What I Ate This Weekend..
Yoshinoya has started serving gyudon again and is running an event called the Gyudon Revival Festival. It’s a limited-time gyudon sale ahead of the official relaunch in December. Remembering the bowls I …
Yoshinoya has started serving gyudon again and is running an event called the Gyudon Revival Festival. It’s a limited-time gyudon sale ahead of the official relaunch in December. Remembering the bowls I …
As soon as I got to Hakata Station I had breakfast first and then headed straight for Karo no Uron, but even though I ate at 9 and strolled over slowly, I got there before 10 -_-; So with loads of time to kill…
I got to Hakata Station, the western end of the Shinkansen line, at 9 in the morning. Looking around for something to eat, I found a few places in the station basement serving breakfast. I guess that’s w…
I went to Karo no Uron, a hand-made udon specialist that has been in business in Fukuoka for 130 years (“uron” is Hakata dialect for udon). It turns out it’s near Nakasu. There are plenty of …
Having come all the way to Fukuoka, I couldn’t just eat ramen the whole time. I’d decided to skip sushi, soba and wagyu on this trip, so I was thinking of trying a French or Italian place, and this…
I went to Hassho, a famous Hiroshima okonomiyaki spot. I couldn’t find anywhere decent to go for dinner -_-;; The entrance. A pretty ordinary atmosphere. First I order a draft beer. One cold draft beer…
Nagahama ramen, the byword for Fukuoka’s famous tonkotsu ramen, has spread all over Japan. It’s become a proper name, just like Sapporo ramen, Kitakata ramen or Onomichi ramen. There happens to be …
I met up with some friends I hadn’t seen in a while in Yeouido. Since it was a long holiday weekend, we went back and forth on where to go and ended up at Mad for Garlic. Well… a safe choice, right…
Somunnan Kalguksu is a place I used to go to all the time back in college, whenever I stopped by Yongsan to buy computer parts. Given what I was majoring in, I had plenty of reasons to be in Yongsan. When I we…
I went with a friend to Il Cipriani, the Italian restaurant in the Shinsegae Department Store main store. I’d heard rumors that it tops the list of Korean Italian restaurants for value for money, so I we…
I went back to Korea for the Chuseok holidays, and as luck would have it there was a gizzard shad meetup at Maknae, a place I used to go to a lot. Really I should have organized a welcome-home meetup myself, b…
Lately I’ve had a bit more breathing room, so every time I come back to Korea I’ve been trying new wines with a friend who’s into wine. On this visit we threw a small party at my friend’…