Foodie in Seoul

Of cheesy chicken, cheesy teokbokki, and gigantic mugs of beer with @elsalmondsmart and @dawnmusk in Seoul almost 2 years ago. Chimaek is the best!

We were recommended this place (you can find it by Googling “Flying Chicken Seoul”) by the receptionist at our hostel. Much like many other eateries in Seoul, this one boasts a cool interior, great food, and a relaxed atmosphere👌🏻.

Seoul is full of Instagrammable cafes dishing up equally Instagrammable nosh, and this is one of them. We stopped by this cafe near our hostel when we needed a break from the traditional Korean food we’d been stuffing ourselves with and were rewarded with the heartiest of brunches. That French toast with caramelised bananas and granola!!! 😍

This is where we fell in love with makgeolli. The rice wines here are all home-brewed and come in delicious flavours such as green grape, peach and chestnut. The guys running the place were super nice and gave us one jug on the house, so we drank about five in total. Being the poor drinker I am, I got super sloshed but managed to make the 15min walk back to the hotel. 💪🏻

Definitely recommend this makgeolli bar for a chill night out in Hongdae!

Probably the most popular ginseng chicken restaurant in Seoul, Tosokchon is best visited in the morning before the lunch crowd descends.

Steeped in milky broth, the chicken is fall-off-the-bone tender; its flesh breaks apart with the gentle prod of chopsticks to reveal a hearth of glutinous rice and ginseng stuffed within. It’s absolutely comforting in the cold of winter, but you’ll find the locals flocking to samgyetang eateries on the hottest summer days, too – ginseng is believed to help expel heat from within the body.

Tosokchon is set in a hanok with several different dining rooms, some of which see customers cross-legged on the floor, hunched over low tables. It doesn’t get homelier than this!

Randomly visited this dwaeji gukbap (Korean pork soup) restaurant for breakfast in Busan, which was packed despite the early hour. Can’t read Korean, so I don’t know what the name of the restaurant was, but the milky broth was light yet packed with flavour from the extensive hours of brewing. You can choose to have just sliced boiled pork meat or mix it with innards.

One of my favourite street snacks in Korea, especially when temperatures dip below 10 deg C. I usually like these sweet, crispy-chewy pancakes with just the usual brown sugar inside, but the mixed seeds are nice, too, if you prefer more crunch.

Started our morning off with a simple breakfast at the airport. The kimchi soup is so much better than the ones we get back home!

Reaching Busan in less than an hour and can't wait to attack the seafood!

Better than "better than a boyfriend". Much, much better.

Been watching lots of Healer and I can firmly say it's one of my favourite Korean dramas of all time. It's a thriller, near-melodrama and rom-com rolled into one – it has me tearing up, squealing inwardly, trying to bestill my fluttering heart, and involuntarily bursting into giggles in consecutive seconds. Such a girl, I know.

In any case, all this K-drama watching has gotten me in the mood for some bingsu and I'm really missing this one I had in seoul last year. 😞 Bad case of wanderlust right now.

First night back home and I'm craving so badly the moist, fluffy eggs I had the first night in Seoul.

Needed a drink, so why not a latte with Hello Kitty art? 😂😂

It's almost time to go home, and I can't help but reminisce on all the good food I've had here in Seoul, including the yummy kimbap I had on day 1.