all about travelling in korea
The backstory of how I came to eat this in Anam: I was visiting Korea University in the winter of 2017, and it was possibly the coldest day of my trip. If I recall correctly, temperatures fell to about -10 to -13 degrees Celsius that day, and I was inadequately prepared (think thin ankle socks, no [...]
It seems that most people know about army stew when you talk about Korean cuisine, and so we knew we couldn't go without at least having one meal of army stew on any of our trips to Korea. For the unacquainted, Budae-jjigae (부대찌개; literally "army base stew") or sausage stew is a type of jjigae (stew), made with ham, sausage, spam, baked beans, kimchi and gochujang.[ The dish [...]
I first knew of this place thanks to a friend who did her homework on where to eat in the area. I wasn't particularly excited by the prospect of eating dumplings, but I was in Korea to try new stuff, so why not? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm sure glad we went ahead with this, because I liked [...]
Our first stop in Jeonju on our Nov 2018 trip was Jeonju Hanok Village, and we thought it would be nice to have some authentic Jeonju bibimbap here. Now, for the unacquainted, Jeonju is the birthplace of your favourite Korean dish, so it only made sense that we had bibimbap here, and of all places, [...]
We were looking for a place to eat in Dongdaemun's LOTTE FITIN after visiting DDP, and we didn't want to eat back at our usual CoCo ICHIBANYA, and we actually chanced upon... A BUFFET! From my experience, I haven't actually seen a lot of buffets in Korea, sans the BBQ ones, but even those are [...]
So after we gave up trying to find our 9000 won Sinchon buffet (which has unfortunately closed down), we were hungry, tired, and desperate to find another place to have dinner. We spotted Paik's Beer along the way, and decided to just pop in and try our luck. Paik is a (sur)name that should be [...]
If there's one thing I've learned from travelling, it's that sometimes, the unplanned things can be unexpectedly good. We were craving chimaek (chicken + beer), because that is one of the most snack combinations you can get in Korea, but at the same time unable to find one of the more famous chimaek places in [...]
