seoul food for people who love to eat
Shoppers have spotted jars of kaya here in Korea! The thick, sweet cocount slather used at Ya Kun and Kopitiam Kaya chains is now available from the imported foods shelves of the underground grocery at Lotte Department Store at Euljiro-ipgu. Try the brown, green, or chocolate kaya for 6,900원 per jar.
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Bentoist
August 27th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Hmm… based off google exchange rate, that’s about $6.40 USD. Kinda steep but I supposed international fare tends to command premium pricing.
fatmanseoul
August 27th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Fatman also found it at a department store, which guarantees prestige pricing. We’ll look around and see if we can’t find it on one of the black markets or regular stores for less. If it’s new to Lotte Department Store’s imported food section though, it’s not likely to make it to regular grocery shelves for a while.
Sooth
September 9th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Kaya in Seoul? Wow! Too bad I haven’t seen any in Daejeon. Price is a little steep, though.
Anyway, I brought a few cans back from Malaysia the last time I went home.
fatmanseoul
September 10th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Check department stores . . . Korea has lots of protective tarrifs and taxes on imports, so in general you can expect to pay a lot for goods like this. How else to explain 7000 won for a box of weetabix?
ExpatJane
October 5th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Yep, I saw some in the Hyundai Department Store in Shinchon.
There is also a kaya toast chain, I forget the name, in the basement of the Seoul Financial Building (wait, just ran a web search and guess which site came up on top with that info? You!!! … nevermind…)
Anyway, kaya is here both as a product you can buy in stores (over-priced, but we’re not at home folks) and with toast and coffee
Sooth
November 25th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Finally saw some in E-mart in Daejeon last Sunday. Tastes a bit different from what I get in Malaysia. This one had less pandan and santan (coconut milk) fragrance even though I bought the pandan flavoured one. Another sad case of Singaporeans butchering Malaysian food.
Price was only 3,890 won if I remember correctly. Much cheaper than the price in your photo.
fatmanseoul
November 26th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Anywhere is cheaper than department store prices in Korea ^^;;;