The Global Restaurant Chain Run by North Korea

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  • Опубликовано: 4 дек 2024

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    • @liamr3989
      @liamr3989 5 лет назад +7

      Half as Interesting do you deliver to North Korea?

    • @anantissar4028
      @anantissar4028 5 лет назад

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    • @officialboomtish214
      @officialboomtish214 5 лет назад +1

      ... Nandos is portugese isn't it?

  • @Yamezzzz
    @Yamezzzz 5 лет назад +7409

    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

    • @saoirsedeltufo7436
      @saoirsedeltufo7436 5 лет назад +114

      Is that Bokman?

    • @hoseadavit3422
      @hoseadavit3422 5 лет назад +146

      British-Korean family? Did one of the family member escape North Korea?

    • @aeriumsoft
      @aeriumsoft 5 лет назад +828

      @@hoseadavit3422 obviously

    • @Mary-ue5kc
      @Mary-ue5kc 5 лет назад +26

      What's it called? Is there one in America?

    • @Yamezzzz
      @Yamezzzz 5 лет назад +879

      @@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.

  • @mjennings061
    @mjennings061 5 лет назад +20426

    Have you tried North Korean food? No? Neither have the citizens

    • @aidaspida70
      @aidaspida70 5 лет назад +635

      Ouch.

    • @evelynashe8701
      @evelynashe8701 5 лет назад +404

      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.

    • @alozzzy1213
      @alozzzy1213 5 лет назад +846

      @@evelynashe8701 ...

    • @ERROR_-_404
      @ERROR_-_404 5 лет назад +73

      That's a good one.

    • @我们爱面
      @我们爱面 5 лет назад +573

      @@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.

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 5 лет назад +10016

    I love the chain, I spread my joy to the world through this chain

    • @randombrowser6692
      @randombrowser6692 5 лет назад +492

      *and nuclear radiation*

    • @chrisperez7656
      @chrisperez7656 5 лет назад +141

      You make some really good kimchi!

    • @albertwang7222
      @albertwang7222 5 лет назад +35

      I think you mean chin?

    • @jager0724
      @jager0724 5 лет назад +76

      Your waitresses are incredibly beautiful, Supreme Leader. May I take one home?

    • @foxbatmc8457
      @foxbatmc8457 5 лет назад +19

      I dont get it youre people die of starvation and you're marveling at youre fast food chain?

  • @CollinAbroadcast
    @CollinAbroadcast 5 лет назад +1430

    I just passed this restaurant the other day in Thailand

  • @MashZ
    @MashZ 4 года назад +370

    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

    • @syedatamannahossain12
      @syedatamannahossain12 3 года назад +15

      I am a Bangladeshi. Never heard off that restaurant before 🤦‍♀🤦‍♀🤦‍♀

    • @MashZ
      @MashZ 3 года назад +46

      @@syedatamannahossain12 It was in Banani road 27. But seems like they permanently closed the business

    • @syedatamannahossain12
      @syedatamannahossain12 3 года назад +5

      ow. that's why I never learn about the restaurant 😛😛

    • @Marxamune
      @Marxamune 3 года назад +18

      @@MashZ Guess they couldn't send enough money back home.
      Hope the former employees are enjoying their experience in their new re-education camps!

    • @glatios
      @glatios 2 года назад

      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.

  • @bdbgh
    @bdbgh 5 лет назад +800

    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.

    • @nunyabusiness4904
      @nunyabusiness4904 4 года назад +55

      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.

    • @MidnightsFirefly
      @MidnightsFirefly 4 года назад +23

      Holy shit I didn't know there was one in Malaysia.. Shouldn't be surprised though.. Bossku Jibby would allow dodgier things to happen

    • @maxie706
      @maxie706 4 года назад +3

      @@MidnightsFirefly I saw one in Vietnam and regret not having the experience now

    • @spookyshark632
      @spookyshark632 3 года назад +4

      Rip waitresses.

