
Welcome! Iโm Ran, your favorite K-Mom friend.
Blending my Korean roots with everyday mom life, I love sharing practical tips, K-mom recipes, self-care routines, and family moments that inspire joy and balance. ๐
Last weekend, we celebrated Leoโs and my birthday with our friendsโ families in BC Vancouver, Canada. Iโve been to Vancouver once before and instantly fell in love with this beautiful city โ full of diverse cultures, amazing food, and breathtaking nature. The best part? Itโs only a 2โ3 hour drive from Seattle, which makes it the perfect quick getaway with friends and family.
This time, I want to share some of the cafรฉs and restaurants we enjoyed, combining spots from both my first trip and this recent visit.
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ํ์ธ์, Ran์ด์์. ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ K-Mom ์น๊ตฌ!
ํ๊ตญ์ ์ธ ๋ฟ๋ฆฌ์ ์ผ์ ์ ์๋ง ๋ผ์ดํ๋ฅผ ์์ด, ์ค์ฉ์ ์ธ ํ๊ณผ K-๋ง ๋ ์ํผ, ์
ํ์ผ์ด ๋ฃจํด, ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ ํจ๊ปํ๋ ํ๋ณตํ ์๊ฐ๋ค์ ์ด ๊ณต๊ฐ์์ ๋๋๊ณ ์์ด์. ๐
์ง๋ ์ฃผ๋ง์๋ ์ ์ Leo์ ์์ผ์ ๋ง์ ์น๊ตฌ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์บ๋๋ค BC ๋ฐด์ฟ ๋ฒ๋ก ์ฌํ์ ๋ค๋ ์์ด์. ์๋ ์ ์ฒ์ ๋ฐด์ฟ ๋ฒ์ ๋ค๋ ์์ ๋๋ถํฐ ์ด ๋์์ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ๋ฐ๋ก ๋ฐํด๋ฒ๋ ธ๋๋ฐ์ โ ๋ค์ํ ๋ฌธํ, ๋ง์๋ ์์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋ฆ๋ค์ด ์์ฐ์ด ํ๋ฐ ์ด์ฐ๋ฌ์ง ๊ณณ์ด๋ผ ์ ๋ง ์๋ฆ๋ค์ด ๋์์์. ์์ ํ๊ณผ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ ์ ๊ธฐํ๊ณ ์ผ๋ฐ ๋์ ๋๋์ด ๋๋ฌด ์์๊ณ ์ธ๋ จ๋ ๊ณณ์ด์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ ์์๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค ์์ ํ์์ ์ฐจ๋ก 2โ3์๊ฐ์ด๋ฉด ๊ฐ ์ ์์ด์ ์ฃผ๋ง ์ฌํ์ง๋ก ์ ๋ง ๋ฑ์ด์์. ๐โจ
์ด๋ฒ์๋ ์ง๋๋ฒ๊ณผ ์ด๋ฒ ์ฌํ์์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ๋ ์นดํ์ ๋ ์คํ ๋์ ์ ๋ฆฌํด ์๊ฐํด๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์.
โ Coffee Shops
Iโm a big coffee lover, and one thing I love about Vancouver is how many cafรฉs there are to explore!
์ ๋ ์ปคํผ๋ฅผ ์๋ ์ข์ํด์, ๋ฐด์ฟ ๋ฒ์ ๊ฐ๋ฉด ์นดํ ํฌ์ด๊ฐ ํ์์์. ๋์ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์นดํ๊ฐ ๋ง์์ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋ ์ฌ๋ฏธ๋ ์ ์ ํ๋ต๋๋ค.
๐Artigiano
cozy vibes, great coffee to start your day. ์๋ํ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ์์ ํ๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์์ํ๊ธฐ ๋ฑ ์ข์ ๊ณณ.
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๐Revolver
a must-visit for serious coffee enthusiasts. Try their Espresso Flights if you want to try out many of their beans and coffees. Hand dripped espressos were so delicious, goes well with the pastries.
์ปคํผ ๋ง๋์๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ผญ ๊ฐ์ผ ํ ํ์ ์คํ
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๐Breka Bakery
open 24/7! Perfect for late-night cravings or an early-morning pastry run. You will love the huge selections of the bakery. It’s such a luxury to have it near you, i was so jealous of people in Vancouver.
24์๊ฐ ์คํ! ๋ฆ์ ๋ฐค ๊ฐ์์ด๋ ์ด๋ฅธ ์์นจ ๋นต ๋จน๊ธฐ ์ข์์ ๐ฅ ํ์ด์คํธ๋ฆฌ ์ข ๋ฅ๋ ๋ ๋ง๊ณ ์์๊ธฐ๋ ๋ ์์ ๊ณณ์ด์์. ์ ํฌ๋ ์ง ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ์ ์ ํ ์ดํฌ์์ํด์ ๋จน์์ด์.
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๐ด Restaurants
Food is always takes a big part of our trip, and as you all know, Vancouver is one of the top city has the most diverse cuisines and restaurants. I was so excited to try out these places!
๐Tendon Kohaku
We waited almost an hour here, but it was so worth it! The tempura was crispy and delicious, and the interior had a clean, minimal vibe. They also had some great drinks to pair with the food. (After a few months later we visited here, Tendon Kohaku opened a restaurant in Bellevue, and the waiting was long as few hours.)
ํ ์๊ฐ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ธ์ง๋ง ์ ํ ์๊น์ง ์์๋ ๊ณณ! ๋ฐ์ญํ ํ ๋์ด ์ ๋ง ๋ง์์๊ณ , ๊น๋ํ๊ณ ๋ฏธ๋๋ฉํ ์ธํ ๋ฆฌ์ด๋ ์ธ์์ ์ด์์ด์.







