This post is already a month late. My friends threw a welcome-home meetup for me at Hyangmi in Myeongdong to celebrate my return to Korea. I’ve been coming to this neighborhood a lot since my university …
After dinner, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, we headed for a dessert shop. It’s called Histoire d’Ange, and apparently there are several branches; I went to the one behind the C…
Since Hongdae is fairly close to my place (about 30 minutes by bus..), I end up going around there pretty often. It looks like I’ll keep having reasons to go, so I’d been feeling it was time to sta…
We had a small meetup at a Chinese restaurant called Keumjung in Hoehyeon-dong. Side dishes Come to think of it, there are a lot of Chinese restaurants around here. Probably because of the Chinese embassy. Q…
Louis Cinq is a restaurant that opened on Apgujeong Rodeo Street around the end of last year, I think. Maybe because they did their blogger marketing well, it’s gotten pretty good exposure for a place th…
I met up with a friend around Gangnam, and neither of us could think of anywhere in particular to go. I said I wanted gopchang, so we ended up at Yeontabal, where parking is easy. The table setting I had the…
Right after I got back to Korea, there was a small welcome-home meetup at 2chef. It’s such a popular place these days that getting a reservation wasn’t easy. The sommelier knife case I’d com…
Amandier in Anguk-dong might just be the hottest dessert café in Seoul right now. I’d heard so much about it that, as someone who loves desserts, I simply couldn’t stay away. Amandier’s front…
Back in Korea, and it’s freezing. I met up with a friend who loves good food over the weekend, and after going back and forth about where to go, we went to Donsadon in Hapjeong-dong, a Jeju black pork sp…
Around the time I was heading back to Korea, we had a small farewell dinner at Omoigawa, on the second floor of the Matsue Club. It was a tempura course eaten at the counter while looking out over Lake Shinji,…
Finally kicking off my 2011 posts. Over the New Year holidays we got an enormous snowfall, and I was basically stranded at home. It wasn’t exactly a happy time for me, but I’m leaving a record of i…
Mornings at an onsen ryokan have something special about them too. Just like the night before, a lady in a kimono helped us with every little thing. The breakfast tray A plain, unfussy Japanese breakfast. St…