These days I mostly haunt the Sinsa-dong area, so I end up eating on Garosu-gil a lot. The street has ballooned so fast that there aren’t many time-tested restaurants left on it. I had a lunch date and a…
With the weather warming up, I went back to Pyeongyang Myeonok in Nonhyeon-dong for the first time in a while. Pyeongyang naengmyeon The taste hasn’t changed at all. The price, though, has gone up to …
On the last day of March, right as cherry blossom season kicked in, I went to Jinju Jip, the hugely famous kongguksu place in Yeouido that everyone in the know knows about. Cherry blossom season came earlier t…
I stopped by Molto for a weekend lunch get-together. It was already two months ago, and it’s a place I’ve been to plenty of times, so I’ll keep this short. Spumante We started with some li…
I dropped by Salon de Mon Chouchou in Garosu-gil for a light dessert. The atmosphere was a bit chaotic last time, but I remembered the food being really delicious. Strawberry parfait Hmm… but the tast…
I don’t know if you remember, but earlier this year there was an incident that made a huge fuss on the Korean internet. Last Christmas, at a “Cafe D” in Myeongdong, there was some trouble bet…
I went to Daegabang, a well-known hwagyo (ethnic Chinese) restaurant in Sinsa-dong. It was famous among bloggers at one point, and it’s still doing good business. Front entrance It’s near Garosu…
Jeolgumijip is one of Baek Jong-won’s restaurants. I was looking for somewhere to go with friends who aren’t foodies, and it looked like a safe choice, so I gave it a try. But once I actually went,…
I accidentally posted these in the wrong order. Please read this one as a continuation of the Yeongdong jokbal post.. After a good jokbal dinner we moved on to Myeongdong, but there weren’t many places …
A get-together suddenly came up in Dongdaemun, so I headed out as soon as work was over. The place was Gyeongsangdo-jip, famous for its pork ribs grilled over charcoal briquettes. Pork ribs They use good in…
There are a few famous restaurants on the market side of Yangjae Station, and Yeongdong Jokbal is probably the most famous of them all. It has practically grown into a little town of its own. A friend visiting…
A Japanese friend came to visit, and one thing led to another and we ended up at a pojangmacha (street tent bar) near Dongdaemun. When you live in Korea you hardly ever end up going to a pojangmacha. Because t…