There are two famous haejangguk places in Sinsa-dong. One is Yumyeongguk Yangpyeong Haejangguk, and the other is Yangpyeong Sinnae Seoul Haejangguk. The two are right next to each other, and I had always only …
Work took me to the Bangbang Sageori area in Yangjae-dong for a few days. While I was there I dropped by a few of the neighbourhood’s good restaurants, so here are my notes. On the very first day …
Masichina, the Chinese restaurant in Sangsu-dong that always has a line. It seems to have become famous through Rainy’s blog, but the name was so corny that I never had much interest from the start. One …
I found out late, via @rumaru’s Twitter, that Maybell Bakery, the hugely famous bakery in Itaewon, had opened a branch in front of Times Square in Yeongdeungpo. Maybell is the kind of place where you can…
By now I have been to Jinjin so often that it could easily have gotten old, but while I have been many times, some people still had not, so I deliberately picked it as our meeting spot. This time’s membe…
When the first round of a meetup goes well, you simply have to go on to a second round to savor the afterglow. Conversely, a meetup with no second round may just mean the first round was so-so. That day we had…
Another gathering at Polpo, right on the heels of the last one. I know I have been going to Polpo a bit too often, but for various reasons I will not be able to go for a while, so I am cramming the visits in. …
I had some free time on the weekend, so I went to Bistro Polpo. I used to come around here a lot, and not long after this visit I ended up going again. Cookies loaded with Edam cheese They brought thes…
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,…
We got together to sort through the stuff I brought back from Japan. When you buy all sorts of odds and ends, one session is never enough. It takes two or three get-togethers before things are more or less sor…
Here is a collection of the nice scenery I came across on this trip. These are not photos taken with any particular theme in mind, just random shots snapped while walking around. Tokyo Skytree on a morn…
One of the joys of a Tokyo trip is the new stuff at convenience stores. This time I stopped by convenience stores and supermarkets and bought a bit of everything. First-night fun The Asahi was just so-…