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There's a great restaurant in Bristol, England which does North Korean cuisine, and you can eat there without supporting the DPRK regime since it's run by a lovely British-Korean family who came from Pyongyang 1-2 generations ago. Some good ass cold noodles
North Korea has an average lifespan several years higher than any country with a comparable GDP. The especially funny thing about mocking their food insecurity is the fact that it's caused largely by the US' sanctions against them.
@@evelynashe8701 Wrong. The US gives more food aid to North Korea than any other country, or the UN. Kim Jong Un, like his father, steal the food and sell it to the public.
Theres one in Bangladesh. In the google location, the restaurant rated themselves 5 stars and wrote a big review essay praising Kim Jong Un on unrelated stuff
Lmao. “Kim Jong-UN”, the name of the most successful state leader in Very little time is well known and famous on the day. Whose talent, hard work, skill and dedication have helped for advancing the establishment of a state as family .The citizens of the state consider him as a heavenly gift or the coxswain of release for the destitute people. Ensuring Dynamic Development for the state like: quality life for citizens, infrastructural development, proper education, women’s right, inventing and exploring ultra modern technology etc are the main achievement of his government . Another most significant thing is establishing strong bonding with neighboring countries. In sequence the North Korean government is trying for cultural exchange with neighboring countries. To introduce North Korean culture among the countries, government has taken unique steps. Pyongyang restaurant is the one generous initiative in respective issue. The Korean Workers Party “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” -To promote cultural exchange and active involvement with neighboring nations, are the intention of the Pyongyang Restaurants. That is purely Magnanimity that’s work for world nations bonding. Yes, that’s the whole thing.
The one in Malaysia closed down after the North Korean assassination thing in our airport happened in 2017, apparently people were scared to go to the restaurant and business tanked.
Supreme Leader, we cannot send you the money, nobody is eating here anymore Well clearly you are lying and just picketing all the money, time for reeducation.
I ate at the North Korean restaurant in Phnom Penh, Cambodia - I can confirm the creepy dancing & songs, all of which were about how awesome NK & Kim are. I can also verify the prison vibe, especially since there are no windows in the building & the restaurant had bouncers for keeping the staff in. You weren't allowed to take photos of the performance, and there was a bookcase next to the entrance that had multiple copies of the same three books - all biographies of the 3 Kims...
I have eaten at that one too. Super eerie vibe dining there. Even though all the seating tables were cordened off and you couldn't see other diners you still got those overwhelming feeling that you are being watched. Place was crazy expensive where a beer cost $15 whereas everywhere else in the city it cost $0.50. Unfortunately the didn't do a musical performance when my friend and I went there
I also ate at that one several years ago. A pretty girl was out on the street soliciting business in a NK flag colored dress. Weird place. Super high quality and over attentive service. I repeatedly tried to tip but they 100% refused to accept any tip. I did share photos of home with the girls. Since I don't speak Korean or Cambodian communication was tough but I was able to interact and be friendly.
If they can get around the border, wouldn’t they have means take credit cards? I Imagine being cash only would hurt sales these days. Maybe one of there Chinese friends hooked them up with something?
@@nomobobby I think the problem is whether the card processing company deposits in an NK Or local bank account. If the first one, it works against their goal of making foreign bread.
I love how this restaurant, which is supposed to make North Korea look good, really is just a perfect example of the country itself, trying to look nice and great but on the inside people are oppressed and enslaved like the waiters.
@@EppelheimTV They'd also ask what a lamb is... Gordon: I'd say this is fucking raw but that would imply there was something to be cooked to begin with!
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They aren't starving in North Korea, a fair part of the population is under nourished but the mass starvation was only after the collapse of the USSR. It's still a poor country but people should get that not many people die from hunger.
@TacticalMoonstone actually Nandos was invented by two Portuguese brothers in Johannesburg and it serves traditional portuguese food. Nandos does have some Mozambican food but majority is Portuguese food.
Yeah international would've been a better choice of wording, but someone in the comments was saying that there used to he one in the Netherlands or something, so it may still be considered a "worldwide" chain. I'm too lazy to look it up though. Also besides that nitpicky little semantics note, I thought the video was interesting and informative overall.
Well glad you understand how people in Asia feel when worldwide is used to mean in Western countries only usually. Still, most of the world's people live in Asia so.
Geopolitics is wild. I've actually had some more North Korea-specific Korean dishes before, thanks to my grandpa. He's old enough to have grown up in "Korea" neither north nor south, and defected to South once the split happened. My mom's still trying to draw his life story out of him page by page, but he very rarely likes talking about it. I can definitely understand why- from contracting malaria and having no way to get medication to using his R&R time and stipend to try to track down his conscripted brother, he's definitely earned his late-life peace.
My dad ran two of these restaurants in Shanghai about 12 years ago. The restaurants had to close in the end because the North Korean co-owner was executed. A very unstable business model!
@@kl3321 We were Chinese living in Shanghai at the time. I have a few NK friends, they are pretty cool, similar to South Koreans in terms of appearance and pronunciation.
This video is free promotion for them. Have you tried getting sponsorship? I want to see "this video is sponsored by North Korea. Thanks to the great leader for sponsoring this video. If you want to learn more, check out Pyongyang restaurant near you."
@@deidryt9944 of course no, nobody wants won; so instead they've been using foreign currency reserves but they're quickly running out, and that's why the Pyongyang restaurant exist.
The counterfeit American currency printed on bank note presses (you have to be a country to buy one) was reputed to be Iraq. One of the reasons for second gulf war. I'm sure the mint was on the hit list.
I went to one of these places in Cambodia as part of a tour. They're incredibly cursed, and I'm pretty sure they operated as a brothel as well. Would not recommend, please do not support this disgusting and evil regime if you're given the chance.
