Attention! North Korean player's Pyongyang naengmyeon 'real taste'... "It's not blind and similar to Korean naengmyeon, Pyongyang Okryugwan is the best."

Attention! North Korean player's Pyongyang naengmyeon 'real taste'... "It's not blind and similar to Korean naengmyeon, Pyongyang Okryugwan is the best."

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Ahn Byung-joon (36), a former North Korean national team member, explained the difference between South Korea and North Korea's Pyongyang cold noodles.
Japan's 'Daily Sports' said on the 20th, "The North Korean player who played in the J League picked Pyongyang naengmyeon as his favorite food, sparking curiosity."

The story is as follows. On the 16th, Ahn Byung-joon appeared on Park Joo-ho's YouTube channel "Captain Pajuho," a former South Korean national soccer team member, and confessed an episode he had when he was a North Korean national team member.

When Park Joo-ho asked, "What was the most delicious food you've ever eaten in North Korea?" Ahn Byung-joon did not hesitate to choose Pyeongyang naengmyeon. He stressed, "It's really delicious. There is a famous place called Okryugwan, and it's really delicious."

When Park Joo-ho asked if it was different from Pyeongyang naengmyeon sold in Korea, Ahn Byung-joon replied, "Players took me to a Pyeongyang naengmyeon restaurant in Korea, and it tasted different from what I had in Pyongyang. It felt different in itself."

He then described the difference, saying, "What I ate in Korea was not 'not delicious', but 'I didn't feel any taste'.

When Park Joo-ho asked, "Pyongyang naengmyeon is usually blind and doesn't taste anything?" Ahn Byung-joon thought, "What is delicious about this (when I ate it in Korea)?". When I ate it at Okryugwan in Pyongyang, I think it tasted close to regular Korean naengmyeon," he recalled.
Park Joo-ho laughed by saying, "If you have to go to Pyongyang later, please bring me a meal kit. Maybe Okryugwan also has a meal kit culture."

Ahn Byung-joon also drew attention by saying that he could not have personal contact with North Korean players even after being called up to the North Korean national team. "North Korean players stay in their own accommodations while Korean-Japanese players stay in hotels." 메이저놀이터

Born and raised in Japan, Ahn Byung-joon, a third-generation Korean in Japan, played 10 A matches while playing for North Korea from 2013 to 2017. He left the J-League in 2019 and moved to Suwon FC and began his K-League career. After playing for Busan I'Park and Suwon Samsung, he returned to Suwon FC last year and retired after last season.