Any South African food???

bridget_20 · Post by **bridget_20** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 11:49 pm

Hi I know this may sound random but are there any stores that sell South African food in Helsinki?? Thanx a lot

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FinnGuyHelsinki · Post by **FinnGuyHelsinki** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 8:07 am

Considering how few South Africans there are in Finland, likely there's no profitable market for specifically South African food (indigenous meats, fish, vegetables, spices or local processed foods), unless common enough also in other cuisines. Of course you have the option of cooking yourself, shouldn't be that hard to find ingredients for a variety of dishes; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_cuisine . Just grab a bottle of good South African red wine from Alko and start planning

SecretCode · Post by **SecretCode** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 9:10 pm

It was pretty difficult to get SA food in London not that many years ago.

I haven't seen or heard of any. Not even at Behnfords. Can only find Beckley's Premium Meats which could meet your need for boerewors. I would have thought the canned and packaged products like Mrs Balls chutney and so on would be easy to import and stock, so I'm going to go with there not being a very big market.

sinikala · Post by **sinikala** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 12:42 am

bridget_20 wrote:Hi I know this may sound random but are there any stores that sell South African food in Helsinki?? Thanx a lot

Don't think so.

You can check Amazon.co.uk look under grocery - international - South African or just search for the product you're after ... you'll pay through the nose for postage though.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_nr_n_0 ... 1642204031

I was down in Joburg a couple of months in Spring 2014 and brought a good few Saffer items back with me as a lot of it is similar to British food ... is there something in particular you're missing?
We can try and tell you the local equivalent (or imported British equivalent).

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