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Modernist
Joined: 23 Mar 2011
Location: The 90s
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Depending on where you live, the best solution for finding these magnificent chips can be adjacent to your local US base. Any Doritos found in Itaewon are just markups from Yongsan Garrison's PX, anyway. You'll see that they never have the Korean imported food label or sticker--they ALL come from military stores. Sometimes you'll even get a PX bag to carry them in.
For those living in Gyeonggi, there are a bunch of gray-markets near Osan's Main Gate in Songtan that usually have 2 or 3 flavors of Doritos in stock, including Cool Ranch and the otherwise quite rare Spicy Nacho.
I would NOT bother buying Lotte's 'licensed' version of Nacho. Somehow I don't trust it will taste right. Like Snickers bars here, or original Lay's chips in China, something will just be off. |
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Zackback
Joined: 05 Nov 2010
Location: Kyungbuk
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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This is one of the reasons why I love being in the Philippines. No problem finding American products like this.
Man it's 2012 and you can't even go to the supermarkets there and buy a bag of Doritos. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Modernist wrote: |
| I would NOT bother buying Lotte's 'licensed' version of Nacho. Somehow I don't trust it will taste right. |
Actually, I think their "Mexican" nachos are a reasonable knockoff of Doritos Cool Ranch. |
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highstreet
Joined: 13 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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| I found them at a mart in sinchon. Just a normal mart that sells Korean stuff. Like the other poster said, its made by frito-lay. It was only 1200won. It was good, but I haven't had Doritos for a long time, so I don't remember the taste really. |
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luckylady
Joined: 30 Jan 2012
Location: u.s. of occupied territories
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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Doritos have been commonplace in the marts since at least 2004 -
as for same-name-made-elsewhere products - the first (and last) time I tasted a Korean Gatorade I gagged and threw it away - was hideously gross! don't know why but tasted awful |
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Maserial
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: The Web
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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Lotte is now manufacturing Doritos in Korea under license from Frito-Lay. Lotte also produces other Frito-Lay brands in Korea (Cheetos, Sun Chips, etc). In time you'll see these in convenience stores all over the country, and they won't cost an arm and a leg like the imported ones in Itaewon.
http://blog.naver.com/kyu2733?Redirect=Log&logNo=120156304488 |
Considering the bang-up job Lotte has done with Cheetos, I'll be sure to keep my expectations extremely low. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 12:16 am Post subject: |
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Great, now I'll be smelling Dorito breath on students and getting smeared with cheese residue when one grabs me.
If only they could import decent tortilla chips, not the movie theater yellow discs. The Kirkland ones aren't much better. Baby carrots for snacking would be great as well.
I'm surprised my guilty pleasure food of pork rinds hasn't made it big over here considering every other part of the pig seems to get eaten....That and Corn Nuts. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Maserial wrote: |
| r122925 wrote: |
Lotte is now manufacturing Doritos in Korea under license from Frito-Lay. Lotte also produces other Frito-Lay brands in Korea (Cheetos, Sun Chips, etc). In time you'll see these in convenience stores all over the country, and they won't cost an arm and a leg like the imported ones in Itaewon.
http://blog.naver.com/kyu2733?Redirect=Log&logNo=120156304488 |
Considering the bang-up job Lotte has done with Cheetos, I'll be sure to keep my expectations extremely low. |
No kidding
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Doritos have been commonplace in the marts since at least 2004 -
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Really? Where do you live in Korea? |
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wishfullthinkng
Joined: 05 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Maserial wrote: |
| r122925 wrote: |
Lotte is now manufacturing Doritos in Korea under license from Frito-Lay. Lotte also produces other Frito-Lay brands in Korea (Cheetos, Sun Chips, etc). In time you'll see these in convenience stores all over the country, and they won't cost an arm and a leg like the imported ones in Itaewon.
http://blog.naver.com/kyu2733?Redirect=Log&logNo=120156304488 |
Considering the bang-up job Lotte has done with Cheetos, I'll be sure to keep my expectations extremely low. |
i tried the korean doritos this weekend and can say they are spot on with texture and general taste. the bag i found was gold colored and the flavor was a cheese of some kind. it wasn't as "cheddary" as the nacho cheese or nearly as red in color, but the taste was excellent. not a shred of the awful sweet taste they ruin all chips with here in korea.
100% recommended. |
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drkalbi
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| They have Doritos at Home Plus for 4500. |
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