Gourmet Club Home Party
Toward the end of the Lunar New Year holiday, I got together with a few people who have a real talent for drinking and threw a home party at a friend’s place. Just like at the barbecue, it turned into a …
Toward the end of the Lunar New Year holiday, I got together with a few people who have a real talent for drinking and threw a home party at a friend’s place. Just like at the barbecue, it turned into a …
Honestly, Aoitori’s bread is not really my thing. It is plain Japanese-style bread, and I do not eat much plain bread even in Japan. It is more that I miss it once in a while. Anyway, this place runs not…
There is a hard-to-find bar in a basement in a residential part of Hannam-dong. It has a great reputation, but this was my first visit. Left to myself, I never seem to end up at a bar like this. Came ou…
Came to Cheung Kee Noodle House for the first time in a while. We seem to get together often before winter ends.. ahem.. Stir-fried gai lan Loaded with garlic. It has a nice bite too, so the stir-fried…
After leaving Dining in Space I wandered around here and there and ended up at the Shinsegae Department Store. The Shinsegae main store is really hot these days, and there is plenty to see. Sardine choc…
I heard that Dining in Space was starting lunch service in February, so I made a reservation. I never really meant to do anything special on a day like the 14th, but somehow that was the day the booking went t…
I got to Ruelle de Paris right at 9:30, but they had no galettes, so I decided to spend about an hour wandering around the Yeonhui-dong neighborhood. It is not often that I find myself in Yeonhui-dong at 9:30 …
I got word that there was a place in Yeonhui-dong selling freshly baked galettes, so I went. I have fond memories of the galettes that came out at 8 in the morning at Maison de Zoé in Cheongdam-dong, but once …
After moving to Daerim I was wandering around the neighbourhood and found an interesting place. It is a chocolate specialty cafe, Jooboon Chocolate. Who would have thought there was a place like this near Daer…
On my way home I dropped by Polpo for a plate of pasta. Appetizer and wine Going in and eating alone felt a bit awkward. It was not like this in the early days after they opened, but these days there a…
One cold day with snow coming down hard, I arranged to meet a friend at Daeseonggwan in Daebang. I had never been, but it is a Chinese-run Chinese restaurant whose name I had heard plenty of times. The …
It has been a while since IKEA opened. There was news about the huge lines, which made me hesitate to go, but at some point articles came out saying the lines were gone, so I figured now was the time and went….