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Zulu
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| I've had San Miguel. Isn't that from Thailand? |
It is from the Phillipines. Does San Miguel sound Thai to you?
If you are interested in San Miguel here is their website. Don Enrique Maria Barretto de Ycaza founded the company. I think he was probably Spanish.
http://www.sanmiguel.com.ph/subsite.asp?subid=30 |
Yes, I realise that now. I went to the nearest city last night. Drank 2 draft, 2 Tsingtao, 1 Guiness, 3 Long Island Ice Teas, 1 Kalua and vodka (what do you call that?), a Kamakazi and 5 Cass at the noraebang. Took the bus home this morning and had about 300 mm of Korean mushroom wine.
Anyway, I saw San Miguel on the menu and the flag beside it. |
I would have seen Jesus himself on the menu after downing all that! Are you ok?
It's a Black Russian. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:21 pm Post subject: Re: Yum! Asian beer |
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| The King of Kwangju wrote: |
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| If you are from Ontario, you can go to the LCBO and get just about any popular beer you can think about from around the world. Funny thing is, it's about the same price as Canadian beer. |
This is a major, major exaggeration, bordering on an outright lie. |
No it isn't. Have you been to the LCBO. They have more than 100 beers from around the world and most of them are around $2.50-$3.50 for 500ml. The same size Canadian beer costs around $2.00-$3.00. |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Chinese food in Korea is appalling. Every country I've been to has great Chinese food except for Korea. |
Can't you find good Chinese food in Seoul? Seems like they have everything else. |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Zulu wrote: |
| jacl wrote: |
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| I've had San Miguel. Isn't that from Thailand? |
It is from the Phillipines. Does San Miguel sound Thai to you?
If you are interested in San Miguel here is their website. Don Enrique Maria Barretto de Ycaza founded the company. I think he was probably Spanish.
http://www.sanmiguel.com.ph/subsite.asp?subid=30 |
Yes, I realise that now. I went to the nearest city last night. Drank 2 draft, 2 Tsingtao, 1 Guiness, 3 Long Island Ice Teas, 1 Kalua and vodka (what do you call that?), a Kamakazi and 5 Cass at the noraebang. Took the bus home this morning and had about 300 mm of Korean mushroom wine.
Anyway, I saw San Miguel on the menu and the flag beside it. |
I would have seen Jesus himself on the menu after downing all that! Are you ok?
It's a Black Russian. |
Yeah. I'm ok. I even had a couple of cans outside the supermarket after all that. Had to wait for the bus. I ate a huge spicy BBQ chicken with the draft. That probably helped. I'm hungry today though and I was planning on going to Seoul for a steak, but it's 3:15 now. Takes a couple of hours to get there. Could still go but I don't feel so well. Hmm. Wonder why? |
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JZer
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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eamo wrote:
Chinese food in Korea is appalling. Every country I've been to has great Chinese food except for Korea. |
I think that eamo is saying the the Korean style of Chinese is appalling. You can't escape it. Maybe you can, since I am not an expert but my guess is that you can't!
Anyone know any good Chinese resturants in Seoul. |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Dev wrote: |
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| Chinese food in Korea is appalling. Every country I've been to has great Chinese food except for Korea. |
Can't you find good Chinese food in Seoul? Seems like they have everything else. |
There probaby are some good Chinese restaurants around somewhere. It would be cool to find one. I could go for some honey garlic spareribs right now and one of those huge eggrolls with plum sauce. Wonton soup would be nice too.
*beep*. |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject: Re: Yum! Asian beer |
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[quote="ajgeddes"][quote="The King of Kwangju"]
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Have you been to the LCBO. They have more than 100 beers from around the world and most of them are around $2.50-$3.50 for 500ml. The same size Canadian beer costs around $2.00-$3.00. |
On the topic of the LCBO, all I can say is that they must be the best liquor stores in North America. Almost all store are super clean. They have attractive shelving and displays. The staff are super polite. And yes, the selection of beer was excellent.
The other place where people buy beer in Ontario, The Beer Stores are the complete opposite of the LCBO. Their displays are a bunch of dirty empty beer bottles on a shelf on the wall. You give your order to an impersonal person who shouts some abbreviated form of your order to some guy in the back. Finally, your case of beer comes rolling out on this noisy conveyor belt made up of metal wheels. And in these stores, they sell the oh-so-fashionable beer brand clothing, hockey shirts, caps, thermal beer mug covers and beer logo beach balls. A classy shopping experience indeed. 
