Fell + Cole, a Handmade Ice Cream Shop in Hongdae
I’d heard rumours that an ice cream shop for gourmets had opened in Hongdae, but I’d been so busy touring bakeries that I never got around to paying attention to ice cream shops. Besides, I didn…
I’d heard rumours that an ice cream shop for gourmets had opened in Hongdae, but I’d been so busy touring bakeries that I never got around to paying attention to ice cream shops. Besides, I didn…
I went to this place after seeing Ye-x’s post about it. It seems to have been famous in the Apgujeong food alley for a long time. This will probably be the last of my Seoul sundae-guk posts — the other p…
Bakeries seem to be the trend these days — new ones are popping up all over the place, and even when I hear about an opening there’s no way I can get to them all. (It’s not as if a bakery that beat…
Cheung Kee Noodle House has moved from Hongdae to Itaewon. For details, check Nokjang’s blog http://hsong.egloos.com/3368583~ Cheung Kee Noodle House is an egg noodle specialist in the alley by the Hong…
I had arranged to meet a younger friend from my school days on Garosu-gil, since he was back in Korea for the first time in ages, but there was nowhere decent to eat. The good places all had long lines and wer…
On a day off in April I was wandering around Yeoksam-dong when a Naju gomtang place caught my eye. It somehow looked promising – the way the guy in Kodoku no Gurume picks a restaurant – so I went i…
A friend came out to Gangnam Station and suggested we go eat some meat, and after dithering over where to go we settled on the safe bet, Bongpiyang. It sits behind Samsung Town, near the Koatel building. It…
I never thought I’d have a reason to go out to Gangdong-gu, but there it was. So while I was headed that way I searched for a good place to eat, and Haejungcheon Banjeom came up as a famous one. Pickled…
One day in spring I got a craving for Japanese-style curry, but going anywhere far felt like too much hassle, so I went to a curry place by Gangnam Station. Thanks to that laziness I put on a lot of weight in …
With summer just around the corner, it feels a little awkward to be posting about a spring barbecue ^_^ Anyway, the spring barbecue season came around again this year without fail, so a few of the members got …
Another sundae-guk post, hot on the heels of the last one. I spotted Soung Nong Chan Baekam Wangsundae in Gyodae on Nokjang’s blog and went along on the off chance. Main entrance In the older posts it…
There are countless sundaeguk joints in Seoul, but when I sat down and counted the ones that really deserve to be called great, there were fewer than I expected. To qualify, a place needs history and a name, n…