Butterfingers
All I have to say is wow! Having been in South Korea for around 8 months now there are a few things that I frequently crave - a lot of which I can cook for myself with ingredients available from stores like Homeplus - but there are some things you just want to be able to have cooked for you...the way you like them!
The butterfingers menu is impressive... they serve the most amazing buttermilk pancakes but you can also get Waffles, Bacon and Eggs, breakfast sausage, fried potatoes, french toast etc etc etc. There is also a massive selection of sweet pancakes, waffles and ice creams. It's not the cheapest restaurant around, though you can expect that with most places that serve Western Food, it's also not ridiculously expensive and the meals are huge. My friend and I shared 1 big breakfast and added an extra two pancakes (coz they were too good and we were being greedy) and we were both stuffed for hours afterward. Definitely worth a visit and they are open from 7am to 3am so there is plenty of time to get there!
Directions: Get to Gangnam Station on the subway and look for exit six which will take you up to street level. Walk in a straight line from the top of the subway stairs till you reach the Body Shop at the first corner and then turn left. Butterfingers will be on your left on the second block, though the blocks are small in this area so you should see it just after you round the corner, it's just after the Burger King.
Dr Fish Cafe
Another awesome experience! Though it's a little difficult to find on the second floor of a massive building in Gangnam it is well worth he trip! It costs about 2,000won ( roughly $2) although you have to buy a cup of coffee so you are looking at about 7,000won in total...the coffee is fabulous so I had no complaints! You are also given a tray with some butter and jam and they have a station in the middle of the cafe where you can help yourself to as much fresh bread or toast as you can eat.
You can choose to have your coffee before or after your Dr. Fish session. When you are ready you walk up to a little raised area right by the window where there is lots of natural light and one of the assistants directs you to take off your shoes and socks and put your feet down into a wooden sink where he hoses them down to make sure you don't contaminate the fish water. Then you have a choice of two different tanks, on with small fish, and the other with rather large fish. You sit down and drop your feet into the tank where the fish start to eat the dead skin off whatever skin is submerged in the water. It tickles
for a while with the little ones then it just starts to feel like your skin is tingling. I didn't like the bigger fish because I could actually feel them eating me and I found it a little creepy.
A little background:
Doctor fish is the name given to two species of fish, Garra rufa, and Cyprinion macrostomus. The fish at the cafe in Gangnam are Garra Rufa. They consume the affected and dead areas of the skin leaving the healthy skin to grow - kind of like the way the cleaner fish look after sharks and whales.
Directions: Get to Gangnam Station on the subway and look for exit six which will take you up to street level. Walk in a straight line from the top of the subway stairs till you can see the CGV building on the other side of the road and then you should be practically in front of it. Look up! The cafe is on the second floor but you should be able to see the sign pictured here.
All I have to say is wow! Having been in South Korea for around 8 months now there are a few things that I frequently crave - a lot of which I can cook for myself with ingredients available from stores like Homeplus - but there are some things you just want to be able to have cooked for you...the way you like them!
The butterfingers menu is impressive... they serve the most amazing buttermilk pancakes but you can also get Waffles, Bacon and Eggs, breakfast sausage, fried potatoes, french toast etc etc etc. There is also a massive selection of sweet pancakes, waffles and ice creams. It's not the cheapest restaurant around, though you can expect that with most places that serve Western Food, it's also not ridiculously expensive and the meals are huge. My friend and I shared 1 big breakfast and added an extra two pancakes (coz they were too good and we were being greedy) and we were both stuffed for hours afterward. Definitely worth a visit and they are open from 7am to 3am so there is plenty of time to get there!
Directions: Get to Gangnam Station on the subway and look for exit six which will take you up to street level. Walk in a straight line from the top of the subway stairs till you reach the Body Shop at the first corner and then turn left. Butterfingers will be on your left on the second block, though the blocks are small in this area so you should see it just after you round the corner, it's just after the Burger King.
Dr Fish Cafe
Another awesome experience! Though it's a little difficult to find on the second floor of a massive building in Gangnam it is well worth he trip! It costs about 2,000won ( roughly $2) although you have to buy a cup of coffee so you are looking at about 7,000won in total...the coffee is fabulous so I had no complaints! You are also given a tray with some butter and jam and they have a station in the middle of the cafe where you can help yourself to as much fresh bread or toast as you can eat.
You can choose to have your coffee before or after your Dr. Fish session. When you are ready you walk up to a little raised area right by the window where there is lots of natural light and one of the assistants directs you to take off your shoes and socks and put your feet down into a wooden sink where he hoses them down to make sure you don't contaminate the fish water. Then you have a choice of two different tanks, on with small fish, and the other with rather large fish. You sit down and drop your feet into the tank where the fish start to eat the dead skin off whatever skin is submerged in the water. It tickles
for a while with the little ones then it just starts to feel like your skin is tingling. I didn't like the bigger fish because I could actually feel them eating me and I found it a little creepy.
A little background:
Doctor fish is the name given to two species of fish, Garra rufa, and Cyprinion macrostomus. The fish at the cafe in Gangnam are Garra Rufa. They consume the affected and dead areas of the skin leaving the healthy skin to grow - kind of like the way the cleaner fish look after sharks and whales.
Directions: Get to Gangnam Station on the subway and look for exit six which will take you up to street level. Walk in a straight line from the top of the subway stairs till you can see the CGV building on the other side of the road and then you should be practically in front of it. Look up! The cafe is on the second floor but you should be able to see the sign pictured here.
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