81, Those meals I ate when I worked in North Korea 2
In North Korea, what I remember vividly is not the freshness and nervousness of my first entry into North Korea, but many of the moments when I came into contact with North Koreans, such as going to the market to bargain with pork sellers, such as communicating with people who sell traditional Korean food, and more importantly, contacting North Korean workers, although the North Korean side does not allow us to learn Korean, nor is it allowed to hire Korean and Korean people at home, but I have a wealth of experience in living abroad through a few simple words and gestures.
Picture 1: Where we live
According to the translator, we were living in North Korea quite well, and the translator said that this place was the location of a former combat command or a former security department. In addition to the lack of air conditioning due to power problems, the heating is not hot in winter, the other is fine, and then there is the power problem, like desktop computers, printers can basically be used after using the voltage regulator. I've seen their wires, they're thin, and the poles are made of the kind of blackened wood I've seen as a kid.
Picture 2: Where we live
We actually live in the middle of the mountain, the house is facing north and south against the mountain facing the sea, I think it may be because there is an island in the opposite sea called "Pipa Island", so the place where we live is called "Pipa Pavilion". See Figures I, II and III.
Picture 3: Looking forward to Pipa Island from where we live
The meal we ate in North Korea was made by a North Korean chef, and the waiter brought it to the table and divided the meal. Breakfast is generally given to each person on two or three small plates of kimchi, and then there is a small plate of fried eggs with little oil filled with each of our kimchi, and a few steamed buns and a bowl of soup or very thin porridge. See Figure IV.
Their kimchi is very good, although at the beginning I thought it was quantitative, after all, we think that people are on such a small plate, on the rice or steamed bread I ate with three mouths and two mouths, and then the waiter added to me once I knew that this thing is not quantitative, it is full. Later we talked privately, and considering some other things, we insisted on disc action, and after eating, we didn't add it anymore.
Picture 4: Our meals
Soup is usually pine leaves or other leaves, and I asked through the translator when the leaves were picked. The waiter said that it was picked in the spring, boiled with boiling water and stored, and there was not much to save some food to eat the new leaves. Well, then save some food. See Figure V.
Later, when I went home for vacation, I told my parents about this, and my parents said that now people in the village also go to pick up leaves in the spring, when the locust blossoms are blooming, when the elm money is raised, and then when they come back, they are boiled with boiling water and frozen to the refrigerator to eat in the spring of the following year.
In fact, in my memory of only eating locust flowers and yu money trapped in large buns, I still remember that it seems to be yam dried bread, and white noodles were rarely in short supply at that time.
And told me that even if you eat the leaves, locust flowers, and elm money that have just sprouted in the spring, it is the gang of people who were back then, eating a fresh meal to make a memory, and now young people don't eat these at all. And lament that those things handed down by the ancestors can be eaten, and when they are delicious, they have been destroyed in your generation.
Fig. 5: Leaf soup
Colleagues are based in North Korea, but every Friday they return to HuiChun, from North Korea, and then rush to the barbecue restaurant to eat some kebabs or something in retaliation for the days when there is no meat and no oil. I'm better than them at this point, because I need to run on both sides because I'm in charge of some miscellaneous things, and the time is relatively loose, so I don't have to stay in Korea permanently.
When I went to the barbecue restaurant to eat barbecue, the barbecue restaurant also gave us kimchi, and after comparison, I found that the domestic kimchi and the North Korean kimchi now have more styles, the dishes are fuller and fresher, and they are better than the North Korean kimchi. See Figures IV and VI
Figure 6: Kimchi from a domestic barbecue restaurant
When I worked in North Korea, because the food was small, although I ate very full every time, I was hungry before noon, so I immediately ran to the car after work every day at noon to take the car back to my residence to eat. I also asked my colleague at ten o'clock in the morning: "Hungry or not", and my colleague told me that he was hungry, but he was afraid of low blood sugar and equipped with biscuits.
Some people envy me for wandering the world, stepping through thousands of mountains and rivers to see the prosperity of the world. Yes, I have met people from different countries from Africa to North Korea, and I feel that all the people in this world and in the world are struggling and trying to make their families live better. Come on, Fox Fairy 2022.6.30