Month: April 2025

Burnt marshmellow cube filled with icecream 👍

Onjisim makes amazing bagels and cream cheese. Everything is made inhouse and tastes divine. It was so good we had to go back to taste more flavors. The café is located in the Hanok village in Seoul and here you can enjoy an amazing meal in beatiful surroundings.

today we checked out of our hotell in Seoul, and started our slow move south towards Mokkpokk (Mopok..or Mokpok) and Busan, with a 3 day stay in Suwon

Suwon is just over 1 hour ride with the metro , south of Seoul. The metro system is absolutely huge and not to easy to navigate… For some strange reason there is not a lot of English going on.

we are somewhere inside the circle – and we are headed outside the circle.

We nailed it down to “Line 1” – that seems to usually have the colour blue. So now its just to figure out what direction – and then which of the different line-1 versions to take… Easy

We saw this sign overhead – and everything became crystal clear.

The thing is – Google maps dont work here. It will show you the map, show restaurants and sights n stuff.. but it do not provide any directions..walking, car og trains.. nothing. You have to use the NAVER App ..app… Thats pretty much same as Google maps, but a bit more tricky on language..

Anyways, we had to get og at a station, and get on the train behind..but we are calling it a win.. Metro was full, alleays, all the time – so 1 hour standing so Suwon.

Got a taxi from the train station to our air bnb, driver did not know where to go.. i did not know where to go and people we stopped along the way did not know anything – at least not where to go

this is because all these apps and Air BnB info is in English lettering, not the local signs – and lots of taxi driver have now clue about those letters. So. Note to self, bring address with local signs next time 🙂

So many microbreweries, so little time. We have visited quite a few – and most of them have had some great beer.

Craft Roo was a really nice place to hang out – nice chairs (yes, its a thing. It feels like most chairs in Asia are 20 cm high and made of plastic thoothpicks). Besides tasters flights, they had some nice snacks. Most beers on tap where their own beers.

We also had a trip to Euljirio Brewing, a beer you get i a lot of the tap rooms. Besides a very weird pale ale – they had some great beers…. The logo was something real special.

Good beers but a kinda nightmare ish setup – lots of neon, kinda cold/damp and fusion jazz played a bit to high.. Also the guys working there was standing next to each other in a kinda military setup until someone wanted anything..

also – their merch are incredibly expensive. I bought a small pin that has to be a numbered edition pr something.. 20.000 wons.. anyways.

Moving along we visited The Ranch, this place has a cool entrance, where you really cant see that there is a pub there.

You have to pull on that vending machine thingy, and then it opens onto the bar…. Which is better than Euiljiro…but pretty far from a comfy beer place with a large nice bar…good chairs… Etc . But at least there was no jazz

Good selection on tap, only tried a few since we where there 50 mins to closing.

We found a super nice spot just next to the MMCA museum, that…had a name…im sure..

Here we had the golden and weisen beer that both where excellent. Also had some great snacks..

Kiwa Taproom ! Yes, Kiwa!

Here we met a couple traveling and working in Korea – turned out that the guys was a director for some French musicals in Korea…so, long story short – on Wednesday we are going to see Don Juan on Seoul Arts Center ! …See, beer is and leads to culture. I will even get to use my “nice shirt” 👍

This other one I have forgot the name of for sure – but it was absolutely loaded with beer awards, and their beer was excellent to – the stout and ipa was good stuff.

You can nearly see the name of them here.. I will Google it…1 min.. Art Monster! – excellent selection of beer.

Moving out of Seoul i think we will find some great beers in Busan, if we get there. Also Jeju Island should have a few..

So far we havent seen anything crazy in the beer scene, there has been a couple of goese – and there was a lime infused pilsner that was strongly nice.

Slow brewing Seoul

A very popular brewery that makes both very good beer and makgeolli.

They have one of the beste beers we tasted in a long tine. They have won prizes for it, well deserved.

The food was amazing as well, so well worth the prize. Which was a bit prizy compared to other places.

Walking around Seoul is etertaining enough on its own.

The city is both beatiful and impressive and we love how they have art everywhere.

We are not sure what they children are playing here. Maybe the next season of squid game will explain.

Every now and then the cobbelstones have small faces.

Statues of the twelve animals of the year. Trond is born in the year of the snake and Maren in the year of the tiger.

it cant be all weird food and new beers, gotta get some culture in there to. MMCA is located just under 2kn from our hotel, and today the sun was out to – so it was a nice walk up there.

It was close to free entrance, a huge place – but I think a few of the exhibitions where closed. We went for the two available, The Hashtag Project and a large exhibition of Lee Kang So

The hashtag exhibition was a bit more interactive, and we kinda forgot to take any pictures – to bad. But it was pretty cool where they had created a huge game where all visitors worked together er to save the World – by posting ideas and needs.. but also, no pics

There was a area where you also could create your own statue – Maren made a pretty nice one

And as we see lots of places in Asia, umbrella parking 🙂

now here is a shop u dont see to often

it specializes in misc clothing for cats and dogs. Truly weird 🙂

For the summer and holidays in France, a chiq ble dress.

And for that car that has hit the food a bit to often and hard… Pluss sizes

endless possibilities.. they even had Spiderman and Superman outfits

After a rest at the hotel we went out for dinner at the night market. Where you can get dinner and a show for few thousand won. We could eat here every day 😍🤩

excelent beef!

That stuff in red sauce is tteokbokki, chewy rise big nudler thingy. In a spicy sauce, very nice.

And thi is egg-bread, its a whole egg baked into a sweet pastry, even got some sugar on top. A strange combination – but it works. That might be the fav of the day. Didnt get around to try de-boned chicken legs, but tomorrow!

marshmellow smores filled with strawberry ice cream.

The market, Myeongdog, is pretty big – and also loaded with tourist. So many people that you end up walking in que all the time – but still, so much going on that its worth a couple of hours.

besides all the food stalls, there are tons of shops selling everything, this is also a shopping street during weekdays. There where a couple of strange places.. a shop selling clothes for cats and dogs, more on that later 🙂