North Korean Restaurant in Phnom Penh

December 2005

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• korea
• culture

[IAmSuchANerdLol]

평양랭면 = pyoung yang laeng myeon

Pyongyang is in North Korea.

Phnom Penh is in Cambodia.

How could you mess the title up so badly.

[IceKor]

@IAmSuchANerdLol 평양랭면 is the name of the North Korean restaurant that employs North Korean waitresses and serves North Korean-style Korean food. That doesn't change the fact that the restaurant is in Phnom Penh. So, no, I didn't mess the title up.

[k1ngm4n]

@IceKor how do u know that the waitresses are the north korean people? is it possible that they are cambodian people that looks like korean? or they are south korean people?

as far as i know, they are not allowing DPRK citizen to exit their own country, CMIIW

[IceKor]

@k1ngm4n I know because I lived in South Korea for many years, speak Korean well, and talked to the waitress who told me they were from North Korea. Do you require any further evidence?

p.s. - I'm currently living in Hanoi, which also has a North Korean restaurant. I haven't visited it yet, but when I do I'll post a video to my other account...

goldendsh

[IceKor]

@IceKor Also, the waitresses spoke with a North Korean dialect. But you could be right, it might be a huge conspiracy to fool people into thinking that they are eating at a North Korean restaurant.

[k1ngm4n]

@IceKor thank you for the information... :)

do u know they are legal worker or illegal there?

do you know how they can get out from their country?

thanks for reply :)

[IceKor]

@k1ngm4n I don't know if they are legal or illegal, but I would assume legal because the Cambodian and North Korean governments have normalized relations.

I would guess that they are daughters of high-ranking party members...that's how they are able to travel and live abroad.

[himyarite]

did anybody noticed that the people are very friendly there? the women are really females not like nowadays women walk like men, they talk like men, they started even to look like men, by leaving their beards un shaved, oh that's crazy I would fall in love with first north korean female i see

[sazji]

@IceKor Cool, being a daughter of a high-ranking party member in N. Korea gets you a job waiting on foreigners in Cambodia. Now there's something to aspire to....

[wijayapala]

@ledzeppize Hey dude did you see that one chick wave at me at 0:43? You think I have a chance?

[noprofitmaximierung]

@vkkmenon1 "...that a royal was treated well in a Stalinist-Communist DPRK" LOL, NK is a monarchical dictatorship, no way to get further from communism, ABSOLUTELY NO way. One of main points of communists is that there be the elimination of inheritance because humans become what they are in society, not their GENES decide it. And secondly if you haven't noticed it yet: Korea has a State. You idiots ave to start calling it what it is, NOT what it is not.

[vkkmenon1]

@IceKor

There is no surprise if you find a N.Korean reaturant in Cambodia, since, their previous King Sihanouk was a very good friend of Kim Il-Sung.. King Sihanouk had taken asylum in the DPRK during the Khmer Rouge... You see, it is an irony that a royal was treated well in a Stalinist-Communist Kim Il-Sung's DPRK.

It is just that the current regime of Cambodia is returning the favour to the cash-strapped Democratic People's Republic of Korea..

[ledzeppize]

0:20 omg, that girl is so cute!

[shitnamese401]

@THECAT8th I said I respect your opinion:) But many Cambodians like Japan because they have highly civilized culture.