If you ever feel so inclined, build a cafe/ museum up a mountain in the middle of nowhere, film a drama featuring said cafe as a house, and then schedule tours for Japanese and Chinese to come visit said cafe that overlooks a pretty descent part of downtown Seoul. If you accomplish all this, then you too can be featured in my blog (well your cafe at least). I spent Saturday in 부암동, a little-known mountain village in Seoul that easily has the best dumplings and dumpling soup Seoul has to offer. After finishing lunch, my friend and I walked about 20 to 30 minutes up hill through a nice residential district... of sorts... to the cafe pictures to the right. This place garnished fame because it was featured in the Korean Drama Coffee Prince as the house the hot 30-something cousin of the main male character lived in (and had some sexy times in with his girlfriend). It's a very beautiful house/cafe with an amazing view out the back and an interesting Tibetan exhibit in the basement (along with other interesting things that I'll save for a later day). There were a bunch of couples, some Japanese and Chinese tourists, and old folks just doing their thang. After walking through the cafe/house/museum, we walked back down the hill to another cafe, looking as if it could be featured on This Old House given the amount of exposed wood (kind of reminded me of a jungle gym I used to go to called Kid Space, made entirely of wood). We then walked down the mountain (which only took 30 minutes or so), past the Blue House and the Royal Palace to downtown Seoul. Needless to say, I totally walked the heck out of that part of Seoul on Saturday.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Day 34: Mountain Men... and Women
If you ever feel so inclined, build a cafe/ museum up a mountain in the middle of nowhere, film a drama featuring said cafe as a house, and then schedule tours for Japanese and Chinese to come visit said cafe that overlooks a pretty descent part of downtown Seoul. If you accomplish all this, then you too can be featured in my blog (well your cafe at least). I spent Saturday in 부암동, a little-known mountain village in Seoul that easily has the best dumplings and dumpling soup Seoul has to offer. After finishing lunch, my friend and I walked about 20 to 30 minutes up hill through a nice residential district... of sorts... to the cafe pictures to the right. This place garnished fame because it was featured in the Korean Drama Coffee Prince as the house the hot 30-something cousin of the main male character lived in (and had some sexy times in with his girlfriend). It's a very beautiful house/cafe with an amazing view out the back and an interesting Tibetan exhibit in the basement (along with other interesting things that I'll save for a later day). There were a bunch of couples, some Japanese and Chinese tourists, and old folks just doing their thang. After walking through the cafe/house/museum, we walked back down the hill to another cafe, looking as if it could be featured on This Old House given the amount of exposed wood (kind of reminded me of a jungle gym I used to go to called Kid Space, made entirely of wood). We then walked down the mountain (which only took 30 minutes or so), past the Blue House and the Royal Palace to downtown Seoul. Needless to say, I totally walked the heck out of that part of Seoul on Saturday.
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