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allison13 · Joined: 04 Sep 2009 Location: Dana Point ca

I use apple cider vinegar and baking soda for everything! (from washing my hair to cleaning) Are either of these two products hard to find in Korea? I'm assuming baking soda is easy to find but I can't get concrete evidence about A.C. Vinegar? Anyone know? Thanks!

P.S. I'm moving to Daegu in a few weeks

mt01ap · Joined: 04 Nov 2006

apple cider is easy to find, it's at most local grocery stores, emart and homeplus.
Baking soda, on the other hand, isn't as easy to find. Costco sells it but they are the only ones I know who carry it.

allison13 · Joined: 04 Sep 2009 Location: Dana Point ca

Thanks for the reply. I totally assumed wrong Embarassed

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Baking soda is also easy to find. Even my little mom & pop Mart carries it. It's in little packets in a basket, next to the corn starch.

Korea has a pretty wide variety of vinegars.

conrad2 · Joined: 05 Nov 2009

Costco sells a huge bag of Arm and Hammer baking soda.
OP: I bet your hair smells wondefurful.

bluelake · Joined: 01 Dec 2005

When I first saw the title, I thought someone wanted to make CO2.

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

Baking soda is often with the cleaning supplies, dear the dish soap, if you don't see it in the vegetable aisle. It's in a round plastic bottle, not a cardboard box. It's the same orange Arm & Hammer logo.

There are many kinds of vinegar in Korea. The ACV isn't like you are probably used to. It's more like apple-scented vinegar. Although it could possibly be made from apples, it doesn't have mother or anything like that. I use lemon vinegar for my hair in Korea.

mt01ap · Joined: 04 Nov 2006

my bad, did find baking soda by veggies and produce....never would have guessed to look there!! Embarassed

curiousaboutkorea · Joined: 21 Jan 2009

I've seen baking soda near the salts. It's called 소다 (literally 'so-da').

frankly speaking · Joined: 23 Oct 2005

baking soda is shik soda. As stated above it is available in every small store to big grocery store, it comes in small plastic pouches, and costs only a few hundred won. Baking powder is less abundant but still available.

The vinegar in Korea is quite strong and takes some getting used to. I don't like cooking with most of the vinegars here.