Incheon has had a Chinatown for ages, but it was literally just hanging on by a thread. Most of the Chinese restaurants in Chinatown are new places aimed at tourists, and even the old-timers are not particular…
I spent the weekend going around the main sights of Incheon with my family. The places worth seeing in Incheon are pretty obvious, but it had been such a long time that I brought my camera along and shot here …
Relatives came to visit on a day off, and since I couldn’t think of anywhere in particular to take them, we made a quick trip out to the Gyeongin Canal. It was really hot that day. The view at Gyeyang …
This is already a two-month-old story, but 2chef went through a major renovation back in May. I was curious about what had changed, so I dropped by not long after the work was finished. Glasses Bread Gazp…
I heard a churros specialty shop had opened in Hongdae, so I went to take a look. I’m not really the type who loves the overpriced churros you get at amusement parks or movie theaters, but when I heard t…
Something came up, so I spent a bit of the weekend over in Sunchang, Jeollabuk-do. I searched for good restaurants nearby, but nearly all of them were hanjeongsik places (Korean full-course set meals). So I ju…
A friend told me a good jingisukan place had opened in Hongdae, and one thing led to another, so I ended up going several times -_-. Apparently it was a famous place in Ilsan, and business went so well that th…
A donut shop that’s famous in Japan has opened in Korea. There seem to be several branches, and a big one has appeared in Hongdae, where I often hang out, right in front of the playground. The storefront Hm…
After getting back from Jeju Island I decided it was time to get together with friends again, and after going back and forth on where to go we settled on Unbong Sanjang, famous for lamb, in Noryangjin. It has …
I returned the rental car early, went to the airport and finished check-in, then took a taxi back out to get a meal. I’d done it that way in case I ran short of time, but it turned out I had plenty to sp…
If we had set out early in the morning and kept moving, we might have finished the Jungmun part of the itinerary before noon, but one thing after another came up along the way and it got quite late. We scrappe…
For timing reasons I had to have lunch somewhere around Jungmun, and the most famous place nearby turned out to be the Jungmun Haenyeo’s House. Gyeongmi Hyugeso is actually a similar concept to a haenyeo…