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Zenpickle
Joined: 06 Jan 2004
Location: Anyang -- Bisan
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 Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 1:23 am Post subject: Cigars, tobacco products |
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I've searched a bit, and I haven't found any thread talking about better places to go than Itaewon for finer tobacco products like cigars and pipe tobacco.
Any place better (read: cheaper)? |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: the end of the wor1d.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 2:03 am Post subject: |
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good luck...
if you find a place, let me know. i did a pretty hard search when i first got here two years and some change ago. not a lot in the way of cigars... unless you want reasonably priced garbage (king edwards) or really expensive nice cuban cigars.
back home i smoked a brand called (don't laugh) 'ram rods' (oh hell, laugh if you want to). they ran about a US dollar a piece, and they looked like the kind of cigars clint eastwood smoked in 'the good, the bad, and the ugly'. but more importantly, they taste really good. this time when i came back, i brought six boxes of them with me. that lasted me about five months, and then i decided to start smoking cigarettes to supplement them. i hope i'll be able to switch back again next time i go home, as i've grown terribly fond of cigarettes.
anyway... no ram rods in korea. you're better off having someone post them to you from home if you can. good luck. |
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Gollum
Joined: 04 Sep 2003
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:48 am Post subject: |
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| endofthewor1d wrote: |
good luck...
if you find a place, let me know. i did a pretty hard search when i first got here two years and some change ago. not a lot in the way of cigars... unless you want reasonably priced garbage (king edwards) or really expensive nice cuban cigars.
back home i smoked a brand called (don't laugh) 'ram rods' (oh hell, laugh if you want to). they ran about a US dollar a piece, and they looked like the kind of cigars clint eastwood smoked in 'the good, the bad, and the ugly'. but more importantly, they taste really good. this time when i came back, i brought six boxes of them with me. that lasted me about five months, and then i decided to start smoking cigarettes to supplement them. i hope i'll be able to switch back again next time i go home, as i've grown terribly fond of cigarettes.
anyway... no ram rods in korea. you're better off having someone post them to you from home if you can. good luck. |
Ramrods... now that is funny!
I think this is going to trigger the swear filter, but tobaccos used to have some pretty wild names. My great-grandfather used to smoke, "Niggerhair" brand tobacco. It was a popular brand in the 1920s. They changed the name to "Bigger Hair" in the 1930s, due to racist uproar.
By the way, if anyone gets offended by this, they need to chill out. We need to study history and learn from it, or we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes. This post is made for historical human-interest reasons. |
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cacheSurfer
Joined: 07 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 4:24 am Post subject: |
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i had to go all the way to China just to get a frickin' cigar.
i bought quite a few packs, some were good some were bad.
.....but only one left now.  |
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Joseph Fitzgerald
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| What about smokeless tobacco? Can I find it anywhere in Seoul? I can't remember seeing it last time there. Skoal or Copenhagen? |
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cacheSurfer
Joined: 07 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 5:18 am Post subject: |
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| Joseph Fitzgerald wrote: |
| What about smokeless tobacco? Can I find it anywhere in Seoul? I can't remember seeing it last time there. Skoal or Copenhagen? |
do you got a buddy in the Army?
a sure find on any Army base. |
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kangnam mafioso
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: Teheranno
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:39 am Post subject: |
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not sure about cheap cigars ... what do u want, philly blunts?
you can find good cuban and dominican cigars at intercontinental hotel (kangnam)in the cuban cigar bar. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:54 am Post subject: |
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| Walk around abkujeong, there are couple Dinhills franchises ... no, not Cuban tobacco, but they are actual cigars. |
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hellofaniceguy
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: On your computer screen!
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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One idea:
http://www.cigarsclub.com
Many places deliver to korea also, search the WEB. When I order on line, I get the cigars in about 6 days.
www.pierrecigar.com
02-790-4522
Pierre is near the Hyatt. Phillips Bldg. |
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discostar23
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
Location: getting the hell out of dodge
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Hannam market has a decent cigar case. i just finished off a pack of panter cigarellos there. I found though when I went to the bars in iteawon they mostly said "no cigar or pipe smoke please". |
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funplanet
Joined: 20 Jun 2003
Location: The new Bucheon!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 4:20 am Post subject: |
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cigarsclub.com is great! I have not found much in the line of good cigars in Seoul, either.....decent, but not great, place in Itaewon....
Tokyo is a good place for Cubans and Dominicans....if you get the chance to go |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 4:28 am Post subject: |
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| One of the Grand Hyatt Hotel main floor shops sells a good range of cigars, and possibly pipe tobacco. |
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