    • @ismailnyeyusof3520
      @ismailnyeyusof3520 3 года назад +2

      That is certainly news to me. Where was it located?

  • @SimWyatt
    @SimWyatt 5 лет назад +1032

    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...

    • @JKemp-vq9xh
      @JKemp-vq9xh 4 года назад +78

      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

    • @JKemp-vq9xh
      @JKemp-vq9xh 4 года назад +10

      My apologies, just remembered it was the one in Siem Reap that I went to.

    • @RogersMgmtGroup
      @RogersMgmtGroup 4 года назад +47

      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.

    • @justagerman140
      @justagerman140 4 года назад +7

      But was the food good?

    • @seeker296
      @seeker296 2 года назад +1

      is this my reality or did I switch into this one while i was sleeping...?

  • @pinecone27
    @pinecone27 4 года назад +1903

    Waitress: Here is your bill.
    Me: I’ll pay by card
    North Korea: *visibly distressed*

    • @thealpaca18
      @thealpaca18 4 года назад +68

      *breathes heavily*

    • @bryanchai5536
      @bryanchai5536 4 года назад +12

      I was looking at your comment, and I get it now

    • @nomobobby
      @nomobobby 4 года назад +22

      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?

    • @gurruto
      @gurruto 4 года назад +67

      I'd be worried about the staff cloning my card.

    • @thedarknesst5995
      @thedarknesst5995 4 года назад +5

      @@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.

  • @a_literal_brick
    @a_literal_brick 5 лет назад +2847

    When your economy is based on the currency of your sworn enemy

  • @elijahhaga32
    @elijahhaga32 3 года назад +351

    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.

    • @georgewang2947
      @georgewang2947 Год назад +2

      Also their idea of what looks good is extremely depressing

  • @his_creation9275
    @his_creation9275 5 лет назад +3702

    I love to see Gordon Ramsay come to North Korea.

    • @EppelheimTV
      @EppelheimTV 5 лет назад +321

      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.

    • @stylesrj
      @stylesrj 5 лет назад +198

      @@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!

    • @greenbin3028
      @greenbin3028 5 лет назад +6

      @@stylesrj lmao that's great

    • @stylesrj
      @stylesrj 5 лет назад +117

      @@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!

    • @ihatefortnightgivemeareaso5659
      @ihatefortnightgivemeareaso5659 5 лет назад +4

      -YoungBoi- he will find the lamb sauce

  • @hypervortex5930
    @hypervortex5930 5 лет назад +4111

    So he feeds other countries but not his own people?

    • @AxxLAfriku
      @AxxLAfriku 5 лет назад +7

      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

    • @uwu_senpai
      @uwu_senpai 5 лет назад +126

      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.

    • @y33t23
      @y33t23 5 лет назад +65

      Feeding your people doesn't give you as much money.

    • @UserUser-fm3cr
      @UserUser-fm3cr 5 лет назад +6

      @@AxxLAfriku ur mum

    • @raediaufar5003
      @raediaufar5003 5 лет назад +2

      One greatest famine in history happened during USSR period tho

  • @RickyPro888
    @RickyPro888 5 лет назад +2028

    Nando’s is South African owned, but it serves Portuguese food. Yeah, figure that one out

    • @RinaMasuda
      @RinaMasuda 5 лет назад +41

      Yep. Our country is confusing like that.

    • @javiercs006
      @javiercs006 5 лет назад +81

      It's called immigration.

    • @Yoshimitsu420
      @Yoshimitsu420 5 лет назад +115

      Portuguese immigrants to South africa

    • @RinaMasuda
      @RinaMasuda 5 лет назад +106

      @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.

    • @MerganNaidoo
      @MerganNaidoo 5 лет назад +8

      Look North to South Africa's Neighbor Mozambique

  • @ERIK31351
    @ERIK31351 5 лет назад +544

    -"Worldwide"
    -"Throughout Asia"
    ...?

    • @revenevan11
      @revenevan11 5 лет назад +48

      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.

