I ate ONLY NORTH KOREAN FOOD for a WEEK

This week, I only ate North Korean food, and it’s been such an eye-opening and meaningful experience. As a South Korean, exploring these recipes gave me a deeper connection to our divided history and a new appreciation for the flavors and traditions from the North.

It’s a dream of mine to one day try these dishes in person, but for now, this journey has been incredibly insightful. Let me know if there’s a recipe you’d like me to share or a dish I should try next! 🥢❤️

00:00 Intro
01:13 North vs South Korea
02:39 Dongmu bapsang
03:13 Uhbokjaengban
04:35 Pyeongyang naengmyun
06:27 Pyeongyang mandu
09:53 Wandu jook
11:35 Bean sesame kalgooksu
14:52 Boiled pheasant
16:20 Jorangi tteokgook
17:38 Tongilmatjib
18:14 Dubu bap
18:47 Injogogi bap
19:10 Gamja tteok
19:57 Nongma guksu
20:25 Oyster kimchi rice / Cilantro kimchi
22:56 Sweet potato / Cilantro kimchi
24:19 Restaurant Cheongsong
24:33 Mandu gook
25:06 Hamheung naengmyun
26:07 Chapssal soondae - blood sausage
28:45 Oksusu jook - Corn porridge
29:52 Chong tteok
31:25 Squid soondae
33:26 Results

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[Doobydobap]

which one do you want to try the most?!?

[tsoioleg]

Growing up in USSR as a Korean we had a really weird Soviet Korean cuisine based on food available to our parents. Like kimchi made from white cabbage. Noodles in cold broth with slightly pickled cabbage and cucumbers salad on top and thin slices of pork was a summer treat in our house. We called it Kuksi.

[FrederikEngelmand]

wow this is just like northern and southern europe when it comes to food. we didnt have time to season our food, we were freezing our asses off. Danish viking here. we love the hearty simple filling hot meal

[tonyawilliams]

There needs to be a netflix show of doobydopap. It's so original, educational, and great cinematography.

[yulia]

Great video Tina! I am a Russian born Korean (we call ourselves Koryo ssaram) and our food is more similar to the North Korean cuisine, but with more meat, as its more readily available! Our kimchi is also a little different to the soith korean - we dont add the fish sauce. The carrot 'kimchi' (morkov cha) uses more vinegar instead of fermentation is popular in Russia and is known as "korean carrot". We add less sugar to savory meals. This video was right up my valley, thank you!!

[josephlim-cq]

I’m Korean too, and I love how you showed us the food from both North and South Korea. I liked how you talked about the simple North Korean dishes and compared them to South Korean food. It’s sad how much we have in common but are still so far apart. Thanks for showing how food can bring people together. Now I really want to try 평양냉면 and 두부 만두!

[goopygremlin]

I made the Pyongyang Mandu with my partner today! They were absolutely delicious and we also seasoned it with white pepper which I think made a really good addition. Thank you from the UK!

[maayannir]

The thing I love most about Tina is how weird and natural she lets herself be on camera and how it always comes off as the loveliest most hilarious thing. You simply can’t find that in many people and definitely not in many content creators

[awesomegamer]

hi Tina. Thank you so much for slowing down the cadence of the video, it's so much more watchable like this and I went all the way through. Keep it up!

[krismoon-tw]

I find it so funny how the comment section, here in this longer video, has so many respectful and intelligent comments, cultural boundings and curious replies, yet on the short video, the comments are filled with toxic and ignorant slop, brain smooth and repetitive questions blaming her for not putting political context when the content is entirely about gastronomy and the creator made an research on the topic.
Anyway, this got me thinking how short video makes people immune to information and most time they get to a point of not caring what they're hearing nor will care what they'll write on the internet 😢

[chromium]

As a vegetarian north Korean food looks like a great choice, especially the injogogi bap seams the most appetizing

[senrioflove]

I'm not very far into the video but I had a friend I always suspected might have been North Korean.

My city has foreign exchange meet up groups and I started to hang out at some of them.

I was drinking at a Korean meetup once and there was one guy in particular that always struck me as completely different to everyone else. He'd legally changed his name to a British name with an Asian surname and didn't follow the same fashion and cliques as the others. I didn't really think much of it back then but I wound up getting along with him because there didn't seem to be superficial rules that defined our friendship like there was with the Korea society or the British students. Unlike everyone else, he didn't care that I had different fashion or was autistic. He didn't seem to care about the fact I was poor and never looked down on me, even when I became homeless.

We would have dinner together sometimes when he still lived here and he taught me how to cook popular Korean foods but it felt like he made them differently and that was when I started to suspect that he was from the North. He hated anything spicy and would even make his kimchi from scratch always, because my city only sold it "too spicy".

I'd always felt guilty that the others were rude to him (in Korean) because I thought they were mocking him for being nice to me but I actually look back and wonder if they were actually being rude to me because he was already seen as unpopular.

Either way I never asked him but I think it was unspoken but just known between us. When his studying was over, he briefly said goodbye and we didn't talk for years and I missed him a lot, but he sent me a message a few years ago saying that he was safe and got married in another country and I really hope that he's still happy wherever he is.

This all popped into my mind because of the food not being spicy

[eatwithafia]

Did not expect to see that North Korea has a decent amount to offer for plant based eaters. I understand this not under favourable circumstances. Very curious to try the stuffed tofu rice dish

[Teresaneval]

Rest in peace to all the lost lives in the Jeju plane crash!🥹😔I still enjoy your content!

[frankm]

Korean buckwheat cold noodles + iced cold broth + hot sauce is the match made in heaven. They are just so so good!

[EatingwhatisGiven]

Thank you for highlighting Hwanghaedo cilantro kimchi and Hamheung naengmyeon. Hamheung naengmyeon is originally only bibim naengmyeon. That is not a "South Korean" version. Bibim naengmyeon is Hamhung naengmyeon. The mul version was added later in South Korea, specifically from the refugees in Busan. I also recommend you check out 갱엿돼지족조림, which originates in Hwanghaedo, but is the original Jokbal, which came from NK refugees who settled in Seoul. There is still so much disinformation around NK food culture, and the refugees who have taught me so much are beautiful people with rich stories. If you ever want to chat with a refugee family who came to Busan on the SS Meridith Victory and actually ran a naengmyeon house in Hamheung before escaping, just let me know. I will be happy to introduce you.

[boricurei]

Hey Dooby, in Puerto Rico we have a blood sausage really similar to Soondae. Is called Morcilla, it uses Rice or no Rice and it has Adobo, and other spices. Its fried or airfried and eaten with bread or white rice.

[utkangezer]

I’m so touched by these cultural encounter/appreciation videos. You and your family are beautiful for doing these <3

[amberdaze]

as someone who doesn't really like meat or fried food bc it makes me feel sick I 100% want to try these recipes!! ty for sharing

[rebekkahnelson]

I love the way your mom uses English to describe things to us ❤ she is awesome