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mikekim · Joined: 11 Aug 2006

Need something for my waffles. Is this the best deal or do they have Maple Syrup somewhere in the markets?

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

You can get small bottles of Korean-made maple syrup in any small grocery store. It's in among all the other sauces. I think it's W1,500 a bottle.

I bought one of the big Cost-co bottles. It wasn't worth it. No significant difference.

mikekim · Joined: 11 Aug 2006

is it real Korean 단풍당밀 or table syrup??

faster · Joined: 03 Sep 2006

Gatsby · Joined: 09 Feb 2007

Don't you have to have maple trees to make maple syrup?

Plus very cold winters, such as in Vermont or Canada?

I don't think Korea is far enough north to make maple syrup.

But that needn't stop them from make pancake syrup. All you need is corn syrup and artificial maple flavoring.

The only maple syrup I have seen here so far is about a 6 ounce bottle for 12,000 won. The typical price for 335 grams of cake syrup is about 1,100 won. It does the job just fine.

It's too bad if Costco doesn't have real maple syrup. Back in the states they would sell a a quart for maybe $12 - it's been awhile so I'm not sure. But it was a good price. Real maple syrup spoils fairly quickly, though. So I would never buy a 2 liter bottle, even if they made such a thing. But 25,000 won would be consistent with U.S. prices for real maple syrup at Costco.

Octavius Hite · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:04 am Post subject:

A side note:

Maple syrup from Canada is actually controlled by a cartel (much like OPEC and the Wheat Board) that stockpiles maple syrup to keep the price high. There are actually tonnes of syrup rotting away in vats in Quebec. Better to waste food than let the price go down, at least thats their thinking.

cdninkorea · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

The 2L bottle of Maple Syrup at Costco is the best deal in Korea.
Shinsegae department store also sells maple syrup, but there you pay the same price as Costco and only get one liter.

The only other cheap option is to buy imitation syrup at the Foreign Food Mart in Itaewon. You can buy Log Cabin brand for 6,000 won.

Good luck.

Gatsby · Joined: 09 Feb 2007

The problem with real maple syrup is that it becomes moldy after awhile, maybe four months. Putting it in the frig helps, but 2 liters is a lot of syrup.

I'm not the only one who has had this problem. If you have stored open maple syrup longer unrefrigerated, I would be interested in knowing.

jen_the_great · Joined: 09 Sep 2006 Location: Gangnam, Seoul

I bought the giant costco bottle and I don't regret it. Maple syrup goes with everything. Plus, as someone mentioned, you can get a small bottle for about 12 000 in the department store basements, so you might as well splurge the extra man won and have enough to last you your contract. Keep it in the fridge.

Oreovictim · Joined: 23 Aug 2006

Is it the one in a light gray jug? It wasn't worth it to me. I had never had that gourmet maple syrup before. It was okay at first, but I'm used to the fake stuff like Log Cabin. The real stuff is just too sweet more me.

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

Do you do the sugaring off thing here and have a maple syrup dinner and then eat maple syrup rolled off a block of snow.

Rember that when I live in Montreal many years ago. Going down the old town in winter to the water front near the science museum and having maples syrup on a stick.

Fucking cold place Montreal.

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

I bought some at Cosco once. It wasn't very good. It was 'light' maple syrup, which tastes watered down to me. I prefer the darker kind. Far more flavourful.