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The Small Trivet

I share first-hand visits to restaurants around Seoul. · Writes about: Restaurants · Cafés · Hair & beauty salons

PlaceSuwon, GyeonggiCafés

Cake café in Suwon: financier tea set for 2 & Americano refill, Diaz

Diaz Cake Boutique (디아즈케이크부띠끄) is a dessert café known for its cakes in Ingye-dong, Suwon, near Suwon City Hall Station. On a sofa seat in the medieval, aristocratic-style room, the writer and her boyfriend ordered the financier tea set for 2. They steeped the tea with an hourglass, and because they ordered one set per person, they got a free Americano refill. With crisp-outside, moist-inside financiers and the refill perk, Diaz Cake Boutique made for a good-value tea time with plenty of room for a long chat.

Written Nov 12, 2026Sponsored
PlaceSeongdong, SeoulRestaurants

Ttukseom Station noodle house date with a suyuk set: Seongsu Makguksu

Seongsu Makguksu is a Korean makguksu (buckwheat noodle) restaurant on Achasan-ro in Seongdong, Seoul, about a 2-minute walk from Ttukseom Station Exit 1. On a Saturday date, the writer and her boyfriend ordered two ₩15,000 makguksu sets with a suyuk (boiled pork) tasting plate, shared cold-broth and perilla oil makguksu, and also tried the buckwheat dumplings. Verdict: Seongsu Makguksu's chewy house-made buckwheat noodles and the ₩3,000 suyuk add-on make it a Ttukseom Station Korean restaurant she would 100% revisit.

Written Oct 26, 2026Sponsored
PlaceSuwon, GyeonggiHair & beauty salons

Gwanggyo hair salon: root volume perm for a flat crown, Yuwolae

Yuwolae Mijangwon Suwon Gwanggyo Branch is a hair salon near Galleria in Gwanggyo, Suwon. To fix a crown that kept going flat, the writer got a magic iron root volume perm and a layered cut from designer Lara, and despite a past flat-iron burn, cool air blown during the treatment kept it from ever feeling hot. It took about 2 hours including the cut, and with the restored top volume and a cooling shampoo, the writer says they are 100% going back to Yuwolae Mijangwon.

Written Oct 14, 2026Sponsored
PlaceSuwon, GyeonggiRestaurants

Bone soup with Cheonan roots in Ingye-dong, Suwon: udon and ox blood

Eolkeunhan Ppyeo Haejangguk Suwon Ingye Branch is a pork bone soup (ppyeo haejangguk) restaurant in Ingye-dong, Suwon, near City Hall Station, and the restaurant is said to be known in Cheonan as Sigoljip. Over dinner with a friend, the writer ordered bone udon soup and ox blood soup (seonji haejangguk) at regular spice, refilled onions and radish kimchi (kkakdugi) several times at the self-serve bar, and finished with a Melona ice bar. For a first visit to Eolkeunhan Ppyeo Haejangguk Suwon Ingye Branch, the regular-spice bone udon soup is the one to order.

Written Oct 12, 2026Sponsored
PlaceSuwon, GyeonggiRestaurants

Suwon hangover soup with gabrisal and salted seafood: Jeju Eunhuine

Jeju Eunhuine Haejangguk Suwon Ingye Branch is a Jeju-style haejangguk (hangover soup) restaurant in Ingye-dong, near Suwon City Hall Station in Suwon, where the writer ordered a small gabrisal (pork jowl-edge cut), haejangguk and naejangtang (tripe soup). The haejangguk broth was clear like gomtang (beef bone soup), the naejangtang had no gamey smell, the gabrisal came topped with jeotgal (salted seafood), and unlimited rice and side dishes plus 25 free parking spots made the meal easy. Meeting the Eunhuine haejangguk first tasted in Jeju in 2019 again at Suwon City Hall Station, the writer found Jeju Eunhuine Haejangguk a filling, great-value meal.

Written Sep 30, 2026Sponsored
PlaceSuwon, GyeonggiCafés

Suwon cake café for Gwanggyo Lake Park picnic: fruit slice, Café Diaz

Café Diaz Galleria Gwanggyo is a cake and dessert café on basement level 1 of Galleria Gwanggyo in Suwon, Gyeonggi. The order was a fruit slice cake, an americano and a peppermint tea; the cake went out in a takeout box to the Jaeminanbat lawn at Gwanggyo Lake Park, where a jazz festival performance happened to be on. With barely sweet cream and fruit packed on top, the fruit slice cake from Café Diaz is an easy pick for an outdoor picnic.

Written Sep 20, 2026Sponsored
PlaceJung-gu, SeoulRestaurants

Seoul City Hall galbi lunch, roulette naengmyeon: Geumseong Hoegwan

Geumseong Hoegwan Seoul City Hall Direct Branch is a Korean BBQ restaurant near Seoul City Hall in Jung-gu, Seoul, where staff grill the galbi (short rib) for you. Two diners ordered one serving of galbi each with rice and the complimentary kimchi jjigae, then spun a review-event roulette wheel and won naengmyeon (cold noodles), all for about ₩20,000 per person. With strong ventilation that keeps meat smell off your clothes, it's a solid pick for a group dinner too.

Written Sep 1, 2026Sponsored
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