    • @raucousraptor
      @raucousraptor 4 года назад +14

      Clickbait

    • @needfortweed8734
      @needfortweed8734 4 года назад +23

      On the other hand, most people in the world are Asian, so...

    • @Globalurb
      @Globalurb 4 года назад +27

      It's like these bands/singers "World tour" when, in fact, their only international stop is Toronto or Vancouver.

    • @ShubhoBose
      @ShubhoBose 4 года назад +16

      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.

  • @8stormy5
    @8stormy5 2 года назад +114

    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.

    • @Efflorescentey
      @Efflorescentey Год назад +6

      Don’t stop there! Did he find his brother?

    • @ThePaperKhan
      @ThePaperKhan 3 месяца назад

      ​@@Efflorescentey we shall never know...

  • @metadragon7500
    @metadragon7500 5 лет назад +492

    I’m waiting for Washington DC restaurants to be opened in North Korea now.

    • @freemantle85
      @freemantle85 5 лет назад +25

      With President Tiny-Hands that would be McDonalds.

    • @benjbk
      @benjbk 4 года назад +1

      I think they have some bootleg restaurants imitating american chains in the capital.

    • @tigervalley62
      @tigervalley62 4 года назад +2

      KFC = Kim's Fried Chicken

  • @PcyTrail
    @PcyTrail 5 лет назад +644

    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
      @kl3321 5 лет назад +35

      Wait, so is your dad North Korean himself, or just a foreigner who they allowed to run one of the restaurants?

    • @PcyTrail
      @PcyTrail 5 лет назад +129

      @@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.

    • @deathempire70
      @deathempire70 4 года назад +21

      How on earth and why on earth did they get executed

    • @triptychlux
      @triptychlux 4 года назад +52

      no he didn't. you're as believeable as a middle school kid saying he has a girlfriend from another school stfu

    • @MikhaelAhava
      @MikhaelAhava 4 года назад

      Huh?

  • @oakland2425
    @oakland2425 5 лет назад +1481

    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."

    • @MrMattumbo
      @MrMattumbo 5 лет назад +81

      That's how you run afoul of international sanctions and get the FBI knocking on your door lol

    • @ulch11
      @ulch11 5 лет назад +49

      I know you joke, but this video made me legitimately curious about that restaurant chain.

    • @VoidHalo
      @VoidHalo 5 лет назад +16

      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.

    • @deidryt9944
      @deidryt9944 5 лет назад +12

      But what would they pay him in? North Korean Won?

    • @maruftim
      @maruftim 5 лет назад +20

      @@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.

  • @rickadrian2675
    @rickadrian2675 4 года назад +233

    "They can't just print more (Korean) Yuan" no they actually just skip a step and print counterfeit $US.

    • @graham2631
      @graham2631 4 года назад +7

      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.

    • @Lisa-pq1lm
      @Lisa-pq1lm 4 года назад +14

      *Korean won

    • @Geerice
      @Geerice 3 года назад +6

      Yuan is Chinese, Won is Korean, although the words are related. They can both be written as 圓

    • @r3ked272
      @r3ked272 3 года назад +4

      When the imposter is $US! 😳
      ( you should really change your comment to avoid replies like these)

    • @SylveonMujigaeOfficial
      @SylveonMujigaeOfficial 3 года назад

      Yen is the Japanese currency.

  • @MTsteelMT
    @MTsteelMT 4 года назад +286

    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.

    • @spammyzooi3868
      @spammyzooi3868 4 года назад +28

      I'd fuck em tho.

    • @PaulS23
      @PaulS23 4 года назад +15

      What makes you think they also operate as a brothel?

    • @sandytischuk870
      @sandytischuk870 4 года назад +30

      @@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.

    • @PaulS23
      @PaulS23 4 года назад +59

      @@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.

