After making our way back from Marado we decided we wanted to head to the beach, but a couple came up to us offering to split taxi fare to the busier downtown area of Jeju city so we agreed. They headed off to Black Pork BBQ street and we made our way to Dongmun Market, [...]
Innisfree is a Korean beauty brand that is known for its natural ingredients procured in Jeju. They share space with the O'sulloc tea museum and when my friend and I spotted the Jeju house so close we were rather excited. The Innisfree Jeju house offers Jeju exclusive items, a green cafe and a soap class. [...]
When I try to find books to read while in Korea I usually just go to What the Book, mostly because I've been tricked by spotting Kyobo so many times only to find that it's not their bookstore but an insurance agency or something else. But while in Daejeon, after introducing me to ridiculously delicious [...]
One thing to keep in mind while in Luang Prabang is that it is a city with a curfew. Which means there's no late night shenanigans, no drinking at bars or clubbing or singing and dancing until one am. Places close up shop and you'll be expected to leave so that the workers can clean [...]
While out holiday shopping one of the places my friend wanted to go to was Electro Mart. I didn't have a clue what it was, though I should have guessed. Electro Mart is a giant electronics shop that's seems to be a branch of E-mart. Only unlike E-mart Electro Mart is peppered with back story to [...]
While in Bundang for EPIK training I tried to fit a bit of exploring in-between lecturers and our curfew. One of the places I visited was Look Our Tea, fashion of Tea which was in the basement of a mall area a couple of blocks away from where we were training. It was warm, cozy, and [...]
I spent about a week in Tokyo visiting friends. I was able to stay with a friend in their old fashioned tatami mat styled apartment outside of Tokyo. While I spent a disproportiante amount of time in Shibuya compared to anywhere else I had a lot more fun this time then last year. To get home I [...]
After having lunch at the Alice Restaurant I didn't have much else planned. It had been suggested to visit Tokyu Hands for souvenirs, so I thought I'd give it a try. Tokyu Hands has a bit of everything, but also special hand made things that were somewhat cheap. I went to the one in Shibuya which was huge. [...]
One of the things I've been wanting to do is check out a Pokemon Center in Japan. My friend had some other friends visiting so the four of us met in Ikebukoro station near the owl statue before braving the heat and the packed streets to go to the Sunshine City mall. Since one of [...]
After a recent trip to the movies I spotted a cut out of Totoro for people to pose with and all these advertisements up and around for a new Ghibli store. It was in the back of the toy and hobby store in Yongmun station, which I hadn't ever ventured far enough into, usually less [...]
