🇰🇷 Beanji in South Korea – Café Dreams & Green Tea Leaves
🇰🇷 Beanji in South Korea – Café Dreams & Green Tea Leaves When Beanji arrived in Seoul, the air was brisk and buzzing with electricity — the kind that hums between neon signs and soft-spoken poets at midnight cafés. The panda had traveled far for this one: not just for the tea, but for the story brewed in every corner of Korean culture. His first stop was the iconic district of Insadong. Wandering through alleys lined with art galleries, antique shops, and hanging lanterns, Beanji found a little café with misted windows and a sign painted in hand-brushed Hangeul. Inside, the scent of roasted barley and warm milk greeted him like a whisper. He ordered a matcha latte. The barista prepared it in near silence — sifting, whisking, pouring with meditative precision. The surface swirled in a jade spiral, topped with a tiny powdered drawing of a panda. The taste was earthy, rich, and grounding — like sipping spring itself. Beanji stayed for hours, watching raindrops race down the ...