    • @chris4519
      @chris4519 4 года назад

      Erika Frostburg same haha

  • @ramanisquare
    @ramanisquare 5 лет назад +1063

    "The US gets pounds, and even the UK gets pounds, but of a different kind" lmao

  • @jonathanmacqueen2437
    @jonathanmacqueen2437 5 лет назад +303

    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!

    • @MrMattumbo
      @MrMattumbo 5 лет назад +64

      They allowed religious music there? That's ironic given the state of religious freedoms in NK lol

    • @johannapfelburg6286
      @johannapfelburg6286 5 лет назад +4

      Sounds like something I'd do, except the other way around and ironically

    • @vrsuky
      @vrsuky 5 лет назад +8

      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

    • @richardh6525
      @richardh6525 5 лет назад +2

      Yes but the food is good isn't it.

    • @funkknob
      @funkknob 5 лет назад +1

      Yep that place is right up the street from me. Chinese friends have taken me there a few times...

  • @jelof21
    @jelof21 5 лет назад +1176

    omg amazing! not a single airplane or airport reference this week! not even an image of one!

    • @cappyjones
      @cappyjones 5 лет назад +27

      Joke never gets old! Only, it does. It sooo does. 😫

    • @jonathanhtsi
      @jonathanhtsi 5 лет назад +33

      But at what exactly time the plane with the workers departure from Pyongyang?

    • @SlackActionBumble
      @SlackActionBumble 5 лет назад +48

      The document about sanctions had a list of Russian airplanes

    • @Josiahhhhhhh
      @Josiahhhhhhh 5 лет назад +9

      Unfortunate :( Now I have to watch the Wendover video for the planes :(

    • @kabochaVA
      @kabochaVA 5 лет назад +3

      I think there were planes in the Curiosity Stream ad at the end... does it count?

  • @ethanparker324
    @ethanparker324 5 лет назад +183

    I love how slowly over time this guy has got so much more savage in his videos

    • @Adelicows
      @Adelicows 2 года назад +5

      He's trying WAY too hard to be funny. It's more annoying than savage or funny.

    • @AndrooUK
      @AndrooUK 2 года назад +2

      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.

  • @sawkmicoc4287
    @sawkmicoc4287 4 года назад +253

    “13 waitresses escaped the location” is the funniest thing ive heard all day ngl.

    • @Adelicows
      @Adelicows 2 года назад +17

      It's really not funny. Their families were probably killed because of it.

    • @sawkmicoc4287
      @sawkmicoc4287 2 года назад +7

      @@Adelicows 156 people beg to differ

    • @sreekar5691
      @sreekar5691 2 года назад +4

      Make that 157!

    • @glatios
      @glatios 2 года назад

      @@sreekar5691 Now it’s 190.

  • @blankblankpog
    @blankblankpog 5 лет назад +700

    Hi, this is Kento Bento and now we're diving deep into North Korea restaurant chain.
    oh wait wrong channel

  • @jhsr4827
    @jhsr4827 5 лет назад +278

    I have dined in one of these restaurants in China... didn’t know anything about the politics back then.

    • @RuthCuadrado
      @RuthCuadrado 5 лет назад +50

      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

    • @abdulharistmuqorrobin7647
      @abdulharistmuqorrobin7647 5 лет назад +17

      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.

    • @jhsr4827
      @jhsr4827 5 лет назад +20

      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?

    • @thebravegallade731
      @thebravegallade731 5 лет назад +10

      @@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?

    • @abdulharistmuqorrobin7647
      @abdulharistmuqorrobin7647 5 лет назад +3

      @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.

  • @EpicAwesomesauce
    @EpicAwesomesauce 5 лет назад +348

    4:12 "Nobody wants Won"
    Me, whose name is Juan: Same. :(

    • @cityhawk
      @cityhawk 4 года назад

      Signed,
      Epstein’s Mother

    • @MikhaelAhava
      @MikhaelAhava 4 года назад

      Huh?

    • @EpicAwesomesauce
      @EpicAwesomesauce 4 года назад +9

      @@MikhaelAhava They sound the same.

