That's how most Asians (East & South East Asians-i don't know gesture customs in South Asia) generally express their true feeling, hiding behind formal laughters

The rest of his family members who didn't escape would have been executed or be sent to concentration camps

There was sadness, but I also saw tragedy in his eyes.

Unfortunely it gives happy n sad memories tis a kings feast imagine if he made a village dish

They probably be dead or in jail by now

only if you care i just dab on misery

@@_yuri The Stephen king's book?

i will fucoing piss on plate

Wow wow bruh moment jahsen 😭

North Korea food looks so sad

😂😂😂😂

why are y’all laughing?!

@@fishstew2573 the joke is that north koreans are starving

God fvcking damn it. I feel so bad for laughing jfc.

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Fs Fs but middle class people are commoners

@@fs2300 He literally says he only cooked for the high ranking people

@@fs2300 You're missing the point people are trying to make. The chef said he literally created that first recipe and was only served to high ranking people. How can anyone call a dish that has probably only been tasted by a few dozen North Koreans a "traditional" dish.

@@fs2300 Don't act like you are an expert on this topic

Yeah but traditional peasant food is often gentrified and sold for exorbitant prices abroad after it goes out of fashion in its home country

Chris Green lets not lie here, the food is ass, i could make that with my eyes closed

Not depth, but i guess they made do with what they had, but this was supposed to be food for the rich so im confused af

AJ alright let’s see u pull noodles with ur eyes closed

Ew1128 😂😂😂😂 i see what you did there 😑

@@bigj2637I agree with you

Will I approach this from another angle. I mean this chef is already 60. So his colleagues maybe older than him or younger. But personally speaking if I can live to late 60 or mid 70 I will be pretty satisfied even I am living in US/Canada under this public medical situation level. I am not rich so if I got a heart attack/cancer later in my life then probably that's my end anyway lol

Considering that most people in North Korea outside of the select few that has access to medical institutions, are likely living with parasites in their body, then yes you are serving a life sentence where you can die at any moment.

Maybe they also escaped

@Manuel Delgado Western propaganda: Outlandish/surreal news story like Kim's girlfriend getting executed by anti-aircraft gun... who then shows up alive meeting foreign dignitaries. not Western propaganda: poverty, hanger, flatworms.

Manuel Delgado really? I’d love to put you in a room full of people who escaped North Korea and dare you to say it in front of them and see what happens. You can look at the soldier who escapes North Korea and the medical case about it and just see that had he not escaped he would’ve in fact died and this is just one of many examples

True. Also worth noting is that in the past, many common ingredients were superior to what we have today because they weren't watered down by mass production. The higher the quality of ingredients, the less chefs tend to season.

That’s what you got out of this? 😮

And never leave

same here

slurp noodles loudly 😈

your idiocy killed your brain a long time ago

this!! true lala

@@RealKull real ray of sunshine aren't you /s

Trumps cutting food stamp and social security and many Americans are going to starve too.

Is North Korean food expensive?

There are lotta NK spies inside SK. Remember that woman who was initially defected, then talks trash about NK, then after disappearing, NK released a video about her? Also, remember that former Kim Dynasty relative who defected then died a few years later? That's gonna be real.

Sounds like you might prefer living in North Korea then.

@@porkcutlet3920 Not really but ok

not too sweet.

I think he was in Chef and My Fridge right?

@@najuhary yepp vs Lee yeon-bok very good episode even if he lost made more than up for it with his stories

@@najuhary what episode did he appear in?

They still have trade with China, so those with money can afford different food and spices. The rest of the population has to rely on meager government rations and whatever they can grow on their own.

@@Medowokha-bp5lq North Korea replaced communism with its Juche-idology almost fifty years ago. In many key aspects, Juche is diametrically opposed to communism. For example: Communism is anti-nationalist and strive to dissolve nation states in favour of a global solidarity of the working classes. Juche is hyper-nationalist and subject everything to independence and sefl-sufficience of "the native place and motherland". In communism - admittedly more in theory than in practice - the state exists to serve the people. The state commands the economy to make sure everybody gets housing, food and whatever they need to live. In communism being provided with these things was considered a fundamental human right; though economical meant it was often impossible to realize. In Juche the people exist pretty much as property of the state, whatever the state gives people in terms of housing and food are gifts and privileges than need to be earned and can be taken away. Calling North Korea a "Communist regime" makes about as much sense as refering to the US as a muslim country.

@@Medowokha-bp5lq I don't think you know what Communism actually is.

'Alot' isn't a word.