@@PaulS23 im just speculating here , but if they dont reach the 10k/30k month and dont wanna go back to NK , maybe they sell more than food ,they also most likely live upstair of the restaurant, its just my opinion tho , a sad one.
@@sandytischuk870 well, the cost of operating restaurants in SE Asia is pretty cheap to begin with, not to mentioned that these places are essentially owned by the NK embassy/government as a way to advertise (propaganda?) NK and not necessarily about being a profitable business to begin with. I've been to the one in Bangkok before. Patrons aren't allowed to touch the waiters, and I've seen no sign of such claims. I asked because previously living in Asia, there's no shortage of Western males coming into any Asian countries and assume most women are for sale.
That photo is from the restaurant in Phnom Penh Cambodia and me and my school once got invited to play Christian worship music there. Fair to say one of the most amazing and bizarre experiences of my life!
I've also been to this one. Too bad it was for lunch and there were no musicals, but i was still giddy to be meeting real live actual north Korean awesome
He is using topical people and events, showing his personal political preferences, instead of releasing videos that can stand the test of time as educational/historical videos.
J Heseri me too. There was one across the street ehen i lived there. That said, i saw the waitresses walking around and joking like normal girls. There was nothing yncanny about the restaurants. Food was delicious
Abdul Harist Muqorrobin Dog eating is not that uncommon in some part of the world, like in Korea and Sulawesi, some dogs are bred like livestock.. if you think about it, who chose for us what is food and what is not?
@@abdulharistmuqorrobin7647 we have places that sell dog stew in SK proper, but you do have to go out of your way to find one. Finding one while trying is easy. However we don't do this outside of Korea cause.... Where the hell are we supposed to get food grade dog meat?
@Reza Koplak406 there were two restaurants in Jakarta. I forgot where the other one was, but the first one was in Kelapa Gading. They closed after Kim Jong-un's brother was assassinated in Malaysia.
I've actually eaten at one of these restaurants. It was in Beijing and the food was actually pretty good. The potato dessert was not the best though. The waitresses were very timid and shy though when trying to talk to them.
The “Pyongyang Cold Noodles” dish you’re referring to isn’t inherently North Korean. The dishes name is “Naengmyeon” and is eaten frequently in South Korea, especially during the summer months.
The delineation is that during the Korean War the south got loads of white flour from the allies which is used in "milmyeon" otherwise know as white flour noodles which became cheaper and more economical. The north decided to make buckwheat noodles appear to be North specific although yuo can get Naengmyeon in both countries. Wonderful dish in the summer.
Back in 2013, during my visit to Shanghai, China... I accidentally had a dinner at one of these restaurants. I was simply searching for Korean food, and Korean Pop Culture was super popular in China (still is, just not like 2013), so Korean restaurants are everywhere. I sit down, and the waitresses are truly stunning beautiful and polite, the food are one of the best Korean food I have had so far... I don't want to support a dictator regime... but their food are really amazing. I did notice the old decoration, North Korean Performance Playing on TV (the kind of performance that has thousands of people dancing in the gym) and propaganda. At first I thought it was just a North Korean "Theme" restaurant, maybe it's their way of attracting customers. It took me a while to realize it is really run by North Koreans. Now after watching your video... I feel really bad for those waitresses, because while I was there, a group of drunk men are trying to get one of the waitress to drink with them. What if she refused and the customer complained to the manager or give it a bad review on the internet... causing the business to suffer... The consequences, and stress, must have been terrible.
So you're basically saying that before seeing this piece of propaganda full of wrong information and bold assumptions, you realized that the restaurant you went to and enjoyed is bad?
Some additions to the HAI facts: 1. The name of the franchise is "Okryu Restaurant". Their branches can be seen in Beijing, Bangkok, Dubai, Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh, Kathmandu, etc. 2. The foreign branches are run by "Chongryon", the association of (North) Koreans in Japan. Chongryon has strong allegiance to the DPRK, and is therefore trusted by its government. 3. the ROK government frowns upon its citizen dining in Okryu restaurants, and warns that they may be charged with breach of national security.
No one wondered about the additional Dutch flag and the Emergency exit name spelled as UIT (Dutch as well). The restaurant footage was taken somewhere in Holland.
Yeah, noticed that. There's also a sign saying "Nooduitgang" at 0:24 and a painting with tulips on the wall can be seen at 0:23 (flower on the table as well). It looks like it's a restaurant in Osdorp. Opened in 2012. www.ad.nl/gezond/noord-koreaans-restaurant-opent-in-amsterdam~a6f1ea26/
I remember seeing this restaurant in Jakarta, Indonesia several years ago, tho never personally dined there. Its closed since 2017, however, likely due to the shenanigans involving that assassination thing in Malaysia back then.
@@Real_British She has been freed after charges against her were dropped because she had been paid to take part in pranks where they wiped a liquid on people at airports, hotels, and shopping malls. She thought they were taking part in another prank at the airport.
There was a Pyongyang restaurant near where I live, but it went under a few years ago. Never tried it but apparently it's quite good. The irony is there's now a South Korean barbecue restaurant there.
The idea of going to one of these restaurants sounded fun at first and then as I realized the financial aspect it's starting to look like international money laundering or even treason. Hard pass lol
@@asbestosisathing5997 It was. Only tried it twice. The chicken falls apart easy so you need to put it in bread or a warm soft flour tortilla. The sodium content is insanely high. But yes, it was delicious.
I feel you on the Applebee's defection thing.. I worked in the kitchen at Red Lobster for almost five hours when I was a teenager. Lol only time I've received my first and last paycheck in the same envelope.
