Scenes from August 2023
The neighborhood bakery Full moon Pinkfong Somewhere in Yangjae Daechi-dong It is a neighborhood where the kids study, and yet it blazes with light all night.. Hiroko Yakushimaru A Ringane has opened in …
The neighborhood bakery Full moon Pinkfong Somewhere in Yangjae Daechi-dong It is a neighborhood where the kids study, and yet it blazes with light all night.. Hiroko Yakushimaru A Ringane has opened in …
Tanghulu originally started out with hawthorn berries, but in Korea what you mostly see for sale are easy-to-find fruits like strawberries. I heard that over in Daerim there is the original hawthorn-berry tang…
With Chuseok coming around, I received some Bacha Coffee as a gift. Oh my.. It was properly hefty. Inside All gold and gleaming. There are plenty of different coffees in there and they smell really good. Boo…
Here are all sorts of dishes. Mao’s eggplant rice bowl It was surprisingly good. Though this neighborhood is a bit on the pricey side. Shake Shack It tastes great when you haven’t had it in a whi…
I remember eating well at Samsigi Gamjatang in Yangjae a while back, and it turns out there is a branch in Gyodae too. So off I went, right away. The place It sits back off the main street. Business looks lik…
After wrapping up round one at Parkgun Hanu, we were wondering where to head for round two and walked in after spotting the sign. The place Maybe it is because it sits right in front of the university, but it…
There are plenty of good restaurants in the world but you can’t get to all of them, and then a friend got in touch, so I ended up visiting Parkkun Hanu. The front entrance Well.. there are plenty of Kor…
Idle Moments used to be over around Seogyo-dong/Mangwon, and it had a really lovely feel back then too. I heard they had recently opened a place in Seochon, so I went to have a look. A building like this I ha…
Oksudong Mugeunji Kimchijjim is a kimchi-jjim (braised aged kimchi) place famous for delivery. The first thing you notice is how enormous the portions are. Oh my.. I think this was three servings.. there was …
I heard an Atelier Pond cafe had opened on the third floor of Galleria Luxury Hall, so I went to check it out. The original Atelier Pond is famously hard to get into, and its desserts get fully booked the mome…
Seocho-dong, around Nambu Bus Terminal, has quite a lineup of good restaurants. Gangnam used to be a new town, but now it has become an old town, and I suspect that is why. Even if it only started developing i…
Budae jjigae is delicious, but the specialist places are mostly clustered in Uijeongbu or Songtan, so getting out to eat it is not easy. Especially for someone like me who usually moves around alone, it is an …