Category Archives: Seoul
What I ate – Korean restaurant edition.
Dwaeji kimchi jiggae In September I left Seoul. After the rush and heartbreak of finishing work and moving out of my house I had a little over a week to say goodbye to this city that kept teaching me new ways to love it. Here’s what I ate. Friday: Dinner: Dwaeji Kimchi Jiggae – Kimchi [...]
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Chinese Dim Sum Restaurant 아우미식
To find a passable Chinese restaurant in Seoul is a rare and beautiful thing and to rediscover one is even better. This dumpling house is hidden down an alley opposite Hongdae Playground and after visiting on a Monday, their day off, I assumed it had become yet another casualty of Seoul’s fickle restaurant scene. Lucky [...]
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Korean style grilled beef and a meat market.
The list of Korean food I’ve never eaten is long and stacked with local specialities, seasonal dishes and seafood. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve eaten Korean style beef. I’ve never even had bulgogi. This isn’t some cultivated curiosity, the stars have just never aligned for me and that famous Korean [...]
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Interesting ice cream in Hongdae: Fell + Cole and Molly’s Pops.
The range at Molly’s Pops. It’s hot, blahblahblahblah, ice cream. You’ve all heard it before. Freezer cabinets in supermarkets and convenience stores across Korea are being filled and re-filled at a rate of knots, with flavours beyond imagining. There are ‘waffle’ wrapped red bean and tteok ice cream sandwiches, corn, chestnut, milk and coffee. Among [...]
Posted in Hongdae, Seoul
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Golbaengi
The first time I ate golbaengi (골뱅이, sea snails) was in fried chicken joint called, unsurprisingly, Chicken Baengi. It’s a chain that reeks of old cooking oil, but it’s also the closest purveyor of fried chicken to my house. This particular branch is done up with fake flowers and trinkets hidden in niches in the [...]
Posted in Seoul, South Korea
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