There is a large community of Korean-Chinese folks who have lived for millenia north of north korea in China. That is a type of cuisine you can explore that's similar that is not giving money to any regimes. You can usually tell in the west because those restaurants are trilingual between Korean, Chinese & English and they'll usually serve skewer styled BBQ (which is just very popular in northern China period) as well as the Korean stuff.
I like how when I binge HAI videos and go from one to the next, I feel like I can tell what kind of a mood Sam was in on the day he recorded his narration
You don't need to go to these restaurants, at least in North America, you can just go to a privately owned Korean restaurant that officers those North Korean dishes.
there's the easiest way to try north korean foods. you can actually try to eat north korean foods in south korea because there're also many north korean refugees in south korea.
i tried to find out the exchange rate of north korean won and every source gives a different number. it seems to be somewhere around 5000 KPW to $1 USD, but even that information is outdated. I imagine it might be impossible to accurately determine anyway given the lack of anyone actually trading USD for KPW.
I was drunk one night and ordered nachos from Apple bees. When I got dropped off at home I was excited to eat them. Once I got inside my apartment I got around for bed and then ready to sit down and watch a show and eat those nachos. Once in my kitchen I accidentally drunkenly dropped the nachos on my kitchen floor. I cleaned the mess and went to bed.
I remember this restaurant here in Jakarta. It was two buildings next to a South Korean Restaurant. Guess which restaurant closed down first. That’s right, the restaurant in the middle
"One of the most brutal, repressive, murderous governmental regimes in the world...Whose nuclear arsenal is one of the world's greatest geopolitical threats" I thought you were talking about the good ol' US of A for a second there! Ya almost had me!
@Vyperz "Muhhhh, the USA is as bad as North Korea, they clearly are a dictatorship, can't you see? 111!!!!11 #orangemanbad (imagine being able to offend the leader of your contry freely, and think that your country is a brutal dictatorship that suppress freedom of speech, lol)
Pedro Salvador Oh I must have imagined all of the public lynchings in the street by policemen, and the violent police repression of peaceful protesters happening in the USA this year and all the prior years - my bad.
@@eduardovargas1972 Yes, the USA isn't a perfect democracy, and it has many flaws, two party system, brutal police force etc. But you really think that they are a repressive country that oppress any type of different opinion and you can't say bad things about the government? Also, just a thing, those protests and riots happened during the COVID pandemic. Countries like Italy have put the police and the army to arrest any person that was leaving home. If the same protests happened in Italy during the quarantine, the response would be the same, of course, the reason would be different, but the response would be the same. If you really think that you don't have freedom of speech or freedom at all, in the USA... Ughhhh, I don't know what to say to you.
While that's true, here's a fun fact: The words "yuan" (Chinese), "won" (Korean) and "yen" (Japanese) are cognates of each other, and are derived from the same character (圓).
The was a hotel in Berlin (City Hostel Berlin) next to the north Korean embassy, It was “secretly” (mostly rumors but no government agency looked deeper into it) run by the embassy and actually on embassy’s ground. My Class went to Berlin for a education trip and we had to stay there (this trip was payed by the ministry of education) because it was the cheapest hotel around the area. Nations are not allowed to do any kind of trade with them but they basically payed them. It closed in 2017.
The United Provinces don't forget the decidedly Dutch "uit" sign installed above the exit. And I believe there's even one that says "nooduitgang", but that one is hard to read.
It's actually one of the Pyongyang restaurants talked about in the video, this one was in Amsterdam, it opened in 2012 and closed the same year. There was a second restaurant, Haedanghwa, which opened in 2013 and closed in 2015, also in Amsterdam. I couldn't find anything after that. See: nos.nl/op3/artikel/2236001-er-zijn-91-noord-koreanen-in-ons-land-hoe-kwamen-die-hier-terecht.html
I went to one years ago in Vietnam. They had karaoke screens with missile testing behind the women. The waitresses kept trying to tell me how to eat the food properly but couldn't really explain it and just giggled at me. There were a few Korean families eating there all staring daggers at me
Hai um, HAI, can you please do a video about the twin towns of Coolangatta and Tweed Heads in Australia? The two neighbouring towns make one suburban area that straddles a state border. The northern state, Queensland, does not do DST, while NSW to the south does. This means locals in this area have to operate over two different time zones but only 6 months at a time. This is hilarious to me and just the sort of mildly interesting content your viewers seek.
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Half as Interesting do you deliver to North Korea?
Why is there only one HAI on youtube
... Nandos is portugese isn't it?
There's a great restaurant in Bristol, England which does North Korean cuisine, and you can eat there without supporting the DPRK regime since it's run by a lovely British-Korean family who came from Pyongyang 1-2 generations ago. Some good ass cold noodles
Is that Bokman?
British-Korean family? Did one of the family member escape North Korea?
@@hoseadavit3422 obviously
What's it called? Is there one in America?
@@Mary-ue5kc Random? Why would there be one in America? It's a family business that own their own restaurant in Bristol. It's not a fucking McDonalds.
Have you tried North Korean food? No? Neither have the citizens
Ouch.
North Korea has an average lifespan several years higher than any country with a comparable GDP. The especially funny thing about mocking their food insecurity is the fact that it's caused largely by the US' sanctions against them.
@@evelynashe8701 ...
That's a good one.
@@evelynashe8701 Wrong. The US gives more food aid to North Korea than any other country, or the UN. Kim Jong Un, like his father, steal the food and sell it to the public.
I love the chain, I spread my joy to the world through this chain
*and nuclear radiation*
You make some really good kimchi!
I think you mean chin?
Your waitresses are incredibly beautiful, Supreme Leader. May I take one home?
