Poop Cafe Insadong | Seoul South Korea

After the animation festival we headed on over to Insadong, which one of us will write more about in a future post. We went there with the intention of going to The Poop Cafe which is located in the Ssamzie-gil Complex (a 4-story building/shopping area.) After walking into the Insadong area, the complex is a little while down to the left and the cafe is on the 4th floor (we did our research prior to going so we would be able to find it more easily than we have found other things.)

Don’t Miss the Sign

The name on the cafe is in Korean, making it easy miss if you don’t know its exact location. The entrance is at the end of the hall/row next to a vendor selling poop bread (the one pictured below is of a similar vendor downstairs in the complex.)

A Lot of Poop Theming

We noticed from the outside that there were Halloween decorations inside, though, which would have likely caught our eye even if we did not know about the place. The decorations were obviously for foreigners because Halloween is not an Asian holiday. My guess is that they decorate for other seasons as well. They also had poop decorations like poop pillows.

We went inside and went to the cashier to order. The menu contains a variety of teas and coffees and some regular food as well. We did not go to the poop cafe to get normal food, though. I knew from the internet that they had little poop scones that came with jam in a little toilet for 800won each (~$0.70) so we got two (one for each of us.)

A Whole Toilet Bowl’s Worth

I wanted coffee in a toilet cup so I ordered the rose coffee. Most likely some of the other coffees come in a toilet cup but I am not sure which ones. I saw the rose coffee pictured with a toilet cup and thought it would be something to try.

I had never had rose coffee before which made the coffee even more of a new and different experience. The cafe actually put a flower and flower petals in my coffee. It was a different taste but still pretty good. Do you eat the flower? Do you not eat the flower? We weren’t sure but we both tried some petals. I think it kind of gave me a headache, though. I am not sure how the teas come.

Kyle got a caramel macchiato. He did not care too much about the toilet cup. His was actually more expensive than mine but it was quite good and the cup did have a picture of poop on it.

If I went again I think I would try a tea or lemonade but all in all, it was a pretty neat experience.

And finished!

~B~