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[helly]

my coffee comments:

Starbucks only bought Seattle's Best Coffee's US business. Outside the US, they are still separate.

Still think Starbucks is the best in town. A bit weaker than back home but I'll just order a double.

Actually, the best is at the Hyatt. More expensive but I'll pay for quality at times.

I liked Pascucci when it was Segafredo. Don't like it now.

Agree with an earlier poster, espresso is the way to go.

Best way, though, is to buy the beans and make it at home. You control the strength. Depends on your purpose, though. Most homes don't come complete with the Kangnam princess option. Some do.

[mack the knife]

One of my students just brought me back a bag of dark roasted from Brazil. Too bad I don't drink coffee. Wife's loving it, though.

Now if I could just wheedle one of my students into visiting Belgium, I might just score a ten-year-old Flanders, or Lambic...MMMMMM...Yessss. That would be something...

[purrrfect]

I really miss Tim Horton's


But life goes on... I've gotten used to Korean-style coffe shops, like Rosebud. I wouldn't have gone for it in the past, but I think my taste buds have changed since coming to Korea, and I like that coffee now. The price, compared to Seattle's Best, etc., is really nice too.

But I WILL sometimes pay more money to go to a coffee shop with better ambience. I, too, love to work and study in coffee shops.

[Bulsajo]

[Bendrix]

helly wrote:

[helly]

I believe ALL Segafredo stores are gone. Most of them have been replaced by Pascucci.

Generally speaking, its the same place. Same coffee menu, same panini sandwiches. I just think the quality has gone down a bit and the cool barista type folks working there have been replaced by clueless highschool kids.

Oh, and its no smoking now but lots of places in Seoul have made that change.

[erlyn]

The best coffee I've had in Asia was in Vietnam. Perfect cup, every time. Anywhere. (Good bread too *sigh) According to them, they even roast some of the beans in butter. I brought half a kilo back with me when I came, and every luscious drop of it is now gone - I brought back a special Vietnamese coffee maker, so I could drip the perfect amount for myself, without wasting any of the sweet bean. I'm even considering Vietnam as a future teaching post - JUST FOR THE COFFEE.

Well, and the bread and pho, but those are separate threads.

I'm interested to try Pascucci now that so many of you are recommending it - I've been here over a year and I've never tried it. It always looked like one of those overdone frou frou Korean dating places, with subpar coffee. I guess I should judge a book, blah blah blah....

[jacktar]

[Starperson]

Look I've only been to Pascucci a few times. I got peeved off. I went in there wanting one of those silly big drinks in the plastic slurper, with all the cream on top. Everything on their lifesize displays had cream on it. So I ordered some overpriced 5000 won thing (AU$7.00!). Low and behold, it doesn't have cream on it, which was why I ordered the thing in the first place. I got my interpreter boyfriend to ask her what was going on. She had the hide to tell me it was an extra 500 won for the bruddy cream! I mean, I can understand charging extra for the cream if the drink was 3000 or less, but I was already paying half her hourly wage for it! I kind of said oh come on give me some cream please, but nope I had to pay the obegwon. I think I haven't been back since.
Anyway what I was going to say was I've only been to the Jongno3 Pascucci. So they might not all be the same. I'll go to another one and give a review tomorrow.

Melbourne person - I've lived and worked in New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland and I can't remember going to a place where they haven't offered a mug. Maybe it's the places I'm going.
My most memorable coffee moment was when this guy served me an afogato with dead cold espresso.