I dont get it youre people die of starvation and you're marveling at youre fast food chain?
I just passed this restaurant the other day in Thailand
Ok
Ok
Please end reply chains.
Good dumplings
@@ananttiwari1337 Ok
Theres one in Bangladesh. In the google location, the restaurant rated themselves 5 stars and wrote a big review essay praising Kim Jong Un on unrelated stuff
I am a Bangladeshi. Never heard off that restaurant before 🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀
@@syedatamannahossain12 It was in Banani road 27. But seems like they permanently closed the business
ow. that's why I never learn about the restaurant 😛😛
@@MashZ Guess they couldn't send enough money back home.
Hope the former employees are enjoying their experience in their new re-education camps!
Lmao.
“Kim Jong-UN”, the name of the most successful state leader in Very little time is well known and famous on the day. Whose talent, hard work, skill and dedication have helped for advancing the establishment of a state as family .The citizens of the state consider him as a heavenly gift or the coxswain of release for the destitute people. Ensuring Dynamic Development for the state like: quality life for citizens, infrastructural development, proper education, women’s right, inventing and exploring ultra modern technology etc are the main achievement of his government . Another most significant thing is establishing strong bonding with neighboring countries. In sequence the North Korean government is trying for cultural exchange with neighboring countries. To introduce North Korean culture among the countries, government has taken unique steps. Pyongyang restaurant is the one generous initiative in respective issue. The Korean Workers Party “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” -To promote cultural exchange and active involvement with neighboring nations, are the intention of the Pyongyang Restaurants. That is purely Magnanimity that’s work for world nations bonding.
Yes, that’s the whole thing.
The one in Malaysia closed down after the North Korean assassination thing in our airport happened in 2017, apparently people were scared to go to the restaurant and business tanked.
Supreme Leader, we cannot send you the money, nobody is eating here anymore
Well clearly you are lying and just picketing all the money, time for reeducation.
Holy shit I didn't know there was one in Malaysia.. Shouldn't be surprised though.. Bossku Jibby would allow dodgier things to happen
@@MidnightsFirefly I saw one in Vietnam and regret not having the experience now
Rip waitresses.
That is certainly news to me. Where was it located?
I ate at the North Korean restaurant in Phnom Penh, Cambodia - I can confirm the creepy dancing & songs, all of which were about how awesome NK & Kim are. I can also verify the prison vibe, especially since there are no windows in the building & the restaurant had bouncers for keeping the staff in. You weren't allowed to take photos of the performance, and there was a bookcase next to the entrance that had multiple copies of the same three books - all biographies of the 3 Kims...
I have eaten at that one too. Super eerie vibe dining there. Even though all the seating tables were cordened off and you couldn't see other diners you still got those overwhelming feeling that you are being watched. Place was crazy expensive where a beer cost $15 whereas everywhere else in the city it cost $0.50. Unfortunately the didn't do a musical performance when my friend and I went there
My apologies, just remembered it was the one in Siem Reap that I went to.
I also ate at that one several years ago. A pretty girl was out on the street soliciting business in a NK flag colored dress. Weird place. Super high quality and over attentive service. I repeatedly tried to tip but they 100% refused to accept any tip. I did share photos of home with the girls. Since I don't speak Korean or Cambodian communication was tough but I was able to interact and be friendly.
But was the food good?
is this my reality or did I switch into this one while i was sleeping...?
Waitress: Here is your bill.
Me: I’ll pay by card
North Korea: *visibly distressed*
*breathes heavily*
I was looking at your comment, and I get it now
If they can get around the border, wouldn’t they have means take credit cards? I Imagine being cash only would hurt sales these days. Maybe one of there Chinese friends hooked them up with something?
I'd be worried about the staff cloning my card.
@@nomobobby I think the problem is whether the card processing company deposits in an NK Or local bank account. If the first one, it works against their goal of making foreign bread.
When your economy is based on the currency of your sworn enemy
bruh moment
Is business cuz 🤑
"Stealing from the enemy." -Karl Marx
Not stonks
...What? Are you going to finish your statement?
I love how this restaurant, which is supposed to make North Korea look good, really is just a perfect example of the country itself, trying to look nice and great but on the inside people are oppressed and enslaved like the waiters.
Also their idea of what looks good is extremely depressing
I love to see Gordon Ramsay come to North Korea.
Gordon: Where is the lamb Sauce?!!!
North Koreans: We don't have any lamb sauce here. We do not have lamb OR sauce ether. We have nothing.
@@EppelheimTV
They'd also ask what a lamb is...
Gordon: I'd say this is fucking raw but that would imply there was something to be cooked to begin with!
@@stylesrj lmao that's great
@@greenbin3028
Gordon: It tastes like soggy cardboard!
NK: Thanks! You don't know how difficult it was to get the cardboard, let alone the water!
-YoungBoi- he will find the lamb sauce
So he feeds other countries but not his own people?
One thing! Just one thing! Please tell IT to me: WHY tf do I have so many fans even though no RUclipsr is unprettier than I am? WORLDWIDE!!!! WHY??? Tell me, dear ruchards flanaga
They aren't starving in North Korea, a fair part of the population is under nourished but the mass starvation was only after the collapse of the USSR. It's still a poor country but people should get that not many people die from hunger.
Feeding your people doesn't give you as much money.
@@AxxLAfriku ur mum
One greatest famine in history happened during USSR period tho
Nando’s is South African owned, but it serves Portuguese food. Yeah, figure that one out
Yep. Our country is confusing like that.
It's called immigration.
Portuguese immigrants to South africa
@TacticalMoonstone actually Nandos was invented by two Portuguese brothers in Johannesburg and it serves traditional portuguese food. Nandos does have some Mozambican food but majority is Portuguese food.
