One beautiful day, a friend from my foodie club got married.

Sunshine

For a wedding day, weather like this is pretty good.

Today’s spread

Not bad at all.

A drink to suit the occasion

I haven’t had many chances to drink lately, so I brought along a bottle of Hyakunen no Kodoku, and it was so good. It’s a barley shochu, so it’s a bit like whisky, but it goes even better with food.

For round two, we headed to a Chinese restaurant in Yeonnam-dong that’s supposed to be hot these days.

Yeongyo

I don’t remember exactly, but I think it’s run by a relative of the Hyangmi people, or something like that.

Dongpo pork

I like that it comes in small dishes. You get to try a variety of things, and the food itself is on the tasty side.

Century egg tofu

Nice with a drink.

Stir-fried chives

This was good too.

Stir-fried eggplant

Quite a high standard.

Pan-fried dumplings

But for a place named Yeongyo (the ‘gyo’ being dumpling), the dumplings are just so-so.

Xiaolongbao

Same here.

Mianbao xia (shrimp toast)

The shrimp toast was nicely fried.

Beef noodle soup

The noodles

Most of the dishes were above average, but I think it would have been even better as a dumpling specialist like Pyeonuibang.

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