I do like single malts, but I am not really one for hard liquor, and yet somehow I ended up throwing a hard-liquor gathering. Mi Piace has hosted a Balvenie single malt tasting before, and this time too they p…
Incheon has had a Chinatown for ages, but it was literally just hanging on by a thread. Most of the Chinese restaurants in Chinatown are new places aimed at tourists, and even the old-timers are not particular…
A friend told me a good jingisukan place had opened in Hongdae, and one thing led to another, so I ended up going several times -_-. Apparently it was a famous place in Ilsan, and business went so well that th…
After getting back from Jeju Island I decided it was time to get together with friends again, and after going back and forth on where to go we settled on Unbong Sanjang, famous for lamb, in Noryangjin. It has …
If we had set out early in the morning and kept moving, we might have finished the Jungmun part of the itinerary before noon, but one thing after another came up along the way and it got quite late. We scrappe…
For our second night we went to the Podo Hotel, run by the PINX golf course. As far as I know, the Podo Hotel is one of the very few truly top-class hotels in Korea. Come to think of it, unlike Japan, Korea do…
When you think of Jeju, gogi-guksu (pork noodle soup) is what comes to mind, and sure enough, once I actually got to Jeju I saw noodle shops everywhere I went. This trip was short, so I couldn’t work my …
I went over to Yeouido to meet a friend, and while we were trying to decide what to eat we ended up at Jinju Jip, the one and only nationally famous restaurant in this neighborhood. We had deliberately missed …
I finally had some free time after a month, so I went to 2chef with a friend. Turns out quite a lot had changed behind the scenes — one of the chefs had struck out on his own. Tomato gazpacho Nice and refre…
It was May 1st, Labour Day, and there was a lunch meetup, so I paid a visit to Molto. In April I was so busy with a project that I mostly just grabbed something simple near home, but at last I could get out to…
Yeonnam Wangsundae is a sundae-guk place that’s in Yeonnam-dong rather than Hongdae proper. I was blown away the last time I ate here, so I came back to mark the finale of my sundae tour. Side dishes …
Bakeries seem to be the trend these days — new ones are popping up all over the place, and even when I hear about an opening there’s no way I can get to them all. (It’s not as if a bakery that beat…