Vegan/Vegetarian/Raw Food interest?

there are at least five vegan restaurants in busan.  in what part of town are you?  there are some imported fortified rice milks at the supermarkets.  as far as almond and nut milks i can not say for sure.  not a big fan of them, but you can always get a blender and make your own.  you probably new that already.  just buy a heavy duty one.  the one i bought is not powerful at all.  just to get you started, you can check out these websites:  www.lovinghut.com and  www.vegefood.co.kr. emart actually has their own brands of soy meatlike sausages and nugget things.  however, the emart in shinsaggae does not seem to carry them.  there are two VEGAN buffets in town that give you a good rendering and sampling of korean foods made with soy based things as well as a load of soups made without fish sauce.  you can also check www.happycow.net and find directions to one of them.  feel free to pm me to ask some specifics, as i feel like i am rambling enough already.  happy bibimguksuing to all

most of the big supermarkets (emart, megamart, gs mart, etc...) have plain yogurt.  they also have nuts, but i do not think any of them are raw nuts.  everything is roasted, i think.  check in the organic section of the different places.  as far a grains go, everywhere has whole grain brown rice, barley, an millet. what else do you want?  oats can be found online, lotte, and costco.  no luck with quinoa for me, but that doesn't mean it is not here somewhere.  anybody else know about any other grains? for george and the rest

There is a nice veggie restaurant in Seomyeon I am told. If you Goog;e around u should come across the info. I will ask my colleague tomorrow for the name.

 Check out the international section at Shinsegae.  They have fine quality organic products...of course, it's incredibly expensive.

Regarding nuts Costco (as mentioned above) has the best deals, selling walnuts, almonds and pecans (all not roasted). But it's difficult to get to and requires membership, so next best by a mile is Homeplus. They've recently had a great deal on half kilogram bags of almonds and Californian walnuts for 6 bucks and 10 bucks respectively.

about the milk- there is rice milk everywhere just about and this week I found lacto free milk ;) pretty excited about that.

finally made it to the veggie buffet in kyungsung/pukyong university area.  everything tasted awesome.  the place was super clean and had lots of windows.  i say this because the place in seomyeon, which is very tasty, always seems dark and dank, all on account of the no window situation.  the kitchen was open and the place seemed very white, but that was probably just the floors and plates.  they offer more salad fixings than the place in seomyeon.  they even had matchstick raw beets.  ummm.  anyway, i could keep going with their goodness.  the little store had flaxseed oil, i think.  they had a flier for it outside.  not sure if they are 7th day adventists like the other place.  i tried to find out some information, but their english was worse than my korean.  'gogi opsayo'  received blank stares, but 'vegan' received a positive reponse.  it costs 9500 won.  open noon to 3 and 5:30 to nine. 

exit the kyungsung subway station on the paris bagette/dunking donuts side (think that is #5) and walk towards pukyong.  keep walking until you see the chef chen chinese place on your right, with pukyong across the street on your left.  i believe this will be the fourth 'street' you cross.  the set of two buildings you encounter on your right immediately after you pass the chinese place is what you want.  i say two buildings because it is one of those buildings with a parking garage on the first floor underneath them.  the first one has a coffee shop on the first floor and the second one will have a red and yellow sing for 'kyong languange institute' on it. enter through that door.  there is no english sign for the restaurant, but it says vegetarian buffet in korean.  it is on the fourth floor.  051-626-3478. 

hope these directions make sense.  it only takes five minutes or so to get there from the subway.  i walked around the area for an hour trying to find the place, as i only heard it was 'across from pukyong's main gate.'  the location is well before the main gate, but close to it.

also, anyone know where that veggie club is meeting in march?  i am not on facebook.  this would be a good place to meet.  one more thing, i thought i saw onion powder somewhere, maybe homeplus, but yesterday i had no luck.  anyone know where to get onion powder?

what a short post.  umm, free time

http://busanhaps.com/issue5/vegging_in_busan.html

hey gerardius, homeplus in centum city has sultanas that are specifically labeled as such.  did not try them, but tesco is the 2nd largest grocery store in the world (maybe the biggest?) and most of their store brand stuff is groovy.  as far as vegan ice cream goes, different emarts stock different things.  the shinseggae emart has a decent selection of vegan ice cream.  maybe soy and rice milk varieties, but not 100% on that.  the bakery in the basement of shinseggae has better than decent bread, too, but it is pricey.  in the past couple of months costco has been stocking a pretty good demibagette in packs of six that they bake there under the umbrella of the labrea (california) bakery.  definitely not the korean bakery poor excuse for bread stuff.  anywho, maybe you can stop missing the sultanas if nothing else.  you can also get dates from dubai in ssasaang

not sure if it is a new recipe or not, but denmark milk changed their packaging on the yogurt, so i had the new one translated today.  the plain yogurt has gelatin in it.  perhaps my earlier translations were wrong.  i do not know.  does anyone know of a gelatin(e) free yogurt brand?  sugar free would be great, too, but i think that will be impossible here.  thanks much

i would invest in a maker, but space does not allow