2chef, a Restaurant in Hongdae
I’m gathering up my posts about 2chef, a restaurant I’m always indebted to, and putting them up together. I go there so often that I can’t post each visit separately. Tomato and anchovy pasta…
I’m gathering up my posts about 2chef, a restaurant I’m always indebted to, and putting them up together. I go there so often that I can’t post each visit separately. Tomato and anchovy pasta…
Second stop on my naengmyeon pilgrimage. Anyone who knows, knows: this place is hugely famous in this genre, but I never had any reason to go to Chungmuro, so I just hadn’t made it here until now. The f…
I’m pretty fond of naengmyeon, so I thought I’d been to all the famous places, but when I actually checked, there were still a few I’d never tried. So I made a plan to use this chance to visi…
Seongsan Wang Galbi is a bit hard to find, but it has a reputation for being delicious. Posts about it have been popping up since the start of the year, but for a Gangnam dweller like me it’s just so far…
Summer means naengmyeon. Woo Lae Oak is one of Korea’s signature Pyeongyang naengmyeon houses. When I first started eating Pyeongyang naengmyeon, the places I went to were Eulji Myeonok and Woo Lae Oak, …
With a summer trip abroad coming up, I stopped by the Lotte Duty Free shop. It was really crowded. While I was there I looked for somewhere nearby to eat, spotted Tani Next Door, and had lunch there. It’…
Mokran is a Chinese restaurant that offers outstanding value for money. I went a few times back when it was in Apgujeong, but this was my first visit since it moved to Seodaemun. We started with fried dumplin…
Back from Japan, I joined the gourmet group’s first get-together in a while, held at Namhae Bada. Lots of familiar faces, which was nice to see. Pomfret sashimi and hairtail sashimi This was my first …
Before heading off to Haneda I stopped by Tokyo Station for a bit. The Talisker 175th Anniversary bottle I’d spotted at Liquors Hasegawa a while ago kept nagging at me, so I went back specifically to buy…
Ginpei in Ginza is a Japanese restaurant that came up from Osaka. Dinner is a rather pricey full course, but lunch is cheap and generous, which has made it famous among the office workers around here. You get…
I don’t have much reason to come out to Uguisudani, so since I was here I couldn’t skip the local favorite. This is a place called Yakiniku Uguisudanien. Honestly, a Korean doesn’t really …
I go back and forth to Tokyo so often, and visit the famous dessert shops every time I’m here, that by now I’ve been to almost all the major ones I wanted to try. The one that (probably) caps it al…