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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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 Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:46 am Post subject: OK, which one of you buys all the oatmeal & cheese EZSho |
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OK, one of you pigs are buying all the cans of Quacker oats and blocks of Kirkland cheeses on EZshopKorea. Arghgh!!! LOL
It appears there's not enough to go around. It's not a food bonanza out in the far East. Inadequate supply of American food in the far East? Sold Out. If you're into traditional Thanksgiving, you better grab one of them 69,000 won smallish American turkey's while you're at it, because they're are up for grabs as I write this.
I bet that ajjuma who runs the Red Door store in Seoul does a brisk American goods business. I bet her back storage space of AAFES goods is larger than her store! To make it look like severely limited supply as to command high prices and she probably restocks when no one is looking as her small space is always topped off well. I bet the websites artificially limit things too as to add value to the product! I know what them Korean middle men and retailers are up too....It's called making money without busting their asses meeting customer demand at a fair price. Emart is like that too where it's out of exclusive western style items half the time or more as to keep prices high. Service is rather low in my opinion in this country considering the pumped up on steroids prices.
More oats, foreign beer, and cheese please. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:56 am Post subject: |
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You can buy all of that stuff at Costco. If you can make it to Itaewon, you can make it to Costco.
Need directions? |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:31 am Post subject: |
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You can buy all of that stuff at Costco. If you can make it to Itaewon, you can make it to Costco.
Need directions? |
I go once in a blue full moon as it's hard for me to get there which makes a Costco membership pointless as I'd only use it once or twice and then I'd have to pack the stuff on buses and taxis. It takes me many long hours of bus and subway travel to get to Itaewon or Seoul. I only went twice last year and been up there once this year so far. This gives you an idea that I hate to make it a long exhausting weekend just for an oatmeal granola bar shopping trip. All 3 times I went, I got sick with cold and flu. I think the world's worst cold and flu viruses incubate in the Seoul subway system as well as any indoor place that's warm and humid with the crush of Seoulites. I just want my goods and to chill out in my place to breathe fresh country mountain air as the BBQ of bought in the city Kansas City strip steaks fills the air. I hate long shopping trips that leave me rushing to make it back to work on Monday morning. I just want to get the stuff and relax on my time off as much as I can. |
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cuckoococoon
Joined: 11 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:27 am Post subject: costco |
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A Korean student of mine gave me this tip about Costco:
Get someone to buy you a gift certificate for Costco. Something as low as five thousand won will do. You can go in cuz you have the gift card and buy as much as you want... but you need to use the gift card when you check out. (and only use cash) |
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pokesplort
Joined: 05 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| shoot i'd like directions to costco. what is the membership dealy? i never did that back home, i just went to target. *sigh* i miss target |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
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smurfetta
Joined: 03 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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A while back, another poster was able to find oats on gmarket. I tried to find it but I was only able to come up with Quaker instant oatmeal and Nature Valley granola bars.
Maybe another poster can supply a link for old fashioned oatmeal.
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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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Look, you can buy that overpriced oatmeal on lots of sites, theoretically. But a lot of American stuff is showing up out of stock.
Why?
Use your friggin brains, people. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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Then get it at Costco.  |
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nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Location: Yongin ^^
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:50 am Post subject: |
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Don't know what you call old-fashioned oats.
I'm used to Scottish stuff. The Australian and Canadian stuff we got on the internet here was a bit rough. Quakers is baout as close to good stuff as I've found.
Any other recommendations appreciated here too. |
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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Then get it at Costco. Wink |
Note to newbies:
Costco in Korea, despite the impression you might get reading this site, does not have everything. It doesn't even have most of the stuff a Costco has Stateside.
There may be some variation between Costcos in Korea, but the one I went to did not have plain Quaker oatmeal. All it had was an outrageously overpriced box of those packets of sweetened, flavored pseudo oatmeal. This stuff only remotely resembles oatmeal in taste and texture.
I bought some, but I have to cut it with rice to get the sweetness down to bearable levels.
I think it was about 25,000 won for the box, about what you pay online. This is insane. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:24 am Post subject: |
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CostCo in Korea has less than back home but more Western-style foods than you will find at a typical store in Korea.
I don't mind eating Korean food but it's nice to have food that reminds me of home from time-to-time. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| Then get it at Costco. Wink |
Note to newbies:
Costco in Korea, despite the impression you might get reading this site, does not have everything. It doesn't even have most of the stuff a Costco has Stateside.
There may be some variation between Costcos in Korea, but the one I went to did not have plain Quaker oatmeal. All it had was an outrageously overpriced box of those packets of sweetened, flavored pseudo oatmeal. This stuff only remotely resembles oatmeal in taste and texture. |
Okay, so it wasn't just me being unable to find it then. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 2:26 am Post subject: |
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Last time I went to the Foreign Food Market in Itaewon, they had plenty of boxes of Quaker Oats (Old Fashioned) including extra-large sizes.
They also usually have blocks of Kirkland and (better brand) Tillamook cheese - as does the Dandy Grocery (on the left as you enter Hannam Supermarket - basement of the Volvo building.)
I found that my Costco membership wasn't worth it since I always had to take a taxi (I think around 4000 won each way from Yanjiae station) and then lug quantities of stuff onto the subway and bus.
(Then again, I'm still lugging heavy bags of groceries, books, etc. on my return trips from Seoul...) |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:03 am Post subject: |
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| sojourner1 wrote: |
| wylies99 wrote: |
You can buy all of that stuff at Costco. If you can make it to Itaewon, you can make it to Costco.
Need directions? |
I go once in a blue full moon as it's hard for me to get there which makes a Costco membership pointless as I'd only use it once or twice and then I'd have to pack the stuff on buses and taxis. It takes me many long hours of bus and subway travel to get to Itaewon or Seoul. I only went twice last year and been up there once this year so far. This gives you an idea that I hate to make it a long exhausting weekend just for an oatmeal granola bar shopping trip. All 3 times I went, I got sick with cold and flu. I think the world's worst cold and flu viruses incubate in the Seoul subway system as well as any indoor place that's warm and humid with the crush of Seoulites. I just want my goods and to chill out in my place to breathe fresh country mountain air as the BBQ of bought in the city Kansas City strip steaks fills the air. I hate long shopping trips that leave me rushing to make it back to work on Monday morning. I just want to get the stuff and relax on my time off as much as I can. |
Well, why don't you have a friend mail you the stuff if they pick some up on a shopping trip? Wouldn't that work? You could pay them for the shipping via bank transfer. |
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