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[caw0059]

Hey Folks!
It sure is a pain in the neck to try to find something here in Korea you are really wanting or food you are craving from back home. I know, I've been here almost 2 years now, and it can be a real goose chase to try and track something down.
Albeit, I'd like to extend an offer to anyone out there who is looking for something that is not easily found. I have been pretty successful in finding things I need from back home, so if you want something western, and don't want to spend the time or money to go and try to track it down, contact me and I can see what I can do about finding it and having it shipped to you.
Thanks for reading! Let me know what you want or need! Nothing too big or small!

[safeblad]

maybe you should check the title of this thread

[tomato]

Buttermilk.
Like many other people, I also crave Taco Bell.

[Masta_Don]

Fresh artichokes
Limes at a reasonable price
Sweet peas

[pkang0202]

Carton of Camel Turkish Silvers. 1 carton a month, every month.

[rockstarsmooth]

ricotta cheese.
fresh artichokes.
good candy.
good beer.
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right now i'm listening to: front line assembly - turmoil

[sojourner1]

It's easy to look and high and low in Korean stores and know what they got as it's a very limited selection, even in big box stores. The big box stores are actually small due to most of the box being car park. In Seoul, you do have stores like Costco and Hannam mart where you can find western things not found anywhere else, but don't expect to find any of that outside of Seoul, except Daegu has a Costco.

You can get quite a bit of western style things in Korean stores such as Italian pasta and spaghetti sauce, but not all the ingredients required to make tacos, chili, and lasagna. You can also make American and German style potato salads and Italian past salads too with what Korea sells.

I'm seeing tiny packs of tuna fajitas in the freezer sections that use soft tortilla shells, but no soft tortilla available as a stand alone product. I brought taco spice from home, but no shells or tortillas and sour cream are available until I go to Seoul city again.

To make chili, you can get everything in Korean stores except the chili spice which I brought from home so I make chili now here.

You can get lasagna noodles in some Korean stores like Homeplus, but no ricotta and cottage cheeses are available nor does anyone bake lasagna for sale in their bakery ovens, except sometimes on rare occassion in one foreigner bar.

I think Korea is gradually increasing it's selection of products brought to market, but options are still too severely limited for a rich developed country with high tastes and grandiose dreams to be the world.

I remember 6 months ago, there wasn't bacon at my local Homeplus or anywhere in my area to be found and now my Homeplus store all about good bacon, albeit, it's way overpriced at around $15 USD per pound or 4000 won per 100 grams. They was throwing in a nice pack of sliced ham with it too, but stopped now that the bacon initiation party is over.

[esetters21]

[Bibbitybop]

Microbrew beer from Sierra Nevada, Breckenridge and Pete's breweries.

[caw0059]

Ok, so I see some people might be interested. I can't pm anyone yet because I haven't posted 25 times or something like that, but if you really are seriously interested, you can email me at [email protected].

[caw0059]

Also remember, it is heaps more convenient, even if you live in Seoul, to have something shipped to your doorstep, and that is part of my offer.

To those of you who live in smaller towns, this would save you lots of money and time.

[caw0059]

Check out my website for a request form.

[pamjane]

[caw0059]

Tomato,
Do you mean the original buttermilk that is a result of churning butter, or cultured buttermilk? If you mean cultured buttermilk, I can tell you how to make it. It is pretty easy, and I have been successful in making both cultured buttermilk and sour cream at my apartment. For buttermilk, one way you can get the bacteria is from the liquid yogurt they sell here. It is pretty cheap. You just mix a little bit of the liquid yogurt with more milk. Maybe like a 1:30 ratio or less, like 1:35, I don't know. If you wan specific numbers, use a tablespoon of the yogurt for 2 cups of milk. It's not real important. After that, you can warm the mixture a little to give the bacteria a good start growing, and then leave it in a warm place for 24 hours or so. Maybe behind your fridge if it is warm. At the end of the 24 hours you should have buttermilk. You can make sour cream the same way except use non-liquid (pudding consistency) yogurt and cream instead of liquid yogurt and milk. Probably a good idea to mix the yogurt in well to evenly distribute the bacteria. Good luck! Let me know how it turns out...

[caw0059]

Mastadon,
What do you consider a reasonable price for limes?
What kind of sweet peas do you mean?
You mean the olive green colored ball shaped peas sometimes called English peas?

RSS,
Could you give me some examples of what you mean by "good candy"?