Sungui Garden, Incheon
If you are looking for a place near Dongincheon to go eat some beef on the weekend, this is about the only one that comes to mind. As the name suggests, it is a fairly big barbecue restaurant with a bit of a g…
If you are looking for a place near Dongincheon to go eat some beef on the weekend, this is about the only one that comes to mind. As the name suggests, it is a fairly big barbecue restaurant with a bit of a g…
It had been a while since I last came out to Hongdae, and a lot has changed. Mecenatpolis has gone up, and the Hapjeong side feels a bit livelier now. There was so much ground to cover that while I was wanderi…
I had arranged to meet Ma-xx, a blogger and Twitter user who specialises in Hongdae, at Tuk Tuk Noodle Thai, but when I got there the door was shut with no notice about a day off. After waiting a bit and wonde…
23banchi Cafe, right near my place, was somewhere I always wanted to go, but life was so busy that the chance never really came up. I wanted one last beer before heading back to Korea, so I dropped in. Shitam…
A chocolate shop and cafe called Max Brenner has opened in Tokyo. There are already so many chocolate cafes around that I wondered whether it really needed importing, but once I went myself, the atmosphere and…
Hamamatsu, in Shizuoka Prefecture, is famous for gyoza even within Japan. Among the countless gyoza specialists, a handful of so-called famous shops are impossible to get into without lining up. Out of those, …
Weddings in Japan are for close relatives and good friends only, so it is not like Korea where practically anyone shows up. Living in Japan I have had the chance to attend a few, and this time I got to go to a…
For health reasons I usually stay away from instant food, but the level of Japanese instant food is really quite high. Work was crazy busy over the New Year holidays, and I figured if not now I might never get…
I had an appointment in Shinjuku, and after mulling over what to eat, I booked a table at Mizutaki Genkai. Mizutaki is a regional dish from Kyushu that I had only heard about and never actually tried. The fro…
I did not have a great impression of Eggs ‘n Things, but on the morning of our departure I ended up going back. Not because I wanted to, it just sort of happened that way. Coffee … Eggs Benedict…
It was our last evening, so we did a lap around Waikiki, shopping and sightseeing along the way. Roughly what it looks like It is clean. The night view People lining up in front of Marukame Udon I had n…
The town on the North Shore is not very big, so you can walk around the whole center in about 30 minutes. It had the look of a faded fishing village that tourists drift into now and then. But Matsumoto Shave I…