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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:21 am Post subject: Fruit carts manned by ajummas and ajossis... |
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Do any of you enjoy buying fruit from the ajummas and ajossis with carts?
I do. I was thinking I need some more vitamin C. I saw a cart, and I wanted to encourage an ajumma's business, so I went to her cart.
I asked for tangerines. To be nice, she added an extra tangerine. I thought later about getting apples, and she seemed to say I spent enough and the apples would be expensive. She was trying to be very nice; I appreciated it. I'll buy more from her later.
I enjoy such simple things... |
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cle2kor
Joined: 06 Oct 2011
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:47 am Post subject: |
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Heck yea I do. It's hella-convenient, like you said, you're thinking you need some vitamin C and it's right there so you pick it up (funny enough, so did I today and stopped at one of those little stands that sells lottery tickets and gum with a refrigerator on the sidewalk and got my self some of that Vitamin C drink, the dark brown tiny glass bottle with orange label.)
I always support the little guy. There's a young woman that opened a coffee shop and I always go in and buy an Americano from her rather the one from Dunkin Donuts or Holly's nearby. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't usually. I'm happy to give money to small businesses and such, but not keen on where they usually park those carts (along the side of busy streets and such). |
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Swampfox10mm
Joined: 24 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Never liked them until the prices became so outlandish in the stores. |
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sugarloaf82
Joined: 21 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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I buy all my fruit and vegetables from the adjummas and adjossis that have stands in the more traditional markets or on the sides of the road. The prices are almost always at least half the price of the same exact thing in the grocery stores.
Produce prices in E-Mart, Lotte Mart, etc are exorbitant! Where I live there is a market right next door to a GS Supermarket and I can never understand why people buy their fruit and vegetables inside... To each their own though. |
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crescent
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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Nice, getting a freebee. But, I stay away from roadside vendors. The last thing I want is fruit bathed in exhaust fumes and carbon monoxide all day.
I couldn't even bare standing, waiting for the light to change with a dirty scooter running exhaust next to me. One meter away was a fruit truck. |
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brento1138
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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I like this kind of free market capitalism. If people want to sell food on the street to make some money, I say go for it.
Back home, I am not sure if people are allowed to sell fruit / veggies on the side of the street. I am guessing not in the big cities, as I never saw it, but I saw little stands in the small towns or next to farms...
Anyways, there are a lot of little things I love about Korea. The little things make me happy. |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| One time one of them cheated me on my change. I know it's a one time incident, but I haven't done it since. Also that one is the only one that is near my home |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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| brento1138 wrote: |
I like this kind of free market capitalism. If people want to sell food on the street to make some money, I say go for it.
Back home, I am not sure if people are allowed to sell fruit / veggies on the side of the street. I am guessing not in the big cities, as I never saw it, but I saw little stands in the small towns or next to farms...
Anyways, there are a lot of little things I love about Korea. The little things make me happy. |
I've only seen fruit sold at the side of the road like once in the US, but that was in the country. I didn't see that in the cities. It must have been around decades ago. I remember as a kid reading some story about push carts. I don't remember the details. I don't remember what the sold, but decades ago you'd see that. America should have that back that way you can encourage people who can't afford to open up a shop. That's how ice cream cones were invented anyway.
I think I'll buy more from the ajumma if I see her today. |
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brento1138
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| brento1138 wrote: |
I like this kind of free market capitalism. If people want to sell food on the street to make some money, I say go for it.
Back home, I am not sure if people are allowed to sell fruit / veggies on the side of the street. I am guessing not in the big cities, as I never saw it, but I saw little stands in the small towns or next to farms...
Anyways, there are a lot of little things I love about Korea. The little things make me happy. |
I've only seen fruit sold at the side of the road like once in the US, but that was in the country. I didn't see that in the cities. It must have been around decades ago. I remember as a kid reading some story about push carts. I don't remember the details. I don't remember what the sold, but decades ago you'd see that. America should have that back that way you can encourage people who can't afford to open up a shop. That's how ice cream cones were invented anyway.