Look North to South Africa's Neighbor Mozambique
-"Worldwide"
-"Throughout Asia"
...?
Yeah international would've been a better choice of wording, but someone in the comments was saying that there used to he one in the Netherlands or something, so it may still be considered a "worldwide" chain. I'm too lazy to look it up though. Also besides that nitpicky little semantics note, I thought the video was interesting and informative overall.
Clickbait
On the other hand, most people in the world are Asian, so...
It's like these bands/singers "World tour" when, in fact, their only international stop is Toronto or Vancouver.
Well glad you understand how people in Asia feel when worldwide is used to mean in Western countries only usually. Still, most of the world's people live in Asia so.
Geopolitics is wild. I've actually had some more North Korea-specific Korean dishes before, thanks to my grandpa. He's old enough to have grown up in "Korea" neither north nor south, and defected to South once the split happened. My mom's still trying to draw his life story out of him page by page, but he very rarely likes talking about it. I can definitely understand why- from contracting malaria and having no way to get medication to using his R&R time and stipend to try to track down his conscripted brother, he's definitely earned his late-life peace.
Don’t stop there! Did he find his brother?
@@Efflorescentey we shall never know...
I’m waiting for Washington DC restaurants to be opened in North Korea now.
With President Tiny-Hands that would be McDonalds.
I think they have some bootleg restaurants imitating american chains in the capital.
KFC = Kim's Fried Chicken
My dad ran two of these restaurants in Shanghai about 12 years ago. The restaurants had to close in the end because the North Korean co-owner was executed. A very unstable business model!
Wait, so is your dad North Korean himself, or just a foreigner who they allowed to run one of the restaurants?
@@kl3321 We were Chinese living in Shanghai at the time. I have a few NK friends, they are pretty cool, similar to South Koreans in terms of appearance and pronunciation.
How on earth and why on earth did they get executed
no he didn't. you're as believeable as a middle school kid saying he has a girlfriend from another school stfu
Huh?
This video is free promotion for them. Have you tried getting sponsorship? I want to see "this video is sponsored by North Korea. Thanks to the great leader for sponsoring this video. If you want to learn more, check out Pyongyang restaurant near you."
That's how you run afoul of international sanctions and get the FBI knocking on your door lol
I know you joke, but this video made me legitimately curious about that restaurant chain.
I'm sure being sponsored by a terrorist regime who threatens America with nuclear weapons would go real well. Here I thought treason was a BAD thing.
But what would they pay him in? North Korean Won?
@@deidryt9944 of course no, nobody wants won; so instead they've been using foreign currency reserves but they're quickly running out, and that's why the Pyongyang restaurant exist.
"They can't just print more (Korean) Yuan" no they actually just skip a step and print counterfeit $US.
The counterfeit American currency printed on bank note presses (you have to be a country to buy one) was reputed to be Iraq. One of the reasons for second gulf war. I'm sure the mint was on the hit list.
*Korean won
Yuan is Chinese, Won is Korean, although the words are related. They can both be written as 圓
When the imposter is $US! 😳
( you should really change your comment to avoid replies like these)
Yen is the Japanese currency.
I went to one of these places in Cambodia as part of a tour. They're incredibly cursed, and I'm pretty sure they operated as a brothel as well. Would not recommend, please do not support this disgusting and evil regime if you're given the chance.
I'd fuck em tho.
What makes you think they also operate as a brothel?
@@PaulS23 im just speculating here , but if they dont reach the 10k/30k month and dont wanna go back to NK , maybe they sell more than food ,they also most likely live upstair of the restaurant, its just my opinion tho , a sad one.
@@sandytischuk870 well, the cost of operating restaurants in SE Asia is pretty cheap to begin with, not to mentioned that these places are essentially owned by the NK embassy/government as a way to advertise (propaganda?) NK and not necessarily about being a profitable business to begin with.
I've been to the one in Bangkok before. Patrons aren't allowed to touch the waiters, and I've seen no sign of such claims. I asked because previously living in Asia, there's no shortage of Western males coming into any Asian countries and assume most women are for sale.
Erika Frostburg same haha
"The US gets pounds, and even the UK gets pounds, but of a different kind" lmao
Best HAI joke ever
Ked meh he’s (kinda) Right or left
Best American joke ever
Nah the UK just gets kilos like every other country
@@brendonmorehouse4896 Bruh, pound is an other name for 1 British money
That photo is from the restaurant in Phnom Penh Cambodia and me and my school once got invited to play Christian worship music there. Fair to say one of the most amazing and bizarre experiences of my life!
They allowed religious music there? That's ironic given the state of religious freedoms in NK lol
Sounds like something I'd do, except the other way around and ironically
I've also been to this one. Too bad it was for lunch and there were no musicals, but i was still giddy to be meeting real live actual north Korean awesome
Yes but the food is good isn't it.
Yep that place is right up the street from me. Chinese friends have taken me there a few times...
omg amazing! not a single airplane or airport reference this week! not even an image of one!
Joke never gets old! Only, it does. It sooo does. 😫
But at what exactly time the plane with the workers departure from Pyongyang?
The document about sanctions had a list of Russian airplanes
Unfortunate :( Now I have to watch the Wendover video for the planes :(
I think there were planes in the Curiosity Stream ad at the end... does it count?
I love how slowly over time this guy has got so much more savage in his videos
He's trying WAY too hard to be funny. It's more annoying than savage or funny.
He is using topical people and events, showing his personal political preferences, instead of releasing videos that can stand the test of time as educational/historical videos.
“13 waitresses escaped the location” is the funniest thing ive heard all day ngl.
