Do you live on post and are you grumpy about the selection of fresh fruits and veggies you find on post? 
If yes, I have (another!)  alternate solution for you!
There are little farmer's markets all over this great city, they just don't look like those you see in the states. 
The pictures below are from the market I frequent.
From talking to the vendors I believe this market to be pesticide free.   A couple of them have even said it is organic, if I an understanding them correctly.  
The potatoes are super fresh and straight from the ground -- you will have to scrub them to get the dirt off!
A couple of my plums have had worms in them, so I'm pretty certain no pesticides were used on them! 
If dirt and worms freak you out, then this is not the market for you, but if you are like me and are happy to see a worm here and there and then follow the directions at the bottom and check this place out! 

To get here:
Walk out the gate at Ichon
Turn right and walk....pass Park Tower Apartments on your right
Right after Park Towers you will see the vendors hanging out on the street every day EXCEPT SUNDAY from 6-9AM!

Prices are great and quality is good!

Happy Eating!
Trish

Yes, you read that correctly. 
POOP CAFE!!!

This place is a 10 year old boys paradise. 
Here they can tell all their 'potty' jokes and not get in trouble.

To think I paid for us to drink coffee out of a toilet. 
WHAT?!?! 
I guess that is only fair since I traveled 1,000's of miles and paid good money to drink coffee that was extracted from the poop of a luwak (cat). 
WHO AM I?  WHO HAVE I BECOME? 
If you had told me 20 years ago that I would be drinking poop coffee and coffee from a toilet bowl, I would have said you are crazy.
Now look at me.... 
I'm considering opening a new theme coffee shop where I sell cat poop coffee in a toilet bowl for you to drink.

Ddo-ong scones prepped and ready to go in the oven.
I was so sad they didn't have any ready for me to eat.

My sweet little shit-head.

To get there
Anguk Station, exit 6,
straight for about 100M, turn left into the Insadong Shopping district.
There is an open, multi level shopping mall about 200 meters down the road on the left (I'm sure you have seen it in Korean drama's!)
The Poop Cafe is on the top floor.

BUTT, (pun intended!) before you go to the top floor, there is a vendor on the bottom floor where you can get a poop pile of  chocolatey goodness!  Totally worth the 2,000-ish won we paid for it.

Till next time,
Trish

We have been to cat cafes,  dog cafes, a sheep cafe, a camera cafe, an arts and craft cafe......AND
NOW, a RACCOON cafe!!  Are you kidding me?!  A flippin' raccoon cafe?!?!  Oh Korea!  You make me love you more and more with each passing day. 

I know what some of you are thinking.  NO FREAKING WAY.  Raccoons are rabid.  Raccoons are wild.  Raccoons are cray-cray!  Well, not these raccoons.  They are sweet, cuddly, cute and never fear -- Milk (female white) & Kong (male brown) have had all their vaccinations!

 You know what is really exciting?!?  Milk and Kong have babies!!  2 of them!  A white and a brown, sadly they were not available for viewing while we were there.  We were told the babies come in the mornings sometime between 10 & 12 each day.  I'm hoping to go back and see them one day!

There are a few rules when hanging out with the raccoons:
(Written EXACTLY how posted)
 - Please empty your pockets when you enter the raccoon room
 - Don't take the bag and your beverage
 - Be careful not to tease the raccoon, or you can be bitten by him!
 - If anything happen, let the clerk know.
 - Who order take out beverages can't enter the raccoon room.
 - Please push slowly when Raccoons following on you
 - please do not hug raccoons.

To get there directions are just like if you are going to the Lamb Restaurant...

Go out Camp Coiner walk out gate
Take an immediate RIGHT,
then an immediate LEFT.
Go to the main street, turn LEFT and cross the street using the cross walk.
Once across the street turn RIGHT
Walk to intersection with Starbucks on your left, and turn LEFT.
Go through tunnel
Cross the big street.
BUT THIS TIME don't turn, keep walking STRAIGHT until 2 streets come together.  You will know it when you get there.  Cross to the right side of the street. Pass Starbucks on your left side, keep going.  Pass Kimchee Restaurant.....RIGHT AFTER Kimchee restaurant (that is the actual name of the restaurant!) TURN RIGHT and you are here!

They let us feed grapes to the raccoons! 
So much fun...Milk LOVED my hair, before these pictures she kept playing with it and her gentle touch was so ticklish! 

If you aren't too excited about hanging out with the raccoons you can always perch yourself in the table next to the window and which the cute little creatures from afar.  I gotta tell you, they are so much cuter here in the cafe than when you find them in your garbage! 

Till next time,
Trish

We all miss certain foods from our home country or other countries that we have visited.
I know we are blessed to have access to the commissary....oh the commissary.  They mean well don't they?  But why don't they ever had cilantro, or limes, (don't get me started on lime-gate!) or cheese that hasn't been frozen and then thawed for our consumption.  I know it must be hard to be the commissary, and I am so VERY GRATEFUL for what they do have, but sometimes you just need avocado oil, or good Italian coffee, or galangal, or buffalo mozzarella....
Well, you can get these things and more at the Foreign Food Market in Iteawon. 

To get there from post walk out the gas station gate -
Walk down the main street in Itaewon (stay on the right hand side).
Pass Pizza Peel on your right (you should eat here someday!).
Keep walking - you will pass Vatos on your left (you should eat here too!) keep going....
Pass Hamilton hotel on your left - keep going! 
When you get to Mr. Kabab on the corner of Itaewon & Usadan-ro, turn RIGHT.
Go a couple of more blocks and you will see Foreign Food Mart on your left hand side.
It looks like this:

There are actually 3 Foreign Food markets in that small area.  This one is the largest and yes, some of the prices are more expensive than what you would pay at the commissary, but some of the prices are less, depending on what you are shopping for.  

They have pretty good selection of Thai, German, Italian, American, and Vietnamese products.

Go ahead and give them a try!  

Hey, while we are on the topic of food, does anyone know where I can get fresh 'organic' milk? 

Till next time,
Trish

You know when you do something and you have such great memories of it and then when you finally go back and do it again it is a disappointment?  That is not the case with this little gem of a restaurant!  Hubby has been talking about this restaurant for over 2 years.  No joke - TWO FLIPPING YEARS!  One of his coworkers took him to this restaurant back in 2014 about a week before we left Korea.  He wanted to take me, but we ran out of time.   Over the past couple of years he has mentioned how he wishes he could find a restaurant like this and has rubbed it in more than a few times that I didn't get to go with him.  It's not often he experienced something in Korea that I didn't, so when it happens I hear about it....often. 

This past Saturday night he planned where we were to eat for date night and I'm so glad he did!!  I'm certain we will become a regular here!

Go out Camp Coiner walk out gate
Take an immediate RIGHT,
then an immediate LEFT.
Go to the main street, turn LEFT and cross the street using the cross walk.
Once across the street turn RIGHT
Walk to intersection with Starbucks on your left, and turn LEFT.
Go through tunnel

Cross the big street.
Turn left and you will see the Lamb restaurant about 7 store fronts down on your right. 

So very delicious!  The lamb is mild in flavor and not 'gamey' tasting at all.  Make sure you add a skewer of garlic cloves on the roaster! NOM-NOM!

Our bellies are full and we are so very happy!

The price wasn't bad at all.....we walked out of there with a bill of ₩53,000 for 4 people and that included 2 giant beers!

They also have lamb chops, noodles and various other thing I can't read and haven't translated yet.  

I would love to hear what you think if you venture out and try this place!

Till next time,
Trish