Eel Cuisine Rises in Popularity
KCNA
Pyongyang, November 3 (KCNA) -- Eel cuisine has become increasingly popular in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
It, a traditional dish of the nation, has been taken as health food since ancient times.
In the capital there are several restaurants which serve various kinds of eel cuisine. Among them are the Ryugyong Rungna Restaurant on Rungna Island in the River Taedong and the Rakyon Restaurant in Thongil Street.
The kinds of eel dishes enumerate more than eighty.
The principal food is rice mixed with eel and noodle with seasoned sliced raw eel and the main dishes are roasted eel, fried eel, fried eel-ball, etc.
The eel cuisine is associated with leader Kim Jong Il's deep love for the people.
He took the measures of establishing eel cuisine restaurants and the Taedonggang Eel Company in Pyongyang. He also saw to it that eel breeding farms had been built in different parts of the country and latest facilities and materials fully supplied to them.
The eel-breeding farm built on the West Coast is now producing eels in an industrial method.
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