I searched online for gomtang places in Yeoksam-dong and found that, besides the Hannam-dong Naju Gomtang I went to last time, there is another famous one called Woojungjib. Woojungjib is actually the older of…
Seocho Sariwon has been a famous bulgogi restaurant around Gangnam Station for ages, and since the branch at D-Cube City in Sindorim was so good when I ate there last time, I ended up visiting the main shop by…
Yeonnam Wangsundae is a sundae-guk place that’s in Yeonnam-dong rather than Hongdae proper. I was blown away the last time I ate here, so I came back to mark the finale of my sundae tour. Side dishes …
I had some business over in Jongno, and while I was working out what to eat I heard about a place that does old-style jjajangmyeon well, so off I went. Truth be told, I am not much of a jjajangmyeon fan. It is…
I’d heard rumours that an ice cream shop for gourmets had opened in Hongdae, but I’d been so busy touring bakeries that I never got around to paying attention to ice cream shops. Besides, I didn…
I went to this place after seeing Ye-x’s post about it. It seems to have been famous in the Apgujeong food alley for a long time. This will probably be the last of my Seoul sundae-guk posts — the other p…
Bakeries seem to be the trend these days — new ones are popping up all over the place, and even when I hear about an opening there’s no way I can get to them all. (It’s not as if a bakery that beat…
Cheung Kee Noodle House has moved from Hongdae to Itaewon. For details, check Nokjang’s blog http://hsong.egloos.com/3368583~ Cheung Kee Noodle House is an egg noodle specialist in the alley by the Hong…
I had arranged to meet a younger friend from my school days on Garosu-gil, since he was back in Korea for the first time in ages, but there was nowhere decent to eat. The good places all had long lines and wer…
On a day off in April I was wandering around Yeoksam-dong when a Naju gomtang place caught my eye. It somehow looked promising – the way the guy in Kodoku no Gurume picks a restaurant – so I went i…
A friend came out to Gangnam Station and suggested we go eat some meat, and after dithering over where to go we settled on the safe bet, Bongpiyang. It sits behind Samsung Town, near the Koatel building. It…
I never thought I’d have a reason to go out to Gangdong-gu, but there it was. So while I was headed that way I searched for a good place to eat, and Haejungcheon Banjeom came up as a famous one. Pickled…