First published at NK News on the 20th of June, 2019. By Alek Sigley, founder of Tongil Tours and postgraduate student at Kim Il Sung University. As consumer choice for the upper classes has grown, so too have options for eating out Pyongyang may be better known for its monuments than its restaurants. But living in the “Capital of the Revolution” over the course of two semesters as a foreign student at Kim Il Sung University, I’ve discovered a number of excellent places to dine in the city. My dormitory friends (some of the other foreign students) and I have a custom of trying several new restaurants each week. They are sometimes not far from our home in Taesong District, and at other times further afield. A few are the recommendations of local or foreign friends, while others are places we simply stumble into. By now I estimate that I… [Read More]
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