    • @MikhaelAhava
      @MikhaelAhava 4 года назад

      @Awesomesauce they don’t sound the same to me.

  • @JustinLT
    @JustinLT 5 лет назад +23

    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.

  • @michaelmole2498
    @michaelmole2498 2 года назад +137

    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.

    • @thelastpetrolbender2744
      @thelastpetrolbender2744 2 года назад +18

      You can eat spaghetti outside of Italy too

    • @b-man5642
      @b-man5642 Год назад +10

      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.

    • @ottovonbismarck3000
      @ottovonbismarck3000 Год назад +1

      Did you know Thai food is eaten in Cambodia all year round?

    • @jirou6228
      @jirou6228 Год назад +1

      Bruh... they are all Korean dishes

  • @konytseng
    @konytseng 5 лет назад +105

    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.

    • @orangebeagle3068
      @orangebeagle3068 Год назад

      Thanks for sharing.

    • @Guilherme-wh7mc
      @Guilherme-wh7mc Год назад +1

      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?

    • @konytseng
      @konytseng Год назад +2

      ​@@Guilherme-wh7mc 我分享用餐经验惹到你了?

  • @stayfrosty6290
    @stayfrosty6290 5 лет назад +487

    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).

    • @opalb9006
      @opalb9006 5 лет назад +24

      *cough*boston*cough*tea*cough*party*cough

    • @jaydenwong3345
      @jaydenwong3345 5 лет назад +40

      This enraged the British who punish them severely.

    • @opalb9006
      @opalb9006 5 лет назад +2

      Jayden Wong quite a bit lol

    • @briandesjardin9381
      @briandesjardin9381 5 лет назад +6

      @@jaydenwong3345 They farted in our general direction.

    • @SupersuMC
      @SupersuMC 5 лет назад +4

      Brian DesJardin Nay, that was the French farting in the Brits' general direction...from across the pond. ;)

  • @brianfong5711
    @brianfong5711 5 лет назад +438

    If Wendover productions ever becomes an adult entertainment company...
    it would be called Bendover productions

    • @MrSaverio97
      @MrSaverio97 5 лет назад +8

      Noice

    • @kevintrang3007
      @kevintrang3007 5 лет назад +54

      If it becomes a mafia, it will be called Handover Productions

    • @ayecarumba4928
      @ayecarumba4928 5 лет назад +1

      😆

    • @csweezey18
      @csweezey18 4 года назад

      Get out.

    • @andrewyeong6188
      @andrewyeong6188 4 года назад +31

      If it becomes alcohol beverage company, it would be called Hangover Productions.

  • @Tetraglot
    @Tetraglot 5 лет назад +34

    *shows restaurant in the Netherlands*
    "This Pyongyang Restaurant is one of over 130 Pyongyang Restaurants all across Asia"

    • @vince6473
      @vince6473 4 года назад +1

      @NIFB For Aruba Niemand zegt dat.

    • @geo3172
      @geo3172 4 года назад +2

      i think HAI forgot indonesia was independant

    • @6i6itjeruk
      @6i6itjeruk 3 года назад

      @@geo3172 i live in one of subdistrict in jakarta and i found the north korean restaurant

    • @6i6itjeruk
      @6i6itjeruk 3 года назад

      @@geo3172 but idk if its still there .-.

  • @achernarchang883
    @achernarchang883 5 лет назад +16

    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.

    • @EdKolis
      @EdKolis 11 месяцев назад

      Wow, imagine a Canadian going to jail for eating in an American restaurant!

  • @TheHeinrichE
    @TheHeinrichE 5 лет назад +164

    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.

    • @roelbrook7559
      @roelbrook7559 4 года назад +27

      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/

    • @paulmark992
      @paulmark992 4 года назад +13

      @@roelbrook7559 G E K O L O N I S E E R D

    • @KiomonDuck
      @KiomonDuck 4 года назад +7

      How Hollish of you. Almost like your a Hollander spy!

