Notice of DOOM

Hi y’all Alienheads. /weak smile

Guess what! It’s almost time we ended this beautiful blog of joy and love that brought us so much joy and love! Our six month stint in the lovely Seoul is ending by the end of this week and therefore, our blog will soon be packed into the dusty regions of the trash can of the internet, sadly forgotten by all of you alienheads.

/mournful cries of loss and anguish from across the land

Well! Anyway!

If you guys have liked our atrocious writing style and/or would like to say Hi or something close to that effect, feel free to say so now, before we run off to our spaceship and fly towards the setting sun to a galaxy faraway.

In a last effort to comfort you lovely alienheads, here are some pictures from this AWESOME cafe in Hongdae called Hoho Myoll.

THERE IS A REAL BUS IN THE CAFE! This calls for excitement! I AM EXCITED!

The cafe lady makes coffee inside her little bus. Life is perfect. I wish I had a bus inside my room too. I would sleep in my little bus and my bus and I would be the envy of the town. I would also call my bus “Mr Bus”. GENIUS NAME!

Here’s a picture of their namecard.

The mushroom curry they serve is awesome. Also, the coffee is not too shabby. And the toilet smells clean too. The last point is extremely important, because there was once Rara and I were at some cafe that smelled like cat poo. Seriously, cats, why? When I become a world-famous scientist, I will invent a Cat Poop Preventer that will stop cats from pooping. How will they dispel their waste then, you ask? WELL. That’s their problem. /shifty eyes

OK FOLKS! Time to go! We’ll meet again, somewhere, sometime in the future.

Signing off,

Shao the alienhead leader of Doom and yet filled with Poise

Rara the alienhead leader of the Purple Sponge

The famous lamb … Mmmmm lamb omnomnom

HEYYYY alienheads!!

What have Rara and I been up to, you ask? WELL. Let me tell you all, we walked for hours and hours and hours on Saturday. I am the queen of muscular calves now and am most definitely sure I can destroy a band of thieves and crack a walnut at the same time. With the force of my brain. The calves were just a distraction. GOT YOU THERE!

Anyway, today we went to this cafe called

THE FAMOUS LAMB

/ominous music sounds throughout the land

Here are some unimportant pictures of the interior –

It’s pretty I guess. Nicely lit and very spacious. It’s a pretty chill atmosphere.

Until you trip over a leash that belongs to

a

bloody

lamb.

Yeah it’s a lamb alright. The store keepers call it Alice.

It bleats like a bloody alarm clock (that sounds like a lamb bleating like a bloody alarm clock – recursion!). At first it was cute, but after the twentieth thousandth time I was ready to throw a brick, an alarm clock, anything at it.

Here’s what Rara ordered – A Strawberry and Banana Con Leche –

It was rather delicious! Everything on the menu was actually pretty different from what you get from a regular cafe. The lamb was also a nice touch as a passing attraction. Plus, if it ever gets too irritating, you can leave the place and eat some lamb soup as revenge – eat its friends as payback! Mmmmmmm soup.

And there were nice desserts too! Behold!

Cheese cake and brownies with ice cream!

Also! Have we got a surprise for you readers!

Ever wondered what lamb poop looks like? Well look no further!

This bloody lamb pooped twice and peed five times while we were there.

I’m going to eat some lamb for dinner tomorrow.

Location edit:
It’s between Hongdae subway exit no. 1 and 2.
203-30 Donggyo-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul.

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ALIENHEADS!!

Now is the right time to proclaim your absolute loyalty to us! To do so, please wish Rara a wonderful and happy birthday! And that when the time is nigh you will all lay your lives down for her! TRUE STORY! /shifty eyes of shiftiness

IT’S ALIVE! IT’S ALIVE!! (Also, Chilli burgers are awesome)

Profound and knowing nods in your direction, friendly alienheads!

Have you all missed me while Rara was manning the fort? Of course you have, no doubt about it. I have been admittedly busy. One of the things I was busy doing was irritating Rara by asking her meaningful questions about life, one of which was, “Would you help me hold my bag while I hold a toilet party?” (She said yes. A true friend!)

ANYWAY! I know I vaguely promised writing about this place called:

Which is responsible for this:

Such a lovely burger! The meat patty was spiced with spicy spices of glory! And it was delicious like a newborn baby. By newborn baby, I mean newborn baby cow that was brought up in nice green plains, skipping freely among the daisies and chewing freshly stomped grass under a starlit sky, until it grew up and achieved its dream of being a really good slab of steak.

Also, they have a really cool looking menu:

I am the menu. I am cool.

And if you look at the stuff in the menu, you’ll find that they have

Kopi Luwak! DUN DUN DUN DUNNNNN /ominous music

Have any one of you had the dubious pleasure of consuming this poop coffee known as Kopi Luwak? Do you know what it is? Do you want to know what it is? WELL. It is made from beans harvested from the poop of this work of art:

My best friend Wikipedia says more about this weird coffee here.

