Third day in Korea (1)

It was a fairly depressing day as the rain was already splattering on the rooftops of Jeju Hiking Inn at the first sound of the alarm.
Crossing our fingers that it won't continue, we hailed a cab outside the road to get to our guesthouse in Jeju-si.
Along the way, the driver offered to drive us around Jeju-si for 100,000 won until 7pm, the price included the journey from Seogwipo-si to Jeju-si. Thinking it was a bargain, we agreed, only to find out later that he was willing to only cover one route in Jeju-si, which excluded the Manjanggul Caves that I had really wanted to see.
The continuous falling of the heavy rain contributed to the gloomy factor as we were denied entry into Seongeup Folk Village. There was a huge group of China tourists visiting the village.
Figuring it might be because of overcrowding, the taxi driver brought us to Micheongul (or Ilchul Land) which had the Mi Cheon Cave, also a lava tube like Manjanggul but is more a huge park that included the caves.
It was already around 12pm when we arrived and the rain was coming down on us fiercely.
Hungry and feeling slightly depressed, we decided to have a meal at a restaurant at the junction near the Mi Cheon Cave.

As a starter, we ordered this. We didn't know what it was called but the orange one is filled with sweet potato while the purple one is filled with vegetable and tau hoon. very much like some of the Chinese kuih we have here in Malaysia.
I wish I could describe it better so ummm....use your imaginations or just ask me when you see me how it taste like. Haha....
Next we had Korean pancake, which was between 10,000 won to 15,000 won per pancake, depending on the flavour.

The pancakes came with a side dish of pickled radishes and vinegar. This pancake is more common and can also be found in Malaysia whereas this one below, is quite special:

This is Korean seafood pancake. It's not the seafood or the greens that make it special, take a closer look at the colour of the pancake.

The pinkish colour of the pancake is actually caused by the use of cactus as an ingredient in the dish. The lady owner, who was extremely friendly also recommended that we try the rice juice that was unique to Jeju,

There were some bits inside which the texture was very much like barley.
After filling up, we headed on to Micheon Caves.