Ollae Guksu in Yeon-dong, Jeju
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 …
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 …
In May I finally had a bit of free time, so I hastily put together a trip to Jeju. I only started getting ready two weeks before leaving, and booking a hotel turned out to be really hard. Phoenix Island, where…
I was about to head home, but someone brought up the rule that drinks come first and noodles after, so we wandered all over Hongdae looking for a ramen place that was still open. Every one of them closes befor…
Those who want to call it a night after round two head home… and for round three we go to 2chef. The course menu at 2chef is excellent, but it is also an easy place to drop by late at night for a glass o…
After a barbecue that went off beautifully, a few of us got together for a second round. D’ange is a cafe in Hapjeong-dong, and apparently it’s the flagship store of Histoire d’Ange in Hongda…
The club barbecue came around again this spring, right on cue. The Epicure club’s spring and autumn barbecues are always an event I look forward to. Plenty of people turned up again this time. The barbe…
There are countless places in Seoul selling cake by the slice, but places where you can buy a whole cake without ordering ahead turn out to be fewer than you’d think. I put together a short list of optio…
Since I was in Yeouido anyway, I also stopped by Bread Lab, a place I’d been wanting to visit for ages. It’s a bit far from the kongguksu place, but I figured if not now then who knows when, so off…
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 asked a friend who was heading to Japan to pick up the new Pentax mirrorless camera, the K-01, for me. It’s a mirrorless, but it’s small enough that I figured I could carry it in my bag every day…
These days, whenever I wander around Hongdae, I keep running into restaurants done up like cafés. The mood is stylish, but they sell Korean food and bunsik too. Gomnejip is one of those — a place with a café-s…
The area around Sinsa Station has Garosu-gil, the hot spot everyone is talking about these days, and plenty of good places to eat, but the famous, stylish, expensive ones always feel like they fall a little sh…