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Kaesong - Tongil Restaurant: Traditional Korean pansanggi
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    • Willettsworld
  • By Willettsworld on September 10, 2008
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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.

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    Pyongyang - Yanggakdo Hotel Restaurants: Not bad but not as good as one's in the city
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  • By Willettsworld on September 10, 2008
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    We ate a couple of times in two of the Yanggakdo Hotels restaurants. The first night of the tour we ate at the No.2 restaurant and had soup/bread, beef burger, salad and beer served to us by girls wearing traditional Korean dresses. We also had breakfast every morning which consisted of toast, eggs, coffee and yoghurt. The food was fairly good but not as good as other restaurants that we went out to in the city.

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    Pyongyang No.1 Duck Barbeque: Great food and fun as well
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  • By Willettsworld on September 10, 2008
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    We came here on our last evening in North Korea and the food was top rate. It was a duck barbeque restaurant where you cooked the food yourselves at your table and was good fun. Included were bottles of beer and even some rice wine.

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    Lunch on day 2: Traditional Korean cooking
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  • By Willettsworld on September 10, 2008
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    This was lunch on our first full day in Pyongyang in a restaurant opposite some embassies, including Romania and Iran, on a street called Sariwon Street in the east of the city. Don't ask me what the restaurant was called but the food was great. You cooked it yourself in a small pot in front of you which was good fun.

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    one of several: Don't underestimate food in North Korea
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  • By Mittnic on July 17, 2007
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    • literally having a hard time but food was tasty - North Korea
    literally having a hard time
    but food was tasty
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    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.

    Kimchi!

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    Ryonggak Mountain picnic lunch: Eating al-fresco
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  • By Willettsworld on September 10, 2008
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    After we had visited Kim Il Sung's birth place at Mangyongdae, we had an outside barbeque picnic lunch at a place called Ryonggak Mountain. Again the food was excellent and a food way to cook and eat. We had, what we hoped were, beef and duck on skewers which we cooked on a small grill on the table, salad, bread and more bottles of beer.

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    Yanggakdo Hotel: Only one bottle please
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  • By Backpackin_Mac on January 10, 2004
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    by Backpackin_Mac
    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.

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  • Address: Yanggakdo International Hotel, Yanggakd Island
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    You will eat in your hotel...
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  • By ColmNugent on August 25, 2002
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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.

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    North Korean Food...
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  • By swissgabe on September 13, 2002
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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.

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    Korean Restaurant, Yanggakdo...
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  • By ryuguong on August 25, 2002
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    • Korean Restaurant, Yanggakdo Hotel
    Farewell dinner together with minders.

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    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.

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  • Directions: Yanggakdo International Hotel, Yanggakd Island, Pyongyang
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