Guillaume, a Bakery in Cheongdam-dong
Even if the meal itself was a simple hanjeongsik (Korean set meal), a true doenjang-nam (a guy who puts on Western airs) has to finish with French-style dessert, right? It’s not a bakery I particularly l…
Even if the meal itself was a simple hanjeongsik (Korean set meal), a true doenjang-nam (a guy who puts on Western airs) has to finish with French-style dessert, right? It’s not a bakery I particularly l…
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…
I’ve always loved fiddling with parts and building new gadgets, so I go to Akihabara regularly (back in Korea it was Yongsan). These days Akiba is completely taken over by moe and maid stuff, but I’…
Dinner was great, so as always we headed off to a dessert place. ^_^ I’d heard there was a café famous for its cakes near Nishiki Market, the so-called “Kitchen of Kyoto,” so we walked there …
In the evening a friend took me to a café that’s supposedly one of the places in Osaka with a good-looking crowd. I remember it being somewhere near Umeda, but, well, I doubt I’ll ever go back. The…
While looking for somewhere to have breakfast in Shinjuku, I came across BEER&CAFE BERG. Come out of the underground Central East Exit at Shinjuku Station and head left, and you’ll see it. It’…
I heard that Payard, the famous dessert shop from New York’s Upper East Side, had opened on the 6th floor of the Shinsegae department store’s flagship in Myeongdong, so I went to check it out. (App…
It was a short trip, but here are photos of the places I dropped into in Osaka. Rikuro Ojisan’s cheesecake Rikuro Ojisan’s cheesecakes always have a long line, but you can also eat one right away …
Early in the morning I head out to Azabu-Juban. If you’re in Tokyo, you’ve got to visit the heart of the city at least once ^_^ The place I ducked into for breakfast was Pointage, a bakery that dou…
I don’t usually watch much TV, but last month, while I was living in a hotel thanks to a friend’s help, I caught a show picking the best mango pudding in Tokyo. It’s sold at the boutique-and-…
Hidemi Sugino is a cake shop in Ginza (technically Kyobashi, if you go by the official address). It’s a famous shop from Kobe, the city best known for cakes in all of Japan, that has expanded to Tokyo, s…
I’d known for ages that Brasserie L’ecrin, the casual-dining offshoot of L’ecrin, the famous French restaurant in Ginza, was in Ueno (not that I ever had a reason to go all the way to Ueno fo…