While in Tokyo another friend also happened to be traveling around Japan and in Tokyo so we met up for the day to catch up. We started off having lunch at Kaisen Donya, a small restaurant that had tons of lunch sets and a ton of business men smoking heavily beside us. We had decided [...]
When I was visiting Tokyo my friend made sure to let me know of all the cheaper places to eat, and one of them was a cafeteria style udon shop. I ordered their Oroshi-syou-yu which is soy sauce udon in a cold small size for 200 yen with the addition of a tempura sweet potato. [...]
After visiting the Tokyo Tower last year I really wanted to go back to check out Sanji's restaurant. I went online and filled out a very easy in English reservation form and quickly was e-mailed back a confirmation. We were given a 70 minute window in which to enjoy the buffet which was plenty enough [...]
Underneath Futakoshinchi station is a small restaurant/cafe called Kohikan. It is outside of the East exit. Ezzy and I went there for a quick breakfast before I was to head into Tokyo for a tour. I ordered pancakes with strawberries. They weren't the best pancakes in the world, a little crunch on the outside and the [...]
Samgyetang (삼계탕) is a type of soup in Korea. It includes a whole small chicken, ginseng, jujube, garlic and spices. A friend took me to 도안동 감나무집, a restaurant behind Gapyeong Station, that serves Samgyetang on one of the Sambok 삼복 days. Sambok are the 'hottest' days of the year. It's traditional to eat Samgyetang on these specific [...]
In Korea there's not really any foods that are just "breakfast" foods. Usually my students just eat what they would eat for lunch or dinner or a snack. Instant noodles tend to be rather popular with my students. For our last day of our trip we went a smidge fancier and had kalguksu 칼국수, specifically mussel [...]
For seafood lovers being near the coast in Korea is heaven, especially at places like 수산회집. Which is where we stopped for dinner. I don't eat a lot of seafood. This, well this was a lot and somehow I ended up at the table where no-one wanted to eat seafood. There was snail, shrimp, crab, octopus, potato cakes, eel, [...]
Every summer the elementary school I work at goes on a teacher's field trip. Last year we went to Ganghwa island, just the elementary school teachers and some of the staff. This year though things have changed so practically everyone was piled onto a big charter bus that drove us to the Eastern Sea for "Teachers [...]
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 [...]
