A GOONG, a Bakery Cafe in Jongno
A bakery cafe has opened up in Jongno. A place like this It is a pretty big place. Looks like a lot of capital went into it. Inside The motif is the agungi, the traditional Korean kitchen hearth. Freshly bak…
A bakery cafe has opened up in Jongno. A place like this It is a pretty big place. Looks like a lot of capital went into it. Inside The motif is the agungi, the traditional Korean kitchen hearth. Freshly bak…
I love Earip’s songs. I used to go see her often, but lately I haven’t had the time, and she hasn’t been performing much either, so I hadn’t been able to go. Then out of nowhere a show …
I had some business in Bukchon, so on the way I stopped by Biwon Tteokjip, a rice cake shop. The Constitutional Court Honestly, I had no idea there was a place like this right in the middle of Bukchon until t…
Yujin Sikdang is famous as a good-value naengmyeon (cold noodle) place. At first it made the news as “a naengmyeon place, in a spot like this?”… but these days lots of young people come here …
I had no idea, but apparently a fairly famous barbecue place has opened in Jongno. A place like this The home of pork galbi and naengmyeon, so they say.. I got the feeling it’s popular with the MZ gener…
Hyojeru is apparently what a Chinese restaurant called Florida Banjeom turned into after it moved. Florida Banjeom was famous for being good in the first place, so Hyojeru, post-move, is packed with people too…
Zeya is a cocktail bar, and it turns out they serve some lovely original cocktails. Water A truly lonely cucumber (a pun on chamoe, the Korean melon) As I remember it, it wasn’t bad at all. Inside It&…
I don’t really know the Jongno area, but apparently there’s a beef soup place called Uyungmyeongwan where people queue up for the beef noodles. That place did so well that the owner opened a Chines…
Around then a Cheonggyecheon meme was going around in a game called Blue Archive.. well.. anyway, here are some photos I took wandering around the area. Sky Sky Cheonggyecheon A fish is swimming. Is that a …
58 Hokkien Soba is a Chinese-style ramen shop from the owner who used to run Cheung Kee Noodle House, the Hong Kong-style wonton noodle place. The entrance It’s down in the basement. The old Cheung Kee …
Buminok in Jongno has been famous for ages and I had actually been before.. but yang-muchim, the seasoned beef tripe this place is known for, is an awkward thing to order when you are on your own, so even thou…
The mood in Ikseon-dong has changed completely, and these days it is not hipsters but families of tourists pouring in. I had originally thought about getting dessert somewhere, but there were far too many peop…