(29 Jan 2025)
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Pyongyang, North Korea – 28 January 2025
1. Close and zoom in of rice cake soup, known as teokkguk in Korean
2. Wide of chef Ri Nam Chol demonstrating how to make rice cake soup
3. Zoom in on slices of raw rice cake
4. Various of chef Ri boiling chicken to make stock for rice cake soup
5. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Ri Nam Chol, Chef at Traditional Food Competition Restaurant:
"Our restaurant is serving several national foods, including rice cake soup, to the people coming here to celebrate Lunar New Year’s Day. For the rice cake soup the main ingredients we use are slices of rice cake, chicken, egg, toasted seaweed, long onions, salt, soy sauce, garlic, ground pepper and thinly-sliced red pepper.”
6. Various of Ri putting slices of rice cake into chicken stock
7. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Ri Nam Chol, chef at Korean Traditional Food Competition Restaurant
"The rice cake slices should be cooked in the boiling water for three to five minutes, and by doing so the hard and sticky rice cakes will be combined with the delicate flavour of the soup, which will make that special taste of the soup.”
8. Wide of Ri putting soup into bowl
9. Close of Ri adding garnishes of chicken, toasted seaweed, and egg to rice cake soup
10. Various of Ri adding more soup to bowl
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Pyongyang, North Korea – 27 January 2025
11. Wide of head of North Korean Academy of Social Science Section, Kim Ji Won, walking past Taedong Gate in central Pyongyang
12. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Ji Won, head of North Korean Academy of Social Science Section:
"From a long time ago, our people have celebrated the Lunar New Year with traditional food and games. The typical foods are rice cakes, pancakes, rice cake soup, dumpling soup, sweet rice cakes, and sweet drinks with fruits and alcohol. Rice cake soup remains the most symbolic dish for Lunar New Year’s Day, and it’s still the main thing that people want most."
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Pyongyang, North Korea – 29 January 2025
13. Various of Ri Ye Hui eating rice cake soup together with three generations of her family at the Traditional Food Competition Restaurant
14. Ri Ye pouring traditional Korean alcoholic drink, soju, for her grandmother
15. Ri Ye’s grandmother drinking soju
16. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Ri Ye Hui, Pyongyang citizen:
"For Lunar New Year’s Day, our family gets together and eats Lunar New Year’s Day dishes. Every one of our family likes to eat rice cake soup, not only on Lunar New Year’s Day but also on ordinary days we often make it ourselves at home to eat.”
17. Various of young people playing traditional Korean games and flying kites on Kim Il Sung Square in central Pyongyang
STORYLINE:
People in North Korean were welcoming in the Lunar New Year with tteokguk, a brothy soup that contains thinly sliced rice cakes.
The rice cake is not cake, it’s rice ground up into flour, and then mixed with water and oil to turn it into a dough not dissimilar to pasta.
Then it’s sliced and boiled in a stock, with garnishes added when it’s ready.
Ri Nam Chol is a chef at the Traditional Food Competition Restaurant in downtown Pyongyang.
It’s next to the Potong River and it hosts cooking shows and competitions for the state-run broadcaster KRT.
He explained how to put together the soup, stressing it’s important not to overboil it.
"The rice cake slices should be cooked in the boiling water for three to five minutes, and by doing so the hard and sticky rice cakes will be combined with the delicate flavour of the soup, which will make that special taste of the soup," Ru said.
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