North Korea Gets Taste of Burgers at Fast-Food Restaurant

[Masa]

North Korea Gets Taste of Burgers at Fast-Food Restaurant


While North Korea has little appetite for "US imperialism," its people are finally able to get a taste of that iconic American food the hamburger at the country's first fast-food restaurant. The Samtaeseong restaurant opened in the capital Pyongyang last month in cooperation with a Singaporean firm, Choson Sinbo, a Japan-based newspaper for ethnic North Koreans, reported at the weekend. The isolated communist regime has long restricted or banned what it calls the Western or "US imperialist influences" on its people.

The restaurant, which serves such fast food as burgers made of minced beef, fish or vegetables, however does not call them "hamburgers," Choson Sinbo said. It the menu lists "minced beef and bread" or "minced fish and bread" or "vegetables and bread," all served together with the Korean pickled cabbage dish, kimchi, it said.

The minced beef and bread costs 1.7 dollars, it said, a price exceeding half the average North Korean's daily income. The communist state's per capita income was 1,065 dollars last year. Choson Sinbo said in March that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il had also ordered the opening of the country's first Italian restaurant in Pyongyang.

http://www.medindia.net/news/North-Korea-Gets-Taste-of-Burgers-at-Fast-Food-Restaurant-55300-1.htm

[shadowstar]

Woah, the FIRST fast-food place? 

[Sev]

Oh God.. KJI and North Korea, you are what you are. Well seems like he finally got a taste of the 'good life' and wants to 'share'.

[JTRIX]

hahaha.... our good old North Koreans finally get some good treat in their country... now they need to expand to get 7-11, Baskin Robin, and other so called "American food"

[kuno_thunder]

For North Koreans, this must be to them like discovering a cure for cancer would be for us.  And at $1.70 for a burger, you gotta be a baller to even try a taste of that sludge.  I wouldn't be surprised if they dilute it with sand, or maybe some sponge.

[THUNDERDUCK]

Screw the hamburger, I prefer dog.

[kuno_thunder]

^ I see what you did there!