Lately I’ve had a bit more breathing room, so every time I come back to Korea I’ve been trying new wines with a friend who’s into wine. On this visit we threw a small party at my friend’…
I didn’t actually want to go to a Japanese restaurant in Korea, but around Gangnam the only places I knew that were cheap, had a nice atmosphere and served food worth eating were this one and Mokran in A…
This is Nolboo’s fairly well-known duck restaurant chain. There are branches all over the city, but the one I went to was in Sillim-dong. Just like the lamb place before it, I dropped in here to build up…
It’s summer and I was feeling a bit run-down, so I went looking for something restorative and ended up at Lamb House, a lamb specialty restaurant in Bangbae-dong. I ate plenty of eel in Japan, but it doe…
This is a naengmyeon place that’s fairly well known in Incheon. It’s not near any tourist spots, so the customers are mostly locals, but every summer it’s always packed and you have to wait q…
I’ve got a few bottles(!) of wine ready for this trip to Korea. Getting them ready meant digging through a mountain of info on French and Italian wines, plus wine retail listings in Japan and Korea. Alon…
On this trip back to Korea, I went to Kanji Gogo, a Chinese restaurant on the way from COEX Mall into the Oakwood hotel. I’d originally planned to have the lunch course at Mokran in Apgujeong, but the me…