So our first Cafe is Caffe Pompi located in Ajungli, just off the main drag across from Hyundai. It's tucked just off the main road allowing for a nice calm environment to sit for hours and do some work.
Aside from having a good environment, the decor and service are awesome. When you get your coffee you also get homemade sunflower seed cookies. How do you know they are homemade? Because if you sit there long enough, like I did, you start smelling the cookies baking. You can even see the girl behind the counter making them if it's a slow time of day. The cups are adorable with the pops of color, kind of like those velvet pictures from the 70's that you would color in with felt tip markers. Are those still around? If so I want one.
On to the Decor! Let's start with my faves, the hand painted walls. Of course I am in love with this painting in particular because...well...it's the little prince, and if you know nothing of me you should know that my love for vintage thing is only surpassed by Le Petit Prince.
Another lovely painting is the name of the cafe on the wall just below a collection of goodies they serve here; makes me want a french press so badly!
I really like the layout of the cafe too, right as you walk in there is a little patio so in the warmer months you can sit outside and enjoy the neighborhood. Too cold to enjoy at the moment but once warmer weather comes around, I tell ya!
Oh, and probably the most exciting part of the cafe is something that would NEVER happen in the states, manicure station. Not only do they have nail polish, remover, and little nail goodies; but they let you use it for free and without "supervision". One of the coolest things about Korea is that they are all about the community so it's not that they trust you not to steal, it's that you just don't because then someone else won't benefit equally. Pretty neat right?
So of course I couldn't help but paint up my nails with a nice yellow and a bit of bling :D
Wicked stoked to go back and do my nails again...maybe tomorrow? We'll see. I have a long vegan stint coming up just for funsies and I am off to Japan on Friday!! I have more concepts for blog posts, so hopefully one a week I can do things like this. I mean, I go to enough cafes and take enough useless pictures of my coffee so why not?! Until next time, keep groovin' to the world.
-Sara
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