I sometimes buy oatmeal from the little market in the Samick Beach APartments, but she is very often out of stock. Anyone have a more reliable hookup?

Check Lotte Seomyeon when you take your xbox down there, they often have Quaker rolled oats there. Failing that, Megamart is a likely candidate, and I believe that I have seen it at Chockie Cookie in Jangsan as well.

The Novotel deli used to carry them too but haven't been there in a while.

the Kukje shijang always has it, 5000 won for a small box of Quaker..

Also, you can always have it delivered to your door by EZShopKorea, 7000 won

alas, all oatmeal was not created equal. has anyone seen rolled/steel cut/irish oatmeal, that is, the non-pre cooked quick one minute kind? i checked a few of the delivery websites on this forum and they hall seem to have quick oats, as do most of the markets ive been to. im pretty happy with quick oats, but real oatmeal would be better.

The home baking shops near Kukje market carry oatmeal(not the quick-cooking, instant stuff). I use them to make cookies and such.

I have found the canisters at Kukje in the past, although I once bought the wrong kind which yielded a substance not unlike drywall.

For those that do online shopping, I always get mine here - 4 kgs for 36,000 + 10,000 for shipping. Very reliable.

Non- instant oatmeal

It's not the super-long cook stuff, but much much better than the instant fare. I've never found anything like steel cut, or just plain rolled oats.

Here is a good authority:

http://www.quakeroatmeal.com/qo_ourProduct...rOats/index.cfm

I ask at the "Samick store" and have them try to buy the old-fashioned Quaker for me.. occasionally they do. The only difference between old-fashioned/rolled oats and "quick" is that the rolled oats have been cut into smaller pieces for quicker cooking.. makes a difference in cooking time (marginally) and texture, but not flavor. I like the old-fashioned for cookies and porridge, best. I am always charged 5,000 won for the small box and 10,000 for the large.

For some reason, Koreans like it quick. Kukje shijang always has Quaker Quick in stock.

Where are the baking shops at Kukje?? That is such a warren of crowded little alleys, can someone give me directions from the "western products/alcohol" section that starts next to the main street/sidewalk ??

I am now curious about the oats I used to buy back in Canada. I assumed they were Quaker but it was a third grade which doesn't appear on their website. These took much longer to cook than the Old Fashioned, but were not steel cut. I guess it was a little less refined than the 'quick' oats - it took about 18 minutes on the stove top if I recall. If only we could get that or the the steel cut stuff here!

My favourite way for preparing the old fashioned stuff is topped with toasted, smashed almonds and honey, sometimes with banana. Or this week, with really tasty apple a student had handpicked. Of course accompanied by a strong cup of freshly roasted coffee. Yum!

In the summertime I like to mix oatmeal and water and put it in the fridge over night, then slice some fruit for a topping in the morning for a cool refreshing breakfast.

With the supply of Quaker Oats I brought back from SE Asia during winter break now gone, I recently engaged in a hard-target search of every grocery store, general store, henhouse, outhouse, and ajumma shijang within a 20-mile radius. Which is to say, I re-read this thread and went first to Lotte Seomyeon. No luck. Then I visited Kukje Market for the first time. It took some time to find the little alleyway where foreign products are sold, but eventually I found big 42-oz. canisters for W12,000 each, and smaller 18-oz. canisters for W7000. Higher prices than indicated upthread; but the world has changed a lot since the time of those posts.

Directions: for some reason I thought Kukje Market was underground. It's not. Take Exit 5 from the Jagalchi subway station, walk a block and a half uphill (away from the waterfront), keep walking past the stairs down into the Kukje Market Art Street (which is underground), and on the left side of the street look for a small, crowded alleyway with a fruit stand or stands. Soon after entering the alley, look for a series of several small stalls on the left. [Tip: there's a partially-covered market area, above ground, with signs that say Kukje Market. The alleyway in question is not in that area. It's across the street from that area.]

I wonder why the various mega stores around town, which do a pretty good job of stocking things I wouldn't expect to find, such as maple syrup, tortilla chips, and chili beans, still don't stock something as basic and popular as oatmeal.

And what makes you think oatmeal is all that popular? The world is not tuned to your tastes only.

Last time I bought rolled oats was in Dalmagi at the little store on the corner of the main road. I think they have it at the little international store along Samick in Kwangali as well.

Just to follow up for whoever might be interested: The last 3 or 4 times I've been to the Samick Beach market they've had plenty of oatmeal.

Here are better directions to Kukje. Take exit 7 from Jagalchi station. At the top of the long stairway leading up from and out of the station, continue straight ahead for half a block until the first intersection. Turn left. Walk two or three blocks uphill (away from the waterfront). After the first block or two, notice the Kukje Market (국재시장) signs on the covered market across the street. The sign that reads:

국재시장
3< B >4

is directly across from the Foreign Products Alley.

Bad news: I was there yesterday, Sunday, at 2pm, and there was no oatmeal. The small handful of stalls that had it the last time I was there weren't open. Two nearby stallkeepers whom I asked about it (in Korean) were sullen and unhelpful. It's a long trip for me to Nampo-dong for a supply that may or may not be available.

Can anyone provide directions to the Samick Beach Apts. store mentioned upthread?