To grab a good spot early, I headed straight for the beach as soon as I finished breakfast. The path to the pool Boracay’s rainy season runs from June to October. Rain or cloudy skies don’t real…
The first day was entirely eaten up by getting there, but for day two we decided to keep the whole day free. White Beach, which we had checked out the day before, did not really grab me, so I settled on stayin…
White Beach, with its beautiful fine-grained sand, has to be the main and just about the only tourist spot on Boracay. The beach is really long so it’s split into sections, and D’Mall sits roughly …
We finally made it to the hotel. Maybe it was because we had been on the move since dawn (we were at the airport around 6 a.m.), but I was worn out. We finished checking in at the lobby, went up to the room fo…
I had a busy schedule through midsummer and I’m not the type who enjoys crowds, so I decided to get my trip out of the way before the real summer holiday season arrived. The original plan was to use my K…
Chef Yoo, who used to work at 2chef in Hongdae, has gone independent and opened his own restaurant in Pangyo. He is one of the few chefs I am close to, so I went along not long after he opened. And that was al…
Somehow I keep ending up having lunch around Yeoksam Station. On this day I went to my favourite Naju gomtang place from Hannam-dong. Spicy gomtang I don’t really eat spicy food, so I have no idea wha…
I got hold of a meal coupon for La Cucina, the Italian restaurant in Itaewon, so I headed straight over. This is a place you could say rewrote the history of Italian food in Korea. These days, with upscale res…
The place we went for a last dinner together with my Japanese friends was Miro Sikdang, a tasty Korean gastropub in Hongdae. They don’t take reservations, so we set out early, and maybe we were lucky – a…
I’ve finally finished the renovation, so I’m posting a whole batch at once. I had a lunch appointment in Yeoksam-dong, and since it was a hot day and I felt like some cold naengmyeon, I decided to …
I had been to Noryangjin before, but I decided to go again this time. You can tour the fish market while you are there, and if you absolutely have to have sashimi and maeuntang (spicy fish stew) in summer, the…
A friend of mine who lives in Japan came to visit after a long while, and since he asked me to show him somewhere properly Korean, the first place we headed for was Manjok Jokbal near City Hall Station. It is …