After wandering around the cherry blossom festival and taking photos my coworkers and I headed off to dinner at 상천리 봉녀수제비. Sometimes dinner with my coworkers can be worrisome because they all enjoy spicy foods and I can't handle spicy foods at all which tends to leave me eating a bowl of rice and picking at [...]
In the spirit of last minute trips (or at least me being told about them last minute) my coworkers told me we were going to go see cherry blossoms. I didn't know that there were any nearby but had spotted some behind the school so I figured after school we'd all just walk among those [...]
Located near Sookmyung Womens University at 63-20 Cheongpadong 2(i)-ga, Yongsan-gu in Seoul is a small cafe with two raccoons. Animal cafes aren't anything new to Seoul. You can have a drink and try to play with cats or sit and eat cake with a small dog on your lap at many little cafes throughout Korea. [...]
There are several mural villages throughout Korea, little residential areas covered in art. The Ihwa Mural Village is located in Seoul in Ihwa-dong, Jongno-gu. It's open all year round and is filled with little shops and restaurants. A friend of mine had been wanting to check it out for awhile so we finally headed out one [...]
For dinner I wanted some udon and luckily I was with friends that knew of a place nearby in Myeongdong. It's located at 89 Myeongdong 2(i)-ga, Jung-gu, Seoul. It's a bit like a cafeteria where you get a tray, tell the workers behind the counter what you want, pick out the sides, and then pay at [...]
Cherry Blossom season can be intense. There's all these warnings about how there are more people than cherry trees or even cherry blossoms at some of the larger sites like the Yeouido Park. But Nathalie and I went early in the morning on a Sunday and there weren't many people at all. Leaving us plenty [...]
After a lot of plans fell through a friend and I decided to check out the Hello Kitty Cafe in Myeongdong. There are a couple different ones throughout Seoul and one on Jeju-do. But the closest one for us was the one in Myeong-dong. It's on the 2nd floor and is pretty much an explosion [...]
There are 5 palaces in Seoul. Changgyeonggung Palace is the third one I've visited. I had seen part of Changgyeonggung Palace from my tour of the secret garden but wasn't expecting to make it over any time soon. What I had spotted from the tour was the Daeonsil. A small but beautiful green house. I [...]
Update: as of December 2019 this cafe in Sanbon is closed. There is apparently another location in Anyang but I have not been to verify if it took is still open or closed. Muggles Cafe is in Gunpo, a satellite city of Seoul and off the Sanbon station out of exit 3. It's a bit [...]
Bulldogs is a British style pub in Itaewon that Nathalie and I went to for lunch. I mostly went to try their Harry Potter inspired Butterbeer. They had five flavors, original (Harry Potter), ginger (Ron Weasley), cherry (Hermione Granger), grapefruit (Luna Lovegood), and a dark/Guinness (Hagrid). After going in and finding ourselves the only ones in [...]
