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| North Korea opens 1st fast-food restaurant |
| 2009-07-26 |
| [Jakarta Post] You still can't get a hamburger in Pyongyang, but the suspiciously similar "minced beef and bread" is for sale at the North Korean capital's first fast-food restaurant, a news report said Saturday. The Samtaeseong restaurant opened in the isolated communist country last month in cooperation with a Singaporean company, according to the Tokyo-based Choson Sinbo. The Singaporean company, which the newspaper did not name, provided training to restaurant staff and supplied equipment. The restaurant's interior appears to be styled after fast-food joints the world over, but the menu is careful not to call its signature fare a hamburger - lest it give the impression North Koreans had embraced the American icon. The minced beef and bread at the new fast-food restaurant costs only US$1.70, the newspaper said, but that would eat up more than half of the average North Korean's daily income. South Korea's central bank put last year's average per capita income at $1,065. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 You want flies with that? Yes, I'll have fries with that. No! FLIES!!You want FLIES with that!!! ROR! (Raff Out Roud!) |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-07-26 23:36 |
| #5 As a place I used to go always said, "It's in there". I think it was a joke. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-07-26 15:05 |
| #4 Tu, given some of the fast food resturants (and yes, big names!) I'd say that flies are included with every meal free of charge. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-07-26 14:57 |
| #3 Given the latest news about them testing bio agents on children, you gotta wonder what's in the Happy Meal. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-07-26 14:27 |
| #2 You want flies with that? Yes, I'll have fries with that. No! FLIES!!You want FLIES with that!!! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-07-26 12:57 |
| #1 Serving minced tree bark with a grass garnish. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-07-26 11:20 |