What I Ate in Malaysia
At last, this is the final post of my Malaysia trip. Almost everything we ate in Malaysia was Chinese food. Maybe that’s because it was a group tour. The taste? About the level of an ordinary Chinese res…
At last, this is the final post of my Malaysia trip. Almost everything we ate in Malaysia was Chinese food. Maybe that’s because it was a group tour. The taste? About the level of an ordinary Chinese res…
This time it’s a tour around the city. The royal palace They said it’s gold leaf, and it’s seriously flashy. The vibe is sort of “we have so much money we don’t know what to do…
Maybe because it’s such a big city, Kuala Lumpur didn’t have all that much to see as a tourist. The Twin Towers A truly gorgeous building. The only thing on this trip that actually moved me.. So…
I took a domestic flight to Kuala Lumpur, and honestly it wasn’t much faster than going by bus. I got up early, and still half asleep, the first place I headed to right after arriving was a place called …
Penang has a neighbourhood called George Town where buildings from the old colonial era still stand. It’s apparently a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but after walking around it my honest impression was tha…
I’m always busy, but lately the busyness feels like it’s gone way over the line. I think I’d have to learn how to clone myself to keep up. I can barely find time to go out and eat anywhere, s…
Elbon the Table, 2chef, and Yountville too, which I never wrote up on the blog: lately I’ve been going to Western restaurants a lot. Not because I particularly love Western food and was dying to try them…
I finally went to Seongmin Yangkkochi, the lamb skewer place in front of Seoul National University subway station that’s so popular these days. I remember that neighbourhood having basically nothing back…
On this trip to Korea I had two wine meetups. The first was about trying some pretty geeky wines, and the second was themed around wines that anyone, wine beginners included, would agree are delicious. In Drop…
I dropped by elbon the table on Garosu-gil in Sinsa-dong over lunch, a place that’s hugely famous right now because a certain charismatic chef runs it. I’m not really into the star-chef thing ̵…
After a good meal at Pyeongnaeok, I asked one of the members where we should go for round two, and they led us to Caffe Themselves nearby. As the organizer I had barely prepared anything, and I’m really …
Pyeongnaeok is so famous for its chogyetang that it hardly needs an introduction. A few years ago, before I moved to Japan, I ate here once and fell for it, and I kept looking for a chance to go back, but what…