A FOOD TRADITION
North Korean Cuisine
A Korean cooking tradition shaped by northern regional foods, especially buckwheat noodles, dumplings, grains, fermented seafood, and hearty soups.
Dishes linked to this cuisine
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Kaesong Bossam Kimchi
A richly stuffed Kaesong-style napa-cabbage kimchi filled with seasoned vegetables, seafood, fruit, and nuts before fermentation.
Kaesong Juak
A Kaesong-style fried glutinous-rice pastry fermented with rice wine, sweetened with honey, and often finished with pine nuts or syrup.
Kaesong Mandu
Kaesong-style Korean dumplings made with a wheat wrapper and a savory filling of meat, tofu, cabbage, sprouts, and aromatics.
Kaesong Pyeonsu
Square Kaesong dumplings filled with seasoned beef, cucumber, mung bean sprouts, and shiitake mushroom and served in a light broth or chilled preparation.
Kaesong Yakgwa
A traditional Kaesong honey pastry made from wheat-flour dough enriched with sesame oil, fried, and soaked or glazed with a sweet honey syrup.
Kkakdugi
A fermented Korean radish side dish cut into cubes and seasoned with Korean chili flakes, garlic, ginger, green onion, salt, and commonly fermented seafood seasonings.
Kongbap
Kongbap is steamed Korean rice cooked together with soybeans for a nutty, bean-rich rice dish.
Kongbiji-jjigae
Kongbiji-jjigae is a hot, thick soybean stew commonly prepared with ground soybeans, pork, kimchi, garlic, and green onion.
Mandu-guk
Mandu-guk is a hot Korean dumpling soup made by simmering filled mandu in broth and serving it with customary garnishes.
Myeongtae Sikhae
A fermented North Korean side dish combining pollock with rice, radish, chili, and aromatics.
Oksusu-bap
Oksusu-bap is a North Korean rice dish in which corn is cooked together with rice to produce a hearty mixed-grain staple.
Oksusu-juk
Oksusu-juk is a North Korean corn porridge made by simmering corn with water until soft and spoonable, sometimes with rice for added body.
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