    • @haroldsen4238
      @haroldsen4238 4 года назад

      licorice

    • @ridinwithjake
      @ridinwithjake 3 года назад +10

      Those women should just walk out, go to the nearest Dutch police station and claim asylum.

  • @MyFirstYoutubeHandle
    @MyFirstYoutubeHandle 5 лет назад +114

    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!

  • @vesperone3905
    @vesperone3905 5 лет назад +245

    These restaurants are my source of revenue for my military

  • @Zenzy
    @Zenzy 4 года назад +53

    I want to taste Kim Jong Il's greatest food invention: Meat squeezed between two breads.

  • @FacelessWaifu
    @FacelessWaifu 5 лет назад +57

    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
      @Real_British 3 года назад +1

      Aye, one of indonesian are actually involved in the assassination

    • @SaretGnasoh
      @SaretGnasoh 2 года назад +2

      @@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.

  • @earthc
    @earthc 5 лет назад +263

    "I meant to say the bathrooms are down the hall and to the left"
    *90s intensifies*

    • @akzebraminer
      @akzebraminer 5 лет назад +18

      Where’s Mexico? *Down the wall, and to the left*

    • @leonleon2021
      @leonleon2021 5 лет назад +5

      Guys why this joke has so many likes? Perhaps I can't get it, anyone explain it please!

    • @yesno8840
      @yesno8840 4 года назад +5

      @@leonleon2021 home alone 2

    • @tiadaid
      @tiadaid 4 года назад +3

      @@leonleon2021 A Trump reference.

  • @janeadelaidelennox7193
    @janeadelaidelennox7193 4 года назад +33

    “Complete maniacs”
    That’s pronounced “fat”

  • @raksh9
    @raksh9 5 лет назад +27

    "Nobody wants Juan?? Wait, you meant won. That's okay, then."
    - Juan Carlos Jiminez

  • @caderlocke8869
    @caderlocke8869 4 года назад +3

    North Korea may have an arsenal of nuclear ballistics but we have *KFC*

  • @rakaipikatan8922
    @rakaipikatan8922 5 лет назад +45

    Their motto:
    *_I'm slavin' it_*
    *_Freedom killin' good_*
    *_Be OUR way_*
    *_You know when we're screaming_*
    *_Nobody see what we do_*

  • @nowilltolive4123
    @nowilltolive4123 5 лет назад +177

    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.

  • @richardwatson1254
    @richardwatson1254 5 лет назад +96

    Mental note: most production budget goes into presenting an interesting video subject, not the humor.

    • @DoctorWhom
      @DoctorWhom 5 лет назад +4

      Humor can be added in post!

    • @attzero
      @attzero 4 года назад

      Kyle K too bad it wasn’t LMAO

  • @hypatia-du-bois-marie
    @hypatia-du-bois-marie Год назад +3

    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!

  • @adrielsebastian5216
    @adrielsebastian5216 3 года назад +8

    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.

  • @edwink1467
    @edwink1467 5 лет назад +79

    The more “pound” joke was golden!!!

  • @kingstonhannibal
    @kingstonhannibal 5 лет назад +14

    Would love to see the brick video that you've been teasing for a while!!!! Love your videos-hai and wendover

  • @AManOnline.
    @AManOnline. 5 лет назад +41

    This video was 50% facts, 50% hilarious jokes (that are pretty accurate)

  • @Bhethar
    @Bhethar 4 года назад +11

    Imagine going back to an angry curiosity stream and telling them you cheated them out of your money.

  • @lynngrant7
    @lynngrant7 3 года назад +21

    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

  • @Alanxddd
    @Alanxddd 5 лет назад +199

    “America has kfc, they use fried chicken as buns to show they are maniacs “ 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣

    • @Gkokkinakis2
      @Gkokkinakis2 5 лет назад +3

      I want to try that

    • @NerdLife4Life
      @NerdLife4Life 5 лет назад +11

      @@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.

    • @asbestosisathing5997
      @asbestosisathing5997 4 года назад

      Γιώργος Κοκκινάκης Yeah bruh, that looks absolutely delicious.

