Korea

  • our homes away from home: the asia edition

    so one thing we found out very quickly into our travels was that although airbnb is a nice alternative to hotels to get that ‘home away from home’ experience, it’s not quite perfect.  i swear that we weren’t trying to…

  • Funky Foods of Asia

    I was able to sample some interesting foods while in Asia, some courtesy of the ever adventurous eating sensei Frank. Here’s a list of the highlights. Raw marinated crab. The ick factor for me was not knowing how clean the…

  • Funday Hongdae

    I think Hongdae is my favourite neighbourhood in Seoul. It’s an area close to Hongik University which is known for their arts program so the neighbourhood is also very artsy with lots of street art. We went last weekend and…

  • weekly recap #9 – seoul & taipei

    q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. seoul (same airbnb, itaewon), taipei (airbnb/service hotel #1, zhongzheng) taipei (airbnb #2, daan) q. favourite meal a. roasted goose/duck lunch.  i’ll eat chinese duck on occasion but i’ve never…

  • Porky Goodness

    The Koreans definitely take their bbq seriously. There’s a lot of bbq joints around town. We chose two of the more well known ones from the blogsphere. Loco Quan 401 in Hongdae is owned by Running Man’s Haha. Since he…

  • biking the han river

    after we spent the day biking around kamakura, haha was practically begging me to get out on the bikes again 😀  ok, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration but she did want to take them out to spend a day alongside…

  • selfies, the korean epidemic

    selfies, as defined from urbandictionary.com: A strange phenomenon in which the photographer is also the subject of the photograph, in a subversive twist on the traditional understanding of the photograph. Usually conducted because the subject cannot locate a suitable photographer…

  • leeum, samsung’s museum of art

    our airbnb host made a strong push for us to visit the leeum museum in the itaewon neighbourhood.  in his words, “samsung has more money than the government so spend your time there” the interior is pretty amazing in it’s…

  • do-it-yourself lunch at tongin market

    it was our 5th day in seoul and we were starting to crave some veggies and something different aside from fried chicken and spicy meat.  the noodle to rice ratio has been completely out of wack for this trip so…

  • Korean Showers

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