๐Kokoro Tokyo Mazesoba
Such a fun spot! It feels a bit like fast food, but the quality is fantastic. We loved the colorful interior and the fact that itโs hard to find a mazesoba restaurant in Seattle. The soft-serve ice cream cone for dessert was the perfect finish.
์บ์ฃผ์ผํ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ์ง๋ง ์์ ํ๋ฆฌํฐ๋ ํ๋ฅญํ๋ ๊ณณ. ์์ ํ์์๋ ๋ง์ ์๋ฐ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ค์์ ์ผ๋ถ๋ฌ ๊ฐ๋ดค๋๋ฐ ๋๋ง์กฑ์ด์์ด์. ์๋ก๋ฌ๋กํ ์ธํ ๋ฆฌ์ด๋ ๊ท์ฌ์ ๊ณ , ํ์์ผ๋ก ๋จน์ ์ํํธ ์์ด์คํฌ๋ฆผ ์ฝ๋ ์๋ฒฝํ ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ์๋ต๋๋ค. ๐ฆ





๐Cactus Club Cafe
A great family-friendly restaurant with delicious food. Leo devoured his pasta (it was the cutest thing watching him eat spaghetti ๐ฅน). The cocktails were also really good. Service was amazing โ the staff was super kind and accommodating with our baby boy. This was when he was around 8months old? and we still love the photo of him eating spaghetti. Our legendary photo of Leo. LOL.
๊ฐ์กฑ ์นํ์ ์ธ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ถ์ Leo๋ ํธํ๊ฒ ์์ฌํ ์ ์์๋ ๊ณณ์ด์์. Leo๊ฐ ํ์คํ๋ฅผ ๋ง์๊ฒ ๋จน๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ด ๋๋ฌด ๊ท์ฌ์์ ๊ธฐ์ต์ ์ค๋ ๋จ์์ด์. ๐ฅน ์ ํฌ๋ ์นตํ
์ผ๋ ํจ๊ป ํ๋๋ฐ, ๋ง๋ ํ๋ฅญํ๊ณ ์ง์๋ค์ด ์๊ธฐ์ ํจ๊ป ์จ ์ ํฌ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ง ์น์ ํ๊ฒ ์ฑ๊ฒจ์ฃผ์
์ ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ต๋๋ค.





๐Cafe Lihn
This Vietnamese-French restaurant was a hidden gem recommended by our friend. It was tricky to find (tucked under a building near the freeway), but worth it! We tried frog legs (my first time!), spring rolls, pho, and grilled whole seabass. Everything was so flavorful. Our friends ordered lamb chops and they were perfectly tender and juicy. A bit pricey for brunch, but definitely memorable with unique dishes you canโt easily find elsewhere.
์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ์ถ์ฒํด์ค ์จ์ ๋ง์ง! ํ๋ฆฌ์จ์ด ์, ๊ฑด๋ฌผ ์งํ์ ์จ์ด ์์ด ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ํ๋ค์์ง๋ง ์์ ๋ณด์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ณณ์ด์์ด์. ๋ฒ ํธ๋จ-ํ๋ ์น ํจ์ ๋ ์คํ ๋์ผ๋ก, ์ ํฌ๋ ๊ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๋ค๋ฆฌ ํ๊น(์ฒ์ ๋จน์ด๋ดค๋๋ฐ ์ง์ง ๋ง์์์ด์!), ์คํ๋ง๋กค, ์์ ์ฌ์ด์ฆ์ ์๊ตญ์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํต ๊ตฌ์ด ๋์ด๋ฅผ ๋จน์๋๋ฐ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ง์กฑ์ค๋ฌ์ ์ด์. ์น๊ตฌ๋ค ๊ฐ์กฑ์ด ์ํจ ์๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ณ ์ก์ฆ ๊ฐ๋ํด์ ์ต๊ณ ์์ด์. ์กฐ๊ธ ๋น์ธ๊ธด ํ์ง๋ง ํน๋ณํ ๋ฉ๋ด๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝํํ ์ ์๋ ๊ณณ์ด๋ผ ์ถ์ฒํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.





