Sinto Ori in Gyesan-dong, Incheon
The theme of this trip to Korea was actually duck… no, not really. It was around Lunar New Year, so there weren’t many places open to go with friends, and this is where we ended up by default. From…
The theme of this trip to Korea was actually duck… no, not really. It was around Lunar New Year, so there weren’t many places open to go with friends, and this is where we ended up by default. From…
After lounging around at Gaehwaok for a while, we moved on to a café nearby. It’s called cafe mou, and the ground floor is a cake shop. The sign It’s roomier inside than I expected. Made me wond…
Over the Seollal (Lunar New Year) holiday it’s hard to find anywhere to meet people or anywhere to go. That’s when it pays to know a place like Gaehwaok, open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It…
Those who know me know that I’m seriously picky about Western food, so in Korea I try to stick to Korean food. A friend who knows this about me all too well invited me along, saying he’d found a de…
I hear that these days the place in Korea where the most young people gather is Garibong, I mean, Gasan Digital Valley. Back when I worked at a company near there it wasn’t like that, but when I go there…
A little before coming back to Korea, I’d talked with a certain someone about throwing an anti-Valentine’s meetup just for us singles, and somehow it turned into a giant-yellowtail meetup instead. …
Now that I’m back in Korea, maybe because it’s winter, I’ve been craving naengmyeon even more. So I made a point of carving out some time to visit a famous naengmyeon place nearby. Myeonsu (…
It was only a short visit to Korea, but this time I ended up going to a lot of Western restaurants. What I actually crave in Korea is Korean food, but when it comes to a proper, formal get-together, there̵…
There’s one upside to rushing out long-overdue meetup reviews: some diligent person who ate with us has already posted a detailed write-up, so I don’t have to tear my hair out trying to remember wh…
The season has finally come to post the storm of entries I’ve let pile up. It’d be nice to post things ahead of time, or at least regularly, but that was never going to happen -_- Anyway, the week…
For lunch on the last day we headed to a minshuku famous for its crab, but it was their regular day off. -_- So we went straight to a restaurant attached to the nearby fish market instead. The majestic view of…
Sushi alone never quite does it, does it? So off we went for ramen. The place is called Yorimichi Dandan. It’s known for its gyoza and ramen. A good spot for a quiet drink. Extra-large gyoza The cri…