This year my Chuseok vacation was longer and vastly busier. I went to Suwon, spent a night in Seoul, and then headed south. While in Seoul, I caught up with Mika who was about to leave for a Chuseok holiday in Kobe, Japan. We met up in Hyehwa to check out one of her favorite restaurants, [...]
허수아비or the scarecrow is a place to get donkasu 돈까스 (korean style breaded pork or chicken cutlets). We were wandering around near the Seoul History Museum looking for some place to have lunch. For some reason almost everything other then Lotteria was closed. Only a few places were open and it was surprising because it was [...]
Across from Myungbo hall where we watched Jump was Nolboo Restaurant. A pretty big restaurant that we took up in it's entirety. What we had was army stew or Budae Jjigae (부대찌개). It's a type of hot pot with meat like spam, balony and hot dogs in it as well as veggies and tofu all cooked [...]
There are about 3 Flying Pans throughout Seoul. The main one is in Itaewon (Flying Plan Blue) where they serve breakfast all day and Flying Pan Red is near Gangam Station. The one in Sinsadong squeezed us in pretty quickly at a shared table with a couple. I ordered their banana walnut and vanilla ice cream [...]
The Place is a restaurant in Gangam that serves Italian food but it's biggest draw is it's Bomba pizza. Nathalie and I thought it'd be fun to try so we made our way there and ordered a somewhat fancy set. Our set included vino pops. A popcicle filled with fruits (rapsberries and blueberries) and herbs with [...]
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 [...]
The Rose and Crown is a pub in Itaewon that manages to catch all my friends eyes whenever we walk past. I finally went with a friend and ordered a cottage pie which took a bit longer than my friend's food to arrive. It was sent up in a dumbwaiter. The Rose and the Crown [...]
One of the main stops on our food extravaganza (which due to time constraints and our ability to eat got shortened a bit) was to go to Jooo's. Jooo's is in Garosugil and had a little note on their door saying they'd be open for dinner at 5pm, which we found at 11am. We had plans [...]