Thank you Wiki, catch you later!

Anyway, we got free Luwak coffee from the owner of the place.

What does it taste like, you ask? Well. Good question. It kept me up till 4 in the morning. It was also quite bitter, which brings me to wonder if I was really drinking the real deal. After all, Wiki did tell me, in all seriousness, that Luwak was supposed to be rather syrupy. Plus Luwak is supposed to be the most expensive coffee in the world, so offering a free cup to random customers would seem like a really non-profitable thing to do… Wait. Am I actually being disappointed by the fact that I might not have gotten to drink coffee made from something a funkyfaced cat defecated? /mental turmoil

Anyway.

/distracts with chilli wedges

Cafe Retro Mama is a magical cafe of chilli that can only be found when you need it the most. True story. What? I forgot how to get there. /small voice

Edit::
How to find Retro Mama:
Exit 1 of Hongdae station, walk away from the station along Yanghwa-ro. Turn right into Seogyo-ro, then turn left into Donggyo-ro. Walk along that road, past the car repair shops, past TIME cafe and past Buy the Way until you see Retro Mama.

Charlie Brown Cafe!

Snoopy!!
Our friend brought us to the Charlie Brown cafe in Hongdae some time ago.
Most of us should be very familiar with the famous characters from Peanuts, right? It was really fun to see such an adorably themed cafe.

This cafe is filled with characters from Peanuts! From Charlie Brown beckoning you to enter the cafe, to Aviator Snoopy on the ceiling, Woodstock on the tables, cute figurines of the gang placed around the cafe, and even Schroeder playing the piano in front of the toilets.
The cafe also has several areas for their Peanuts Merchandise, where you can get all the clothes, stationery, and toys you want.

Alienhead Sz took many a picture with one of these guys on her head.

It’s still Happy Halloween!

Snoopy goes on a camping trip outside the smoking-area of the cafe!

Enjoy a nice cup of coffee and a nice slice of cake with Snoopy and friends at the Charlie Brown Cafe in Hongdae!
Their cakes were so cute – I couldn’t resist taking a picture of this one at the counter.

An added Linus chocolate on every cake ordered – how sweet!
The plates and cups all have little cartoons on them too! You might get to see Snoopy take a swim in your tea as you drink!

Visit their korean-only website!
http://www.charliebrowncafe.net/
To spend a relaxing time with Charlie:
Starting from exit 5 of Hongdae station, go to the small park area across the road from the main gate of Hongik University. The cafe will be very close to the east corner of the park.

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Hey dddawwgs!

A quick post to show you guys that we’re still alive!

Nothing much to it.

Just

this

A lovely strawfaced man who looks like God did not spend enough time on him!

And then there’s this which we’ll most probably be writing about next:

And the Burger Lord thus decreed that this special Burger will rise forth and free the others from oppression! Such is the burden of this brave meatchunk. Raise your hands in supplication, Burgfaces!

Also, as an effort to connect to our dear, beloved alienhead readers, we are now going to show you what one of us (hint: Rara) is watching on Youtube at this moment.

Enjoy alienheads! Your ears will not bleed. We promise you.

Maybe just a little.

(Rara thinks he looks like a serial killer.)

Conan, the cafe

Remember me??
It’s CONAN! THE ADVENTURERRR
Warrior Without Fear and all that.
Excuse the blurry first photo. But it’s an adorable little cafe with a whimsically lighted tree, wee picket fence and a chair for toy cat figurines to sit on outside.

The interior is photogenic!

You have to walk a few steps down to get into the cafe, so it’s quite cool in that sense. Cushions on every seat, cute little fixtures on the walls. It can seat around 18 people/aliens? Pretty exclusive.
Aliens who love cute things should visit this cafe, since some of the display things are actually for sale.

There was this super cute little dog there too. It goes by the name of Kiki, and is Conan’s beloved pet and mascot. How do we know? Because we heard the other customers call it that.


If the owner was doing stuff at the counter, Kiki would sit there obediently and let you take pictures of it.
That day I had smelly socks, maybe? Anyway Kiki was attracted to my shoes so I got to pet it. It had very soft fur. Wow.

We went there on a weekend afternoon, hoping to catch some brunch, but found out that the food Conan serves is rather on the pricey side. Was it tteokbokki at 4 times the regular street price? Something like that.
We got ourselves some takeaway coffee and hightailed it out of there. That coffee was alright.

To find CONAN! THE ADVENTURERRR,
get out of Sangsu (Subway line 6) exit 1 and wander around. Neighbouring cafes include “18gram” and “cafe 318-1″.

