In: Night Life| Taiwan| Transportation
8 Oct 2009When Eunmi and I landed in Taipei last Thursday, we took first took the bullet train to Kaohsiung. For about $40 USD, we were traveling at 300 km/hour and made it there in an hour and a half. Kaohsiung is the second largest city in Taiwan and is located on the southwest coast.
Kaohsiung was nice. [...]
In: Celebrities| Korean Culture| Night Life| Nightlife in Seoul
15 Sep 2009This is a photo of me and Ryu Seung Beom, 류승범, a famous actor in Korea. I had no idea who he was until another of Eunmi’s friends at the party mentioned him. He was a really nice guy and very polite. Recently, Ryu Seung-Beom was cast for the movie “29 Years” with Korean actress [...]
Entrance to Club Eden in Gangnam, Seoul.
This is my favorite club in Seoul. It’s located in the basement of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Gangnam, Seoul. Lots of gorgeous people, all dressed up, trying to out-do one another. I’d say it’s the most popular club in Korea right now. One of Eunmi’s friends who came with [...]
Bouncer at a night club in Singapore zapping Eunmi with a Swine Flu temperature reading gun. Pump was the name of this bar. They had a pretty good cover band playing.
I was the next victim of the Swine Flu Gun.
Singapore is known for having some of the best chili crab in Singapore. Jumbo was strongly [...]
In: China| Hong Kong| Night Life| Traveling Abroad
3 Aug 2009Lang Kwai Fong is the famous nightlife district in Hong Kong. It is said that 65% of Lan Kwai Fong is owned by one individual, Allen Zeman, a German-Canadian – also Jewish, who in 1983 opened the first Western restaurant in the area. A year later in 1984 after he opened California Restaurant, he bought [...]
“The exclusive cocktail club that caters to jet-set billionaires” – CNN Worldwide
“M1NT shareholders include 9 billionaires” – BBC News 24
“M1NT’s shareholders and members include Val Kilmer, Ivana Trump, Daniel ‘007’ Craig, [...]
Kimchi Soup is a blog journal managed by a Korean-American-Jewish adoptee (this is not a joke). Its sole purpose is to document the adventures of the author's return to Korea and to update his family and friends.
The author of this blog journal was adopted form Korea at the age of 6. He was adopted and raised by a Jewish-American family (not a joke). The purpose of his extended return trip to Korea is to learn more about his birth-family history, learn the Korean language, and immerse himself in daily Korean life to fully experience true Korean culture.