It's really not funny. Their families were probably killed because of it.
@@Adelicows 156 people beg to differ
Make that 157!
@@sreekar5691 Now it’s 190.
Hi, this is Kento Bento and now we're diving deep into North Korea restaurant chain.
oh wait wrong channel
I thought the exact same haha
Haha 😂I get that
Blank Blank hehe
*I'M KENTO BENTO!*
Kento Bento has the most overrated RUclips channel
I have dined in one of these restaurants in China... didn’t know anything about the politics back then.
J Heseri me too. There was one across the street ehen i lived there.
That said, i saw the waitresses walking around and joking like normal girls.
There was nothing yncanny about the restaurants. Food was delicious
And unlike normal Korean restaurant, this restaurant sell dog meat. It's not on the menu, but you can get them.
At least the one in Jakarta did.
Abdul Harist Muqorrobin Dog eating is not that uncommon in some part of the world, like in Korea and Sulawesi, some dogs are bred like livestock.. if you think about it, who chose for us what is food and what is not?
@@abdulharistmuqorrobin7647 we have places that sell dog stew in SK proper, but you do have to go out of your way to find one. Finding one while trying is easy.
However we don't do this outside of Korea cause.... Where the hell are we supposed to get food grade dog meat?
@Reza Koplak406 there were two restaurants in Jakarta. I forgot where the other one was, but the first one was in Kelapa Gading. They closed after Kim Jong-un's brother was assassinated in Malaysia.
4:12 "Nobody wants Won"
Me, whose name is Juan: Same. :(
Signed,
Epstein’s Mother
Huh?
@@MikhaelAhava They sound the same.
@Awesomesauce they don’t sound the same to me.
I've actually eaten at one of these restaurants. It was in Beijing and the food was actually pretty good. The potato dessert was not the best though. The waitresses were very timid and shy though when trying to talk to them.
The “Pyongyang Cold Noodles” dish you’re referring to isn’t inherently North Korean. The dishes name is “Naengmyeon” and is eaten frequently in South Korea, especially during the summer months.
You can eat spaghetti outside of Italy too
The delineation is that during the Korean War the south got loads of white flour from the allies which is used in "milmyeon" otherwise know as white flour noodles which became cheaper and more economical. The north decided to make buckwheat noodles appear to be North specific although yuo can get Naengmyeon in both countries. Wonderful dish in the summer.
Did you know Thai food is eaten in Cambodia all year round?
Bruh... they are all Korean dishes
Back in 2013, during my visit to Shanghai, China... I accidentally had a dinner at one of these restaurants. I was simply searching for Korean food, and Korean Pop Culture was super popular in China
(still is, just not like 2013), so Korean restaurants are everywhere. I sit down, and the waitresses are truly stunning beautiful and polite, the food are one of the best Korean food I have had so far... I don't want to support a dictator regime... but their food are really amazing.
I did notice the old decoration, North Korean Performance Playing on TV (the kind of performance that has thousands of people dancing in the gym) and propaganda. At first I thought it was just a North Korean "Theme" restaurant, maybe it's their way of attracting customers. It took me a while to realize it is really run by North Koreans.
Now after watching your video... I feel really bad for those waitresses, because while I was there, a group of drunk men are trying to get one of the waitress to drink with them. What if she refused and the customer complained to the manager or give it a bad review on the internet... causing the business to suffer... The consequences, and stress, must have been terrible.
Thanks for sharing.
So you're basically saying that before seeing this piece of propaganda full of wrong information and bold assumptions, you realized that the restaurant you went to and enjoyed is bad?
@@Guilherme-wh7mc 我分享用餐经验惹到你了？
Half As Interesting: "So, if the US buys Tea, the UK will have more USD!"
America: (Starts dumping the tea into the cold, heartless sea).
*cough*boston*cough*tea*cough*party*cough
This enraged the British who punish them severely.
Jayden Wong quite a bit lol
@@jaydenwong3345 They farted in our general direction.
Brian DesJardin Nay, that was the French farting in the Brits' general direction...from across the pond. ;)
If Wendover productions ever becomes an adult entertainment company...
it would be called Bendover productions
Noice
If it becomes a mafia, it will be called Handover Productions
😆
Get out.
If it becomes alcohol beverage company, it would be called Hangover Productions.
*shows restaurant in the Netherlands*
"This Pyongyang Restaurant is one of over 130 Pyongyang Restaurants all across Asia"
@NIFB For Aruba Niemand zegt dat.
i think HAI forgot indonesia was independant
@@geo3172 i live in one of subdistrict in jakarta and i found the north korean restaurant
@@geo3172 but idk if its still there .-.
Some additions to the HAI facts:
1. The name of the franchise is "Okryu Restaurant". Their branches can be seen in Beijing, Bangkok, Dubai, Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh, Kathmandu, etc.
2. The foreign branches are run by "Chongryon", the association of (North) Koreans in Japan. Chongryon has strong allegiance to the DPRK, and is therefore trusted by its government.
3. the ROK government frowns upon its citizen dining in Okryu restaurants, and warns that they may be charged with breach of national security.
Wow, imagine a Canadian going to jail for eating in an American restaurant!
No one wondered about the additional Dutch flag and the Emergency exit name spelled as UIT (Dutch as well). The restaurant footage was taken somewhere in Holland.
Yeah, noticed that. There's also a sign saying "Nooduitgang" at 0:24 and a painting with tulips on the wall can be seen at 0:23 (flower on the table as well). It looks like it's a restaurant in Osdorp. Opened in 2012. www.ad.nl/gezond/noord-koreaans-restaurant-opent-in-amsterdam~a6f1ea26/
@@roelbrook7559 G E K O L O N I S E E R D
How Hollish of you. Almost like your a Hollander spy!
licorice
Those women should just walk out, go to the nearest Dutch police station and claim asylum.
