Whenever I come back to Korea, I’m always busy seeing people. Since I usually eat a lot of Korean food while I’m in Korea, when someone asks where to go I tend to say a Korean place would be nice. …
I came back to Korea for Chuseok, and to catch up with friends I set up a meet at a place called Sichuan House in Samseong-dong. It’s no great foodie spot, and I’m not especially into Sichuan food …
Maybe because rent isn’t all that high and it’s close to central Tokyo, Koenji is full of young people living on their own. A lot of my friends who moved up from the countryside live around here to…
I went out to Shinjuku for lunch and really struggled to decide where to go. Having come all the way to Tokyo, I couldn’t just eat any old thing. So I headed to the Park Hyatt hotel in Shinjuku, making a…
The highlight of this trip was a restaurant in Nishiazabu, currently the chicest spot in Tokyo. It’s a quiet neighborhood right next to Roppongi, full of hidden gems. I went to one of them, a place calle…
I visited my friend who lives in Shirokane again. We see each other often, so I already know this neighborhood pretty well. From what I hear it’s a bit of a tough place to live, but well.. that kind of t…
I got to Tokyo around 11, and even though I had a lunch appointment at 1, I still needed a little palate-warmer first -_- so I headed straight to Ginza. The plan was to finally try a top-notch shio ramen speci…
These days I’m going to Tokyo on a regular schedule, about once every two months. I’ve got lots of friends there, there are plenty of places I want to try, and I get to catch the latest trends. Thi…
I’d helped someone I know with some computer stuff and got a meal out of it, but since it wasn’t anything major, we went somewhere reasonable: Jasmin, a cafe-cum-restaurant. It’s run by the s…
On the last weekend of August, right in the thick of the heat, I took a trip out to the Osaka area. The theme of this trip was to enjoy what was left of the summer. Honestly, this summer was so brutally hot th…
I really love outlet shopping, so whenever there’s an outlet near wherever I’m travelling, I end up dropping by. This time, when I went to Kobe to burn through the last of the summer, there was a s…
Someone I got to know somehow through work was hosting a Calera wine dinner, so I went along. Calera is the pricey wine people call the Romanée-Conti of California -_-. Apparently the winery’s owner trai…