A bowl of Pyongyang cold noodles served in broth and a brass bowl at Moon Yeon-hee's Sulnoon restaurant in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 5. Anthony Kuhn/NPR hide caption ...

For displaced individuals, Pyongyang (Pyeongyang) naengmyeon—a cold noodle dish—evokes a deep sense of nostalgia; for younger generations, it offers a novel and refreshing culinary experience.

Pyongyang cold noodles are made primarily from buckwheat flour, giving them a distinct fragrance and dark tint not unlike Japanese soba. The dish dates from around North Korea’s founding in 1948.

For years, foreign tourists have marveled at South Korea’s Surfy Beach in Gangwon's Yangyang. Now, North Korea is offering ...

At Olle, the bustling Korean restaurant on East 30th Street in Manhattan, the morning starts with noodle dough.From a mass run through with buckwheat and sweet-potato starch, the noodles are ...

Korean cold noodles, or naengmyeon, are a treat enjoyed in both Koreas. One North Korean restaurant owner is reaping the rewards of this fact with the launch of a restaurant in Seoul.

SEOUL — Italy has its pasta salad, and China its cold sesame noodles. But there are few places where cold noodles are held in as high esteem as in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.