"Autumn leaves" and nostalgic eats

Autumn has made a hard landing here in Seoul, knocking out our sweet Indian summer. We took a walk up to Namsan mountain last weekend and pictured some amazing colours:

We have also discovered in the meantime that it's possible to buy Portuguese egg tarts (pastéis de nata) in Seoul. In fact there are several locations where they sell them. Although we do not crave the tarts that much, the discovery made us happy for some underlying nostalgic reason.

Portuguese egg tarts in Anguk-dong

Pastel de nata (egg tart)

We tried the shop in Anguk-dong. They not only have the classic egg tart, but also a few non-Portuguese variations: chocolate, walnut, apple cinnamon, lemon, pumpkin and sweet potato tarts. Price per tart is 3,500 KRW. Classic is 2,200 KRW.

To get there: from exit 1 in Anguk station, turn right and immediately right again. The shop will be on your left roughly 200 meters up the street.

This combined with the Manoel de Oliveira Retrospective being shown at the moment in Seoul Cinematheque makes 10,000 kilometers seem a hop, skip and a jump.

The cherry on top of the tart was finding out almost simultaneously that we will soon be able to eat  "açaí na tigela" just next door from us (Itaewon-ro 54-gil).

Açaí bowls: opening soon in Itaewon

Ok, we will not go wild on the açaí because we don't want to contribute to the Amazonian deforestation, but at least, Autumn just got a tad more interesting!