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Foods You Miss the Most While in Korea
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red_devil



Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:38 am    Post subject: Foods You Miss the Most While in Korea Reply with quote

Because i'm bored, love eating, and hungry ATM...list your comfort food, whatever that you're missing right now.

No one ever mentions these but i miss Totino's Pizza Rolls - Pepperoni.
http://ow.ly/1qNrU1

  • Panda Express Orange Chicken
  • Luau Salad from Cheesecake Factory
  • Sam Woo Seafood Restaurant (Chinese) Fish Fillet in Black Bean Sauce: http://ow.ly/1qNrUw and Spicy Salt Squid: http://ow.ly/1qNrUz
  • The shoestring fries at Houston's
  • In & Out - Double Double with Onions
  • Crabcake sandwich with real crab
  • Chicken & Garlic Gourmet from Round Table Pizza
  • Soup Plantation
  • Beer Battered Fried Walleye
  • Kraft Mac N' Cheese + cut up Johnsonville Smoked Polish sausage + Sriracha
  • Pumpkin pie / Strawberry Rhubarb pie
  • Vietnamese Bun Thit Nuong: http://ow.ly/1qNrVh
  • Dim Sum - Fried Crab Claws: http://ow.ly/1qNrVs
  • La Jolla Beach, CA - Polynesian Crab Stack


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northway



Joined: 05 Jul 2010

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cheese that doesn't taste like the plastic wrapper it comes in.
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Globutron



Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pieeeee.

But that's all.
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Senior



Joined: 31 Jan 2010

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

About six months in, I missed plenty of things. Now? Basically nothing. I have either found substitutes, or realised that a lot of what I was eating on a regular basis was completely retarded.

My local e mart carries decent cheese now, although it is extremely expensive. You can get semi-decent (read welfare cheese) off gmarket for cheap. And they are bringing out better varieties of sliced cheese now.

I know for a fact that I will never miss eating pizza roles on a regular basis.
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InDaGu



Joined: 28 Jun 2010
Location: Cebu City, Philippines

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:52 am    Post subject: Re: Foods You Miss the Most While in Korea Reply with quote

red_devil wrote:
Because i'm bored, love eating, and hungry ATM...list your comfort food, whatever that you're missing right now.

No one ever mentions these but i miss Totino's Pizza Rolls - Pepperoni.
http://ow.ly/1qNrU1



I picked up some of these last year at Dandy's Grocery (the smaller shop in the front of Hannam Supermarket).

Anyway, for me it's Root Beer.
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Hyeon Een



Joined: 24 Jun 2005

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

6 years in...

Heinz baked beans. (UK style, not the crap they have in the US)
Hula hoops (regular and barbecue, don't care for S&V)
GOOD bread available cheaply. Sure I bake my own, but it's effort.
Hmm..

That's about it, I can make or buy everything I need here now. It was tougher a few years back. I make do very well now.

Example: This week I was wanting to make lasagna. When I was in Kim's Club I saw a pack of dried lasagna squares. I asked how much it was since it was missing the price label. 11,000won. Screw that. I used eggs and flour and spinach and made my own delicious green lasagna instead. Cost for the noodles? about 2,000won. 8 portions of lasagna? About 14,000won. The poverty of ingredients makes me richer.
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djsmnc



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 9:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Brazil nuts. My mom says everyone used to call them the toes of a specific race of people. I can't find them anywhere here
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IanChops



Joined: 19 Mar 2009
Location: Pyeongchon, South Korea

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 9:58 am    Post subject: Re: Foods You Miss the Most While in Korea Reply with quote

[quote="InDaGu"]
red_devil wrote:

Anyway, for me it's Root Beer.


This might not be very helpful if you're in Daegu, but you can get Root Beer up in Seoul, at several places near the Yongsan US military garrison. If you ever take a trip up to Seoul, I can let you know where exactly.

I've got one can of A&W left in my fridge. Root beer float on Sunday afternoon for me! (I don't mean to rub it in! Wink )
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Tundra_Creature



Joined: 11 Jun 2009
Location: Canada

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I only really missed the dairy products.
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Linda868



Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 10:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I live in a small town so I don't have access to many things
Real cheese at a decent price
A good filet mignon steak with goat cheese
Carrot cake (can't make it since I don't have an oven yet)
Deep dish pizza
Donairs
Carob chip oatmeal cookies
Cottage cheese
Greek salad
Basil pesto
Sourdough bread
Fresh baked french bread
Fresh olives stuffed with pimentos
Trader Joe's vanilla soy milk
Spicy turkey sausage
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Steve_Rogers2008



Joined: 22 Mar 2010

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

djsmnc wrote:
Brazil nuts. My mom says everyone used to call them the toes of a specific race of people. I can't find them anywhere here




******'s feet? same with my mom... she went to a store and asked for them as a girl, and a person of that race heard. so there's a history of foot-in-mouth disease in the family. Wink

Personally, I was Jonesin' for a Greek salad the last few months my first year.... so I made sure to hit a Coney Island three times a week while I was back Stateside... Very Happy
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NYC_Gal



Joined: 08 Dec 2009

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NY pizza and bagels, macro/vegan bento boxes, mushu vegetable, bean burritos, blackened catfish, eggplant parm, stinky farmhouse cheddar, mutsu apples, pumpernickel, affordable cherries, and cajun spice.

EDIT: I second brazil nuts. I few months back, E Mart had Dorset Muesli with brazil nuts, but I haven't seen it recently. It's the blue box.
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pangaea



Joined: 20 Dec 2007

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Anyway, for me it's Root Beer.


I found root beer in a foriegn food mart in Itaewon. It's a little shop in one of the alleys. I think it's the same one with some African restaurants and hair care shops and not far from the larger foreign food market next to where Whatthebook used to be. Wish I could give you better directions but maybe someone else knows which shop I'm talking about.

I miss:

mashed potatoes and gravy
chicken fajita nachos with white cheese dip
fried mushrooms with ranch dressing
O'Charley's 5-spice chicken pasta
homemade chicken casserole that I can't make here because I don't have an oven and can't find cream of chicken soup. Sad
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northway



Joined: 05 Jul 2010

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Linda868 wrote:
I live in a small town so I don't have access to many things
Real cheese at a decent price
A good filet mignon steak with goat cheese
Carrot cake (can't make it since I don't have an oven yet)
Deep dish pizza
Donairs
Carob chip oatmeal cookies
Cottage cheese
Greek salad
Basil pesto
Sourdough bread
Fresh baked french bread
Fresh olives stuffed with pimentos
Trader Joe's vanilla soy milk
Spicy turkey sausage


There are a few Uno's around Seoul if you make it to the big city.
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InDaGu



Joined: 28 Jun 2010
Location: Cebu City, Philippines

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

pangaea wrote:
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Anyway, for me it's Root Beer.


I found root beer in a foriegn food mart in Itaewon. It's a little shop in one of the alleys. I think it's the same one with some African restaurants and hair care shops and not far from the larger foreign food market next to where Whatthebook used to be. Wish I could give you better directions but maybe someone else knows which shop I'm talking about.



I know exactly where you're talking about, but I've never seen root beer the times I've been there.
I'm thinking about just having someone ship me some root beer extract and brewing it myself.
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