Thin Saucer Traveler · 8 stories

Thin Saucer, Daejeon/Chungcheong and Daegu/Gyeongbuk Cafes and Restaurants

Writes about cafes and restaurants she visits around Daejeon/Chungcheong and Daegu/Gyeongbuk. · Writes about: Restaurants · Cafés

PlaceGumi, GyeongbukCafés

Stroller-friendly Gumi bakery café: green grape cream doughnut, Otters

Otters Jisan Saetgang Main Branch is an otter-themed bakery café on Seonsan-daero in Gumi, Gyeongbuk, with roomy seating over two floors and floor tables on the 2nd floor. On a visit with a baby in a stroller, the order at Otters was an iced americano, mango cup bingsu (shaved ice), a choco baguette and a green grape cream doughnut, plus souvenir photos from the ₩5,000 Kodak camera. Otters is spacious enough that a stroller never bumps the next table, making it an easy summer refresh spot for new moms.

Written Jun 22, 2026Sponsored
PlaceGumi, GyeongbukCafés

Kid-friendly Gumi café with a jalapeño jambon-beurre: Hands Coffee

Hands Coffee Gumi Goa-eup Branch is a large two-floor, kid-friendly café on Won-daero in Goa-eup, Gumi, with a spacious parking lot, a nursing room, high chairs and a diaper-changing station. On a 3rd or 4th visit, the blogger sat upstairs with their baby and ordered a jalapeño jambon-beurre sandwich, an egg tart, fresh-pressed grapefruit tea and a mango smoothie. Hands Coffee Gumi Goa-eup Branch left this family satisfied enough to want to return for the sandwich rather than the waffles.

Written Jun 28, 2026Sponsored
PlaceGyeongju, GyeongbukCafés

Uyang Museum café in Gyeongju: APEC welcome tea ogamcha, Bibibidang

Bibibidang Gyeongju is a tea and coffee café on the first floor of Uyang Museum, inside the Hilton hotel in Gyeongju's Bomun Resort area. On a visit to the Snoopy and Jean Jullien exhibitions, the writer followed a staff recommendation and ordered Bibibidang's signature decaf dawan coffee and ogamcha (five-senses tea), known as the APEC welcome tea, which came with dasik (traditional tea sweets) and one drink refill. Verdict: Bibibidang is a café worth stopping at again on the next Uyang Museum visit in Gyeongju.

Written Jul 1, 2026Sponsored
PlaceGyeongju, GyeongbukRestaurants

Gyeongju Bomun bone hot pot lunch on a first trip with baby: Hyoeunok

Hyoeunok Gyeongju Branch is a Korean restaurant in Bomun, Gyeongju, specializing in beef bone hot pot and galbitang (beef short rib soup). On a first family trip with a baby, the writer ordered the Ppyeoberest mountain-of-bones beef bone hot pot (65,900 won) at medium spice with gondre (thistle) rice porridge, and Hyoeunok was nearly full even at weekday lunch. With tender, odor-free beef and a course that runs on to shabu-shabu, kalguksu and gondre porridge, Hyoeunok's Ppyeoberest filled two people up and made for a satisfying meal.

Written Jul 1, 2026Sponsored
PlaceGumi, GyeongbukRestaurants

Gumi loach soup restaurant for a weekday lunch with a baby: Irojeong

Irojeong Gumi Geumosan Direct Branch is a loach soup and health-food Korean restaurant on Bakjeonghui-ro in Gumi, Gyeongbuk. The writer visited Irojeong with a baby for a weekday lunch, waited in a café-style waiting room, then ate the Boyang Jeongchan warm pork and mackerel sanghwang mushroom loach soup set (18,000 won per person) for two with apple makgeolli in a private room. The rich loach soup with a hint of Korean pepper, the boneless grilled mackerel and the Duroc pork were all satisfying. With a large parking lot, high chairs and private rooms, Irojeong is a family health-food meal worth coming back for.

Written Jul 23, 2026Sponsored
PlaceDanyang, ChungbukRestaurants

Gugyeong Market squid ssambap with a baby: Danyang Heukmaneul Ssambap

Danyang Heukmaneul Ssambap (단양흑마늘쌈밥) is a ssambap (leaf-wrapped rice) restaurant at the far end of Gugyeong Market in Danyang, Chungbuk. Coming in with a baby for a late-morning brunch, the writer ordered black garlic squid ssambap for two at 17,000 won each plus a 2,000-won drink from the table tablet, and staff brought a high chair and a disposable bib right away. Wrapping greens, thick seasoned soybean paste and a blue crab doenjang stew made it a filling table for two.

Written Aug 13, 2026Sponsored
PlaceDanyang, ChungbukRestaurants

Danyang market dakgangjeong shop after bedtime: double black garlic

Danyang Heukmaneul Nurungji Dakgangjeong is a takeout dakgangjeong (sweet crispy fried chicken) shop inside Gugyeong Market in Danyang, Chungbuk, selling just two versions: black garlic original and double black garlic. On a weekday late afternoon the writer picked up a double black garlic box for 20,000 won and a set of two black garlic makgeolli for 10,000 won, then ate it as dinner after putting the baby to sleep, finding the nurungji (crispy scorched rice) crunchy and the box generously packed with lotus root and sweet potato fritters. The sauce is syrup-based, so the heat at Danyang Heukmaneul Nurungji Dakgangjeong stays mild and easy for most people to like.

Written Aug 13, 2026Sponsored
PlaceDanyang, ChungbukCafés

Sobaeksan hike snack memory at a Danyang garlic bread bakery: Danppang

Danppang Bakery is a garlic bread bakery inside Gugyeong Market in Danyang, Chungbuk. Remembering the garlic bread she used to buy as a snack before hiking Sobaeksan, the writer returned to Danppang Bakery, took away the 4-flavor combo set for 14,000 won and shared it with her husband at their lodging, where the baguette and cream cheese garlic breads suited them best. The black garlic cream cheese garlic bread at Danppang Bakery was unusual but a little polarizing.

Written Aug 13, 2026Sponsored
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