    • @lzh4950
      @lzh4950 4 года назад

      But I guess Atkins might approve

    • @Fakeaorta
      @Fakeaorta 4 года назад

      @@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.

  • @chrisperez7656
    @chrisperez7656 5 лет назад +59

    "Bruh, that was some really good kimchi!"
    _Sweats Nervously_

  • @treborironwolfe978
    @treborironwolfe978 5 лет назад +21

    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.

    • @EdKolis
      @EdKolis 11 месяцев назад

      And I thought my two weeks at a cosmetics factory was short!

  • @HansenDing
    @HansenDing 4 года назад +5

    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.

  • @andrewshalawylo8930
    @andrewshalawylo8930 2 года назад +22

    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

  • @aronlegoman
    @aronlegoman 5 лет назад +9

    I love how you showed the restaurant in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; but didn't point the country out on the map

  • @PatRiot-
    @PatRiot- 4 года назад +31

    “Censorship and oppression”
    So RUclips owns stock in this company?

  • @jaywye
    @jaywye 5 лет назад +6

    >Shows sign of restaurant in Cambodia
    >Does not mention Cambodia right after

  • @malikrath9503
    @malikrath9503 4 года назад +1

    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.

  • @BattyBest
    @BattyBest 4 года назад +5

    You did not get fired from Applebee's
    You got promoted to "customer"

  • @toodsf1
    @toodsf1 5 лет назад +13

    3:55 Ah yes, the good ol’ 15-dash line

  • @CatholicKavanagh
    @CatholicKavanagh 5 лет назад +88

    "What I haven't said enough about though is curiosity str-"
    Oh yes you have...
    **closes video**
    Jk

  • @somekindofmonkeyapprentice8697
    @somekindofmonkeyapprentice8697 5 лет назад +25

    Ill just go to nicko mcbrains bbq restaurant
    Best drummer from iron maiden

  • @ksohee6910
    @ksohee6910 5 лет назад +1

    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.

  • @nathanthecollector429
    @nathanthecollector429 3 года назад +2

    "tim hortons has donuts to show that canadians are sweet"
    why thank you

  • @senpaisky7714
    @senpaisky7714 5 лет назад +18

    Wait this isn’t Kento Bento?

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG 5 лет назад

      I haven't seen his videos in a while. Should check out what he's been up to.

  • @untruewalrus1323
    @untruewalrus1323 5 лет назад +8

    *When you switch from a domination victory to a cultural victory in Civ6*

  • @get_serious4953
    @get_serious4953 5 лет назад +6

    So you're saying that my country have a north Korea restaurant? I'll go check it out someday.

  • @tacokoneko
    @tacokoneko 5 лет назад +1

    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.

    • @msmith7860
      @msmith7860 5 лет назад +1

      I don't think you can actually buy kpw!! They need all they have

  • @_OscarIvan
    @_OscarIvan 4 года назад +1

    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

  • @DrewZGmusic
    @DrewZGmusic 5 лет назад +5

    You're like a more sarcastic Real Life Lore, I love it

  • @richardgould-blueraven
    @richardgould-blueraven 4 года назад +5

    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

  • @skatedonut952
    @skatedonut952 4 года назад +10

    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.

  • @Wyatt125
    @Wyatt125 3 года назад +2

    3:16 proof your the wendover productions guy

  • @immcguyver07
    @immcguyver07 4 года назад +2

    Sadly, the food looks better than the food at McDondalds.

  • @aurumble
    @aurumble 5 лет назад +8

    Brick video when?

