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RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

There've been threads like this before. Rather than bump an old one, let me show you what I just got from my parents who are visiting for two weeks.

Clockwise from top left:
1. German wine in cat-shaped bottle
2. Kraft Dinner
3. Chocolate coated cranberries
4. Crown Royal
5. Echinacea
6. Nerds
7. Life Savers
8. Smarties
9. Hickory Sticks
10. More Lifesavers
11. Cat toys
12. Whiskas cat treats
13. Black licorice

Some of these you can get here if you look enough, but I'm lazy.

newteacher · Joined: 31 May 2007

That bottle of Crown is looking pretty good. Not that you can't get it here, but for under 35,000 won is a wonder.

I've only been here a few weeks. bit the thing I miss the most is my families chili recipe and the means to acquire the ingredients.

wo buxihuan hanguoren · Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Location: Suyuskis

Yeah my stuff is mostly food-related too.

Salt and vinegar chips:

Aromat:

Peri peri sauce:

Colman's mustard:

And of course, mad cheap steaks and lamb, cheap German delis, good Italian food, etc.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Can't you get salt and vinegar chips here? I would've asked for ketchup chips but decided it wasn't worth the effort.

And dammit, I forgot to get steak spice.

princess · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: soul of Asia

I don't care how hard you look, you WILL NOT find black licorice here. My Mom sent me some raspberry flavored licorice. Racetraitor, your kitty cat is sooooooo cute!

lowpo · Joined: 01 Mar 2007

newteacher · Joined: 31 May 2007

princess · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: soul of Asia

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

http://www.theburglarsdog.co.uk/review.html?89

Had a sudden urge for a pint here the other night.

sojourner1 · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:54 am Post subject:

Fried catfish, trout, and bass.

Visiting friends and relatives.

tanklor1 · Joined: 13 Jun 2006

My comic shop.

EB games.

My Mom's cooking. (Insert AHHH factor)

yingwenlaoshi · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

Dill pickle chips

Ketchup chips

Clamato juice

The Bobster · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

I'd like to share your happiness, but I know where to buy a lot of that stuff. Not all, but a lot of it.

The stuff I miss from back home (Northern California) is stuff that doesn't travel well, so it doesn't matter if loved ones brought it over.

1. The camarrones diablo served at a little Mexican place I used to know in the Mission District in San Francisco. Thing is, you have to order your second bottle of Dos Equiis the minute they put the plate in front of you, because there is a reason they named that sauce after the devil.

2. The red, deep red and ripe and plentiful tomatoes that are all over The Central Valley this time of year. Don't need to do anything but bite in and maybe add a little salt. Sure, you can cook with them, if you want. They are fat, and red all the way through, like I have seldom seen in this part of the world.

3. Watermelons. Somehow, they lack the flavor I remember from back home. And they're twice the price. Can't seem to find cantaloupes, either, unless maybe I go to one of those stores that specialize in high-priced fruit for special gift occasions. (Got fooled a couple of weeks ago, brought something home and discovered it was a cassava, green on the inside, which was fine, sure, but not what I wanted that day.)

4. Sunset over the Pacific Ocean while watching big waves crash on hard rocks. Still trying to figure a way I can get my brother to put that in a box and send it over ...

ProudPop · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:59 pm Post subject:

Salt and Vinegar Chips - Get'em at HannamMart, near itaewon. It's just outside the door in Dandy's ?? ( that little shop right at the bottom of the stairs ) Love those...mmm..They're only Lays, not Ruffles, but they'll do.
OP - Hickory Sticks!!! <<< AM JEALOUS!!!
Hope you're folks enjoy their time here.