Pyeongyang Myeonok, Jangchung-dong
Before I travel abroad I always stop by the duty free shops. If you time the regular sales right, you can pick up decent fashion items cheaper than at an outlet. (Scored again this time -_-v. June and December…
Before I travel abroad I always stop by the duty free shops. If you time the regular sales right, you can pick up decent fashion items cheaper than at an outlet. (Scored again this time -_-v. June and December…
As the weather heats up, occasions to go out for samgyetang start coming around. Jiho Hanbang Samgyetang sits in the alley of seolleongtang and haejangguk houses in Sinsa-dong. It isn’t especially famous…
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…
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…
Normally when I’m off traveling I can’t be bothered to get up in the morning, so I tend to skip the hotel breakfast, but this time breakfast came with the room and there wasn’t anywhere decen…
Some people will tell you dombe-gogi is the one dish you absolutely have to try when you come to Jeju Island. Dombe-gogi is, put simply, suyuk (boiled pork), and if suyuk is good even on the mainland, it has t…
I heard a rumor that a place called Gyeongmi Hyugeso, near Seongsan Ilchulbong on Jeju Island, is famous for its boiled octopus and seafood ramyeon. Seafood ramyeon is something I eat plenty of in Seoul too, s…
“Gakjaegi” is the Jeju word for horse mackerel. So many people said that if you go to Jeju Island you absolutely have to try gakjaegi-guk, so I worked it into the second day’s plan. Dolharuba…
When you think of Jeju, gogi-guksu (pork noodle soup) is what comes to mind, and sure enough, once I actually got to Jeju I saw noodle shops everywhere I went. This trip was short, so I couldn’t work my …
In May I finally had a bit of free time, so I hastily put together a trip to Jeju. I only started getting ready two weeks before leaving, and booking a hotel turned out to be really hard. Phoenix Island, where…
I was about to head home, but someone brought up the rule that drinks come first and noodles after, so we wandered all over Hongdae looking for a ramen place that was still open. Every one of them closes befor…
I went over to Yeouido to meet a friend, and while we were trying to decide what to eat we ended up at Jinju Jip, the one and only nationally famous restaurant in this neighborhood. We had deliberately missed …