Yep, you guessed it. The LCBO is for the mid to upper class and the beer stores are for the working class. That's Ontario for you. It's the only province I know that has a social class system in place in Canada. And if you think I am lying, think about the different "levels" of supermarkets you find there No Frills, Price Chopper, Loblaws, Dominion, Valu Mart... |
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Zulu
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:53 pm Post subject: Re: Yum! Asian beer |
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| ajgeddes wrote: |
| The King of Kwangju wrote: |
| ajgeddes wrote: |
| If you are from Ontario, you can go to the LCBO and get just about any popular beer you can think about from around the world. Funny thing is, it's about the same price as Canadian beer. |
This is a major, major exaggeration, bordering on an outright lie. |
No it isn't. Have you been to the LCBO. They have more than 100 beers from around the world and most of them are around $2.50-$3.50 for 500ml. The same size Canadian beer costs around $2.00-$3.00. |
Sounds right to me. Every booze shop I saw in any half-large city in Canada or the US had a very nice selection of foreign beer, and has for as long as I can remember. |
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Zulu
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| There probaby are some good Chinese restaurants around somewhere. It would be cool to find one. I could go for some honey garlic spareribs right now and one of those huge eggrolls with plum sauce. Wonton soup would be nice too. |
There's a foreign chain, Ho-Lee Chow, in a couple of places in Seoul. One right in the Hamilton Hotel in Itaewon. A bit pricey and not the selection you'd get in North America or China obviously but miles beyond the jajangmyung offerings nonetheless. Not sure about the egg rolls, probably a north american thing, but pretty sure they have spring rolls. Worth the $ if you need a fix.
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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| There probaby are some good Chinese restaurants around somewhere. It would be cool to find one. I could go for some honey garlic spareribs right now and one of those huge eggrolls with plum sauce. Wonton soup would be nice too. |
There's a foreign chain, Ho-Lee Chow, in a couple of places in Seoul. One right in the Hamilton Hotel in Itaewon. A bit pricey and not the selection you'd get in North America or China obviously but miles beyond the jajangmyung offerings nonetheless. Worth the $ if you need a fix. |
I'll try it this month sometime and rate it here. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 12:18 am Post subject: |
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| There probaby are some good Chinese restaurants around somewhere. It would be cool to find one. I could go for some honey garlic spareribs right now and one of those huge eggrolls with plum sauce. Wonton soup would be nice too. |
There's a foreign chain, Ho-Lee Chow, in a couple of places in Seoul. One right in the Hamilton Hotel in Itaewon. A bit pricey and not the selection you'd get in North America or China obviously but miles beyond the jajangmyung offerings nonetheless. Not sure about the egg rolls, probably a north american thing, but pretty sure they have spring rolls. Worth the $ if you need a fix. |
Ho Lee Chow is owned by a fellow foreigner (well, the Itaewon and the one at Lotte World). Good hockey player, too.
You can find authentic Chinese food in Korea, but I guarantee they probably have Kimchi there, or else Koreans wouldn't go. |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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Korean beers are nothing spectacular, but it's unfair to put them down as if they were truly awful swill. Tekel in Turkey is truly awful swill - I got a pounding headache from half a bottle. Do I like other beers better? Yeah. Do I wish there were a wider selection here? Yeah. Is the OB I'm having right now, cold from the freezer okay? Sho'nuff.
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If I were to make a top 5 of major, commercial beers it would be this:
1. Corona
2. Tsingtao
3. Brahma (Brasil)
4. Efes Pilsen (Turkey)
5: A really cold Hite (which Im enjoying at this very moment) |
While Efes does rate above Hite, I can't see either of them belonging in my top five list like this. Especially since I would say that both Troy and Marmara 34 are better Turkish beers than Efes. Efes does get credit in my book for sponsoring the blues festival each year.
But Turkish beer really pales next to Armenian Beer. One of the treats of my six months there was discovering Kotayk and Erebuni, both of which could hold their own against the best beers being mentioned on this thread. If you ever get a chance to try them, do. |
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Endesu
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
Location: Bucheon
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| Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 2:19 am Post subject: |
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Well, Efes is the ONLY Turkish beer I tried, so...
Anywho, does anyone know the rules for selling/importing beer into Korea?
I heard you need a certain amount of storage space at your possession, as well as some kind of special lisence to import.
And what are the rules for selling beer online?
It seems that only the really big breweries like Carlsberg, Coors-Molson, Anheuser-Busch and Inbev have the resources to fight the barriers set up to protect the Korean brewers. I do believe both Hite and OB now cooperate with one or more of these groups. |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 8:26 am Post subject: |
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A frosty Hite isn't too bad. It's gotta be cold though. It's when you're drinking multiple cans of Korean beer that it gets kind of disgusting.
I can't stand it when you go to a hoff house and they bring multiple bottles to your table. Sorry, I'm not going to drink warm beer just because you're a lazy ajumma.
In Taiwan, they drink beer with ice. Kind of strange, but I found myself doing it since they usually serve quart beer there. The ice also helps when they pour for you. They tend to pour quickly without tipping the glass. the ice cuts down on the head. It seems they haven't mastered the art of pouring. I even taught this one bartender/owner lady how to pour properly and got her barmaids to do the same.
I've had some good Hite draft. I must be different everywhere you go. |
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butlerian
Joined: 04 Sep 2006
Location: Korea
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Korean beer is quite boring and tasteless but perfectly drinkable (up to a point). There's precious little difference between the varieties, but I'd probably put Prime (made by Hite) at the top because it's a malt beer. As for Japanese beer - I'd prefer any to Korean beer, but Kirin and Yebisu are probably the best, although Sapporo tastes good on draught. In Thailand, Singha has a good balanced taste but Chang is a nice full-bodied alternative on some occasions.
Still, after all's said and done, I'm from England, and the quality and variety of beer in England is second to none. I do miss not having a bitter or Banana Bread beer! It would be nice to open an international alcohol shop one day in Seoul, but that's for another day... |
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