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Popular Restaurants | Other Restaurants Tips | All Tips (16) Writing a review of an individual restaurant is rather pointless because as a visitor to North Korea you won't have any saying on which one to chose anyway. The guides (or more likely their bosses or the bosses' bosses or the....) will decide for you.
An educated guess would be that there are about a dozen restaurants serving foreigners. All of them state owned of course.
I must say that the food I had during my visit was quite ok. The Koreans are eager to show tourists the best they've got, so there is no reason to fear that you have to live on rice with...eh...rice for a week.
Several times we had hot pot which (at least the two first times) was really nice. At most meals they served kimchi, Korean cabbage. I thought it was delicious and it didn't take more than a week after my return home that I went looking for it in Asian food shops.
In many restaurants you sit on the floor eating which for the unpractised can be quite uncomfortable.
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I had my first meal and then had a couple of beers with my meal. After dinner when I met up with my minders they then told me that one beer is free per day. After that is extra. Thanks guys.
The beer U(although the label is guaranteed to fall off. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalAddress: Yanggakdo International Hotel, Yanggakd Island
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Beside the Food we got at the Yangakkdo Hotel (which was excellent, too excellent for such a county) we had a few times lunch/dinner at other places.
- Once we had lunch near the Friendship Exhibition near Myohyang Mountains in a old building which was a hotel, it was EMPTY.
- Once near the DMZ at Panmunjom (after the entrance to the DMZ to turn left)
- We went to a restaurant in South Pyongyang near the Worker Party Monument, the restaurant was very nice and people have been very friendly, I liked to Korean Beer very much!
- Once we went to a Duck Restaurant in Pyongyang and there have also been other North Koreans (no other tourists), the restaurant was excellent and it was fun to have dinner together with our guides. Leave a Comment Theme: Local
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You will eat in your hotel every breakfast and dinner - save for one night when your guides may let you eat in a local restaurant - if they think they can trust you. [getting along with your guides is the key to a more relaxed trip] You will stay in one hotel in the city, and one hotel in the mountains. During the day, have no choice as to the restaurant you frequent - you will eat like a king but be prepared for frequent meals of multiple courses. Most restaurants are vast ornate halls with about seven foreign diners. The menu is standard Korean fare, kimchi, noodles etc. and is, on the whole, pretty good. You'll feel more than a little guilty when you realise that the bulk of the population can barely feed itself and you see people grubbing for roots in the fields.
Don't eat dog or dairy. Everything else is lovely. be warned - during the trip there will be no attempt made to conceal from you people grubbing for roots and seeds in the fields. You may feel more than a little guilty when you realise that the bulk of the population can barely feed itself whilst you can hardly finish the food provided for you. Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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Korean Restaurant, Yanggakdo Hotel
Farewell dinner together with minders.
Food
You will not get hungry (if you do not eat like Romans). There is standard to have a continental breakfast, lunch and dinner. Normally, you will eat without your guides, but if you are in a restaurant outside hotel and at the farewell dinner you guides will be accompanied. Dog meat (tastes like reindeer if it helps to choose) is provided in the farewell dinner by request. Leave a Comment Theme: OtherDirections: Yanggakdo International Hotel, Yanggakd Island, Pyongyang
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North Koreans do not season much. This food tastes pretty weak. Actually it tastes like something raw. I don't recommend this one to others, but there's no deserved alternatives. Leave a Comment Theme: Vegan/VegetarianPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: less expensive than average
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We were served up a treat of local dishes at our stop at the border town of Kaesong which is a 20min drive from the DMZ. The variety of local cusine set out in mini dishes made this by far, the most interesting meal had in North Korea. including, seaweed, fish, assorted meat dishes and of course the usual round of Kimchi - pickled cabbage.
All. The variety was the appeal Leave a Comment Theme: LocalAddress: A with most things here, you will be taken to itDirections: Ask your guide. The town is small so its probably the only restaurant. Up a hilly road that leads to the statue of he great leader Kim IL Sung. situated on the left hand side.
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Honestly, food is surprising good (at least to an asian like me). You'll be served with local food most of the time and can almost bet that there'll be Kim Chi on your table for every single meal. Personally the food actually taste better than those in south korea. Perhaps, the favouring is milder. You can bet that you are serve as a worthy guest when it comes to food there. Leave a Comment Theme: Local
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This ONLY hotel is actually 'motel' and has only one restaurant. We couldn't help eating this food. I'm pretty expert at making and enjoying the Bibimbop (one of the easiest Korean food), but North Korean Bibimbop is radically different. It tastes something raw. Leave a Comment Theme: Vegan/VegetarianPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: less expensive than average
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This restaurant was right opposite where we were staying at the Kaesong Folk Hotel and we came here for lunch after visiting Panmunjom. The meal we ate was a traditional Korean one called pansanggi which consisted of 13 small brass dishes, each containing different types of food such as kimchi, rice, pickles and vegetables. A pansanggi meal was usually only eaten by royalty. Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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