Seorae Yanggopchang, Seorae Village
When the first round of a meetup goes well, you simply have to go on to a second round to savor the afterglow. Conversely, a meetup with no second round may just mean the first round was so-so. That day we had…
When the first round of a meetup goes well, you simply have to go on to a second round to savor the afterglow. Conversely, a meetup with no second round may just mean the first round was so-so. That day we had…
Another gathering at Polpo, right on the heels of the last one. I know I have been going to Polpo a bit too often, but for various reasons I will not be able to go for a while, so I am cramming the visits in. …
I had some free time on the weekend, so I went to Bistro Polpo. I used to come around here a lot, and not long after this visit I ended up going again. Cookies loaded with Edam cheese They brought thes…
Round one was in Yeonnam-dong, so round two was, naturally, Angel’s Share. Beef jerky One of the people who came that night brought out some beef jerky they had received as a Lunar New Year gift,…
We got together to sort through the stuff I brought back from Japan. When you buy all sorts of odds and ends, one session is never enough. It takes two or three get-togethers before things are more or less sor…
One of the joys of a Tokyo trip is the new stuff at convenience stores. This time I stopped by convenience stores and supermarkets and bought a bit of everything. First-night fun The Asahi was just so-…
After a short three-night, four-day trip, on my way back to Korea through Narita Airport I had one last bowl of ramen. Haneda has Rokurinsha and Setagaya, but at Narita there is really only Kukai. Gyoza…
Before coming to Japan I put together a list of ramen shops, and a few places caught my eye. One of them was Japanese Soba Noodles Tsuta. And the other one, which I picked after some deliberation as a late-nig…
On this Tokyo trip I have been going mostly around restaurants I had long wanted to try. The reason is that I have no friend to go restaurant-hopping with. At a place I know well I can just eat what I want and…
Before coming to Japan this time, I went through the whole ranking of dessert shops in Tokyo. There were a few notable changes, and among them Occitanial at Suitengumae Station was the only one with reasonably…
On this trip I put a ramen shop back on the itinerary for the first time in a while. Because it is delicious, obviously! And also because it is an easy place to go alone. A few years ago I did a big tour of To…
There are a few places in Tokyo I really love, and one of them is Kurofunetei. Tokyo has plenty of more refined or more upscale Western-style restaurants, but for some reason this is the one that clicks with m…