photo of Taemin with short blond hair wearing a black suit and playing with a colored piece in front of a large white maze-like gameending fairy featuring Taemin turning his head down with his index finger at his temple
Oddly, despite his ever-growing popularity, there was a dearth of birthday cafes for SHINee’s “ace” maknae, Lee Taemin, and many of them ended on Saturday. This was unfortunate as we were planning on visiting the cafes on Sunday, so we ended up just going to one birthday cafe before calling it a day and heading to lunch.
poster for Taemin birthday eventposter detailing what is available at the birthday event
The cafe we went to was called Cafe Monggeul Pink Branch (카페몽글 핑크점) which seems to be a smaller, sister cafe to Cafe Monggeul Sky Branch which held a birthday event for Taemin’s bandmate Key last year.
small display at the entranceanother display of photosphotos pinned along a stringa board where you could leave notes for Taemina sample of the fanmade photocards you could receive and other itemssomehow I pulled the lip-biting photocard as shown heredisplay board with Taemin’s namea funky, shaggy blue lamp that can’t possibly workmain displayTaemari, Taemin’s mascot, a yellow chick, wearing a birthday party hatmore photos hung on stringswavy mirror decorated with photosexclusive gift bags that were one of the options for purchasemore photos of Taemin on a shelfoutside signage
It was a very small, intimate cafe and it never got crowded while we were there. The ceiling ledges were full of stacked birthday cafe cups so I think this is a popular birthday cafe. A lot of idols have birthdays in July, so I think it was a struggle to find available cafes. Nevertheless, it was nice to see old friends and new.
iced tea, croissant biscuit, and the goodies I gotcroissant biscuit, all the rage in Korea these days
Koffee & Kpop 
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