Seohwa, a charcoal grill place in Seosomun, is a really good meat restaurant in the City Hall area. As always, you have to ask the locals to find the neighborhood gems. No matter how much I searched for restau…
ChikaLicious is a famous New York cupcake shop run by a Japanese owner. There’s already a branch in Tokyo, and I’ve dropped by a few times. I’d heard a rumor that one had opened in Korea but …
When it comes to eating around City Hall, it has to be Buminok. They’ve started opening branches lately, though.. Banchan Yang gomtang Big portions, and the unseasoned broth is good too. …
The perk of working in a different place every so often is that you get to dig into the local food scene. This time I spent about five months working around City Hall, and I got to visit plenty of good restaur…
We had a family get-together on the weekend, so I headed to Yeouido. While searching for somewhere to have lunch, a friend recommended Jinjin, so that’s where we ended up. Yeouido being what it is, there…
I never used to bring desserts home; I would eat them at the shop and leave. But lately the pattern has completely flipped, and I end up taking most of my desserts home. The photos are a bit messy, but it felt…
I was working near City Hall at the time, and somehow ended up going to Manjok Jokbal for lunch. Maybe because they have opened so many branches lately, they seem to open early now and the line was not long ei…
Polpo is one of the very few places in Korea that makes pasta this good, so I go there often. I am friends with the owner, sure, but that and the food are two separate things. Edamame Nice to nibble on…
After coming back from Japan I had eaten so much Japanese food that I was craving Korean, and after some thought about where to go, I ended up at Odongdo. I honestly cannot think of a better option in Gangnam….
Famous regional fish cake shops have been moving into Seoul lately. Samjin Eomuk came up, and so did Goraesa Eomuk. My office is nearby, so I dropped in after work. It is near the Chinese Embassy in Mye…
I heard that a tantanmen specialist had opened in Sangsu-dong and that it now had a branch in Hongdae. A while ago another branch opened in Nonhyeon, too. It seems to have gotten popular after appearing on som…
I heard there was a popular Vietnamese rice noodle place in Sinchon called Mibundang, so I went to check it out. This is the place.. I heard they were opening a second branch too, but I cannot quite re…