When we'd been searching for the bbq road we walked past a Tarte and Tea room and decided to go after dinner. Surprisingly we didn't end up with any tea, choosing instead to try some of their specialty drinks, like rose ade and a chocolate cereal milkshake called Choco Crush. I also got a chocolate [...]
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 [...]
In Bangkok I used a couple different apps to get around, where to eat and what to do. Google maps on my phone worked wonderfully. As long as when I was in wifi I had typed in the destination all I had to do was follow the route offline with my little blue dot, or [...]
I've passed Rabbits CoffeeLab multiple times and have always wanted to go in, and finally did, in the process of saying goodbye to my friend Emily who was heading back to her home country. It isn't particularly English friendly (i.e. the language written and spoken is mostly all Korean inside the shop) but it was a [...]
At the end of our night wandering around in Edae Nathalie stopped to look at some pastries and saw a beautiful strawberry tart. So after dinner we decided we'd find our way back to the bakery to have it for dessert. We'd only looked in the window and popped our heads in to see if they [...]
While catching up with a classmate from Prague she introduced me to to O'sulloc. We went to two O'sulloc's that day. The first was a shop in Insadong with about 3 levels, the second level was a sit down cafe that was rather expensive. The first level sold tea, tea bags and leaves as well [...]
Since we were going to be in Seoul over night during our vacation I was really excited because we could go to places I normally can't, like a bar. I'm not a huge fan of bars back in the US. I go to chat with friends and I can never hear them over the music [...]
Gong Cha is a Taiwanese drink shop that's opened up shops all over the world. It's a pretty big milk tea/bubble tea chain in South Korea. When I went I ordered their winter melon and was surprised to just how many flowers were all over my cup. They're definably into spring. It was really good. [...]
Saint's Alp Tea House is probably one of my favorite places in Chicago. Located at South Archer Avenue this tea shop restaurant serves some of my favorite teas and snacks. Throughout the time I've lived in/near Chicago I've gone here a lot. I've had the same waiter, accidentally and coincidentally almost every time I've gone. [...]
Bee & Tea is located in Wicker Park at 1843 West North Avenue. I had a couple of friends suggest Bee & Tea, saying out of all the bubble tea shops in Chicago it was their favorite. We went just for tea, but they do serve food. They sell bao and bowls. Their bao is [...]
