Lately, your Runcible Spoon editors have been very obsessed with Korean culture thanks to all the Korean romance dramas they've been watching on Netflix. So to whet their appetites, they traveled all the way to Annandale, Virginia, (a.k.a. Little Korea) to take some purikura pix, buy cute stationery, eat soondubu and **gasp** go to H Mart!

Here are some Instagram pics from our time: 

Purkiura pics from Lilthigumajigs. Photo credit: Malaka 

Malaka and Alison at Shilla Bakery, a Korean bakery in Annandale. They had sweet potato pound cake, buns stuffed with cantaloupe-flavored cream and pineapple brioche. Photo credit: Claire 

Rows and rows of kimchi at H Mart. Photo credit: Claire

Scallion pancakes, bibimbap, soondubu and little plates of kimchi at Lighthouse Tofu. Photo credit: Claire. 

Pig-shaped cake at Shilla Bakery. Photo credit: Malaka

Little packaged pickled things at H Mart. We were particularly frightened by the sliced gelatinous pork squares. Photo credit: Malaka

Claire in her stupid dog earmuffs. At Lilthigumajigs, a Korean stationery store. Photo credit: Alison.

Lighthouse Tofu
Shilla Bakery
H Mart
Lilthigumajigs

-Malaka