Tomi’s Bakery in Yeonnam-dong
On a bright spring day, around the end of April, I visited Tomi’s Bakery. I am working my way through the breads I have not tried yet, one by one. With spring getting shorter every year, going all the wa…
On a bright spring day, around the end of April, I visited Tomi’s Bakery. I am working my way through the breads I have not tried yet, one by one. With spring getting shorter every year, going all the wa…
One evening with no plans, a friend and I did a loop around the Yeonnam-dong and Yeonhui-dong area. It is a nice thing to still have a friend to go on restaurant tours with at this age. Mutahiro I had …
I’d heard that a good Vietnamese restaurant had opened in Yeonnam-dong, but nobody would tell me where it was. Fair enough, really: the place is tiny, so if a crowd showed up there would be no way to han…
Jinga is a Chinese restaurant opened in Yeonnam-dong by chef Jin Saeng-yong, who I gather became popular on a food show called Junghwa Daebanjeom. I don’t really watch food shows (or rather, I barely wat…
As everyone knows, Yeonnam-dong has plenty of good places, and which one you end up at seems to come down to taste. Sicily is delicious, but with nobody to go drink soju with, I only ever walk past without goi…
One hectic day I opened this whisky at Opas. I think the owner was curious and told me to go ahead and open it.. Three Rivers Littlemill 25 Year Old. It’s from a distillery that’s now close…
Since Yeontral Park opened, a lot of decent shops have popped up along that stretch. Among them I took a liking to 17℃ and went back several times in the summer of 2015. When it is this good, there is no need …
Opas treats me like a VIP and I go there far too often, so I don’t post every visit, but on the days I drink something special I can’t help writing it down for the record. Donkey Kick It…
Pyeonuibang is a Chinese restaurant in Yeonnam-dong famous for its mandu. The place looks shabby, but it had a good reputation among bloggers, and then one day it suddenly got on TV and became really hard to g…
This is a post from quite a while back, so the vibe is a bit different from Angel’s Share as it is now. Yeonnam-dong has changed a lot lately with the new park. I think I am about five months behind on p…
A Thai food bar called Opas has opened in Yeonnam-dong. It’s part of the Tuk Tuk Noodle Thai and Soi Yeonnam family. I’m VIP member No. 2 and I’ve been countless times already, so I feel almo…
Round one was in Yeonnam-dong, so round two was, naturally, Angel’s Share. Beef jerky One of the people who came that night brought out some beef jerky they had received as a Lunar New Year gift,…