๐Jing Tan Barbeque
Richmond is known for its amazing Asian food, and this Chinese-style all-you-can-eat BBQ didnโt disappoint. For $68 per person, we enjoyed premium seafood like lobster, oysters, clams, shrimp, eel, and abalone โ plus Wagyu steaks, lamb chops, and more. The best part? They gave our group of 10 (with kids) a private room so we could relax, and the service was exceptional.
์ ํฌ ์์ด๋น์ค๋น๊ฐ ์๋ ๋ฆฌ์น๋ชฌ๋ ์ง์ญ์ ์์์ ๋ ์คํ ๋์ด ํนํ ์ ๋ช ํ๋ฐ, ์ด๊ณณ์ ์ค๊ตญ์ ๋ฌดํ๋ฆฌํ BBQ์์. ์ธ๋น $68๋ก ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์ ๋ฉ๋ด๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ๋๋ฐ, ๋ฐ๋ท๊ฐ์ฌ, ๊ตด, ์กฐ๊ฐ, ์์ฐ, ์ฅ์ด, ์ ๋ณต๊น์ง ๋ค์ํ๊ฒ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ ์์์ด์ ๐ฆ. ์๊ท ์คํ ์ดํฌ, ์๊ฐ๋น, ๊ฐ์ข ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ ๊ฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์ฌ์ด๋ ๋์์ ๋์ ํธ๊น์ง ์ํ๋ ๋งํผ ๊ฐ์ ธ์ฌ ์ ์์์ด์. ์์ด๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป 10๋ช ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ๋๋ฐ, ์ ํฌ์๊ฒ๋ง ํ๋ผ์ด๋น ๋ฃธ์ ์ ๊ณตํด์ค์ ํธํ๊ฒ ์์ฌํ ์ ์์๊ณ , ์ง์๋ถ ์๋น์ค๊ฐ ์ ๋ง ์ต๊ณ ์์ด์.






๐Yin Ji Chang Fen
Before heading home, we stopped at this local Chinese breakfast diner famous for its rice rolls โ and they were so good! We also had congee, Hong Kongโstyle iced coffee, and a sweet bread filled with condensed milk. A comforting, authentic breakfast before the long drive back.
๋์์ค๋ ๋ , ํ์ง์ธ๋ค์๊ฒ ์ธ๊ธฐ ์๋ ์์นจ ์๋น์์ ์์ฌํ์ด์. ๋ผ์ด์ค ๋กค์ ์ ๋ง ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ณ ๋ง์์๊ณ , ์ฃฝ, ์ฐ์ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ ๋นต, ํ์ฝฉ์ ์์ด์ค์ปคํผ๊น์ง ๋ชจ๋ ํ๋ฅญํ์ด์. ๊ธด ์ด์ ์ ์์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ํ์ง์ ์์นจ์ ๋จน๊ณ ๋์์ฌ ์ ์์ด ํ๋ณตํ๋ต๋๋ค.




These were some of the amazing places we enjoyed in Vancouver. For me, trying new foods while traveling makes the trip even more special and creates happy memories with family and friends. ๐
What do you love to do when you travel? Have any Vancouver recommendations I should add to my list? Share them in the comments โ Iโd love to hear!
Thanks for reading! โจ
๋ฐด์ฟ ๋ฒ์์ ๋จน๊ณ ๋ง์ จ๋ ์ด๊ณณ๋ค์ด ์ด๋ฒ ์ฌํ์ ํ์ธต ๋ ํน๋ณํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์ด์คฌ์ด์. ์ ๋ ์ฌํํ ๋ ์๋ก์ด ์์์ ๋ง๋ณด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ ์ค ํ๋๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํด์. ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ปํ ์์คํ ์ถ์ต์ด ์์๊ณผ ์ด์ฐ๋ฌ์ ธ ๋ ํ๋ณตํ๊ฒ ๋จ์๋ค์. ๐
์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ ์ฌํํ ๋ ์ด๋ค ๊ฑธ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ฆ๊ธฐ์๋์? ๋ฐด์ฟ ๋ฒ์ ๊ฐ๋ณด์ ๋ถ๋ค, ์ถ์ฒํ ๋งํ ๋ง์ง์ด๋ ์นดํ๊ฐ ์๋ค๋ฉด ๋๊ธ๋ก ๊ผญ ์๋ ค์ฃผ์ธ์!
์ฝ์ด์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค โจ

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