Pyongyang Baek Hwa Restaurant

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This North Korean restaurant delivers in the weirdness stakes, with its classic DRPK kitsch and a memorable stage performance held each evening at 8pm. Hidden atop a high-rise building, there are fantastic city views, and it's decorated with fake birch trees. There's an art gallery (all works for sale), and a menu offering regional dishes and classics such as bulgogi and bibimbap.

Wash it down with a North Korean beer or soju, though the former will set you back T18,000! There's a bunch of intriguing propaganda material to peruse while you await your meal. All staff are from Pyongyang and speak reasonable English. It's a little out of the way, located in the Daco building behind the Urgoo-1 cinema.