Bourgeois Pig: That’ll do pig, that’ll do

Hey y’all! /weak smile

I did not disappear from the face of the earth, fear not! Instead, I was preoccupied with, you know, stuff. And by stuff I mean sitting in front of my computer and staring into space. And occasionally engaging in some nose gold mining.

Anyways, I mentioned before in one of the previous posts that Rara and I were going to this awesomely-named cafe called Bourgeois Pig.

BOURGEOIS PIG you guys! BOURGEOIS! I never thought I’d see that word outside History class.

(Ps: check out the various definitions of Bourgeois over here)

Does it not make you excited to visit Bourgeois Pig? It does not? Well I’m going to ignore you then.

The weird logo that looks like a pig drifting in the wind. That’ll do pig, that’ll do.

I was excited all the way to the cafe until… I realized it was in a cellar.

But that was ok! A cellar cafe could be nice too! We should not judge by outer appearances! So we went in.

Shao: Ah…

Rara: This is the part where you’re so disappointed that you make me write the cafe review entry again.

Shao: *withers and dies*

ANYWAY.

Check out that Bourgeois fire heater.

Check out the Bourgeois movie posters on the ceiling. Although, wait, seriously though, why on the ceiling? WHY? This mystery haunts me in my dreams.

Check out the Bourgeois lamp who majors in Islamic Philosophy. The quote is incomplete and makes no sense yet, but I guess I still like you, lamp. /fondles lamp

Lastly, check out the Bourgeois cookie. (It was strangely soft.)

The coffee was really, really average. That made me really sad, because I really wanted a redeeming point for this cafe.

Sigh, I feel so empty, like the Bourgeois Pig logo pig-who-drifts-in-the-wind.

Although, I must tell you all, Rara and I visited a Prison yesterday and it was freezing inside. GHOSTS? Dun dun dun dunnnn.

Over and out!

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Hey alienheads!

I know this is supposed to be a cafe blog, but sometimes there are some things too awesome to be ignored! For instance, there was this one night where I convinced Rara to tell me a bedtime story.

This is what happened.

Introducing: See-saw – A sad story of loss

Once upon a time, in a land called “Suwon”, there lived a girl named Clara. She was the daughter of a chocolate chip factory owner and she loved to eat chocolate chip cookies everyday. She would eat them for breakfast. She would eat them for lunch. And she would eat them for dinner.

Clara ate them since she was born!

(How? She has no teeth!)

Well, her mother would dissolve chocolate chip cookie into her milk. So she grew up with a chocolate chip face. And black spots. But they were brown. She also smelled like a freshly baked cookie even though she had an unfortunate face.

The neighbourhood children loved to play with Clara because of the fragrance coming from her body. Everyday, Clara would dance towards the park and the playground. Her favourite playground! Where there were 10 different types of see-saws. They were different because they had different heights.

Every year she would advance to the next level. On her tenth birthday she went on the highest see-saw. Her friend said, “Oh! This is so exciting! We will go and watch you attempt to play on the see-saw with our nominee!” The nominee’s name is Captain Jack. He was nominated because he was awesome heheheh anyway.

This is the worst story. Can’t think of anything. Araaa argghhth nononono ok.

On their 10th birthday, there would be a tradition of putting a big rock on one end of the see saw and the person would be jumping on the other end and the rock would fly towards them and they’d have to catch the rock. So Clara was supposed to do that on her 10th birthday. (So she did it on her 1st birthday too?) Yes, it was a little pebble. And her parents caught it for her.

But on her 10th birthday there was no one to catch it for her. However her parents secretly made a rock out of chocolate chip cookies and placed it on her see-saw. Clara was very nervous, she had practised catching a rock all day yesterday with her friends. She had many cuts on her hands. But they were lovingly bandaged by her mother.

She then said “Friends and family! Before I go on with this dangerous ceremony I must tell you one thing. I am 10 years old. Why are you making me do this?”

And then she went and jumped on the see-saw.

However, she recognised immediately that the rock was a chocolate chip cookie. So in the instant which she jumped on the see-saw, she was confident that she would catch it well. And she did. She ate the chocolate chip cookie immediately, in front of her friends and family. And she lived…. till her 12th birthday.

THE END

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HAY Y’ALL!

Time to announce the winner of the 1000th Visit Contest of Embarrassing Stories of Life!

We’ve had many beautiful ones from many beautiful people. Thank you alienheads. We feel very appreciated and pleased that you all would sacrifice your pride to please us. And to win the 1000won. Wtf.

Rara and I have decided that the winner is

LEBASI!

Read her embarrassing essay from Secondary School which she kindly uploaded for us.

We will mail you 1000 won soon. What a grand prize! There, there, there’s no need for crying. Wipe those tears dry, loyal alienhead.

Side note: Tomorrow, Rara and I will head down to this new cafe called BOURGEOIS PIG. Stay tuned.