Patisserie Ongo in Yeonhui-dong
It feels like Yeonhui-dong has gained a lot of interesting places too. A dessert shop It is a shop I have been walking past for ages, but these days the problem is that even if you buy dessert there is nowher…
It feels like Yeonhui-dong has gained a lot of interesting places too. A dessert shop It is a shop I have been walking past for ages, but these days the problem is that even if you buy dessert there is nowher…
Tigré Seoul, the shop that made a name for itself baking delicious tigrés over in Eunpyeong-gu, has come to Yeonnam-dong. Like this.. The entrance is in a spot that’s easy to miss. So at first I headed …
A while back I went to LE PAIN on Songnidan-gil and found out that the Mammoth is only sold in Myeongdong, so I came back for another go at it. The Junior Mammoth I got there early, but they told me the Mammo…
Im Byeong-ju Sandong Kalguksu is famous around the neighborhood as one of those places people line up for. The place This is the entrance. Inside It sits on the second floor, in a pretty roomy space. Kimchi …
It was spring, so I thought I’d have some cockles, but I could never find the time and it kept getting pushed back. I only made it to Yeonan Pier once the season was almost over. There was an Onnuri gift…
When I go back to one of those “-ridan-gil” streets after a while, there are always new places I’ve never seen before. That’s what makes them fun to wander when you’ve got time to…
Mungtigi is basically raw beef, and I had always figured that raw beef is raw beef, much the same wherever you go. Yukhoe or sashimi at best, right? But that day something just clicked and I wanted to try mung…
There are a lot of Russian grocery stores in Dongdaemun, and I went to one of them. The targets were carrot kimchi and herring salad. I went because Dr. Kim Si-deok said on YouTube that the herring salad is de…
In English it is “russian cake,” but in Korean it comes out as “Russia Cake.” There are a lot of Russia-related shops around Dongdaemun, and this one is popular even among those. A plac…
Not that I got slapped in Yongsan or anything.. I took care of some business in Yongsan and then headed over toward Namsan. Maybe because this neighborhood is so hot right now, something has changed every time…
I heard a rumour that a churro shop flown in from Barcelona had opened a pop-up in Yongsan, so I went to have a look. On the way there I think this was probably Yongmun Market — a place like this right in the…
Mother-in-law means your wife’s mother, so I take it the name means they have recreated the taste of the bagels their mother-in-law used to make. You could call it the one and only survivor in the dying …