Setagaya, a ramen shop at D-Cube City in Sindorim
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…
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…
Every time the season changes I make a point of heading out to an outlet mall to do some shopping. I’d been meaning to go again this year too, and then an opportunity suddenly came up, so off I went. Ori…
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…
I finally had some free time after a month, so I went to 2chef with a friend. Turns out quite a lot had changed behind the scenes — one of the chefs had struck out on his own. Tomato gazpacho Nice and refre…
It was May 1st, Labour Day, and there was a lunch meetup, so I paid a visit to Molto. In April I was so busy with a project that I mostly just grabbed something simple near home, but at last I could get out to…
Gyeongseong Yangyukgwan is a yangkkochi (lamb skewer) chain with a branch in my neighborhood. I gather it started out as a famous lamb skewer place in Gyodae, and now it has turned into a chain you see everywh…
At the end of April, Shinsegae in Myeongdong hosted an event supporting small independent bakeries. It was over a month ago, so anyone interested has probably already been. These days it feels like I post less…
I searched online for gomtang places in Yeoksam-dong and found that, besides the Hannam-dong Naju Gomtang I went to last time, there is another famous one called Woojungjib. Woojungjib is actually the older of…
Seocho Sariwon has been a famous bulgogi restaurant around Gangnam Station for ages, and since the branch at D-Cube City in Sindorim was so good when I ate there last time, I ended up visiting the main shop by…
Yeonnam Wangsundae is a sundae-guk place that’s in Yeonnam-dong rather than Hongdae proper. I was blown away the last time I ate here, so I came back to mark the finale of my sundae tour. Side dishes …
I had some business over in Jongno, and while I was working out what to eat I heard about a place that does old-style jjajangmyeon well, so off I went. Truth be told, I am not much of a jjajangmyeon fan. It is…