I think I'll buy more from the ajumma if I see her today. |
Exactly. Everyone must start from somewhere. Some very poor people out there want to make money -- why should their only option be working for 'the man' when you could be starting up your own biz, as small as it might be?
At least the poor have a bit of a chance, maybe save up some money, some day open a bigger place with that money. |
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tehdee
Joined: 01 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| sugarloaf82 wrote: |
I buy all my fruit and vegetables from the adjummas and adjossis that have stands in the more traditional markets or on the sides of the road. The prices are almost always at least half the price of the same exact thing in the grocery stores.
Produce prices in E-Mart, Lotte Mart, etc are exorbitant! Where I live there is a market right next door to a GS Supermarket and I can never understand why people buy their fruit and vegetables inside... To each their own though. |
this.
i live about a four minute walk from Jungbu market... I buy all my veggies and fruit and occasionally meat there now.
while i could pay 4,000 won for red or yellow peppers at emart, I can get a bag literally bursting with red onions, enough lettuce for two or three big salads, red/yellow/green peppers, garlic and eggplant for 7 or 8 thousand.
it's night and day the difference between produce shopping at the big shops and at the markets...
and yeah, as the op mentioned once you build a rapport with certain vendors/stalls there'll always be extra veggies thrown in for free. |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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I try to support the little guy when I can. I always buy from subway sellers if I have any interest or need in the product. I also get a kick out of once someone steps forward to buy, a few people all of a sudden decide they want one too.
I buy fruit on the street--oranges, tangerines and bananas. The apples could be from China as well as any vegetables, so I avoid those. I buy off of trucks or someone who has staked a spot out on a busy footpath.
I hear what the capt. is saying, though. Why they decide to put their carts on a busy intersection corner and why the police do nothing about it would be mysterious if this wasn't Korea. Also, the people manning those semi-permanent carts like that tend to be surly for some reason. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| brento1138 wrote: |
| Adventurer wrote: |
| brento1138 wrote: |
I like this kind of free market capitalism. If people want to sell food on the street to make some money, I say go for it.
Back home, I am not sure if people are allowed to sell fruit / veggies on the side of the street. I am guessing not in the big cities, as I never saw it, but I saw little stands in the small towns or next to farms...
Anyways, there are a lot of little things I love about Korea. The little things make me happy. |
I've only seen fruit sold at the side of the road like once in the US, but that was in the country. I didn't see that in the cities. It must have been around decades ago. I remember as a kid reading some story about push carts. I don't remember the details. I don't remember what the sold, but decades ago you'd see that. America should have that back that way you can encourage people who can't afford to open up a shop. That's how ice cream cones were invented anyway.
I think I'll buy more from the ajumma if I see her today. |
Exactly. Everyone must start from somewhere. Some very poor people out there want to make money -- why should their only option be working for 'the man' when you could be starting up your own biz, as small as it might be?
At least the poor have a bit of a chance, maybe save up some money, some day open a bigger place with that money. |
Too many regulations back home. Local bylaws, small business permits, tax filings, environmental rules. It goes on and on. But it would make sense to simplify the process and make it really easy for people to open their own stand. Prob better for government as they don't have to pay so much welfare and for them because they can grow their business. That should change in the future. Did anyone read that story about going to jail for selling lemonaid? How about the woman growing some vegetables in her yeard getting harassed by her local city officials? The west has become a nagging place of can't do this and can't do that. The land of opporutnity seems to be long gone. Shame. |
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nstick13
Joined: 02 Aug 2009
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| Maybe in the big city it's hard, but in the rural areas there are corn stands that are UNMANNED. They run 100% on an honor system. You go get your corn, but your cash in a lock box, and head back. Probably the best sweet corn you can get. |
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sadguy
Joined: 13 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| i bought tangerines twice from a truck. both times, the tangerines were crap quality. so i stopped buying from the trucks. |
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