State-run restaurants boom as N. Koreans increasingly forgo home-cooked meals - Daily NK English

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State-run restaurants boom as N. Koreans increasingly forgo home-cooked meals - Daily NK English

North Koreans used to prepare different kinds of food to eat with their families on major holidays, but things are changing. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Daily NK source in North Pyongan Province said Wednesday that while North Korea’s biggest holiday – the Apr. 15 birthday of late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, also known as the Day of the Sun – came and went, “few people in Sinuiju prepared food for the occasion.” He added that “th…