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Treekat · Joined: 13 Mar 2007

Hello

I am making, or hoping to make, Tom Yum Goong for a Christmas Eve dinner.

Was just wondering if anyone knows where/if one can buy Thai ingredients like limes, lemon grass, galangal etc.

I am not sure whether it is blindingly easy, but I don't particularly want to go on a wild goose hunt to department stores etc. if I am going to come home feeling like a dejected failure.

Also, I will have to find another soup to make.

Thanks!

seoulsucker · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:22 am Post subject:

I've seen packets for the soup at the Hannam grocery for like 5,000원, and I think they have some of the fresh ingredients you would need to make it.

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

My wife gets it from a local shop in Yongin.

Everything she needs fresh.

jaganath69 · Joined: 17 Jul 2003

Ansan is the best place to go as it has the largest SE Asian population. Take the subway there and head across the road into the network of alleys. Asia Marts are everywhere around the country too, and I source most of my stuff from the local one.

oldfatfarang · Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: On the road to somewhere.

The Foreign Food shop in Itaewon has packeted Thai recipie mixes, bottled sauces, tinned coconut milk, dried Thai red chilli powder, and some fresh(?) ingredients (lemongrass etc). The packet mixes are not strongly flavoured and need extra chilli etc. They also have Thai rice - but I think it's in 10 kg bags.

Other small stores in Itaewon also have the same stuff - sometimes different brands. Mae Ploy brand is a stronger Thai flavor (must be the MSG).

If you're in Thailand - bring back heaps of packeted mixes (10 bht) and they are the real deal. I don't have problems bringing 10kgs of this stuff through K customs ("Present for my friends").

The_Eyeball_Kid · Joined: 20 Jun 2007

I bought galangal, tamarind sauce, fresh coriander and coconut milk from Foreign Food Market just last week. I couldn't find any lemongrass, though.

brento1138 · Joined: 17 Nov 2004

I actually bought some canned stuff. But I'm scared to try it.

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

Stoooopid menu decision IMHO...you should make something traditional like Lasagna.

Rapacious Mr. Batstove · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Location: Central Areola

happeningthang · Joined: 26 Apr 2003

Spliff is MARRIED???

She probably didn't like being told she was paying too much for groceries all the time.

Anyway, I was looking for Kaffir Leaves, fresh if possible. I've trekked across some of the Asian supermarkets in Itaewon and can't see it anywhere.

Any ideas?

maeil · Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Location: Haebangchon

Frozen lemongrass is available at Hannam market.

Roch · Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Location: Seoul