Date with the Garbage Man
Second night in Taipei, we are on our way to beef noodle when I see bunch of people waiting at the intersection with blue bags. Turns out they are waiting for the garbage truck. When the garbage truck arrived, they…
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…
first 24 hours in… taipei
joe: what do i like? the deliciousness and familiarity of the food, the clean streets, the orderliness of society and the huge amounts of greenspace within the city itself. the metro turnstiles are also restricted to only one direction as…
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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