Naksan Park in Dongdaemun
I got lost in Dongdaemun and headed up a hill, and a fortress wall turned up. Roughly this kind of view.. I had no idea a place like this existed in Dongdaemun.. A park like this Seen in person, the mountain…
I got lost in Dongdaemun and headed up a hill, and a fortress wall turned up. Roughly this kind of view.. I had no idea a place like this existed in Dongdaemun.. A park like this Seen in person, the mountain…
Just putting up some leftover photos.. First-place baguette The winners of the baguette championship held by Le Pain and Blue Ribbon were doing an event at Sweet Park, so I went along.. and of course, if you …
Deokhwawon in Sangok-dong They just opened this new place and apparently the queue gets long. Business must be booming.. It’s popular enough that the menu is limited and there’s a wait, I hear. Th…
On the way to Dongdaemun The sky is clear. Russian bread in Dongdaemun This must be the kind of bread people eat every day in Eastern Europe. Breads I’d like to buy some one day.. but I should probabl…
Eulmildae Main Branch Turns out Eulmildae is closer than I thought. I should stop by once the weather gets a bit better. France Louvre Baguette A place that is clearly copying London Bagel Museum has opened …
If you live in Incheon, you almost certainly have a memory or two tied to Songdo.. And Songdo has developed a lot lately, plus it now has a train station. So I went over for a look on the weekend. Songdo Yeokj…
A Daeseong Dogani-tang, the beef knee-cartilage soup place, has opened in Gyodae. I would like to go once, but it feels like I would need some business reason to actually end up there.. Snapped while walking …
What made me decide to head out to Paju this time was the news that the GTX-A line had opened. GTX It takes a while just to get down to the platform, but it turns out Paju is only 20 minutes away. You still h…
Hard at work farming oysters. Anker’s USB-A to USB-C adapter This turns out to be surprisingly useful: it lets you hang USB-A cables, like the ones on a mouse or a keyboard, off a USB-C hub. Hubs that …
Nagisaen hosts events all the time, especially on days when the weather is nice. This area sits roughly in the middle of Japan, so it seems to get used as a venue a lot whenever people gather from all over the…
I went to Isetan. This kind of mood.. These days it feels like Isetan is the only stop you need. Bread like this It was cute, so I took a picture. And bakeries like this.. And bakeries like this.. Was it n…
I spent the day wandering around central Tokyo. Somewhere near Shibuya, probably Korea has its share of good-looking buildings too, but Japan has always had plenty of unusual ones. We’ll have to try a b…