Masichina, Sangsu-dong
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 …
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…
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…
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…
Honestly, Aoitori’s bread is not really my thing. It is plain Japanese-style bread, and I do not eat much plain bread even in Japan. It is more that I miss it once in a while. Anyway, this place runs not…
I got to Ruelle de Paris right at 9:30, but they had no galettes, so I decided to spend about an hour wandering around the Yeonhui-dong neighborhood. It is not often that I find myself in Yeonhui-dong at 9:30 …
These days, whenever it’s round two or round three, it’s Angel’s Share. We just don’t go anywhere else anymore. I suspect it’s because they put up with us to some degree even when…
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…
I heard a rumour that The Old Croissant Factory in Hongdae had started doing scones, so I decided to go back for the first time in a while. Their bread never disappoints. The front entrance It was real…
The weekend after my visit to Jinjin, I ended up going back without a reservation. I was dying to eat there again, and I happened to have some free time. I showed up right at the 5 o’clock opening and wa…