and food outlets. This one was more elaborate than the previous ones I’d seen.

Among the extra goods on offer were wood carvings, as shown below (I wouldn’t mind one of those tables). Another stall was selling antiques, both furniture and ornaments, although I couldn’t see how you could trust the authenticity. Opposite the wood carvings were paintings of varying large sizes, perhaps 50 in all, lining the street.

Around the corner and up the hill there was the fish shop, featured below, selling average and exotic fish and small aquariums. This place was really popular with the kids and seemed to be doing brisk business. I was intrigued how everything needed for aquarium maintenance now was small and lightweight, like those black water filters you just sit on the edge on a tank. All the miniature decorations have become more elaborate than I recollect.

I spent some money at an incense stall. It was all very confusing because the saleswoman, who was dashing back and forward between shops while the incense saleswoman was off taking a break somewhere, didn’t know a word of English. I knew how much to pay but not how much to take. I just chose ten of what I wanted and paid the money. But the real saleswoman returned and was insisting I fill the bag with more. It seemed like I had to choose pairs. I just picking stuff while monitoring her facial expression for when to stop. I wasn’t really counting but got a lot more than what I thought was standard.

The obligatory pig on a spit.

I also bought some dried pear for the rabbits. They love that stuff. The stall I got that from had all sorts of dried goodies, maybe 30 or 40 varieties, just about any fruit you could think of.