@@KyrstOak I know that. It's a lot. But it's also the internet, not a thesis. Fill your time with something else.

I didn't know you were supposed to inhale food

@@parsab.6331 r/wooosh

Another thing is you can eat a bug. I'M serious

Hmm yummy oxygen

lol

The well known spices that South Korea uses is gochujang/gochugaru which definitely isn’t imported. Also cheese is a recent fad, it’s not found in traditional South Korean foods.

Andrew Lee Yeah we can def do better on that front

@Michal Blaszczak restaurant owners debasing Korean cuisine to cheapest level with sugar and msg isn't really redeemable.

Spicy too

he laughed because it's a dish.

North Korea as we know it today didn't exist until after world War II. before that it was basically a colony of Imperial Japan. The Empire of Japan forced the Korean Empire to become a protectorate in 1905 and five years later fully annexed the Korean peninsula. After Imperial Japan was defeated in world War II the United States and Soviet Union occupied Korea and split it between them. The Soviet Union occupied the North and gave it to the Communist Kim Il Sung. The United States occupied the South and put it in control of a capitalist dictator named Ree. Overtime the South would become a true democracy while the north remained a Communist dictatorship.

@@tonyzan5268 They did not really give it to Kim Il-Sung, Kim Il-Sung was elected in the PRK which existed before the DPRK

Korea and China were a thing back than 😂

Korean cuisine is heavily influenced by China since it was a vassal state for centuries on and off. Once Korea got occupied by Japan in 1910 the Japanese influence began, but North Korea never got the amount of western and Japanese influence that SK did because it did not fully industrialize, and it definitely did not do so with the ability to acquire foods from those places like SK dis

The same can be said about Japanese cuisine. Much of Japanese food has Chinese origins or Western influenced.

youre not god sir and neither am i...😈🌹

No he is right! The broth and the noodles are so litle seasoned! At first it was a shock, like eating cold watery pasta. But after that initial shock i could finally taste how deep the flavours were. Its one of my favorite dishes, but its a extremely subtle taste. Oh and usually the people who like the south korean version hate the north korean one and vicecersea. I think that mike from strictly dumpling made a video on both and absolutely hated the north korean one xD.

or devastating.

@@genericalias5756 you're not wrong

2 different ideologies...who will be the more dominant? thats the question

@Azzury Street There's lot of unemployment in the East, and East Germany was a much stronger economy than North Korea

zadoww that’s ridiculous. It would of had a grass on it

not grass but dirt

I hope they remember him

they got some good cold noodles

North Korea hasn't always had famine or the level of poverty seen with the modern leader

@@Bbbowdens Even before the famine (which I was aware of) the impression I get is that they were bombed to hell and back during the war and never really got back on their feet all the way, especially since all of their leaders were promoting austere communism and self reliance. You have a Korean name, though, perhaps you have first-hand knowledge that I dont?

@@shamusfarmer yes I agree north korea never got back on it's feet after the war. my only point was that there was a time before the conflict where koreans were able to make their own culture/food. even today the idea that north koreans aren't able to ever try their native food is a bit of an exaggeration. my dad's family left it.

@@Bbbowdens I see, so it wasnt always about eating tree bark and barbecuing rats to survive? Even in it's heyday it must have still been very poor, though... Such bad land. Just a lot of cold, barren, ugly hills and mountains. They were very unlucky to be born in such a place...

shamusfarmer I mean, North Korea existed before 1945.

Same. NK food is simple and clean. Btw, why did the host laugh when the chef said SK food is similar to Japanese food? 5:09

chibi168 I don’t know Korean so I’m taking a wild guess, but I heard the chef say something similar to “champon” and the host also say it. In japan, chanpon is a food and also slang for a large mix, so I’m guessing that they way the chef described Korean food was a bit humorous.

p sure it's the new stuff

Some of it is pre-war, my grandfather used to live north of the border, left at the beggining of the war and mul naengmyeon (cold noodles) is his absolute favorite dish

It depends tho. Noodles have been there before the war but some other dishes were created to serve citizens from starving

parkay Most of the food served in North Korea comes directly from traditional Korean cooking while South Korean food has diverted and mixed with Western and other modern influences

@@team3am149 Although in Pyongyang you can get fastfood and in a few other cities

Yeah, some dishes I can't stand, it's saturated in salt and sugar, its 2019 we have refrigeration. Tofu soup is amazing though, I can't get enough of it.

My 80 yr old Korean mom is flipping out at all these Korean recipes adding sugar. I understand using a PINCH to help mix the flavors but not TBSPs of it 😖