Bungalow @ Kyoto

After recovering from walking up to the temple earlier in the day I finally made it out to research some more beer at a craft brew pub called Bungalow. Getting there took a subway ride to Shijo and a long walk in the snow. There was no sampler to be had here, so I worked my way through the darks on the list one small glass at a time while I gnawed on some broccoli.

Some Snow in Kyoto

Outside Bungalow

Pyong Ga Ok @ Seoul

Since I was closer to North Korea then I've been before, I decided to track down an authentic North Korean Restaurant and see how it compared to the state sponsored one I'd had in Beijing. I goolgled for a bit and was fairly frustrated with the results, most of the directions to get to these places made it sound like I would need to be able to read Korean to be able to track the place down. Lucky I finally found a blog post on Pyong Ga Ok, which described it's location just outside the Gwanghwamun subway station in detail. 

North of Gwanghwamun

Pyong Ga Ok from outside

Tianjin in a day

With about 10 hours to explore Tianjin before my train took off toward Beijing, I decided to start off my morning at Nanshi Street. The name is slightly misleading as it's not a street at all, but more of an indoor food mall. The inside is two large crossing halls filled to the brim with food stalls and a second story lined with restaurants all the way around. After walking through the food stall area I walked the entire perimeter of the second floor in search of a Tianjinese restaurant.

Outside Nanshi Street