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SamJ85 · Joined: 13 Oct 2008

I said I'd cook a thank you meal for the Korean teachers at my school. I was going to do Lamb meat balls but Korea, or Suwon at least, seems to be a baby sheep meat free zone.
Tried tesco and I'm looking for a smaller butchers, but without much luck so far.
Any one got any ideas?

cheeseface · Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Location: Ssyangnyeon Shi

You could try itewon, some of the asian shops there maybe?

I've bought lamb at the volvo building supermarket near there. But it was very expensive. 40,000 for a whole leg.

How close are you to Ansan? I bought a huge bag of leg of lamb at one the the Pakistani shops near Ansan subway station, that was only 16,000. I could give you directions if you want?

brento1138 · Joined: 17 Nov 2004

I have eaten lamb with Koreans, and I can tell you, not a single one liked it. Be careful with this one! Things Koreans don't often like are lamb, cilantro, and lemongrass.

I can see you bringing the lamb into the dining room, and proudly presenting your fine work to the Koreans... and then they suddenly clam up, smell it, poke it, saying... "What's that smell?" They'll eat it, nibble on it maybe, but you'll be looking at the table of food at the end of the night wondering "why did they leave so many behind?".... Confused

Hehe. Anyways. I love mutton. My fav. dish in the world could be Greek style roast lamb which is impossible to find in Korea! (anyone know where?)

You can easily find lamb in two places:

Ansan: go to Ansan station. Then follow where all the East Asian people go, into the main cityish area with all the shops. There are a ton of grocery stores around with foreign food. Many of them have frozen lamb.

Seoul: go to Itaewon, then go to Foreign Food mart. To get there, go the same path one takes to "What the Book?" They have frozen lamb also.

hugekebab · Joined: 05 Jan 2008

Its true, not just Koreans, a lot of Chinese I've met HATE lamb they think it stinks.

AussieGav · Joined: 02 Sep 2007 Location: Uijeongbu

Hobophobic · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject:

I go for lamb on a stick here every couple of weeks...wife loves it, rest of the korean family hate it...complain it is too greasy and smelly....you'd think they would be all over it for that...

brento1138 · Joined: 17 Nov 2004

bangbayed · Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Location: Seoul

The Foreign Market next to What the Book in Itaewon carries ground lamb at a decent price. I've made meatballs from that before.

As far as cooking for Koreans, I'd make sure to add plenty of spices to hide the 'smell' they don't like. Despite the fact that most Koreans seem not to like lamb, those Chinese-style lamb skewer places seem to be popping up all over the place lately.

DavePuff · Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Location: Daegu, South Korea

JBomb · Joined: 16 Oct 2008

lamb is indeed wonderful... greek restaurants at home were always wonderful.

sobriquet · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Location: Nakatomi Plaza

Buy it from GMarket.

About to buy some this weekend myself

Rusty Shackleford · Joined: 08 May 2008

I have to agree about lamb not being great. My father farms the things so we had it quite a bit. I think roasted is not that great, but bbqed on the spit is good(goat too).

It smells like grass and is very fatty. I can see why Koreans don't like it.

Xuanzang · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Sadang

Braised lamb shank...mmm yummy.

Major Kong · Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Location: South Korea

USFK has all the lamb you want.
Yongsan, Hump, Castle, Uoijongbu, Waegwan, Stanley,
Kunsan, ... get your lamb on.

SamJ85 · Joined: 13 Oct 2008

Cheers guys. I'll check out Itaewon tomorrow.