3:19 “kind of like my RUclips career” literally laughed out loud. Then I looked at the sub numbers... seems great to me! Keep it up!
Who knows maybe all the subscriptions are bots!
These restaurants are my source of revenue for my military
Can you nuke my ex girlfriend
Can you nuke Ohio?
Can you nuke Monsanto, oh wait your probably friends?
Nuke north korea
I like how all the comments are asking him to nuke stuff
Can you nuke your nukes?
I want to taste Kim Jong Il's greatest food invention: Meat squeezed between two breads.
I remember seeing this restaurant in Jakarta, Indonesia several years ago, tho never personally dined there.
Its closed since 2017, however, likely due to the shenanigans involving that assassination thing in Malaysia back then.
Aye, one of indonesian are actually involved in the assassination
@@Real_British She has been freed after charges against her were dropped because she had been paid to take part in pranks where they wiped a liquid on people at airports, hotels, and shopping malls.
She thought they were taking part in another prank at the airport.
"I meant to say the bathrooms are down the hall and to the left"
*90s intensifies*
Where’s Mexico? *Down the wall, and to the left*
Guys why this joke has so many likes? Perhaps I can't get it, anyone explain it please!
@@leonleon2021 home alone 2
@@leonleon2021 A Trump reference.
“Complete maniacs”
That’s pronounced “fat”
"Nobody wants Juan?? Wait, you meant won. That's okay, then."
- Juan Carlos Jiminez
North Korea may have an arsenal of nuclear ballistics but we have *KFC*
Their motto:
*_I'm slavin' it_*
*_Freedom killin' good_*
*_Be OUR way_*
*_You know when we're screaming_*
*_Nobody see what we do_*
Have you ever had North Korean food? no,well neither have they.
Also you were not fired from Applebee’s you were just promoted to customer.
Mental note: most production budget goes into presenting an interesting video subject, not the humor.
Humor can be added in post!
Kyle K too bad it wasn’t LMAO
4:03 Taiwan is not China. We don't trade with the DPRK. The communist parties gotta go. Thank you so much for the correct map, 手足!
There was a Pyongyang restaurant near where I live, but it went under a few years ago. Never tried it but apparently it's quite good. The irony is there's now a South Korean barbecue restaurant there.
The more “pound” joke was golden!!!
Would love to see the brick video that you've been teasing for a while!!!! Love your videos-hai and wendover
This video was 50% facts, 50% hilarious jokes (that are pretty accurate)
Imagine going back to an angry curiosity stream and telling them you cheated them out of your money.
The idea of going to one of these restaurants sounded fun at first and then as I realized the financial aspect it's starting to look like international money laundering or even treason. Hard pass lol
“America has kfc, they use fried chicken as buns to show they are maniacs “ 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣
I want to try that
@@Gkokkinakis2 it's exactly as crazy as it looks. And it's probably as lethal as it looks too. I love my country, we are all crazy here.
Γιώργος Κοκκινάκης Yeah bruh, that looks absolutely delicious.
But I guess Atkins might approve
@@asbestosisathing5997 It was. Only tried it twice. The chicken falls apart easy so you need to put it in bread or a warm soft flour tortilla. The sodium content is insanely high. But yes, it was delicious.
"Bruh, that was some really good kimchi!"
_Sweats Nervously_
I feel you on the Applebee's defection thing.. I worked in the kitchen at Red Lobster for almost five hours when I was a teenager. Lol only time I've received my first and last paycheck in the same envelope.
And I thought my two weeks at a cosmetics factory was short!
There is a large community of Korean-Chinese folks who have lived for millenia north of north korea in China. That is a type of cuisine you can explore that's similar that is not giving money to any regimes. You can usually tell in the west because those restaurants are trilingual between Korean, Chinese & English and they'll usually serve skewer styled BBQ (which is just very popular in northern China period) as well as the Korean stuff.
I like how when I binge HAI videos and go from one to the next, I feel like I can tell what kind of a mood Sam was in on the day he recorded his narration
I love how you showed the restaurant in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; but didn't point the country out on the map
“Censorship and oppression”
So RUclips owns stock in this company?
>Shows sign of restaurant in Cambodia
>Does not mention Cambodia right after
You don't need to go to these restaurants, at least in North America, you can just go to a privately owned Korean restaurant that officers those North Korean dishes.
You did not get fired from Applebee's
You got promoted to "customer"
3:55 Ah yes, the good ol’ 15-dash line
"What I haven't said enough about though is curiosity str-"
Oh yes you have...
**closes video**
Jk
This but unironically.
Not jk
Ill just go to nicko mcbrains bbq restaurant
Best drummer from iron maiden
there's the easiest way to try north korean foods. you can actually try to eat north korean foods in south korea because there're also many north korean refugees in south korea.
"tim hortons has donuts to show that canadians are sweet"
why thank you
Wait this isn’t Kento Bento?
I haven't seen his videos in a while. Should check out what he's been up to.
*When you switch from a domination victory to a cultural victory in Civ6*
So you're saying that my country have a north Korea restaurant? I'll go check it out someday.
i tried to find out the exchange rate of north korean won and every source gives a different number. it seems to be somewhere around 5000 KPW to $1 USD, but even that information is outdated. I imagine it might be impossible to accurately determine anyway given the lack of anyone actually trading USD for KPW.
