Prompted by another query from a visitor, I thought I’d catalogue all the things which people seem to want to know about in London and about which there is no information on this site. Do please let me know if these are available anywhere in central London or New Malden:
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I’m curious about the Korean bath-house question myself.
I’ve seen noraebang and room salon type places advertised in the free Korean expat papers that you can find in Korean shops. You may also find dating agencies and cookery lessons in there amongst all the ads for Korean restaurants and taxi services.
If you want to buy Korean tea or Korean tea paraphernalia (at a slightly inflated price of course) you can see the nice man who runs East Teas and has a stall in Borough Market on Fridays and Saturdays.
I just came across a Korean online business directory for several European countries on http://www.ahkorea.com
where you can search for businesses, organisations and the like relating to Korea in Europe.
I don’t know whether all of their entries are up to date but it’s worth having a look.
I live in New Malden…so I guess I can tell what’s here and what’s not.
A Korean public bath-house / sauna: There isn’t one in New Malden
A Noraebang: I don’t know what this is…
A tea shop: There isn’t a proper tea shop
Korean cookery lessons: Haven’t seen them being properly advertised for English speakers, but I’m sure there would be some
Korean dating agency: This too, I’m sure there are some but haven’t seen them advertising this for English people either.
Hope this helps haha XD
@Owen
Thanks for the tip. I went along to East Teas. I didn’t check out the prices of the ceramics, but the teas themselves seemed not too inflated - about comparable with Seoul.
Greetings. What a great forum.
if it’s not obvious from my web address, I’m co-founder of east teas limited and can be found at Borough Market on Fridays and Saturdays.
Thanks to Owen and Philip for your kind words.
“Inflated”, however, feels inappropriate as it would seem to imply that the higher cost of imported items compared with the country of origin may be dependent on factors other than the realities of purchase cost + shipping + wastage + packing + overheads of rent , salaries etc..
That we sell tea at prices comparable to Seoul, particularly in the case of the more expensive teas, is remarkable and greatly surprised the son of our supplier.
We are not a profits driven company: we are dedicated to promoting tea and tea-culture and, in some small way, helping makers to survive. Potters are under particular pressure as fuel costs rocket. It causes us great dismay as we see some of them go out of business.
Keep up the good work in enjoying and promoting all things Korean.
Best wishes
alex fraser
Hi Alex
I opened the pack of Sparrows Tongue yesterday. Very fine.
Philip
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