Oddly enough, a lot of my drinking get-togethers were around this area. Thinking back, I suspect the idea was that once summer came, going out to meet up would become a hassle, so we should get our drinking in…
These days I tend not to go anywhere unless it is a restaurant run by a chef I know. A fine-dining meal usually costs at least 50,000 to 60,000 won and sometimes over 100,000 (and sometimes that gets doubled…..
I have been going to Polpo quite often lately, but even I did not expect to end up there back to back like this. Someone I know asked me to put together a meetup, and there are not many places around Gangnam y…
I was out in Pangyo for the day and had dinner at a naengmyeon place that is supposedly famous in West Pangyo. Bundang has Bundang Pyeongyang Myeonok, and Ilsan has a few naengmyeon spots too; maybe it has bec…
A small gourmet meetup with the usual crowd at Polpo. Calling it a gourmet meetup did not mean the menu itself changed much, but the bottles the participants brought along were something else. Corkage was not …
The soft serve craze finally seems to be dying down. The honey chip ice cream got on TV several times, there were lawsuits over the copycat shops, all sorts of drama. Korea is a country where everyone pounces …
Word that there was a cafe in Hongdae serving great patbingsu reached me all the way from the States. Hongdae is quite a trek for me these days, but with the weather heating up I made a point of going. The en…
On a Saturday in June when it looked like it might rain, I suddenly got a craving for Jeongin Myeonok and headed for Yeouido. I had originally planned to cycle there, but not wanting to get soaked I ran instea…
I heard a rumour that Tori Pub, a new place in Hongdae, was running a promotion. It was a chance to drink Suntory beer on the cheap, and I was curious what kind of place it was, so after our get-together at Ic…
One weekday, a spur-of-the-moment lamb dinner came together. The original plan was Unbong Sanjang, but there are not many places around there for a second round, so we settled on Ichiryu in Hongdae. These days…
I saw a post on Bistro Polpo’s official Twitter saying they had started serving trippa, so I dashed over for lunch that weekend. I am quite fond of offal dishes, and there are not many places in Korea th…
When I shipped my things from Japan to Korea, I forgot where I had put the key to my bike lock. Thanks to that, I could not really ride my bike for almost six months. Then one Saturday afternoon the new bike l…