One weekend I saw Elisabeth in Hannam-dong. The cast and the songs were wonderful. I could see why people get hooked on musicals. The sign A sad story about how marrying the wrong person makes for a ha…
Sandong Gyojagwan in Apgujeong is a restaurant that uses good ingredients, cooks with care, and charges a reasonable (which is to say, not cheap) price for it. Even if it is a bit pricey, it is nowhere near ho…
Pyeonuibang is a Chinese restaurant in Yeonnam-dong famous for its mandu. The place looks shabby, but it had a good reputation among bloggers, and then one day it suddenly got on TV and became really hard to g…
Yeomyeong in Dohwa-dong is a place that became famous thanks to Rainy’s blog. It has been around for quite a while, but it had escaped bloggers’ notice until it moved near Oebaek, and since then it…
In a neighbourhood called Sangok-dong, not far from Bupyeong in Incheon, there is a Chinese restaurant called Deokhwawon. I had heard it keeps the old-school Chinese-immigrant style intact, so I got curious an…
Masichina, the Chinese restaurant in Sangsu-dong that always has a line. It seems to have become famous through Rainy’s blog, but the name was so corny that I never had much interest from the start. One …
By now I have been to Jinjin so often that it could easily have gotten old, but while I have been many times, some people still had not, so I deliberately picked it as our meeting spot. This time’s membe…
By now I go to Jinjin so often that I deliberately skip the introduction. This time it was a gathering for drinking champagne. The main event of the day Jacques Selosse Initial. Apparently it is famous…
Came to Cheung Kee Noodle House for the first time in a while. We seem to get together often before winter ends.. ahem.. Stir-fried gai lan Loaded with garlic. It has a nice bite too, so the stir-fried…
One cold day with snow coming down hard, I arranged to meet a friend at Daeseonggwan in Daebang. I had never been, but it is a Chinese-run Chinese restaurant whose name I had heard plenty of times. The …
Epicure is the only gourmet club I am active in. For someone as unsociable as me to keep going for years on end is practically a miracle. So even though I have been visiting Jinjin back to back lately, once I …
By now I have been to Jinjin far too many times. This was partly a New Year’s party, and we gathered mainly people who had not yet been to Jinjin, but I have been going so often lately that it feels a bi…