I don't think you can actually buy kpw!! They need all they have
Dude, we get it. North Korea is heavily oppressive, you don’t have to make it a punch line to every joke every 2 mins
You're like a more sarcastic Real Life Lore, I love it
I’ve been to one of these in China, it was my favorite restaurant till I learned more about it. I do miss that bbq, the girls were impressive too
I was drunk one night and ordered nachos from Apple bees. When I got dropped off at home I was excited to eat them. Once I got inside my apartment I got around for bed and then ready to sit down and watch a show and eat those nachos. Once in my kitchen I accidentally drunkenly dropped the nachos on my kitchen floor. I cleaned the mess and went to bed.
3:16 proof your the wendover productions guy
Sadly, the food looks better than the food at McDondalds.
Brick video when?
Korean performers, music
North: Loose-fitting patriarchal outfits
South: Hyuna
I remember this restaurant here in Jakarta. It was two buildings next to a South Korean Restaurant.
Guess which restaurant closed down first.
That’s right, the restaurant in the middle
Dekat Kelapa Gading
Bruh.... I wish we had a Pyongyang restaurant in the Philippines.... too bad we are US colony, not a normal Asian country
The word yuan is not pronounced as “won” its pronounced as “Uen”
"Won" is actually the name of the NK's currency
In Siem Reap cambodia there is one of these... and as cambodia uses USD.. and Siem Reap is a tourist town... perfect placement
Epic Rap Battles of History:
North Korean Waitress VS Japanese Neko Maid
No-one:
Absolutely no-one ever:
HAI: HaVe YoU tRiEd ThE KiMcHi?
Will the HAI guy be here all week? (I'll be here all week, try the veal)
I actually came across one of these restaurants in Siam Reap, Cambodia in 2018.
Yep me too - accidentally. The food was horrible - probably the worst restaurant I have ever been in.
Its not a global chain if it doesn't have locations in the us
I watch many of your videos on topics I couldn’t care less about just because I love the humor in there. Love all your content.
"One of the most brutal, repressive, murderous governmental regimes in the world...Whose nuclear arsenal is one of the world's greatest geopolitical threats" I thought you were talking about the good ol' US of A for a second there! Ya almost had me!
@Vyperz "Muhhhh, the USA is as bad as North Korea, they clearly are a dictatorship, can't you see? 111!!!!11
#orangemanbad (imagine being able to offend the leader of your contry freely, and think that your country is a brutal dictatorship that suppress freedom of speech, lol)
Pedro Salvador Oh I must have imagined all of the public lynchings in the street by policemen, and the violent police repression of peaceful protesters happening in the USA this year and all the prior years - my bad.
@@eduardovargas1972 Yes, the USA isn't a perfect democracy, and it has many flaws, two party system, brutal police force etc.
But you really think that they are a repressive country that oppress any type of different opinion and you can't say bad things about the government?
Also, just a thing, those protests and riots happened during the COVID pandemic. Countries like Italy have put the police and the army to arrest any person that was leaving home. If the same protests happened in Italy during the quarantine, the response would be the same, of course, the reason would be different, but the response would be the same.
If you really think that you don't have freedom of speech or freedom at all, in the USA... Ughhhh, I don't know what to say to you.
3:09 "Chinese Won"?? It's Yuan, not Won. Won is the currency used in Korea.
While that's true, here's a fun fact: The words "yuan" (Chinese), "won" (Korean) and "yen" (Japanese) are cognates of each other, and are derived from the same character (圓).
So.."Yankee" is actually pronounce "Wankee"? hmmmmmmm
The food is truly delicious. Some of the best fish I’ve ever had.
The was a hotel in Berlin (City Hostel Berlin) next to the north Korean embassy, It was “secretly” (mostly rumors but no government agency looked deeper into it) run by the embassy and actually on embassy’s ground. My Class went to Berlin for a education trip and we had to stay there (this trip was payed by the ministry of education) because it was the cheapest hotel around the area. Nations are not allowed to do any kind of trade with them but they basically payed them. It closed in 2017.
how was it
@@tarragon112 Average for a Hostel. Nothing spectacular. I think it closed shortly after we went there, because of its ties to North Korea
@@peek_a_boo4168 oh
We have two in Vientiane, Laos. I've been told what its like but have yet to go, it's nice to hear a little background on it.
Am I out of my mind, or is Sam's voice about a half a step higher and faster in the HAI videos then it is in the longer-form Wendover stuff?
Apparently they’re different people? Same family
As a Dutchman, 0:25 I see a Korean in front of a Dutch flag in a restaurant,
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
The United Provinces don't forget the decidedly Dutch "uit" sign installed above the exit. And I believe there's even one that says "nooduitgang", but that one is hard to read.
It's actually one of the Pyongyang restaurants talked about in the video, this one was in Amsterdam, it opened in 2012 and closed the same year. There was a second restaurant, Haedanghwa, which opened in 2013 and closed in 2015, also in Amsterdam. I couldn't find anything after that.
See:
nos.nl/op3/artikel/2236001-er-zijn-91-noord-koreanen-in-ons-land-hoe-kwamen-die-hier-terecht.html
@@Garado83 It surprises me that such restaurants could even open in NL.
I went to one years ago in Vietnam. They had karaoke screens with missile testing behind the women. The waitresses kept trying to tell me how to eat the food properly but couldn't really explain it and just giggled at me. There were a few Korean families eating there all staring daggers at me
Must go. Must buy lots of food. Must pay in counterfeit bills.
You had us in the first half, not gonna lie.
Hai um, HAI, can you please do a video about the twin towns of Coolangatta and Tweed Heads in Australia? The two neighbouring towns make one suburban area that straddles a state border. The northern state, Queensland, does not do DST, while NSW to the south does. This means locals in this area have to operate over two different time zones but only 6 months at a time. This is hilarious to me and just the sort of mildly interesting content your viewers seek.