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Round Mirror, Busan-Gyeongnam, Gyeonggi and Daejeon-Chungcheong Cafes, Restaurants and Beauty

Writes about cafes, restaurants, and small beauty shops she visits across Busan-Gyeongnam, Gyeonggi, and Daejeon-Chungcheong. · Writes about: Restaurants · Cafés · Bars · Hair & beauty salons

PlaceCheonan, ChungnamRestaurants

Sushi lunch with a coworker in Buldang-dong, Cheonan: Ganghan Sushi

Ganghan Sushi Cheonan Buldang Branch is a sushi restaurant in Buldang-dong, Cheonan, with 3 hours of free parking in the First Plaza building garage. The writer and a coworker shared two Ganghan Special sushi sets (₩17,000 each) plus a handmade pork cutlet (₩8,900), and especially enjoyed the seafood croquette, the flounder topped with aged kimchi (mukeunji) and the ankimo (monkfish liver). Because the Ganghan Special already comes with mini udon, miso soup and a seafood croquette, adding the pork cutlet as a side made for an extremely filling lunch.

Written Jun 29, 2026Sponsored
PlaceCheonan, ChungnamCafés

Cheonan dessert café on Sunday: corn flan & butter financier, Brewers

Brewers Coffee Cheonan Sinbu Branch is a dessert café in Sinbu-dong, Cheonan, known for French-style baked goods made fresh every morning. On a Sunday afternoon with a friend, the writer ordered an iced Americano (₩4,500), a flat peach iced tea (₩6,000), a sweet corn flan (₩7,000) and a butter rice cake financier (₩3,000), and also appreciated the outdoor terrace and thoughtful touches like bag baskets. Brewers Coffee Cheonan Sinbu Branch is a regular haunt where everything on the menu is a hit, worth returning to again and again.

Written Jun 26, 2026Sponsored
PlaceSuwon, GyeonggiRestaurants

Suwon Italian restaurant, weekday gnocchi and lasagna: The European

The European Haenggung Main Branch (더유로피언 행궁본점) is a wood-fired pizza and Italian restaurant in Haenggung-dong, Suwon. Four friends took a half-day or full day off, booked a weekday table on Catchtable, and shared truffle cream gnocchi (₩23,000), bolognese lasagna (₩23,000) and the signature arugula, jamón and burrata pizza (₩31,000). The chewy wood-fired crust was good, but the truffle cream gnocchi nobody expected much from won praise from all four.

Written Jul 6, 2026Sponsored
PlaceGuro, SeoulBars

Guro izakaya date with Saero soju tonics and a jjamppong swap: Sodam

Robatayaki Sodam Guro Digital Complex Branch is a robatayaki izakaya (Japanese-style grill pub) on the 2nd floor of the Gudi Station food alley in Guro, Seoul. After work, the writer and her boyfriend took a window sofa seat and ordered the mixed skewer set, swapping its oden hot pot for fire-grilled jjamppong (spicy seafood noodle soup) for ₩3,000 extra, plus grilled Chilean sea bass for ₩29,000, mixing Saero soju with tonic water into soju tonics. Her ranking was jjamppong > skewers > sea bass, and if you order the set at Robatayaki Sodam, the jjamppong swap is well worth trying.

Written Oct 6, 2026Sponsored
PlaceCheonan, ChungnamRestaurants

Cheonan sashimi restaurant: jeon dipped in jjim sauce, Donghae Bada

Donghae Bada Hoetjip (동해바다횟집) is a sashimi and seasonal seafood restaurant in Dujeong-dong, Cheonan, Chungnam. After enjoying a friend's birthday dinner there, the writer returned with her older sister for the assorted sashimi and seafood jjim (spicy braised seafood) set for two at 110,000 won with soju: fresh-fried jeon (savory pancake), seaweed soup and other starters, a sashimi platter with tuna, and a jjim packed with fish roe and milt, plus an extra jeon to dip in the jjim sauce. The dish the writer recommends most at Donghae Bada Hoetjip is the seafood jjim.

Written Oct 5, 2026Sponsored
PlaceCheonan, ChungnamRestaurants

Cheonan Korean restaurant, soup on request, mushroom jeon: Hyangtaek

Hyangtaek Cheonan Buldang Branch (향택 천안불당점) is a new rice bowl and Korean restaurant in Buldang-dong, Cheonan. On a weekend family lunch, the writer ordered Spanish mackerel gondre rice, eggplant doenjang bowl, yukhoe bibimbap and chamnamul squid bowl, plus a side of mushroom jeon, and Hyangtaek brought out soup when asked. The standout at Hyangtaek was the eggplant doenjang bowl, where kelp vinegar is the secret kick.

Written Aug 4, 2026Sponsored
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