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[Ruthdes]

I've been following a mostly paleo diet for the last 6 weeks or so and am finding it to be great. My biggest problem is finding "clean" food in Seoul, particularly considering the language barrier. My hope is that this could be a thread to help people find fresh, organic, free range, pastured, etc, food in Korea.

It would be great if it could stay on topic, rather than descending into an argument about organic vs. non-organic, paleo vs. non-paleo, whatever. There was a good thread about paleo a few months back with some good info, but it's annoying trying to sift through the ideological stuff to get to the resources.

Here are my starters:

Korean words for:

Organic: 유기농
Non-pesticide: 무농약
Non-antibiotic: 무항생제

Veggie Hill: An English language website for fresh, organic food. I haven't used it so can't vouch for the service or product quality, but could be worth checking out. A friend who used it said the delivery time is slow, so plan ahead when ordering. http://veggiehill.com/html/index.php

Gmarket link for Anchor grass fed butter
http://english.gmarket.co.kr/challenge/neo_goods/goods.asp?goodscode=338148455&pos_shop_cd=EN&pos_class_cd=90000001&pos_class_kind=T&keyword_order=anchor+butter

Gmarket link for NZ lamb supplier
http://english.gmarket.co.kr/minishop/MinishopMain.asp?cust_no=zI2MR38DNTMxNMxxNjI3MzE4MzZ/Rw==


You can apparently get grass fed beef from Majang Meat Market
http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SH/SH_EN_7_2.jsp?cid=1470972

NATIONAL FOOD CO., LTD.
511-13, Majang Dong, Seongdong gu, Seoul 133-050
02 2295-0900.

I haven't been there myself, but I believe it's out of exit 4 or Yongdu Station on the eastern offshoot of line 2. I'm not sure how much variety they have, so if anyone else can add more info, that would be great.

I'd love to find a resource for buying grass fed beef online, plus anything else useful anyone else could add.

[Rutherford]

Thanks for the link to that butter. I've been buying Beurre D'isigney at Emart which is delicious but more expensive.

[littlelisa]

Another good butter is an English one they sell at Homeplus called countrylife. I love Isigny best, though, even though it's expensive. It tastes so good!

[TDC troll]

How about just Not Eating butter ?

Maybe I have been here too long , you guys still eat butter ?


With my baquette , I usually have ; extra virgin olive oil .

Seriously , you can stop the butter , come on .

And speaking about eating clean : spring is upon us and Koreans
love to eat the new spring greens .
Try some .

And yes you can find some organic greens .

Have a great spring and summer . If anyone would like to get outside and go camping , GIVE ME A SHOUT .
I go mostly around the northern Gyeoungi Do or Gangwon Do areas .

We owned a galbi restaurant in Suyu 3 Dong for a few years , I have been to Majang Dong Shijang countless times .

There maybe a grass fed beef butcher there .
Just walk around asking . If you can find it , expect it to be outrageously
priced .

To get better ( cleaner ) food in this country , you really need to get out of Seoul and explore the countryside .

I remember a Blog that a guy had a couple of years ago .
He was really into growing his own food , as well as finding greens in the mountains . ( the name was : elictrickimchi from dongducheon )

[Ruthdes]

Some of us like butter, that's why we eat it.

Does anybody else have links or advice for eating clean?

One more thing I thought of is that the word for grass-fed is 목초사육. I've tried asking at a lot of supermarkets (Emart, Lotte Department Store, Hyundai Department Store, etc), but no one's had it yet.

[Kepler]

"Grass-fed beef is better than ordinary (grain-fed) beef because it has a better omega-3/omega-6 ratio. I’ve heard this a thousand times. It’s true. Grass has more omega-3 than grain, which is high in omega-6. But it is misleading. For practical purposes, grass-fed and grain-fed beef are the same in terms of omega-3 and omega-6....

"People who have said eat grass-fed beef, such as Michael Pollan, should have been saying eat less chicken."
http://blog.sethroberts.net/2013/09/01/the-irrelevance-of-grass-fed-beef-ancestral-health-symposium-2013/

This confirms what I've read previously on the topic. People would be better off avoiding pork and poultry in general than worrying about whether the beef they consume comes from cows that are grass fed or grain fed. Pork and poultry from farm raised animals is very high in PUFA (polyunsaturated fat). The composition of beef, on the other hand, is pretty much the same regardless of what the cows are fed.

[yodanole]

If you ate your kimchi, none of this would be necessary.

[neilio]

for what its worth.

I eat "paleo" for the most part, and have a paleo korean gf so there's no language barrier.

-Haneul beef is korean grass fed beef. You can find this in most grocery store's beef department. It's most expensive (duh) but you get what you pay for. Some places like emart, lotte mart may only have one small tray of it, but hyundai dept store usually has more bc ballers shop there.

edit: - look for 하늘 in beef section. We've researched it and they are indeed 100% grass fed and finished.

-fish is everywhere, wild caught mackerel is local, cheap, and a top tier fish so i'd stock up on that if i were you.

-raw dairy - back in canada i owned a cow and was able to get raw dairy, i saw the raw butter up above, but there's milk in those same stores mentioned above that are similar, going through minimal "low temperature processing" , i forget the name of it but can get it to anyone interested.

-coconut oil - iherb.com is the way to go, buy a 5 gallon tub for $80, shipping is free or $4 as of last week.

-avocados i haven't really looked for, but my kids know what they are, so they must be around.

Also look up the store natural dream. It's pretty much organic and pastured everything. U need a membership similar to costco to shop there, but prices are reasonable. More info here:
http://noksaeksari.blogspot.kr/2011/05/icoop-natural-dream.html
There are stores all over, hopefully one in your area.

[Ruthdes]

[Harpeau]

I would like to see evidence from a website that Ha-neul beef is grass fed & finished. I have my doubts, but may be proven wrong.

Majang Station is close to NATIONAL Wholesalers. They have some pretty good deals on Australian grass-fed beef. It's mostly chuck and other stuff. Good for soup & groundbeef. They may have other stuff as well.

Costco has grass-fed beef, but it is all frozen. (I talked to someone about possibly having fresh groundbeef. Still waiting on that.)

Emart has grass-fed Aussie beef. Ask the butcher and he'll point you in the right direction.

The Itaewon Foreign Market is pretty good for hallal beef, chicken and lamb.
I love bacon!! Saturated fat is good for you!!
Grain-fed beef is crap. Cows eat grass, not corn on the cob!

[neilio]

RE: haneul beef

Ya, solid proof is in short supply. Not willing to go down to the farm gate and investigate. I suppose it depends on what is enough evidence to make someone feel comfortable enough to believe.

After all, anyone could make a website saying whatever they want about a product they had an interest in.

All I can tell you is what the ``meat expert`` said, what some korean elders confirmed, and what my taste buds agree with.

So regarding any other sources of ``grass fed beef``, what leads you to believe it is grass fed and finished?

[neilio]

btw how much does the aussie / costco GFB go for about?

[Lazio]

[chrisinkorea2011]

[jensmoove]

Sister's Garden is organic an sustainable.
http://sistersgarden.org/introduction/sisters_garden

Veggie Hill is great too and delivers
http://veggiehill.com/html/reviews.php?PHPSESSID=c6e201685cd79e7f4785866bda8b3c8b

Pumkinface get their veggies from these two suppliers
http://pumpkinfacekorea.weebly.com/menu.html