Latte Art Practice
I’ve been trying to get latte art down for quite a while now, but it’s been pretty hard learning from books and Youtube videos. I finally got some feedback while visiting Republic of Coffee yesterday, everyone there is really nice and I appreciate their patience with my poor Korean skills! You can see my feeble...
Park Hyatt, Seoul
It’s surprising how few fine dining establishments bother to compliment their meticulously prepared food with quality coffee. A while ago I found out that LAMILL has a roastery in Korea that supplies coffee to a few restaurants and hotels, including the Hyatt, so I was looking forward to trying it out at some point. For...
15 Things Worth Knowing about Coffee
Infotainment from TheOatmeal.com, click to see all 15. I’m a bit late posting this but I like it! Infotainment from TheOatmeal.com, click to see all 15. I'm a bit late posting this but I like it!
Instant Coffee Eclipses Rice Consumption
“Rice has long topped local food retailers’ best-selling list, but not this year. The country’s traditional staple lost its place for the first time in years, bumped by none other than instant coffee.” Korea Times article here. Instant coffee is everywhere in Korea, I’ve never been in an office or meeting without it, even though...
Republic of Coffee
Earlier this week I had a chance to visit 2009 Korean Barista Champion Lee Jong Hoon’s workshop in the north east area of Seoul. My coworkers from the middle school I teach at here in Korea actually made the reservation. I guess the coffee I make for the office every day has brought them over...
Apgujeong Coffee House
Heo Hyeong Man, owner of Apgujeong Coffee House, is well known as one of the oldest artisanal coffee roasters in Korea. His tiny shop is all business with barely enough room for the large coffee roaster, burlap sacks of coffee beans, a few small coffee trees growing in planters, and three tables. There’s nothing showy...
Paul Bassett Roastery, Korea – Kenya AA
When I visited ‘Coffee Station Paul Bassett’ at Gosok Terminal, I picked up a 100g bag of Kenya Gethumbwini AA. Each bag has a sticker with roast date, so you can make sure your coffee is fresh. The Kenya was not as in-your-face fruity or acidic as Kenyas I’ve tried in the past, but instead...
Coffee Therapy
“A psychology professor at Yale University found that holding a hot cup of coffee leads people to judge a stranger to be a warmer person, in terms of such traits as generosity and kindness, compared with a group of people who held a cup of iced coffee.” Iced coffee drinkers must lead depressing lives. Stick...
9 Days in LA Part Two: Aroma Coffee & Tea
Aroma Coffee & Tea is right off the 101 freeway, on a quiet neighborhood block full of little restaurants, thrift shops, and boutiques built in re-purposed existing homes. The residential locale, house-like interior proportions, and foliage covered outdoor seating makes it feel like a well kept neighborhood secret. That is, until you see the line...
Cafe DeBibes
Spotted this coming out of exit six at Gyeongbokgung station. The Korean text says “Illy Cafe” but this cafe is also branded with the name ‘Cafe DeBibes’ (pronounced Bee-Bays in the Korean text). I tried an espresso here thinking it might be good, but there were a lot of fines in the cup and it...
9일간의 LA여행기 Part One: LAMILL
2009년 연말을 Aaron의 가족들과 함께 보내려고 LA에 다녀왔어요.(처음 만나는 자리라 부모님 만나기 전에는 어찌나 긴장을 했는지…친 딸처럼 대해주시는 부모님을 만나고 나서는 편안해졌지만..헤헤) 열흘이라는 짧은시간 덕택에 (488불짜리 속도위반 딱지를 끊기에는 충분한 시간이었지만… 메리 크리스마스다 이 경찰관 아저씨야!) ‘내가 좋아하는 모든 카페에 널 데리고 갈테야’ 라던 Aaron의 말은 안드로메다로 가버렸지만 그 중 세군데 정도는 들를 수 있었어요. 첫번째로 실버레이크에 있는 라밀, 그리고...
9 Days in LA Part One: LAMILL
Despite ambitious plans to hit a different cafe on each day of our Christmas trip to LA, it turns out that there’s more to life than coffee(!). Visiting your home town for nine days is really not enough time to see everyone and do everything, though it was enough time to get a $446 speeding...
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