(Written on Jan 27, 2024) What do we Millenials love? Walking into local coffee shops, which is what I did yesterday morning in Myeongdong. Little did I know that an innocent scone would completely shake up everything I've come to know about scones. Up until this day, my loose definition of a scone was a pastry with dry crumbly texture, almost biscuit-like, but everthing changed when I took a bite of this scone. It was moist yet kept together sturdily like a right-out-of-the-oven chocolate chip cookie that's cooled for about thirty minutes. It was paired with an earl grey milk tea that was so warm and delicious that it momentarily put an end to my coffee cravings, which I've been dealing with since I had quit coffee at the turn of the new year. I can proudly say that my Millenial senses did not fail me when I stumbled into 카페느티 on this cold morning. Starting my day there would be a sign of more good things follow because what proceeded it was an on-point lunch meal at 슈슈차이, a Koreo-Chinese restaurant inside of a department store food hall. In an effort to maintain low gluten intake, I opted out of the 자장면 and in for the 자장밥. I couldn't believe it when I took the first spoonful of rice after lightly tossing in the black sauce because I had just tasted a flavor that I did not know existed. It could only be described as black magic or, more coloquially, top-shelf MSG. My mother had 짬뽕 which I've always regarded as a supporting character to the 자장 and hardly a dish that can stand on its own, but I have to admit the bits of squid in it were almost as soft as scallop. On a different day, lunch was to be enjoyed at the world famous 명동교자 on a Friday afternoon when the lines were suprisingly only a few tables long. Similar to Kat'z Deli in NYC's houston st, this place ran on organized chaos, a common phenomenon when an old restaurant meets popularity. The restaurant had been around since my parents childhood days serving the same dishes that people love today. When a table opened up, we were directed through a maze of tables to our seats, and as good korean customers that we are, we gave the usher our order as we lowered our butts to our seats, and in a matter of minutes, maybe seconds, we were served with steaming hot 칼국수, 비빔면, 만두 (cover photo), and a bucket of kimchi. The noodles were delicious, soft and chewy, just like the skin of the dumplings, which were perfect in temperature and density, making it easy to eat in one bite. It was like a scene out of Kungfu Panda. From there we left the restaurant and got a cup of sweet cream coffee at a cafe that my parents used to actually hang out at called Gamoo Cafe. Everyone there was people of my parents generation indulging in nostalgia.