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[mindmetoo]

If you love that Indian dessert galub jamun, brace yourself. I didn't even realize it had a name. I used to refer to it simply as "that really sweet fried milk ball in syrup that costs a lot in Indian restaurants." Usually you pay about $3 for one in a small bowl of rosewater/honey syrup.

At the Foreign Grocery Store in Itaewon, next to What the Book, you can get a big can of it for 4,000 won. You get about two dozen.

[uofagirl]

I like how these taste(though I can only handle a couple at a time) but this pictue makes them very unappealing for some reason

[flotsam]

[jaganath69]

That Indian buffet place, New Delhi in Itaewon has them as well. I'm usually too full by the time I've done the all you can eat to stomach any more than two.

[uofagirl]

That's where I've had them as well. It works out well after the buffet because eating more than a couple is hazardous for your health(can't you feel it clogging up your arteries as you bite into that soft, chewy ball of sweetness?)

Pairing it up with the ultra sweet tea/coffee that they serve fills me up with enough sugar for a couple of weeks!

[plato's republic]

This Indian buffet place, New Delhi, sounds interesting. Where exactly in Itaewon is it? Do they serve all the regular Indian dishes such as curry, nan, samozas etc..?

[jaganath69]

Go to Pizza Hut and head up that hill that runs diagonally off the main street, its on your left. Maybe someone can give better directions, but if you go past a Turkish place you are heading in the right direction.

[TiGrBaLm]

Hi,

They are called "gulab jamun" and if I end up in Korea within the next month or two I'll bring you some straight from Canada.

Cheers

[Rteacher]

Well, I'm probably the only one around here (meaning most of the planet...) who has actually been part of a gulab jamun eating contest (I vaguely recall cheating by squeezing out some of the sugar juice before popping 'em in my mouth...)

The eventual winner must have downed about 50 of them. The runner-up actually ate more, but he started erupting like Mt. Vesuvius and had to haul ass to a bathroom...

It's important (to me anyway...) that they be made with pure cow ghee (not buffalo ghee or oil... I haven't tried the gulab jamuns from Foreign Food mart, but I've gotten a couple cans of their imported rasagulas made by the same company. They were pretty good - and are less fattening...

While I was there, I bought ingredients to make laddus which my students and Korean co-teachers can't get enough of when I make a big batch and bring a bunch to school. I use ghee, chick pea flour, flaked cocunut, golden raisons and sliced almonds. The key is stir-frying most of the ingredients till they are very dark brown (adding raisons last) and then turning off the heat and blending in powdered sugar. Gotta let it cool some, then roll into balls (not too big and same size if possible...)

I think the Ashoka restaurant in Itaewon has some very good Indian sweets including jalebis which are scrumptious. In India, the Bengali region is especially famous for the very elaborate varieties of sweets made there...