  • @Z020852
    @Z020852 5 лет назад +6

    Korean performers, music
    North: Loose-fitting patriarchal outfits
    South: Hyuna

  • @goneinaclick4046
    @goneinaclick4046 5 лет назад +3

    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

    • @goneinaclick4046
      @goneinaclick4046 5 лет назад

      Dekat Kelapa Gading

    • @TheMaster4534
      @TheMaster4534 2 года назад

      Bruh.... I wish we had a Pyongyang restaurant in the Philippines.... too bad we are US colony, not a normal Asian country

  • @zongyiwang8721
    @zongyiwang8721 4 года назад +48

    The word yuan is not pronounced as “won” its pronounced as “Uen”

  • @wingwaabuddha
    @wingwaabuddha 5 лет назад +1

    In Siem Reap cambodia there is one of these... and as cambodia uses USD.. and Siem Reap is a tourist town... perfect placement

  • @hereLiesThisTroper
    @hereLiesThisTroper 5 лет назад +13

    Epic Rap Battles of History:
    North Korean Waitress VS Japanese Neko Maid

  • @laurencescully
    @laurencescully 5 лет назад +22

    No-one:
    Absolutely no-one ever:
    HAI: HaVe YoU tRiEd ThE KiMcHi?

    • @DoctorWhom
      @DoctorWhom 5 лет назад +1

      Will the HAI guy be here all week? (I'll be here all week, try the veal)

  • @noahtalksmoney
    @noahtalksmoney 5 лет назад +7

    I actually came across one of these restaurants in Siam Reap, Cambodia in 2018.

    • @madhavyu
      @madhavyu 5 лет назад +1

      Yep me too - accidentally. The food was horrible - probably the worst restaurant I have ever been in.

  • @scapeghost4212
    @scapeghost4212 3 года назад +1

    Its not a global chain if it doesn't have locations in the us

  • @MarioDSLife
    @MarioDSLife Год назад

    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.

  • @eduardovargas1972
    @eduardovargas1972 4 года назад +7

    "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!

    • @pedrosalvador1146
      @pedrosalvador1146 4 года назад +1

      @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)

    • @eduardovargas1972
      @eduardovargas1972 4 года назад

      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.

    • @pedrosalvador1146
      @pedrosalvador1146 4 года назад

      @@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.

  • @hazridge
    @hazridge 5 лет назад +11

    3:09 "Chinese Won"?? It's Yuan, not Won. Won is the currency used in Korea.

    • @kaikaichen
      @kaikaichen 5 лет назад +10

      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).

    • @user-lw9iz9wr1u
      @user-lw9iz9wr1u 4 года назад

      So.."Yankee" is actually pronounce "Wankee"? hmmmmmmm

  • @mitchelvalentino1569
    @mitchelvalentino1569 5 лет назад +16

    The food is truly delicious. Some of the best fish I’ve ever had.

  • @peek_a_boo4168
    @peek_a_boo4168 4 года назад +2

    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.

    • @tarragon112
      @tarragon112 Год назад

      how was it

    • @peek_a_boo4168
      @peek_a_boo4168 Год назад

      @@tarragon112 Average for a Hostel. Nothing spectacular. I think it closed shortly after we went there, because of its ties to North Korea

    • @tarragon112
      @tarragon112 Год назад

      @@peek_a_boo4168 oh

  • @NachosChanneluk
    @NachosChanneluk 5 лет назад +1

    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.

  • @baylinkdashyt
    @baylinkdashyt 5 лет назад +19

    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?

    • @Efflorescentey
      @Efflorescentey Год назад +1

      Apparently they’re different people? Same family

  • @dutchigamemania
    @dutchigamemania 5 лет назад +6

    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

    • @jeroen94704
      @jeroen94704 5 лет назад +2

      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.

    • @Garado83
      @Garado83 5 лет назад +1

      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

    • @dutchigamemania
      @dutchigamemania 5 лет назад

      @@Garado83 It surprises me that such restaurants could even open in NL.

  • @AtomicTractorWolf
    @AtomicTractorWolf 5 лет назад +3

    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

  • @texas2cv
    @texas2cv 3 года назад +1

    Must go. Must buy lots of food. Must pay in counterfeit bills.

  • @froggiedoggie1
    @froggiedoggie1 5 лет назад +2

    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.