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[greek buddha]

Hi there everyone. I have a quick question. Does anyone know if you can buy feta cheese or filo pastry in Korea and where if there is? For the Greeks on the board, my mother-in-law wants to make Tiropita (cheese pie for the rest) I need to know if they sell cottage cheese, unsalted butter, feta cheese and filo. My mother-in-law is leaving tommorow morning for Korea and I wanted to show here how to make tiropita in Korea if they have all the stuff that's needed. If not maybe i'll give her some thing from here.

Thanks

[Ruthdes]

You can get Feta from Costco and the Foreign Food Mart in Itaewon. It's small cubes in a jar of oil. The brand is Apetina. It was in the fridge at the FFM and the dairy case at Costco. It's about 5,000 won for a small jar.

[thrylos]

That Apertina feta (unfortunately) is for the birds. It's Danish crappola from cow's milk, not goat's, and it's drenched in sub-par 'olive' oil, so good luck washing oil off the 0.5 x 0.5 cm cubes of it.

I was quite surprised to see just blocks of feta in 200g packets. Yes!! It's here in Korea now!! (real) FETA MAKES IT BETTA! A new Homeplus opened in my town, and they are stocking it for now. It's (Greek company) Australian feta, semi-hard and salty, from goat's milk. At 10,900 won a slab, it isn't cheap, but MUCH better than the Apertina stuff. In (at least my) Homeplus cheese section

Cottage cheese is find-able (Costco, Homeplus). You may have to settle for low-salt butter-- The (Danish) Lurpak is readily available and it will work well for cheesepie.

Fyllo is near impossible to find (I've looked). Maybe it's on base PX or in an obscure foreign market in Itaewon, but nowhere readily accessible. Try making it yourself-- www.sintagespareas.gr is a good greek cooking site with many good and easy recipies, not that opening fyllo is easy.

Whatever happens, good luck. If you need a tester/sampler for your tiropita (or any other Greek food you may want to make), just PM me.!

[thrylos]

Here's a recipie w/out fyllo-- just self-rising flour (if it's here in Korea)

http://www.sintagespareas.gr/sintages/tempeliki-tiropita-xoris-fillo.html

[Snowflake]

I finally found filo at Haddon House. It was about 20,000 for a pretty big pack (I still have loads left).
It's not always there so I guess it comes down to luck.

Or there's EZshop:
http://www.ezshopkorea.com/shop/step1.php?number=41520

(when it's in stock...)

I get my feta (not in the jar..yuck) from Hyundai, Emart or Homeplus. Have a look at the wine sections in department stores and they usually have it close by in the cheese counter.

(As an addition if anyone knows where I can get vine leaves to make dolmades that would be great)

[carpetdope]

^ You can make dolmades with perilla leaves (which are common as dirt here). Won't taste exactly the same as vine leaves but any port in a storm, as they say.

[Greekfreak]

Gamo ti panageia... I've waited 10 years for phyllo and it's at costco?

I've had to make my own in that time, and it's never as good. The spinach isn't what it should be, and I have to go easy on the feta or else break the bank.

However, I was able to make saganaki because one of the Mega Marts in Busan stocks haloumi.